US President Donald J. Trump Is In Trouble When It Comes to the Economy – Americans are paying more for gasoline, and their grocery bills have risen sharply over the past year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, goods were 3.7% more expensive in September than 12 months earlier.

Gasoline alone jumped 9.1% in the same period, with many voters blaming a president who campaigned largely on an economic platform two years ago.

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Social Security Check. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

An Air Force unit that trains special operations airmen suspended rappelling and ropes training after an instructor in the squadron died during a demonstration at a college football game in San Antonio, Texas, officials confirmed to Task & Purpose.
Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, a 15-year Air Force veteran and instructor at the 6th Combat Training Squadron, fell during a rappelling demonstration before the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Oct. 17 football game against Navy at the Alamodome. Patterson fell from the stadium’s 160-foot-high rafters onto the playing field.

The Pentagon issued new guidance this week focused on implementing the Trump administration’s so-called “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality” principles in AI procurements.
A memorandum dated Oct.

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Iran is threatening to expand the war with the U.S. and Israel and begin launching new attacks against American military bases and economic targets throughout the Middle East.

The threats come as reports describe the Pentagon as preparing for another major offensive against Tehran, with President Donald Trump widely expected to authorize new strikes soon after the November 3 midterm elections.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) steams behind the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 31, 2006.

U.S. President Donald Trump has accused Iran of spreading misinformation to raise oil prices ahead of next month’s midterm elections.

Trump said the Iranian regime was “doing everything they can” to drive up oil prices, including fabricating reports regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

A 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer flies over the East China Sea May 6, 2020, during a training mission.

Despite her diminutive stature, RAF athlete Ste

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Every few years, orders arrive, and a military family packs up. For spouses who run their own businesses, the move costs more than boxes and a security deposit. Many of them also lose something that took years to build: the online reputation that brought in customers.
Think about the spouse who runs a pet-sitting service, a cleaning business or a portrait studio. Most new customers find a business like that on Google.

Russia’s oil titan is struggling to maintain its refineries as they continue to suffer persistent Ukrainian drone attacks, which leave some facilities forced to postpone expensive repairs.

Russian oil giant Rosneft executives privately believe that another round of attacks that damage several of its plants over the next few months would harm its business prospects, even as soaring oil prices and a new diesel deal with the United States provide some relief.

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The U.S. midterm elections are only ten days away.

Barring a remarkable political recovery not seen in modern history, the Republican Party is set to lose at least one chamber of Congress.

Vice President JD Vance gives remarks at a Sports Council announcement, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (White House Intern Photo by Julian Casciano)

According to some Democratic Party insiders, they’re confident both chambers could turn blue on Tuesday, 3rd November.

Two of Ukraine’s most prominent drone experts have warned that Russia will likely move toward a deep arsenal of new cruise missiles as part of its full-scale invasion.

Over the past 12 months, Moscow has increasingly used jet-powered Shahed drones, which have proven troublesome for Ukrainian air defenses.

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Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

However, two former drone advisors to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense warned of a new form of aerial assault in separate Telegram posts this week.

Trump Is Losing Texas Hispanic Voters – The news just keeps getting worse for the Republican Party, with new reporting showing President Donald Trump losing the support of Hispanic voters in Texas only two years after he made historic gains with the demographic. The news leaves Republicans even more exposed in congressional districts previously considered safe.

A White House-appointed commission of military spouses floated the idea of cutting or eliminating the tolls that some service members pay when commuting to work.
The policy was recommended at a live meeting this week with members of the White House’s Military Spouse Commission, which was established in August to explore policies that impact military families. Commission officials announced that troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, received a 50% reduction in toll fees, equating to $1,500 in savings each year for service members who take that route onto base.

Between purchasing real estate in Argentina, helping to run Palantir, and giving closed lectures about the rise of the Antichrist, tech mogul Peter Thiel has come out strongly against the Iran War.

This is significant because Thiel was one of Trump’s earliest and most influential supporters in Silicon Valley.

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on the Administration’s tariff plans at a “Make America Wealthy Again” event, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden.

Rheinmetall has officially opened its UK Gun Hall in Telford, re-establishing the independent production of large-calibre weapons in Britain for the first time in decades.

Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital overnight on October 21. The strikes included three volleys of ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight on Thursday, October 22, as Moscow reported that hundreds of Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s capital, hours after new American efforts to restart peace talks.

According to Reuters, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia has launched 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv.

Iran’s US and Israeli election strategy is ramping up in the final days.

As the Pioneer Press reported yesterday morning in its Associated Press coverage, Iranian state television claimed that seven oil tankers were struck or hit naval mines overnight in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II flies over the Gulf of America, September 16, 2025.

War again seems to be in the air in the Middle East. An explosive October 21 report from NBC News documents how, according to two unnamed US officials familiar with the matter, Washington has ordered American troops to withdraw from forward bases in Jordan, Qatar, and Kuwait.

