Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced “Project Meridian,” a Pentagon-led study of future warfare to be co-chaired by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, along with private-sector figures and Emil Michael, the Pentagon CTO. Hegseth also unveiled an Autonomous Warfare Command focused on robotics, AI, and drones, and said Project Meridian will deliver findings within 120 days for a public rollout. The announcement frames industry innovators and partisan figures as uniquely qualified to forecast conflict, a claim met with skepticism about conflicts of interest, political bias, and whether dot-com billionaires and partisan operatives confer a genuine strategic advantage over other countries’ experts.
Other breaking items include a Justice Department complaint seeking investigations into nearly every federal judge in Minnesota after they spoke to The New York Times about the government’s immigration enforcement, a move that could force recusals and stall cases; President Trump’s plan to campaign almost daily through the midterms despite mounting health questions and polls showing waning support; and a deportation fight over Yehonatan Ovadia, a Hasidic religious worker whose visa was revoked after a 2023 protest against Israel, with authorities framing the action as enforcement against antisemitic conduct and his lawyers arguing it punishes protected religious and political expression.
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Donald Trump asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. The conversation highlights Trump's interest in Venezuela's political situation and potential responses to such actions. (time.com)
STS-51-F was a 1985 NASA space mission aboard the Challenger spacecraft, focused on astronomical observations with the Spacelab 2 payload. The crew was divided into two shifts, and emergency spacewalk equipment was onboard, but the mission was ultimately an abort-to-orbit event. (en.wikipedia.org)
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