A viral claim by a former CIA analyst that General Dan Caine blocked Donald Trump from launching a nuclear strike on Iran has gained millions of views. However, fact-checkers and news reports find no record of the alleged Saturday meeting or confrontation.
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On April 19, Candace Owens fueled an ongoing public feud by naming "Andrew Simpson" as Laura Loomer’s secret husband. The exchange drags Loomer's private life into a messy conflict already involving faith, family, and MAGA power struggles.
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US air travellers face the worst spring flight chaos in years as three separate crises collide at airports nationwide, forcing thousands of delays, a crumbling airport security workforce, and an Iran-war fuel shock that is pushing airlines to slash routes.
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On Sunday, China sent a naval group led by the destroyer Baotou through the Yokoate Waterway into the Pacific. This marks the first public Chinese transit of that passage, which is closer to mainland Japan than the usual Miyako Strait.
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The U.S. Navy completed two demonstration flights of the Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range (JDAM LR) in early April, with both launches traveling 200 nautical miles to their targets off California, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced April 20.
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Federal prosecutors arrested Shamim Mafi, 44, at Los Angeles International Airport on the night of April 18 on charges she brokered arms sales from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the Sudanese military.
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Two U.S. Embassy instructor officers specializing in drone operations and counter-narcotics tactics died alongside the director of Chihuahua’s state investigation agency and a state officer April 19.
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The Mossad, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and Shin Bet announced Monday they had exposed an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-backed terror network that planned to bomb the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline and attack Israeli and Jewish targets in Azerbaijan.
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Ukrainian forces struck the Rosneft-operated Tuapse oil refinery for the second time in four days overnight on April 19 to 20, killing one person and igniting a fire at the tank farm, Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed.
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Congressman Eric Burlison has toured one classified US base and intends to visit at least three more, culminating in a trip to a foreign site he says hides an unidentified giant craft so large that authorities built a structure around it rather than move it.
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UK homeowners renewing fixed-rate deals now face annual cost rises of roughly £1,200-£1,340 after the IMF warned that the collapse of the safety premium on US Treasury bonds is pushing global borrowing costs higher, with UK gilt yields moving in lockstep.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Sunday that his panel will open an investigation into the deaths and disappearances of up to 11 American scientists tied to classified nuclear and space research, calling the pattern 'sinister.'
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A 2019 plea deal handed to a Shreveport Army National Guard veteran who fired a weapon near a high school let him keep legal access to a gun seven years before he killed eight children on April 19, public court records show.
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Both soldiers deployed bear spray and are receiving medical care.
A brown bear attacked and injured two soldiers from the 11th Airborne Division, known as the Arctic Angels, on April 17 during a land navigation training event at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) Arctic Valley training area in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense will contract 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in the first half of 2026, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced April 18, doubling the total procured throughout all of 2025.
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Koizumi called the frigate purchase a “major step” in elevating bilateral defense ties and described it as Japan’s largest defense export in its postwar history.
Japan and Australia executed four defense agreements in Melbourne on Saturday, formalizing the first three Mogami-class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy alongside a separate anti-air warfare systems contract.
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No motive has been confirmed.
“He acted chaotically. He approached every person… he was simply shooting people point-blank,” Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
The attacker, born in Moscow and a long-term resident of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, opened fire on civilians in the Holosiivskyi district before barricading himself inside a Velmart supermarket with hostages. Attorney General Ruslan Kravchenko classified the incident as a terrorist act.
A 58-year-old man set fire to his Kyiv apartment before taking to the streets with a legally registered weapon on April 18, killing six people and wounding 15 before police shot him dead during a supermarket hostage standoff, Ukrainian officials said.
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Security researchers bypassed the European Commission’s new age verification app in under two minutes on April 16, days after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared the open-source tool “technically ready."
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Shamar Elkins, a 31-year-old Army veteran, shot and killed eight children, seven of them his own, at multiple addresses in Shreveport, Louisiana, on April 19, before carjacking a vehicle and being fatally shot by officers in neighboring Bossier Parish.
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Here's the full list of 10 US nuclear scientists who have mysteriously vanished or died since 2023 as White House launches probe.
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President Trump confirmed a federal investigation into the deaths of 10 US scientists involved in classified research, labeling the situation serious. A deadline of April 26 has been set for a formal briefing on the cases.
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Singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. From the repeated missing persons reports to the chilling discovery in an impounded Tesla, here is the full timeline of the investigation that led to his handcuffs.
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Photographs from the ship showed a folded tortilla with a scoop of meat and carrots beside a strip of processed grey meat.
Her son, one of roughly 3,500 sailors and Marines enforcing President Donald Trump's blockade on Iranian ports, messaged her that the crew 'divvy up food evenly' if one person gets a larger portion, and warned that supplies 'are going to get really low.'
A Texas mother told USA Today she has spent more than $2,000 on packages for her son aboard the USS Tripoli, and not one has arrived.
The US Postal Service has suspended delivery to 27 military ZIP codes across the region, citing airspace closures and logistical fallout from the conflict.
