November 5, 2025

The best offense? The Golden Dome and Ratel’s mine-laying drones

This week on Weapons and Warfare, host Ryan Robertson takes a look at the innovative agreement between AeroVironment (AV) and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), while exploring their possible role in the Golden Dome initiative. Ryan also examines the potential of their partnership on national security and how it could help shape the future of national […]

November 5, 2025

Trump meets Xi: How media spins summits into win-loss contests

President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping has drawn sharply contrasting coverage from left and right-leaning media, exposing patterns of bias in how high-profile diplomatic events are reported. The two political sides of the media frame the facts differently. MSNBC largely emphasized U.S. weakness in its coverage, framing the outcome of the […]

November 5, 2025

US rep’s sudden election quit called ‘coronation’ move to lock in successor

Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Ill., has decided not to run for his seat again in the next election and has timed his announcement in a way that virtually guarantees his chief of staff will take his place, according to reports. Some people are criticizing this as an old-school, insider political move, where powerful figures often […]

November 5, 2025

Dozens of animals abandoned at zoo for 5 years receive emergency care: Report

Lions, tigers and bears reportedly struggling to survive in poor conditions for years at a now-closed zoo in Argentina are finally receiving the medical care they’ve desperately needed, according to The Associated Press. The animals being treated before their eventual transport to wildlife sanctuaries around the globe include 62 big cats and two brown bears.  […]

November 5, 2025

On Election Day in California, voters weigh in on Proposition 50

On Election Day in California, voters headed to the polls in a special election to decide whether to draw temporary congressional maps that could send more Democrats to Washington next year. The campaign to approve Proposition 50 attracted so many donations that its chief proponent, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, asked for people to stop sending […]

November 5, 2025

Democrats claim victory as 2025 election races called nationwide

Millions of Americans have cast their votes, and Democrats have claimed victory in multiple closely watched races. In Virginia and New Jersey, voters went to the polls to pick their next governor, and voters in the nation’s largest city selected who they want to be the next mayor of New York City. Virginia flips control […]

November 5, 2025

UK gov’t probes internal BBC memo alleging biased Trump, Gaza coverage

According to a whistleblowing memo now under investigation by British Parliament, the BBC allegedly edited President Donald Trump’s speech before the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, in a misleading way, The Telegraph reports. The memo also claims that BBC Arabic, the BBC’s Arabic-language news coverage, was unfair in its reporting regarding the Israel-Hamas […]

November 4, 2025

Government shutdown to become longest in nation’s history

The government shutdown inched closer to becoming the longest in the nation’s history at 35 days, after Congress failed to pass another funding package designed to end the closure. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., had told reporters Monday that he was optimistic a deal would be reached, ending a closure that’s affected federal workers […]

November 4, 2025

Gulf War to War on Terror: Cheney’s grip on US national security policy

Dick Cheney, who died Monday at age 84, became one of the most powerful vice presidents in modern U.S. history and a leading advocate for the 2003 Iraq invasion. He leveraged the office to shape core national-security choices on Iraq, surveillance and interrogation in the post-9/11 era. According to Time, Cheney pushed an expansive view […]