Assad’s Fall Is A Blow To Russia. Here’s What It Means For The War In Ukraine.

When he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently believed Russian forces would topple the government within weeks and restore Moscow’s dominance over the country after 30 years of independence. Putin was mistaken, and the war he started rages on nearly three years later. It’s hard to imagine Putin … Read more

Suspect in CEO’s killing wasn’t insured by UnitedHealthcare, company says

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, was not insured by the company, the overarching business that owns it said. There is no record that Mangione, 26, was ever insured by the company, UnitedHealth Group said. Mangione is the suspect in the fatal shooting of CEO Brian Thompson on a New … Read more

White House says many drones are manned aircraft

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said Thursday that many of the drone sightings in New Jersey are actually lawfully operated manned aircraft, and that they pose no national security or public threat.  The Pentagon said Wednesday that it is not U.S. military drones that New Jerseyans have been seeing over their skies, and that it does … Read more

Luigi Mangione was ID’d by San Francisco cops days before alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer was arrested: report

Police in San Francisco identified UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and alerted the FBI four days before his high-profile arrest, a new report says. An officer tipped off the feds after recognizing the 26-year-old’s face in surveillance images put out by the NYPD after Thompson was gunned down last week, sources told … Read more

Drone sightings reach Lehigh Valley and Poconos in eastern Pa.

Mystery “drones” have been seen in the skies over New Jersey in recent weeks, and now the sightings have apparently reached the Lehigh Valley and eastern Pennsylvania. On Thursday evening, social media was abuzz with reports of lights in the sky, from the Easton area to the Slate Belt and beyond. Numerous sightings were also … Read more

Luigi Mangione ‘on the radar’ of San Francisco cops days before arrest in Pennsylvania after CEO shooting

Police in San Francisco had apparently recognized Luigi Mangione as the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson days before he was arrested in Pennsylvania. An officer in the police department’s Special Victims Unit was combing through surveillance images the New York Police Department released of the suspected killer, and recognized him as Mangione on … Read more