4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (563+ words) The U.S. Space Force has awarded Antares, a Torrance, California nuclear startup, a $161 million Strategic Breakthrough contract to develop a fission reactor for spacecraft, a bet on orbital nuclear power that the company says is the largest current Department of War…...

4+ hour, 21+ min ago   (421+ words) The officials described the finding as the clearest evidence to date that Chinese support for Tehran during the 2026 war contributed to American combat deaths. They declined to name the firms involved and stopped short of accusing the Chinese government of…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (236+ words) The Department of War will install the Navy’s first shore-based nuclear microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane in Indiana no later than September 2028, extending a program that until now had placed reactors only at Army posts. The Department announced the…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (322+ words) Huawei Technologies went on trial in Brooklyn federal court on September 8, facing racketeering, bank fraud, and trade-secret theft charges tied to its business in sanctioned Iran and North Korea. The trial opened with a narrower case than the one prosecutors…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (334+ words) The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación packed a stolen vehicle with about 440 pounds of mining explosives and detonated it outside a municipal police headquarters in Ojocaliente, Zacatecas, on August 30, wounding 11 people and damaging more than 60 homes in one of the largest…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (310+ words) The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf on Tuesday. The destroyed vessels were the M/T Kaviz, M/T Charminar, M/T Horizon 1 and M/T…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (459+ words) U.S. sailors and Marines boarded a floating refueling station serving Ecuador’s Los Choneros drug network in the Eastern Pacific on September 7, removed everyone aboard, and sank the vessel after the crew was clear, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said. The people taken…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (240+ words) A humanoid robot took the helm of a simulated warship for the first time in South Korea, gripping the wheel and holding a heading on spoken command as the Navy searches for ways to run its fleet with fewer sailors....

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (637+ words) The U.S. military said it struck three Iranian oil tankers Saturday after Iranian forces launched missile attacks against two U.S. Navy warships. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said it “permanently disabled” two Iranian crude oil carriers, the M/T Downy and M/T…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (424+ words) President Donald Trump on September 1 nominated acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to lead the Department of the Navy permanently, elevating a retired special operations captain to run a service worn down by record wartime deployments. Cao has held the post…...