The troop movements coincide with additional security measures at American embassies and diplomatic facilities throughout the region.

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For the last few months, the war in the Middle East has been in a quiet phase as the U.S. and Iran have refrained from attacking each other.

While Iran has continued attacking civilian ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. has not launched any retaliatory strikes in some time.

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B-2 Stealth Bomber July 2025 National Security Journal Photo.

However, as midterm elections in November approach, there are signs that Trump and Israel may resume attacks against Tehran in early November.

On arguably the worst day in the Marine Corps’ glorious history, Steve Reuss celebrated the birth of his first child.
Reuss, who then was a master sergeant in the Corps, was in Lebanon as part of the United States Multinational Force (USMNF) to maintain peace in the country. He returned to the U.S. to be there when his wife delivered their daughter Gina. That meant Reuss was not at the Marines barracks at Beirut International Airport on October 23, 1983, when a suicide bomber drove a truck bomb into the complex.

From Duke Forrest in “M*A*S*H” to Viper in “Top Gun,” Tom Skerritt knew how to play a military role and he became known for them. After all, before breaking into Hollywood, the iconic American actor served in the Air Force. According to a statement released by his family, Skerritt died on Oct. 21, 2026 at the age of 93.
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Born in Detroit, Mich., Skerritt enlisted after graduating high school in 1951.

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FT Anduril’s co-founder and entrepreneur Ben Lamm conceived of company to clone and genetically edit working canines

Alison Bath, Stars and Stripes Increased attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz persisted this week as the U.S. and Israel reportedly were preparing for renewed strikes on Iran.

M. Scanlon, Military T. The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin agreed to a 10-year framework that the Pentagon says guarantees at least 850 F-35 Lightning II fighters for the U.S.

Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone Bombers are now being viewed as another potential air-to-air asset on top of growing the fighter fleet and establishing a CCA force.

Josh Luckenbaugh, NatDef The Defense Department’s Golden Dome for America program is building a next-generation missile defense shield to protect the United States from a variety of aerial…

France and the United Kingdom have conducted their first joint airborne nuclear strike exercise, with British Royal Air Force Eurofighters escorting French Rafale fighters during a simulated nuclear strike mission over the Mediterranean Sea. The exercise, codenamed RUMMY, took place on the evening of October 20, with the French aircraft departing Saint-Dizier Air Base in northeastern France. Announced by the two countries on October 23, the drill has been portrayed by local media outlets as marking a new stage in Franco-British cooperation on nuclear deterrence.

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Department of War have reached a preliminary ten-year framework agreement covering the production and sustainment of at least 850 F-35 fifth generation fighters for the U.S. Armed Forces, alongside aircraft for international customers. The agreement aims to maintain production at a rate of 156 fighters annually, with Lockheed Martin committing at least $7 billion of its own funds to support manufacturing capacity, supply-chain resilience and the wider F-35 program.

On the morning of October 22, Russia and Ukraine again traded blows with each other as the war in Eastern Europe shows no sign of slowing down.

Kyiv launched another large-scale attack against the Moscow region.

Su-57 Felon from Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Su-57 Felon Fighter from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

According to Russian authorities, more than 600 attack UAVs were launched against Russian territory on Thursday morning.

Initial reports suggest the attack may have struck a repair depot in the Moscow region.

The safest place on a Ukrainian battlefield may now be underground. As The Atlantic recently reported, the drone saturation over Ukraine has driven both armies beneath the bloody battlefields. On parts of the front today, the most valuable terrain may be a rusting Soviet gas pipe about four and a half feet across.

In four and a half years, this war has moved from the trenches of 1916 to the Cu Chi tunnels.

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Ukraine War Map. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Now the tunnels come pre-built, courtesy of Gazprom.

France is experiencing widespread demonstrations that have reportedly escalated into rioting, vandalism, arson, and looting.

More than half a million demonstrators reportedly took part in protests last weekend, and authorities have reported more than 2,500 arrests and thousands of attacks on local businesses.

Meanwhile, an arson attack reportedly devastated the historic town hall in Limoges.

The unrest began innocently enough, with student protests over educational conditions — but quickly expanded to include broader economic and political grievances.

Among the numerous, interlocking theories that Donald Trump has claimed cost him the 2020 presidential election was the idea that some foreign power had interfered.

In July, almost six years after that election, Trump suddenly claimed that China had intervened in 2020.

President Donald J. Trump greets Ambassadors David Perdue and Xie Feng, Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi at Beijing Capital International Airport, China on Friday, May 15, 2025, before boarding Air Force One en route Washington, D.C.

In all his election campaigns, Donald Trump has done well in rural areas, including among Americans who live in farm country or are farmers.

But now, heading into the midterm elections, there are many indications that farm country is beginning to lose faith in Trump and Trumpism.

