Two U.S. Air Force B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Nuclear-Capable Strategic Bombers with the “Red Devils” of the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing, out of Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, participated in a “show of force” yesterday over the Sea of Japan alongside an F-15DJ with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s 303rd Tactical Fighter Squadron and an F-15J with the 306th Tactical Fighter Squadron, both from the 6th Air Wing stationed at Komatsu Air Base, and a number of additional F-35s and F-15s with the JASDF.
The flight follows several aggressive actions against Japan and South Korea by both China and Russia over the last week, beginning with threats against the life of Japan’s Prime Minister for comments made about Taiwan, and coming to a head as fighter jets with the People’s Liberation Army Navy locked their fire-control radars onto Japanese F-15Js off the coast of Okinawa this past weekend and long-range strategic bombers of the Russian and People's Liberation Army Air Force conducted a rare joint patrol over the Sea of Japan - violating South Korea’s Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ).
The flight follows several aggressive actions against Japan and South Korea by both China and Russia over the last week, beginning with threats against the life of Japan’s Prime Minister for comments made about Taiwan, and coming to a head as fighter jets with the People’s Liberation Army Navy locked their fire-control radars onto Japanese F-15Js off the coast of Okinawa this past weekend and long-range strategic bombers of the Russian and People's Liberation Army Air Force conducted a rare joint patrol over the Sea of Japan - violating South Korea’s Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ).
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The United States is threatening additional sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its officials in The Hague, unless it agrees to at least three demands, including issuing amendments to its founding document to ensure it can not launch future investigations into President Donald J. Trump and top officials in the Trump Administration, dropping its ongoing investigation into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials over the Gaza War, and finally ending an earlier probe of U.S. Forces over their actions in Afghanistan, according to an exclusive published by Reuters.
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Overnight, for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a drone attack on Lukoil’s Filanovsky Oil Platform, part of Russia's largest oil field in the Caspian Sea, with at least four long-range attack drones striking the platform, starting several fires and forcing extraction to stop at more than twenty oil and gas well in the Caspian.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by phone on Thursday to reassure him of Moscow’s support for his government and to discuss a strategic partnership agreement and several joint projects, a day after the United States seized an Iranian-linked oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
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Senior U.S. officials are expected to meet with delegates from Ukraine, Britain, France, and Germany this weekend in Paris to discuss President Donald J. Trump’s peace plan towards ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a White House official has told Axios, with the meeting following a call Wednesday between Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced today that he will be “returning power to the people,” as he submits a Royal Decree to King Vajiralongkorn requesting permission to dissolve Parliament, following a disagreement with the country’s largest political party, the People's Party. If his effort to dissolve Parliament is successful, Charnvirakul will have sixty days to call elections according to the Thai Constitution, with him stating that the action will not impact the ongoing conflict with Cambodia.
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem left in the middle of today’s heated hearing in front of the House Homeland Security Committee, claiming that she had to be at a meeting for the FEMA Review Council, a meeting which is now confirmed to have been cancelled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Democrat Rep. Seth Magaziner, Ranking Member for the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, challenged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on the reported deportation of several veterans during today’s hearing in front of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Magaziner: “Madam Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?”
Noem: “Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans.”
Magaziner: “Madam Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sae Joon Park. He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989… He was arrested in the 1990s for some minor drug offenses… Earlier this year you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn’t lived in since he was seven-years-old.”
Magaziner: “Madam Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you deported?”
Noem: “Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans.”
Magaziner: “Madam Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sae Joon Park. He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989… He was arrested in the 1990s for some minor drug offenses… Earlier this year you deported him to Korea, a country he hasn’t lived in since he was seven-years-old.”
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The United States is preparing to intercept and seize more ships transporting Venezuelan oil in the coming weeks, following yesterday’s seizure of an Iranian-linked oil tanker in the Southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, with officials having assembled a target list of several more sanctioned tankers for possible seizure, specifically targeting ships carrying Venezuelan oil that may also have transported oil from other countries targeted by sanctions, such as Iran, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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A Cambodian Army Type-90B Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) fires dozens of unguided rockets towards border positions of the Royal Thai Army from a road in the Oddar Meanchey Province of Northern Cambodia.
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For the second time in a week, the Justice Department has failed to convince a Federal Grand Jury in Virginia to bring a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to CNN. James previously pleaded not guilty to mortgage fraud charges, with the case being dismissed last month when District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that a previous member of President Trump’s legal team, Lindsey Halligan, who had charged both Letitia James and Former FBI Director James Comey with mortgage fraud, was unlawfully serving as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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F-35A Lightning lls with the “Green Mountain Boys” of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 134th Fighter Squadron, 158th Fighter Wing, out of Burlington Air National Guard Base, have been told to prepare for deployment to the Caribbean to take part in Operation Southern Spear, a U.S. official has told The War Zone.
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In a 31-19 vote, the Indiana Senate has decisively rejected a congressional redistricting of the state from 7-2 GOP to 9-0 GOP, in a major blow to the Trump Administration’s push for redistricting in Republican-led states across the country in the lead up to the 2026 Midterm Elections.
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In a 31-19 vote, the Indiana Senate has decisively rejected a congressional redistricting of the state from 7-2 GOP to 9-0 GOP, in a major blow to the Trump Administration’s push for redistricting in Republican-led states across the country in the lead up…
21 Republicans joined the 10 Democrats in the Indiana Senate in voting against the bill, a major, almost unheard-of split in the Indiana Republican Party.
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A C-5M “Super Galaxy” Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft with the U.S. Air Force’s 709th Airlift Squadron, 512th Airlift Wing, spotted landing and unloading earlier today at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Eastern Puerto Rico, following its second flight in the last three days from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. Several C-17s and C-5s are now landing almost daily at Roosevelt Roads, as the military buildup in the Caribbean has gone into overdrive, with imminent action expected against Venezuela and potentially other targets in Latin America.
Photo credit: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo
Photo credit: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo
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President Donald J. Trump has just made a very confusing post on Truth Social, claiming to have pardoned Tina Peters, the Former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who was convicted by the state, not federal government, in August 2024 on seven of ten charges of engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud, in an attempt to overturn the 2024 Presidential Election in favor of President Trump. She was sentenced to nine years in prison and immediately taken into custody in October 2024. Today’s “attempted pardon” comes as the Justice Department, under the orders of Trump, has so far failed to secure her release from the State of Colorado, despite public threats against the state and its governor from both Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban is exploring how to keep his grip on Hungary regardless of the outcome of the upcoming election in April, with polls currently showing the opposition many points ahead, as Orban is reportedly toying with the idea of assuming the presidency and rewriting laws to make it into the most powerful office in the country, a prospect that he brought up during a meeting at the White House last month with U.S. President Donald J. Trump, according to Bloomberg.
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As her announced resignation in early January quickly approaches, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been working behind the scenes to gauge whether there’s support among House Republicans for a motion to remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, three sources familiar with her efforts told MS NOW.
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