The Pentagon updated its casualty count to 14 on Monday after the Navy identified the airman lost over the Arabian Sea last week.
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UKMTO issues warning after report of fire on board container ship
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says it has received a report of an incident some nine nautical miles (about 17km) east of the Omani coast.
âMilitary authorities have reported that a container ship has sustained damage to the rear of the vessel, which has caused a fire on board,â it said.
âVessels are advised to transit with caution,â it added.
The alert came moments after CENTCOM announced the start of a third round of strikes on Iran, citing an Iranian attack on a Cyprus-flagged ship in the strait.
Renewed war with Iran threatens to derail congressional agenda
Danielle Pletka, a distinguished senior fellow in foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute, said Trump has a military plan on his desk that U.S. commanders believe could force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without making any major concessions to its theocratic regime.
âThe president has had on his desk for months now a 10- to 14-day plan that would do what was necessary to finish out the mission of the war on Iran. It would take out the remaining missile sites we saw them work on, the remaining parts of their defense-industrial complex, the remaining nuclear [program] and some of the critical [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] emplacements, and do that in a way that Centcom feels would mean we could walk away, not have a deal, and stop worrying about Iran for a little while,â she said.
âWill it take 10 to 14 days? Who knows? Is the president going to follow that plan? Who knows?â she said.
The Pentagon is running out of money
WASHINGTON â The Defense Department was funded with a budget of nearly a trillion dollars, but it is running out of cash, according to three U.S. officials, a former defense official, outside experts and two congressional staff members.
Pentagon Tells Lawmakers It Needs Additional $80 Billion for Iran War and Other Costs
The White House is expected to formally request a supplemental spending bill in the coming days
Tren de Aragua leader killed in dramatic US airstrike â marking new level of cooperation with Venezuela
US military officials stressed the joint action with the former US rival in statements after President Trump shared video of the âswift and lethalâ strike that took out Guerrero.
âWe extend our gratitude to the Venezuelan security forces for their support to the successful joint operation against a Tren de Aragua compound that resulted in the death of the narco-terrorist organizationâs leader,â said Gen. Francis L. Donovan, head of US Southern Command.
Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Since a ceasefire went into place in early April, Trump has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Iran to end the war Israel and the U.S. launched on Feb. 28. Israel has publicly expressed skepticism that Iran would abide by any negotiated deal. Netanyahu has pushed for a resumption of bombing raids against Iran and disagreed with Trump, who has pressed him to scale back attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Western officials.
Israel is keenly interested in whether Trump decides to resume major combat operations against Iran or to end the conflict, the current and former U.S. officials and outside experts said.
Pentagon warns Israeli spying on White House has reached ‚critical‘ level: Report
The DIA reportedly posted an internal message raising the espionage threat level regarding Israel to âcritical.â It also identified a series of specific incidents that heightened US concerns, one of the officials said.
The Pentagon is particularly concerned that Israel is surveilling top US officials to obtain information about internal deliberations among President Donald Trump‘s close advisors regarding decision-making on the conflicts in West Asia.
Exclusive: Pentagon spars with SpaceX over Starlink price hike during Iran war
(May 26, 2026)
The ongoing disputes, which have not previously been reported, underscore how the Pentagonâs growing reliance on SpaceX is handing Musk greater leverage over a critical layer of U.S. national security â at a time when SpaceX âis seeking to boost revenue ahead of an IPO next month that could be among the biggest in history.
Unlike consumer Starlink terminals available at stores including Walmart, SpaceX sells a military-specific version called Starshield to the Pentagon under a 2023 agreement. Starshield terminals can connect to both commercial Starlink âsatellites and a separate, more secure constellation, also called Starshield, according to a person familiar with the matter.
âThis Must Stopâ: Call Grows for US Lawmakers to Pass Lebanon War Powers Resolution
The brief resolution would require the US to end unauthorized military cooperation with Israel within seven days of being passed, which proponents said may also limit the ability of the US military to share intelligence and coordinate targets with Israel.
Tlaib and other progressives like Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) initially pushed for the resolution to be brought to a House vote during the week of May 18, but it was kicked until after lawmakers returned from recess.
In the meantime, several cosponsors have signed onto the resolution, bringing the total up to 17. They include Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Brief History of the Domain Name System
Jan. 7, 1958 â President Eisenhower requested funds to start ARPA.
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– Early 1967 â Meeting of ARPAâs principal investigators in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Roberts (the director of the IPTO) put forward the idea of a computer network. Wes Clark introduced the idea of a subnetwork: small, identical computers all interconnected â âinterface message processors (IMPs).â Engelbert volunteered to the Network Information Center (NIC).
– 1967 â Roberts published paper on ARPANET.
– End of 1967 â The Association for Computing Machineryâs computer conference in Gatliburg, Tennessee. Roberts presented his first paper on ARPANET and heard of work done by Donald Daviesâ team at NPL and Paul Baran at RAND.
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Summer 1975 â The Defense Communications Agency (DCA) took over the management of ARPANET.