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office. Vice President JD Vance attends. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins)

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum this week barring Pentagon and military personnel from placing financial wagers — specifically “including traditional betting platforms and prediction markets such as ‘Polymarket’ or ‘Kalshi’” — using non-public, government information.
The directive, dated Oct. 20, was obtained by DefenseScoop on Thursday. A source confirmed its authenticity. It comes as the U.S. government and federal law enforcement officials are responding to a rise in insider trading tied to sensitive military operations.

Lib Dem MP and former Army officer Mike Martin

Ukrainian forces appear to have struck a Russian military repair facility near its capital city of Moscow during a massive overnight drone offensive.

The strikes involved hundreds of uncrewed aircraft launched toward Moscow and other regions across Russia.

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President Donald J. Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during the G20 Japan Summit Friday, June 28, 2019, in Osaka, Japan.

After losing fellow marines in Iraq, Jeff Lindquist struggled with post-traumatic stress that was steadily destroying his life. Years later, an innovative technology helped him reclaim it. This is the story of Jeff and Erik Won, two veterans who served together, and how efforts to help Jeff recover was the first step on a mission to help others suffering from post-traumatic stress do the same, using Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy (MeRT) and synchronized transcranial magnetic stimulation.

A new poll CNBC released on Thursday, October 22, only reinforces the perception that an unmitigated electoral disaster is coming for the Republican Party this Midterm election cycle.

The election is just 13 days away.

Donald Trump speaking to supporters at an immigration policy speech at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. By Gage Skidmore.

President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in the Oval Office. Vice President JD Vance attends. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins.

According to The New York Times, U.S. and Israeli military planners are preparing a new operation that would place substantially more pressure on the regime in Tehran after nearly eight months of war, even after Iran warns that it will begin targeting more Gulf-region military and political sites connected to the United States.

Among the potential targets being considered are Iranian oil and energy infrastructure, its nuclear sites, including the famed Pickaxe Mountain facility, ballistic missile production sites, and drone stockpiles.

The Iran war has jacked up oil prices dramatically, and Trump has few ways to bring it back down: The average gasoline price in the United States, as of GasBuddy’s weekly report on Monday, was $4.24 per gallon, down slightly from the previous week and month but still high by historical standards, up more than a dollar from a year ago.

Some of the recent decline, analyst Patrick De Haan wrote, was due to some states suspending their gas taxes.

A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bomber, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., lands at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, July 4, 2020.

A proposed summit between President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping has once again drawn parallels to the 1945 Yalta Conference.

The summit, which took place in the Ukrainian resort city on what is now Russian-occupied Crimea, saw the leaders of the US, Britain and the Soviet Union negotiate the future of postwar Europe – ceding swathes of Europe to Moscow.

President Donald J.

Sometimes the most important airborne strike packages never drop a bomb.

On Monday night, dozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets and their refueling aircraft flew more than 800 miles east, crossed Syrian and Iraqi airspace, and pushed right up to the Iranian border before turning around and heading home.

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F-15I Ra’am from Israel. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

11 million sold.

If Democrats have a big night in the midterm elections in early November, President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war in Iran will be a major reason why.

The war has been unpopular since it began, for several reasons.

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors assigned to the 27th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and Philippine Air Force FA-50PH light jet fighters conduct joint combined exchange training, above Basa Air Force Base, Phillipines, on Aug. 9, 2024. Joint combined exchange training is critical to enhancing U.S. and Philippine Air Force interoperability in a free and open Indo-Pacific.

President Donald Trump continues making his bold promises in the last two weeks before the Midterm elections here in the United States.

He promised to give us 5,000 dollars extra if Americans just turned out to vote for the GOP.

The forty-seventh president, acting less like a statesman and more like a carnival barker, is throwing goodies at anyone who will listen to his increasingly desperate pleas for support.

U.S. Special Operations Command is conducting market research as it looks to fulfill a requirement for a common platform-as-a-service environment near its headquarters.
The command is eyeing an “integrated contracting vehicle” for the initiative, according to a draft performance work statement published Wednesday night on a government contracting website.
A common PaaS environment is needed near MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, to enable collaboration among traditional and non-traditional vendors, users, and government program teams, per the draft PWS.

Ukraine has made no secret of its desire to join NATO, viewing the alliance as the strongest hedge against future Russian aggression.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is still advocating Ukrainian accession today, even as negotiations to end the war loom.

F-16 fighter from Lakeland, Florida Air Show. National Security Journal Original Photo.

Yet despite years of advocacy, NATO membership remains highly unlikely for Ukraine in the foreseeable future.

While NATO has repeatedly affirmed that Ukraine belongs in the alliance, significant obstacles to accession remain.

Raytheon UK has secured contracts from Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to supply its GPS anti-jamming systems for use across multiple Swedish military platforms.