Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali. Defence Blog and France 24 previously published reports that these drones were being deployed on the battlefield in northern Mali. But Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique subsequently verifie…
- How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the…
- Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Ac…
- How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School
- Rubio’s Paranoid Cuba Report Designed to “Justify a Military Attack on Cuba,” Sa…
WAR & GEOPOLITICS
This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and New Zealand news site The Press. You can read The Press’ piece here. Content warning: This article discusses non-consensual sexually explicit content and child sexual abuse material. In 2024, a former track and field c…
Bellingcat has geolocated footage circulating on social media that appears to show coffins placed in newly dug trenches following the recent deadly earthquakes in Venezuela. The site identified extends over two hectares beside an existing cemetery in La Esperanza, a town near La …
Allen Control Systems announced Monday that the Marine Corps has chosen the Bullfrog autonomous weapon system to integrate into its airborne defenses.
X-Bow Systems is launching what it hopes will be a remedy to the ongoing conundrum of combating cheap drones with multimillion dollar interceptors.
Doodle Labs hopes to turn its success in equipping jam-hardened drones in Ukraine into additional production sites in Europe and he United States.
The largest government crisis since 2022 shows Ukrainian reform and democracy efforts are as rough and uneven as democracy itself.
Martin-Baker is reaching out to drone companies: "How can we help?"
The service is building out its ability to track Russian naval activity in the High North.
Taiwan produces the world’s most advanced semiconductors, yet the island’s own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan’s ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing to develop and field …
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE TECH
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There's a new laborer on Pratt & Whitney's jet engine production line, and it doesn't need lunch breaks or vacation days. The post Meet BARB, The Robot That’s A Glimpse At Future Jet Engine Assembly appeared first on TWZ.
Is the sky still red out there? The post Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week appeared first on TWZ.
The risk of attacks on ships in port and harbor infrastructure from UUVs is growing and the USCG wants defensive solutions. The post U.S. Coast Guard Seeking Technology To Hunt And Kill Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles appeared first on TWZ.
Key ground stations in Spain operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have avoided serious damage from major wildfires in the country. The post NASA and ESA facilities avoid major damage from wildfires in Spain appeared first on SpaceNews.
SpaceX launched Starship on its 13th suborbital test flight July 24, correcting some of the issues seen on the previous flight while deploying functioning satellites for the first time. The post SpaceX conducts 13th Starship test flight appeared first on SpaceNews.
United Launch Alliance’s corporate parents have guaranteed a loan to the company as it addresses “financial challenges” caused by the grounding of its Vulcan Centaur rocket. The post ULA deals with financial challenges caused by Vulcan grounding appeared first on SpaceNews.
UNDERGROUND & INVESTIGATIVE
The post How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery appeared first on ProPublica.
The post Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. appeared first on ProPublica.
The post How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School appeared first on ProPublica.
Did Cuba foment Black Lives Matter and anti-ICE protests? The State Department seems to think so. The post Rubio’s Paranoid Cuba Report Designed to “Justify a Military Attack on Cuba,” Says Democratic Rep. appeared first on The Intercept.
The secretary of war’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads. The post Pete Hegseth’s Crisis of Masculinity appeared first on The Intercept.
An angecywide memo reinstated ICE vehicle stops with all-new restrictive policy guidelines. The post Leaked Email Reveals New Requirements for ICE Vehicle Stops appeared first on The Intercept.
Women on four continents told ICIJ that global pay-per-action dating sites owned by a Russian businessman and self-styled philosopher left them financially broke and heartbroken.
An internal report obtained says that crypto brokers are moving millions while dodging rules to guard against dirty money.
The Swedish bank and its New York subsidiary agreed to the penalty to settle final U.S. probe tied to money laundering case, officials say.
INDEPENDENTS & SUBSTACK
Narrated Version | From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth
On speech, Donald Trump is making a mess, for himself and the country.
From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth
Jillian Michaels joins Coleman Hughes to make the case that America’s obesity crisis isn’t a failure of willpower but a rigged system designed by Big Food and Big Pharma.
We are getting uncomfortably close to the moment when an AI agent will be capable of evading or eliminating the humans standing in the way of the job it set out to accomplish, writes Patrick McGee.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer was picked by a union boss to lead Trump’s labor policy, until it all went awry. Now she tells The Free Press what comes next.
