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Newly declassified UFO files reveal accounts of glowing green orbs, discs, and fireballs seen by witnesses. Released under orders from Donald Trump, this is the second batch of documents aimed at shedding light on decades of unidentified aerial phenomena. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called it a move toward unprecedented transparency.

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New York City’s theater hub is set to give 28-year-old alleged killer Luigi Mangione the star treatment in a satirical musical that premieres in Manhattan in June. "Luigi: The Musical" will run at a theater just miles from where Mangione allegedly gunned down a father of two in broad daylight, execution-style.

The location choice, like the timing of the show’s Big Apple debut, certainly seems to be deliberate. Opening night is June 15, a week after Mangione’s state trial was supposed to begin, until a New York judge delayed that trial until this fall.

We Are The Mighty profiles retired Sgt. Maj. Mike Vining through the smaller personal details behind a much larger military résumé: Vietnam EOD work, Delta Force, Operation Eagle Claw, and later life outside uniform. The article uses the “sardines he never ate” story to humanize someone usually presented as a meme or legend.

Vining served as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist in Vietnam, where he recalled multiple near-death moments, including being left behind at an abandoned Special Forces camp and helping destroy the massive “Rock Island East” enemy weapons cache in Cambodia.

The profile also connects Vining to Delta Force’s early history. A related We Are The Mighty piece says he joined Delta in 1978 as an EOD specialist under Col. Charlie Beckwith, making him one of the unit’s original members.

The article’s strategic value is not just biography. It shows how specialized technical skills, especially EOD, became central to elite special operations as missions grew more complex and politically sensitive.

Vining’s post-service life, including mountaineering, historical writing, veteran community work, and distance from his internet fame, adds a useful contrast to modern military celebrity culture. The profile suggests that some of the most consequential operators may be least interested in mythmaking.

Do stories like Vining’s help preserve serious military history, or do meme-driven portrayals risk flattening complex service into legend?

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed NATO members like Spain for refusing to let the US use their bases for strikes on Iran. He called it a fair question whether such countries should even remain in the alliance, adding to tensions at a high-stakes meeting in Sweden.

For many people, Google’s search box is the lobby of the internet. Simple and intuitive, it has shaped how people navigate online for nearly three decades and was the driving force behind the company’s meteoric rise. 

Now, it is set to undergo a radical transformation to fully incorporate artificial intelligence.

The company announced on Tuesday that the search bar will be “completely reimagined with AI,” calling it the biggest change in more than 25 years.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completed 72 historic flights since first taking to the skies above the Red Planet.

On April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it completed the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. It flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024.

Designed to be a technology demonstration that would make no more than five test flights in 30 days, the helicopter eventually completed 72 flights across nearly three years, soaring higher and faster than previously imagined. Ingenuity embarked on a new mission as an operations demonstration, serving as an aerial scout for scientists and rover planners, and for engineers ready to learn more about Perseverance’s landing-gear debris.

In its final phase, the helicopter entered a new engineering demonstration phase where it executed experimental flight tests that further expanded the team’s knowledge of the vehicle’s aerodynamic limits.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio marked Cuban Independence Day on Wednesday with a Spanish-language video message to the people of the island that blamed their "unimaginable hardships" on their communist leadership.

Why it matters: This is the first time Rubio has addressed the Cuban population directly as secretary of state. It's part of the Trump administration's multi-layered pressure campaign targeting Havana.

"The real reason you don't have electricity, fuel, or food is because those who control your country have plundered billions of dollars, but nothing has been used to help the people," Rubio says in the speech.

Later Wednesday, the Justice Department will unveil the indictment of Cuba's de facto leader, Raúl Castro, for allegedly ordering the shootdown of two Miami-based rescue planes in 1996.

The Louisiana senator, who lost his primary over the weekend, voted in support of the war powers resolution for the first time. It advanced 50-47, with a final passage vote yet to come.

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Jeff Bezos proposed eliminating income taxes for the bottom half of American earners, pointing out they currently contribute just 3% of federal income tax revenue. He argued the system disproportionately relies on the top 1%, who pay around 40%, sparking debate with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A Senate Republican spurned by President Donald Trump joined Senate Democrats to handcuff his war powers in Iran and provided the key vote to advance a war powers resolution through a key hurdle.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who lost his primary bid over the weekend, sided with Senate Democrats in their war of attrition to curtail Trump's policing powers in the Middle East. It comes after Democrats successfully gained another defector, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week.