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For 15 years, Air Force spouse Jessica Hulter was the parent of a daughter with profound medical needs—all that time, she faced the secondary challenge of navigating the military’s Exceptional Family Member Program, or EFMP.
Her daughter, Rebecca, was diagnosed with Rett syndrome after months of doctors trying to understand why she had stopped gaining weight, growing, and developing normally.
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“The condition that my daughter had was not something that was immediately visible,” Hulter told We Are The Mighty.

Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through Palantir’s Maven Smart System platform to generate and prioritize roughly 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of the campaign, at an operational tempo that more than doubled the opening phase of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Over 38 days, the campaign reached 13,000 total strikes, according to Pentagon data. Project Maven says that the program has accelerated targeting even further to 5,000 in a single day.

On June 26, 2026, the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, through its specialized firearms, ammunition, and explosives unit, raided a clandestine workshop in Rio das Pedras, on the city’s west side. Investigators said the group used a 3D printer seized at the scene to produce pistol frames and structural rifle parts in polymer and then completed them with metal parts. Early reports described those parts as imported, but police said on the day of the raid that they were still determining the metal’s origin.

The Russian Armed Forces are rapidly constructing numerous towers that integrated Pantsir short range air defence systems, with additional positions appearing on smaller scales elsewhere in the country. The development reflects how Russia is adapting to the growing scale of Ukrainian long-range drone attacks, which are historically unprecedented worldwide, and have forced the country to adopt novel solutions.