Opinion | Don’t Underestimate the Enduring Power of ISIS
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Opinion | Don’t Underestimate the Enduring Power of ISIS

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For 20 years, I’ve been studying Western recruits to domestic and transnational terrorist organizations. I’ve interviewed jihadis, white-nationalist terrorists and eco-terrorists to understand their motivations and to prevent future violence. In my view, the appeal of some of the most crucial elements that…

Soldier’s Struggles Began Before Las Vegas Tesla Explosion, Nurse Says
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Soldier’s Struggles Began Before Las Vegas Tesla Explosion, Nurse Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Alicia Arritt spent years as an Army nurse working with combat veterans with brain injuries. And when she started a relationship with Matthew Livelsberger in 2018, long before he shot himself and blew up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas this week, she recognized…

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gifts K, saves Baltimore pizzeria TinyBrickOven from closing
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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gifts $60K, saves Baltimore pizzeria TinyBrickOven from closing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tis’ the season of giving! Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gifted $60,000 to save a struggling veteran-owned Baltimore pizzeria from permanently closing as customers have since flooded the store with orders. Portnoy was traveling to Maryland for the Army-Navy football in mid-December when…

California Army veteran Jerry Heath who waited months for .3M Powerball jackpot reveals how he’s spending prize
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California Army veteran Jerry Heath who waited months for $44.3M Powerball jackpot reveals how he’s spending prize

He was in it to win it — no matter how long it took. A US Army vet and retired police detective who said that the California lottery was taking too long to pay out his jaw-dropping $44.3 million jackpot has finally claimed his winnings after months of waiting —…

Gary Sinise Foundation, building company present free home to wounded Army veteran
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Gary Sinise Foundation, building company present free home to wounded Army veteran

One Army veteran and his family have a brand-new place to call home tonight, free of charge, thanks to the charity of two organizations working together. Retired U.S. Army Sergeant Joshua Hargis, a decorated Army Ranger and K9 handler, received a mortgage-free custom home thanks to the generosity of LP Building…

Stop the scamsters who rip off vets with fake ‘charities’
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Stop the scamsters who rip off vets with fake ‘charities’

The fundraising letters sounded warm and loving — a promise that a $10 donation every month could help provide a US military veteran with suicide-prevention counseling and medical care. But $20 million later, the federal government declared that Help the Vets was a phony charity. Founder Neil Paulson spent 95%…

Air Force veteran Joseph Lopez, brother Joshua freed after being sentenced to ‘notorious’ Dubai jail
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Air Force veteran Joseph Lopez, brother Joshua freed after being sentenced to ‘notorious’ Dubai jail

The US airman-turned-social media influencer and his brother — sentenced to jail in the United Arab Emirates last month after claiming they were drugged at a yacht party in Dubai — have returned to the US, according to a report. Joseph and Joshua Lopez arrived back in their home state of…

Air Force veteran, Joseph Lopez, brother sentenced to Dubai jail after being ‘drugged’
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Air Force veteran, Joseph Lopez, brother sentenced to Dubai jail after being ‘drugged’

Two Ohio brothers — including an Air Force veteran turned influencer — who claim they were “drugged” during a yacht party in the United Arab Emirates were sentenced to jail for alcohol consumption, a law that is strictly enforced in the Middle Eastern nation. Joseph and Joshua Lopez will each…

JD Vance lambasts Walz for stolen valor, recounts his journey from ‘troubled kid’ to Marine
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JD Vance lambasts Walz for stolen valor, recounts his journey from ‘troubled kid’ to Marine

Speaking to a group of veterans in Pennsylvania, Sen. JD Vance opened up about his journey from a “troubled kid” to a US Marine – and excoriated Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for his flagrant “dishonesty” about his military history. “I was, so fortunate to have the Marine Corps play a…

WWII Air Force prisoner of war’s remains identified after 81 years
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WWII Air Force prisoner of war’s remains identified after 81 years

The remains of a US Army airman were identified 81 years after he died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, officials announced Friday. Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough, of Dossville, Mississippi, was just 22 years old when he served as a member of the 454th Ordnance Company in the Philippine Islands…