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1,800 California National Guardsmen activated for LA fire response
California Governor Gavin Newsom increased the number of Guardsmen over the weekend, as the death toll for the wildfires climbed to 24.
By Riley Ceder
Federal officials unveil aid for water, shelter as Maui residents reel
The Biden administration is seeking $12 billion in additional money for the government’s disaster relief fund.
Opinion
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide
Three Indigenous studies scholars draw from colonial histories and explain why listening for alien life can have ethical ramifications.
By David Delgado Shorter, University of California, Los Angeles, Kim TallBear, University of Alberta and William Lempert, Bowdoin College
Team Rubicon leaders take different journeys to the same destination
Art delaCruz and Jarrett Brown took different paths after leaving the military, but both ended up with Team Rubicon.
By Dave Lubach
U.S. Naval Academy ID’s midshipman who died Tuesday
Midshipman 1st Class Taylor Connors was as prior-enlisted Marine who arrived in Annapolis in 2019.
Navy, Army veterans among those killed in warehouse collapse during tornado
An Amazon warehouse that collapsed after getting hit by a tornado Dec. 10 left six people dead, including an Army and a Navy veteran.
“People are relying on us” — National Guard evolves to fight wars, secure homefront
The last two years have seen a rash of domestic crises and the National Guard has been on the frontline responding to everything from the Covid-19 pandemic to historic fires and flooding, and even widespread protests.
By Sonner Kehrt
$1B Iron Dome fund stripped from new continuing resolution
A proposal to send Israel $1 billion for the Iron Dome air defense system has been cut out of a stopgap government funding bill, meant to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30, in order to ease its passage in the House.
By Joe Gould
About 200 US Marines head to Haiti in wake of devastating earthquake
The 200 Marines will be used to provide security to a joint U.S. task force.
By Philip Athey
New Hindenburg documentary sheds light on the decades-old disaster
It's been 84 years since airship Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
By Caitlin O'Brien
Alcohol made near Chernobyl’s exclusion zone seized by Ukrainian authorities
1,500 bottles of Atomik, an alcoholic spirit made by apples grown near the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant, were confiscated.
By Sarah Sicard