LEFT
Canada’s Victims of Communism monument included proposed honorees from the Waffen-SS, the Ustaša, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The charity that supplied the names is still helping shape the memorial’s next phase.
The part of the rise in class consciousness and organizing by college-educated workers that we should pay closest attention to is that it’s happening in expanding industries that are strategic for organizing like health, education, and social services.
India’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power.
Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila’s new film for PBS, Farmers of the Sea, documents climate change’s threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieques, Puerto Rico. For islands in the Caribbean, explains Dávila, “we are situated geographically in one of the frontlines of cl…
After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territories like Puerto Ric…
A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country’s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People’s) Party — a new…
The ruling preserves an injunction against key provisions aimed at restricting mail-in voting.
The 1,400-bed facility comes as the Trump administration ramps up immigrant detention nationwide.
Even terminally ill people must prove they are too sick to work to keep their Medicaid coverage.
Newly released documents reviewed by MintPress uncover a Mossad-CIA led “espionage network” inside Yemen against Ansarallah to enable “decapitation strikes” against senior leaders including AbdulMalik al-Houthi and others – mirroring Israeli intelligence campaigns previously carr…
RIGHT
President Donald Trump dismissed reports that the United States is running short on munitions for the conflict with Iran, telling the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the U.S. military has “far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need” as his administr…
A California family’s vacation at a popular Maui resort took a horrifying turn when a group of local youths allegedly attacked them in an alleged racially motivated assault. One family member says the ringleader of the group threatened the family before the Friday-night assault, …
Amidst the turmoil surrounding the shooting of a Mexican national in Houston earlier this month, officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) branch continue to arrest and remove criminal aliens from the streets of the Bayou C…
If This Isn't Treason, What Is? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A newly revealed internal memo from the final days of the Biden administration exposes a calculated scheme to grant de facto amnesty to more than 3 million foreign nationals through Tempora…
Intern At NATO Military Headquarters In Belgium Faces Spying Charges Belgian authorities arrested an intern working inside NATO's military headquarters, accusing her of spying. Nato’s sprawling military HQ close to Mons in western Belgium is where commanders plan and…
European Wildfires, Net-Zero Stagnation, & The Great Industry Displacement Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Europe’s wildfire crisis has also exposed the failure of public spending rhetoric unsupported by effective land and forest management. EU governments spent 40.6 bi…
The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee is in full-blown meltdown, according to a New York Times report, with its chair, Ken Martin, descending into fear and “a growing sense of paranoia” about his job security. Facing a cash crunch, the Democratic National Committee has…
Just two days after the first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci was already imagining himself to be an adversary to President Donald Trump. Fauci wrote about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in a series of diary entries — p…
Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and funding sent from the United States to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying that he was “wasting” time by addressing the concerns posed by members of Congress. Fauci’s private thoughts were pre…
THINK TANKS
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Republicans have since turned their attention to additional pillars of the social safety net.
Russia still has assets to tap for its war, but the political costs are growing.
Foreign leaders accuse the White House of using forced labor allegations as a smokescreen for protectionist measures.
AI & TECH
This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of …
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon…
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, orga…
Laptops for college should be portable, offer long battery life, and be well priced. Based on testing hundreds of laptops, these are my top picks.
As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who contract the virus or who are particularly vulnerable.
I tested the Soundcore Nebula P1i, an affordable projector, to see if it could overcome the typical drawbacks that most budget projectors suffer from.
Plus Mike Flanagan's Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie, and Marvel news.
Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel.
SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight.
Scientists have predicted that human linguistic diversity flourished between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago, before declining with the rise of multinational states and colonial expansion.
SCIENCE
Nature, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02171-7The national synchrotron source, a laser facility and a particle accelerator are under threat of closure unless cash is found.
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10911-yAuthor Correction: Feature-specific threat coding in lateral septum guides defensive action
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02267-0Switching off one copy of a gene also enabled one of the children to walk independently for the first time.
An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen Thomson explores how strong the evidence is for the brain effects of a diet full of these foods
The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations around the world is in the middle of a wildfire
Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be adapted for different purposes with various microbes
Population declines led to spike in spinal deformities and rare tumors, fossil study suggests
One shot of lenacapavir can protect for 6 months—but aid cuts and uncertain demand mean little drug has reached the countries that most need it
The loosely regulated molecules could soon become easier to buy, despite unknowns about their risks