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Soleimani Was Planning ‘Imminent Attacks’ That Could Have Killed Hundreds Of Americans, Top US Official Says

Andrew Kerr Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was planning “imminent attacks” that could have killed hundreds of Americans prior to being killed in an airstrike near Baghdad’s airport Friday, a senior U.S. official said. The planned attacks would have targeted American facilities and workers in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other…

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Bezos Declares War On Trump After WH Officials Deny Amazon Mega Cloud Computing Contract

Chris White  Amazon claimed in a legal complaint Monday that the company lost a $10-billion cloud-computing project because President Donald Trump wanted to deny its billionaire CEO a big government contract. Trump used “improper pressure” on the contract process to hurt Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, the legal complaint noted. The tech company was viewed as a…

New Acting Defense Secretary Vows To Advance President’s Agenda
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New Acting Defense Secretary Vows To Advance President’s Agenda

Hanna Bogorowski Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan replaced James Mattis in the Pentagon role late Monday and vowed to work with President Donald Trump to advance his agenda, a task Mattis professed in his resignation letter to no longer being able to do. Trump announced the leadership change Dec. 23, just three days after…

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Pentagon Suspects North Korean Missile Test May Be Imminent

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell The Pentagon has reportedly detected signs of indicating that a North Korean missile test may be imminent. “They’re setting up for something,” a U.S. defense official told AFP. The U.S. military has spotted a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile transporter-erector and firing table in Kusong in North Pyongan Province, U.S. officials…

The Military Has Known About F-35’s Oxygen Deprivation Problem Since 2011

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen The Air Force has known about problems with the F-35’s oxygen system since 2011, the service announced Thursday. More than a dozen pilots have experienced oxygen deprivation known as hypoxia or “physiological events” since 2011, Capt. Mark Graff, Air Force spokesman for the Air Force, told Military.com. There…

Pentagon To Send Nearly 4,000 More Troops To America’s Longest War In Afghanistan

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The Pentagon is preparing to send nearly 4,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight in America’s longest war in an effort to turn the tide against the Taliban. A Trump administration official told the Associated Press that Secretary of Defense James Mattis is likely to make the troop…

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Pentagon Plans First Intercept Test For Eventual North Korean ICBM

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell The Pentagon is reportedly planning to practice shooting down long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) like the one that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un hopes to field. North Korea’s ballistic missile program is progressing faster than expected, and the Department of Defense is investing in improved missile defense…

Miami Herald: Flynn Stopped Military Plan Turkey Opposed – After Being Paid as its Agent

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Wiretapping, leaks, attacks on the press, memos from the former FBI director, and now allegations that President Donald Trump‘s former national security advisor Gen. Mike Flynn may have been involved in a quid pro quo with Turkey. The Miami Herald reports: 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president,…

Rand Paul Agrees With Trump’s Inclusion of China on North Korea

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias Atienza Libertarian-leaning Republican Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) says that he agrees with President Donald Trump‘s decision to include China on the current tension going on with North Korea. “They’re a socialist economy. They don’t produce enough food to feed themselves, sort of an inhospitable place, it’s cold and…

Pentagon Drops Footage Of Massive Strike On ISIS In Afghanistan [VIDEO]

Pentagon Drops Footage Of Massive Strike On ISIS In Afghanistan [VIDEO]

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Pentagon has released footage of the U.S. dropping the “mother of all bombs” on the Islamic State in Afghanistan Thursday. Official video shows the sudden blast envelop a mountain valley in the Nangarhar province, where the terror group was making use of a network of tunnels and…