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– November 1983 â The rapid growth of the internet caused massive problems in bookkeeping. To deal with this problem a group including Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partrige published RFC 882 which created the domain name system (DNS) to make Internet navigation easier. With DNS, users can type host names such as âUSC-ISIFâ instead of â10.2.0.52.â Every Address would have information from specific to general.
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
Strikes
57
Killed
192
Hegseth says „the ceasefire is not over“ after U.S., Iran exchange fire in Strait of Hormuz
Hegseth later clarified that „the ceasefire is not over“ even though Iranian vessels on Monday fired on U.S. ships guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in the U.S. sinking several small Iranian boats.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said Iran had attacked the U.S. „more than 10 times“ since the April 8 ceasefire, but it „fell below the threshold of restarting major combat operations.“
Hegseth says US guiding of ships in Strait of Hormuz is „temporary“ and „defensive“
âTo be clear, this operation is separate and distinct from Operation Epic Fury,â Hegseth said. âProject Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope and temporary in duration, with one mission: Protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression.â
The secretary said two US commercial vessels have moved through the strait and six other ships that attempted to violate the blockade of Iranian ports âwere all turned around.â
Hegseth orders withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany
The drawdown, which comes after the countryâs leader sparred with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, leaves about 33,000 troops there.
Anordnung von Hegseth: USA ziehen 5.000 Soldaten aus Deutschland ab
US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth hat den Abzug von etwa 5.000 US-Soldaten aus Deutschland angeordnet. Man gehe davon aus, dass der Abzug innerhalb der nÀchsten sechs bis zwölf Monate abgeschlossen sein werde, teilte ein Sprecher des Pentagons mit.
Streit um Falkland-Inseln eskaliert: «Trump ist ein Tyrann, der die Macht Amerikas missbraucht»
Die Falklandinseln bleiben britisch â und daran wird sich nichts Ă€ndern. Mit dieser klaren Botschaft reagierte die Regierung der Falklandinseln im SĂŒdatlantik auf Berichte, wonach das Pentagon in ErwĂ€gung ziehe, die SouverĂ€nitĂ€tsansprĂŒche Argentiniens ĂŒber das Gebiet zu unterstĂŒtzen â und sich damit gegen Grossbritannien zu stellen.
Wie ein brisanter Reuters-Bericht nahelegte, prĂŒft die US-Regierung diese drastische Massnahme offenbar als Druckmittel gegen das Vereinigte Königreich. Dies, weil London die USA im Krieg gegen den Iran nicht unterstĂŒtzen möchte.
Argentina calls for renewed negotiations over Falkland Islands
Argentina‘s government on Friday reiterated its willingness to resume âbilateral negotiations with the United Kingdom âin regards to a sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands, which Argentina knows as âthe Malvinas and has long âclaimed sovereignty over.
Donald Trump Angers NATO Ally U.K. Before King Charles‘ Visit with Push to Help Argentina Reclaim Falkland Islands
(April 24, 2026)
Reuters reported on Friday, April 24, that a recent internal Pentagon email had outlined options for the U.S. to punish NATO allies that it believes have inadequately supported its military operations in Iran.
According to the report, the Defense Department has suggested that the U.S. reassess its support for European âimperial possessions,â including the Falkland Islands, and consider suspending Spainâs NATO membership.
Pentagon wants record $1.5 trillion, cost of Iran war not included
„This budget was formulated, honestly, before we went into conflict with Iran,“ Jules Hurst III, the Pentagon‘s acting chief financial officer, told reporters at a briefing April 21.
In addition, the Trump administration separately plans to ask Congress for more than $200 billion in supplemental funding for the Iran war, according to reports.
Pentagon chief Hegseth says US blockade on Iran ‚going global‘
„We‘re enforcing the blockade across the board against any ship of any nationality that is transiting to or from an Iranian port or territory,“ Caine said.
„We‘re closely tracking vessels of âinterest headed towards Iran âand those moving â away from Iran that were outside the blockade area when this blockade was ordered and … we‘re prepared and postured to intercept them,“ he âsaid.
The U.S. naval blockade on Iran began on April 13.
WATCH: Hegseth calls U.S. war in Iran a ‚gift to the world‘
Watch the full news conference in the video player above.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Hegseth said the U.S. blockade of Iranian shipping will continue „as long as it takes“ to accomplish America‘s „bold and dangerous“ mission to end Iran‘s threat to global security.
US Navy Secretary Phelan ousted as naval blockade of Iran continues
Phelan is a businessman with no prior military service; he and his wife previously fundraised millions of dollars for Trumpâs campaign before he was confirmed as Navy secretary in 2025.
âJohn will be a tremendous force for our Naval servicemembers, and a steadfast leader in advancing my America First vision,â Trump said at the time. âHe will put the business of the US Navy above all else.â
US military: ‚locked and loaded‘ to strike Iran‘s power plants, energy industry if ordered
„We are reloading with more power than ever before, and better intelligence,“ Hegseth âsaid at a Pentagon news briefing. „We are locked and loaded on your critical dual-use infrastructure, â on your remaining power generation, and on your energy industry. We‘d rather not have to do it.“