Riley Williams thought he won a sweepstakes contest. Instead, his life changed in the negative direction when he lost $100,000 and almost a lot more. Williams, 81, a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer from Knoxville, Tenn., who has Parkinson’s and dementia, was scammed out of a reported $100,000 after…
Rasmus Midgett was patrolling the North Carolina coast during a hurricane when he heard voices somewhere beyond the dark surf. The barkentine Priscilla, a type of sailing ship with three or more masts, had run aground and begun breaking apart; its wooden hull splintering and collapsing under the pounding surf.…
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Around 2010, Scott Stump realized his own children did not know what Desert Storm was. Stump had been there. A Marine, he deployed to Saudi Arabia on the last day of 1990, part of the largest American combat force assembled since Vietnam. Almost two decades later, he found that the…
The Pentagon’s counterdrone task force awarded Kaizen Laboratories $15 million to build a “two-way” marketplace designed, in part, to make selling tech to foreign militaries easier. The site was built from a “blank slate” and developed to facilitate the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sale Fast Lane Initiative, Nikhil Reddy, Kaizen’s co-founder and…
A congressional candidate charged with felony vandalism after allegedly shooting a Flock camera has received almost $12,500 from hundreds of donations towards his legal defense. Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, of Lenoir City, Tenn., is an independent candidate for Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District. Blount County authorities arrested him July 30 and…
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of New Year, New You, a weeklong look at your financial health headed into 2026. U.S. military service members anticipate increases to their pay and allowances in 2026, including a 3.8% raise in basic pay and an average 4.2% bump in Basic Allowance for Housing…
Why the ‘Jack Ryan’ Clip Is Going Viral NowIn the aftermath of the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a familiar figure from the streaming and television schedule is once again trending: Jack Ryan. A scene from Season 2 has gone viral, with viewers drawing parallels between the…
Greg Pryer was used to experiencing on-the-job trauma. Pryer had followed a stint in the Marine Corps with a career as a New York City police officer. On the beat in the nation’s largest city was grueling enough. Then came the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. Pryer turned to the bottle to…
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An image circulated over media the weekend of Jan. 3 and 4 was meant to convey dominance: Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, blindfolded and handcuffed aboard a U.S. naval vessel. Shortly after the operation that seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would now…
By late March of 1953, the Korean War remained mostly static as peace negotiations went back and forth. U.N. and communist forces launched repeated bloody assaults to secure control over countless hills and ridges along the frontline. The men of the 1st Marine Division were ordered to guard a series…
U.S. captures Maduro, Trump vows to run Venezuela. An ensemble of CIA and Army special forces abducted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife in a daring raid overnight early Saturday, sending shockwaves around the globe just hours before U.S. President Donald Trump praised the operation as an exciting opportunity for…
