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They couldn't get a bailout because of Kenneth Gtiffin. pic.twitter.com/aGGM7vjD4z — JR (Boss Gummie) (@JJRich59) May 5, 2026
Kyiv’s drones struck a Karakurt-class missile ship overnight, the vessel is capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles… Zelenskyy confirms the strike also took out a patrol boat and a tanker, the shadow oil fleet is taking direct hits… Satellite data shows massive hotspots at the Primorsk oil terminal, the joint SBU and HUR operation was …
The pioneer of the low-cost model officially grounded its last jet at 3:00 AM today. The $500M White House lifeline was pulled, creditors refused a final deal. Thousands of passengers are stranded at gates from Las Vegas to Detroit this morning. Aviation experts say Spirit is the first major corporate casualty, the war fuel spike. …
Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
The SBU (security service of Ukraine) has for the first time struck a tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea. As a result of multi-stage operations in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the “Alpha” unit of the SBU struck the tanker QENDIL using aerial drones. At the …
On a warm night in August 2023, Oleksandr Kubrakov, then a senior minister in Ukraine’s wartime government, had just settled into a sleeper car on the eastbound train from Lviv to Kyiv when he got a call from the country’s main intelligence agency, the SBU. Its agents had deployed a set of naval drones in …
Russia is gaining territory in Ukraine at one of the fastest rates since the war began as peace talks stall. The Kremlin’s army seized 200 square miles of territory in November, up from 100 square miles the previous month, according to DeepState, a trusted Ukraine-based battlefield map. The speed of advance was approaching the fastest …
An unmanned, oval-shaped aircraft from flying taxi manufacturer EHang hovers above a riverside innovation district on the outskirts of the southern Chinese commercial center of Guangzhou, whirring loudly like a miniature helicopter as part of trials for a compact flying taxi that could have been lifted straight from science fiction movies. In the neighboring city …
RUSSIAN SUB BASES EMPTY AS FLEET SURGES INTO THE ARCTIC WATERS Satellite images show Russian Northern Fleet submarine pens nearly deserted, with cruise missile, ballistic missile and attack subs deployed at sea. Analysts suggest Moscow may be reacting to recent shifts in U.S. and NATO nuclear submarine posture. An unusually large portion of Russia’s undersea …
United Airlines grounded its entire U.S. fleet Wednesday. System-wide failure. Weight and balance software collapsed. No warning. No fallback. No workaround. Flights already airborne kept moving. Everything else froze. Chicago. Newark. Houston. Denver. All dark. https://abcnews.go.com/US/united-airlines-grounds-flights-nationwide-technology-issue/story?id=124433330 Passengers stuck on tarmacs. United’s social team? Copy-paste apologies. https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/united-airlines-requests-ground-stop-over-system-outage-heres-the-list-of-affected-airports-including-chicago-ohare-newark-article-152422332 United says it wasn’t a cyberattack. No explanation why …
TESLA’S ROBOTAXI MATH IS INSANE – $2.9B PROFIT WITH JUST 100K CARS Waymo’s 1,500 robotaxis generate $250M in revenue – and still lose money. Now picture Tesla with 100,000 robotaxis by 2026: 100 miles/day, $1/mile, 80% margin = ~$2.9B in pure profit annually. That’s 12x Waymo’s revenue – and Tesla’s just getting started. Scale that …
U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had been flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline. Kelly, a decorated senior commander at the base, got on a squadron rooftop to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers …
https://www.xm.com/research/markets/allNews/reuters/us-faa-issues-ground-stop-advisory-for-alaska-airlines-53815199 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday issued a ground stop advisory for Alaska Airlines, saying: “All Alaska mainline and subcarrier flights ground stopped.” The advisory said that flights for SkyWest, which provides regional service for Alaska Airlines and others, were excluded. The advisory did not provide a reason for the ground stop. https://www.xm.com/research/markets/allNews/reuters/us-faa-issues-ground-stop-advisory-for-alaska-airlines-53815199 …
Same thing on our flight from Phoenix to Dulles yesterday. Group from Guatemala carrying docs from DHS that read "Release on Recognizance". Doc said "you have been arrested and are being processed for removal". — Wes Querns (@WesQuerns) February 14, 2024
Shares of Boeing fell in premarket trade Monday, as markets digested the news that the Federal Aviation Administration had ordered a temporary grounding of dozens of Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft. Shares were down 8% shortly after premarket trading opened at 4 a.m. ET. Of the 171 aircraft grounded under the directive, United Airlines has …
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Not a good time for a war. Nearly 40% of US attack submarines in or awaiting repair as shipyards face worker shortages, supply chain issues By Oren Liebermann, CNN Published 6:27 PM EDT, Wed July 12, 2023 Of the 49 fast attack submarines in the Navy, a total of 18 are either in depot maintenance …
Cruise will reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco, the California Department of Motor Vehicles told CNBC. The move comes after Cruise autonomous vehicles were involved in multiple crashes in San Francisco this week where the self-driving cars appeared to stall in intersections, including one on Thursday night when it collided with a …
Israel remains the only country in the Middle East to have the world’s most advanced fighter jet in its arsenal. An F35 fighter jet In May 2018, Israel said it was the first to use the F-35 in combat [File: Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters] Published On 2 Jul 20232 Jul 2023 Israel will buy its third fleet …
