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A Russian tanker carrying liquefied natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea was attacked before sinking. Moscow says Kiev used underwater drones in the attack.  The Arctic Metagaz was hit on Tuesday, causing a fire to break out. The Russian state media outlet TASS reported that all 30 crew members on board are safe. The Russian […]

CIA Used "Ghost Murmur" To Locate Missing F-15 Airman From 40-Miles Away In combination with the downed F-15 weapons systems officer, known publicly only as "Dude 44 Bravo," activating Boeing's Combat Survivor Evader Locator, or CSEL, U.S. forces were reportedly able to narrow the search area and then locate the second crew member shot down over southern Iran using a secret CIA reconnaissance tool known as "Ghost Murmur." The New York Post reports that the long-range quantum magnetometry surveillance tool, powered by AI, was used in the U.S. search-and-rescue operation for...

'I See Dead People': Treasury Blocks $99 Million In Federal Payments To Deceased Americans The Treasury Department announced Tuesday morning that it has successfully implemented new safeguards to prevent government payments to dead people in an effort to reduce waste and fraud. The verification system includes screening 885 million federal payments against expanded death records, effectively auditing payments totaling nearly $2.7 trillion. It has already flagged and stopped payments totaling roughly $99 million that had been marked to be sent to dead people. "Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s...