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US Approves "Homing All The Way Killer" Missile Support Sale To Ukraine The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine's frontline air defenses online, after there's not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington's longtime military support to Kiev of late. The cash injection targets the maintenance and optimization of the US-designed HAWK system - which is short for the "Homing All the Way Killer" surface-to-air missile system. Bild/Getty Images Depending on the exact missile variant deployed, the platform handles tactical...

US Coast Guard Offloads More Than $72 Million Worth Of Cocaine Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), More than $72 million worth of cocaine was offloaded by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) after it was seized in multiple operations. A crew member aboard USCGC Escanaba carries a bale of cocaine during a drug offload at Port Everglades, Fla., on April 27, 2026. U.S. Coast Guard/Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Rodriguez On Monday, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba’s crew offloaded roughly 7,050 pounds of cocaine valued at over $53...

US Pulling Large Chunk Of Jets, Refueling Tankers From NATO Defense, Realigning Further East In a move that surprises absolutely no one paying attention, the United States is planning to significantly slash the number of fighter jets and warships it feeds into the NATO machine in Europe, the New York Times reported Thursday. The reported cutbacks hit right as panicked European nations scramble to patch up their own defense capacities. Though long expected given President Trump's somewhat adverse relationship with the NATO alliance, and fiercely critical rhetoric continuously directed at Brussels,...