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Top Senate appropriators urge strong response to spy balloons - Roll Call

Senate appropriators called on the White House to increase funding to prevent future balloon incursions in United States airspace.

Roll Call

Ukraine war news – latest: Russia says it repelled ‘massive’ drone attack on Crimea

No casualties reported as result of alleged attack

The Independent UK

Top US, Chinese defense officials haven’t spoken in 3 months

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. and Chinese defense officials haven’t spoken since November, the Pentagon said Tuesday, a sign of how recent strains over Taiwan and an alleged spy balloon have fractured communications between the world’s two most powerful armed forces.

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No evidence of fraud in weapons to Ukraine, watchdog says

The Pentagon's inspector general says his office has found no evidence yet that any of the billions of dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into the wrong hands

The Independent UK

Congress turns attention to oversight of Ukraine aid - Roll Call

House and Senate defense and spending panels will hold the first open hearings on Ukraine aid oversight since the war’s start.

Roll Call

David Pratt: Israeli democracy 'on the brink' as Ukraine war reaches grim milestone

THIS weekend saw the passing of the one-year mark since the Russian invasion and its war in Ukraine.

The National (Scotland)

War and the battle for young minds

Our culture's endless, hypnotic obsession with war and violence has hidden costs — especially for our children

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Biden troubled China did not take Pentagon call over balloon

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said he was troubled that China declined to take a call from Pentagon officials over the alleged spy balloon that crossed the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Panel: Miliary needs gun safety measures to limit suicides

An independent panel says the Defense Department should implement a series of gun safety measures to reduce suicides in the force

The Independent UK

Brothers leave Guantanamo Bay without charge after 20 years

Two brothers who were held in the US military prison Guantanamo Bay for nearly 20 years have been released without charge.

Evening Standard

US announces new Ukraine aid, Russia sanctions on war anniversary

Pentagon to send more HIMARS ammunition and drones to Ukraine as Washington targets Russian firms and sanction evasion.

Al Jazeera

Federal workers oppose proposed Pentagon civilian workforce cut

WASHINGTON —The federal workers union came out swinging Thursday against a Republican proposal to reduce the size of the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.

Tribune News Service

Five key ways the US has supported Ukraine’s war effort

Al Jazeera examines Washington’s notable moves to help Kyiv fight against Moscow’s invasion over the past year.

Al Jazeera

US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine

The Pentagon is announcing a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Reuters

China says U.S. refused to share information on downed Chinese balloon

China's foreign ministry said on Friday that the United States had refused to reply to a Chinese request for information on the balloon that it had shot downed off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month.

Roll Call

Federal workers oppose proposed Pentagon civilian workforce cut - Roll Call

The federal workers union came out swinging Thursday against a Republican proposal to reduce the size of the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.

Tribune News Service

US readies new $2 billion aid package for Ukraine

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will send Ukraine another $2 billion in security assistance, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Thursday night.

Reuters

U.S. looks to expand Taiwan military training -sources

The United States is set to expand the number of troops helping train Taiwanese forces, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing.

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Reuters

U.S. transfers two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Pakistan

The United States has transferred two brothers from the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention facility in Cuba to Pakistan, bringing the total number of people held at Guantanamo down to 32, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Reuters

U.S., South Korea stage table-top nuclear drill focused on North Korea

U.S. and South Korean officials took part in a simulated "table-top" exercise that focused on the possibility of North Korea using a nuclear weapon, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pentagon warns troops to stay away from poppy seed bagels because of the possibility of a failed drug test

Harvesting of some poppy seeds could result in contamination that would “undermine the [Defense] Department’s ability to identify illicit drug use,” a Pentagon official said.

Salon

McCarthyism, then and now

It could get much worse (and more dangerous) in Washington in the months to come

WEKU

This selfie above China's balloon was taken over Missouri. Here's how we know that

The photo from aboard the Air Force's legendary U-2 spy plane shows the Chinese balloon. But where, exactly, was it taken? It's actually possible to answer that question using clues from the image.

Bangkok Post

US releases pilot’s spy balloon selfie

WASHINGTON: US defence officials have released a high-altitude cockpit selfie of a U-2 spy plane pilot soaring over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon the day before it was shot down.

Evening Standard

US release close-up image of China spy balloon day before it was shot down by fighter jet

The US defence department has released a close-up image of the Chinese spy balloon complete with recon sensors and solar panels as it hovered over the American mainland.

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