In an amazing first, an artillery cannon took out a cruise missile.An M109 Paladin 155 mm howitzer made history recently by shooting down a fast-moving maneuvering cruise missile with a “hypervelocity projectile” able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5, according to an Air Force announcement. Historically, armored vehicles such as tanks, howitzers or…
Joseph R. Biden on Monday slammed President Trump’s views on climate change, calling the Republican a “climate arsonist” and warning the wildfires raging in the West are a bigger threat to the nation’s suburbs than immigration. Mr. Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, said the threat of climate change “requires action, not scapegoating” and a…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed Monday that the “hellish” wildfires ravaging western states will become more frequent and more deadly if President Trump wins a second term, saying Trump has “no interest in meeting this moment” on climate change.Biden’s comments, delivered from Delaware, come on a day when both campaigns are focusing on the…
The American people aren’t fully conscious of the strategic threats the nation faces today, especially from near-peer nuclear adversary nations such as China and Russia, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said Monday at the Pentagon. The threat was apparent during the Cold War, but 70 years without a great power conflict has resulted in…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…