The US May Have Shot Down a Small Hobby Balloon With a Sidewinder Missile

Half-Way Into Fiscal 2026, US Budget Deficit Is 11% Lower Than 2025, But It's About To Get Much Worse While not as dire as previous years, the US budget deficit remains a ticking time bomb. There was some good news and some not so good news, when the Treasury reported the monthly revenue and outlays for the month of March.  First the good news: The US federal government reported that the March budget deficit rose $4 billion or 2% ​to $164.1 billion from $160.5 billion a year ago, and higher than the $153.3BN...

Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, including a little boy and his father, health officials in the Strip told Reuters. The boy, Yahia al-Bayouk, and his father, Mahmoud, were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Photos and videos from the Nasser Hospital show Palestinians mourning the […]

New Details: US Pilot Suffered Shrapnel Wounds After 'Unkillable' F-35 Was Struck By Iran Very little is known about last week's incident which forced an 'unkillable' F-35 fighter jet to make an emergency landing at an airbase in the Middle East last week, amid reports it took on Iranian fire. Iranian state media said it was shot and successfully downed. Al Jazeera observed that "If true, this would be the first time during the war that an F-35, the cornerstone of Washington’s aerial firepower, has been struck by Iran." US CENTCOM file image US Central Command...