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1 week ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Alex Horton |Haq Nawaz Khan |Shaiq Hussain
U.S. weapons from Afghan war give Pakistani militants a deadly advantage (washingtonpost.com) U.S. weapons from Afghan war give Pakistani militants a deadly advantage By Rick Noack; Alex Horton; Haq Nawaz Khan; Shaiq Hussain 2025041406003300 PESHAWAR, Pakistan — On Jan. 9, 2018, an M4A1 carbine rifle left the Colt's Manufacturing plant in Connecticut, bound for Afghanistan.
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3 weeks ago | 
southfloridareporter.com | Alex Horton |Hannah Natanson
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China's seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by "assuming risk" in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
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3 weeks ago | 
spokesman.com | Alex Horton |Hannah Natanson
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Alex Horton |Hannah Natanson
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints (washingtonpost.com) Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints By Alex Horton; Hannah Natanson 2025032919232100 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China's seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by "assuming risk" in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the...
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3 weeks ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Alex Horton |Hannah Natanson |Patrick Sisson |Elizabeth Dias
Quotes of the Day:"Only the brave know how to forgive.... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature."– Lourence Sterne"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."– Plato"It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self deceit and ignorance.: – Marcus Aurelius. 1. Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints2. As Military Spending Soars, Demand for Spy-Proof Real Estate Booms3.
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4 weeks ago | 
southfloridareporter.com | Alex Horton |Missy Ryan
The Atlantic on Wednesday published a transcript of top Trump administration officials' group chat this month discussing an imminent U.S. attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, offering a fuller accounting of the sensitive information they exchanged after the magazine's editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to the conversation that occurred over an unclassified, commercially available messaging platform.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.ycombinator.com | Alex Horton |Missy Ryan
We publicly know about tools like Pegasus and competitors Predator, Hermit and I would confidently assume hundreds of other tools that dont publicly advertise themselves. (they all might be using the same handful of 0days for all we know)There are multiple public price lists for 0days, Crowdfense currently has iOS full Zero Click Full Chain listed as $5m-$7mAnd thats a long way to say - thats correct, its insecure.
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4 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Alex Horton |Missy Ryan |Matt Viser
Atlantic publishes transcript of Trump team’s Signal chat (washingtonpost.com) Atlantic publishes transcript of Trump team’s Signal chat By Alex Horton; Missy Ryan; Matt Viser 2025032614373700 The Atlantic on Wednesday published a transcript of top Trump administration officials' group chat discussing an imminent U.S. attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, revealing a fuller accounting of the sensitive information they exchanged while the magazine's editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, observed their...
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1 month ago | 
dailyherald.com | Alex Horton |Ellen Nakashima
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters Friday at the White House before departing on Marine One en route to New Jersey. AP President Donald Trump on Friday said Elon Musk would not receive a briefing on secret plans for a potential war against China, given his substantial conflicts of interest in Beijing, following Musk’s high-level meeting at the Pentagon. Musk met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his office for more than an hour Friday morning.
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1 month ago | 
post-gazette.com | Alex Horton |Ellen Nakashima
President Donald Trump on Friday said Elon Musk would not receive a briefing on secret plans for a potential war against China, given his substantial conflicts of interest in Beijing, following Musk’s high-level meeting at the Pentagon. Mr. Musk met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his office for more than an hour on Friday morning.
