KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided the international community Wednesday for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bombardment of civilian areas of Ukraine. At the end of August, Russia launched a week of nighttime and daylight attacks on Kyiv in its heaviest sustained bombardment…

Published Sep 9, 2026, 7:11 AM EDT Days before the nation marks a quarter-century since the September 11 attacks, President Donald Trump honored victims and first responders on the Ellipse, vowing the nation will “never forget.” Read the full article here

Nineteen-year-old Ethan Owen, a wildlife and fisheries management student at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, rushed out of his general botany class at 12:50 on the opening day of Tennessee’s three-day velvet season. He had an hour-long drive between him and a big velvet buck he’d been watching all summer.He…

Published Sep 9, 2026, 7:23 AM EDT U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a three-nation tour of Latin America by offering praise and a firm commitment of support to Colombia’s new leader, who has embraced President Donald Trump’s policies on countering drug trafficking and illegal migration. Read the full article…

Two is always better than one. This is true whether you’re talking about scoops of ice cream and, especially, fishing bait. Where it’s legal, using two baits, lures, or flies at once can, theoretically, double your catch rate.Fishing two baits at two different water depths allows you to quickly figure…

A retired Canadian Armed Forces officer first warned on his personal blog that Washington could exploit indebted Americans to staff an invasion of Iran. Ten days later, he recommended the same mechanism in The Jerusalem Post as an efficient way to produce the troops a ground war would require. AJ…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $ 500 to the conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. I’m your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we’re joined by Brody, Randall, Seth, Laura, Corey, Nate,…

The Navy is seeking contracts for firms to produce Combat Collaborative Aircraft (CCA). That is according to a written request for information published Aug. 31 on the federal government’s procurement website, with the service informing potential contractors that it wants two prototypes of CCAs that would be able to achieve…

Long before the airspace surrounding Washington, D.C., became one of the most heavily defended patches of sky in the country, an Army private demonstrated just how vulnerable it could be. In the dead of night on Feb. 17, 1974, a 20-year-old Pfc. Robert Kenneth Preston walked onto an Army airfield…

Laurie Laychak remembers the flags. They flew from houses and cars in the Washington, D.C., area after Sept. 11, 2001. But she remembers something else, too. People talked to strangers in grocery stores. Drivers seemed kinder to one another. Political differences suddenly felt insignificant. The country had suffered the deadliest…

China is trying to glean the secrets of U.S. artificial-intelligence models by using simpler AI models to query more advanced American ones, national-security and intelligence agencies warned on Tuesday.In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Chinese companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax,…

CIA cyber operatives provided intelligence that helped U.S. forces locate and capture deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro within four minutes of landing on the ground in January this year, agency Deputy Director Michael Ellis said Tuesday.Ellis credited the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence with building what he called a “flawless…