It’s terrifying federal workers. When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line. Now they have a new fear: becoming the personal targets of the world’s richest man – and his legions of followers. Last week, in the midst of the flurry of his daily missives, Musk reposted two X posts that revealed the names and titles of people holding four relatively obscure climate-related government positions.…
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According to preliminary reports, he was located at the headquarters of the Ba’ath Party in the Ras En-Nabaa district of Beirut. The strike also injured three civilians. Earlier in the week, Afif had called the Israeli military’s ground operation in southern Lebanon a “failure.” Thus, Israel demonstrates that its target is not only Hezbollah’s military wing but also its officials. Tel Aviv aims to weaken the Shiite group on all fronts: economic, social, political, and military.
Hackers for the Chinese government were able to deeply penetrate U.S. telecommunications infrastructure in ways that President Joe Biden’s administration hasn’t yet acknowledged, according to new reports from the Washington Post and New York Times. The hackers were able to listen to phone calls and read text messages, reportedly exploiting the system U.S. authorities use to wiretap Americans in criminal cases. The worst part? The networks are still compromised and it may take incredibly drastic measures to boot them from U.S. systems. The hackers behind the infiltration of U.S. telecom…
On the West Bank of the Jordan River, Israeli intelligence services eliminated three Hamas militants. The operation took place at the “Ibn Sina” hospital in the Jenin refugee camp, where members of the Palestinian group were receiving treatment for injuries sustained in clashes with security forces. Ten Israeli special forces operatives, disguised in medical uniforms, infiltrated the medical facility and shot the Palestinians in their wards. Among the neutralized militants was a field commander of the group, who, according to intelligence services, had been planning attacks on Israelis. Palestinian authorities…
The U.S. plans to increase monthly production of 155 millimeter artillery shells over the coming years to 100,000 in 2025, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer said on Friday. “We’re going to be at 100,000 per month in 2025. We were at 14,000 per month 6 or 8 months ago, we are now at 28,000 a month today,” Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer said at a conference on Friday. Demand for 155mm artillery rounds has soared in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But allies’…
Beijing said Friday it was sanctioning two US defense companies, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, over their roles in supplying arms to Taiwan. The United States Congress, under the Taiwan Relations Act, requires the supply of weapons to the self-governing democracy for its defense. US administrations had done so through sales rather than direct aid, but in August Washington for the first time approved direct US military aid to Taiwan under an assistance program aimed at foreign governments. “Despite China’s firm opposition, the US government is determined to provide weapons to Taiwan……
Executives at ExxonMobil continued in recent years to raise doubts internally about the dangers of climate change and the need to cut back on oil and gas use, even though the company had previously conceded publicly that burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The effort to minimize concerns about climate change under former chief executive Rex Tillerson, who led Exxon from 2006 until 2016, was happening at the same time that scientists at the company were modeling troubling increases in…
The United States on Wednesday approved a $5 billion sale to South Korea of F-35s, top-of-the-line fighter-jets with stealth capacity, as tensions soar with North Korea. The State Department informed Congress that it had given the green light to the sale of 25 of the aircraft made by Lockheed Martin as well as engines and related equipment. The sale “will improve the Republic of Korea’s capability to meet current and future threats by providing credible defense capability to deter aggression in the region and ensure interoperability with US forces,” a…