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Two transit buses collided head-on near a Pentagon bus stop on Friday morning, injuring 23 people, including 10 defence department personnel, according to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.The crash occurred shortly before 7.30am when an Omni Ride bus and a Fairfax Connector bus struck each other, prompting a major emergency response and disruption to mass…
US Navy secretary John Phelan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, marking the first departure of a military service chief during Donald Trump’s second term and the latest in a series of leadership changes at the department of defense.Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed the move, saying Phelan was “departing the…
A fresh assessment by the Pentagon’s intelligence wing has found that Iran continues to retain its “key military capabilities”, contradicting earlier claims by top US officials that Tehran’s forces had been significantly degraded.According to an NBC News report, the findings challenge statements made by US President Donald Trump and US secretary of war Pete Hegseth,…
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, the company’s most-controversial AI model yet. This comes despite the US Department of War that oversees NSA labelled the AI company a ‘national security risk’ in March. An Axios report quoting two people familiar with the development said that the model was being…
The United States has informed several European allies that deliveries of previously contracted weapons are likely to be delayed as the ongoing Iran war places increasing pressure on American arms stockpiles, according to five sources familiar with the matter.Reuters sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that multiple European countries, including nations in…
Google is said to be in talks with the Department of War (previously Department of Defense) to bring its powerful Gemini AI models into the heart of the US military. However, according to a report from The Information (via news agency Reuters), the tech giant is insisting on strict contract terms to ensure the technology…
There are movies that become such cultural icons that they reverberate through the ages. Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of them, leaving a cultural imprint so big that you can just quote the movie’s lines without context. And the most popular meme from that, which any fan can quote out of memory, is Ezekiel…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei After six weeks of bruising fight with the Pentagon, AI giant Anthropic PBC has received what amounts to a major endorsement from the Trump administration and the reason is China. According to a report by Bloomberg, speaking at a Wall Street Journal event in Washington, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised…
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said that the coming days in the Middle East conflict would be “decisive.” He further warned Iran that Tehran should “cut a deal” if it is “wise,” asserting that President Donald Trump “doesn’t bluff and he does not back down.“ ‘Trump doesn’t bluff’ Hegseth urged Tehran to agree…
US war secretary Pete Hegseth’s assistant Sean Parnell on Tuesday dismissed the report claiming that his broker explored options to invest in defence-linked assets shortly before the US-Israeli military action against Iran. He demanded “immediate retraction” of the report.“This allegation is entirely false and fabricated. Neither Secretary Hegseth nor any of his representatives approached BlackRock…
