The United States deployed approximately 130 soldiers and mobile rocket launchers to a western Alaskan island as Russia and China conducted joint military drills close to American territory. The two nations’ “Ocean-24” joint military exercises in the Pacific and Arctic oceans prompted a robust U.S. response. Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including…

Russian military aircraft have been intercepted flying near Alaska four times over the last week, according to the North American Aerospace Defense command (NORAD). It comes as there seems to be an uptick in activity as tensions grow between the U.S. and Russia. NORAD says on all four occasions, the Russian aircraft stayed in international…

South Carolina is partnering with GreenGas USA to turn cow manure into renewable energy with help from some of the state’s prisoners. The $14.5 million project will be based at the Wateree River Correctional Institution, where inmates will help operate the facility. The process involves placing cow manure from the prison’s existing dairy farm into…

Two planes nearly collided at the Nashville International Airport on Thursday, Sept. 12. While the planes did not touch, one ended up getting a flat tire during the incident and could not take off. An Alaska Airlines jet was about to take off when a Southwest Airlines plane entered the runway. The Alaska pilot hit…

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are piqued by the idea of a sovereign wealth fund for the United States. It’s a strategy largely employed by oil-rich nations and may seem more out of place for a country with more than $35 trillion in national debt, a trade deficit and Social Security…

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will get a second chance in her defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. A federal appeals court has pointed to several issues which it said undermines the reliability of the original outcome. Palin’s lawsuit stems from a 2017 editorial in The New York Times. The piece linked the 2011…

Emergency crews in Alaska are concerned more landslides could come after a large landslide killed one person and forced dozens to evacuate their homes in the tourist town of Ketchikan. The slope is still unstable, and authorities say state and local geologists are assessing the potential for further slides. Four homes were critically damaged, but homes nearby the original disaster are still being assessed. …

Russia launches its largest air assault against Ukraine since the war began, targeting critical infrastructure in the country. And the Department of Justice is appealing a judge’s decision last month to toss out former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Russia launches largest…

A proposed merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines has flown past a review by the U.S. Department of Justice. The decision clears the runway for the first major airline merger since 2016. The DOJ seemingly decided against challenging Alaska’s $1.9 billion bid to acquire Hawaiian Airlines after the review period expired the morning of…

Things are heating up in one of the coldest places on the planet. For the better part of July and into early August, some of the most elite special operations forces in the U.S. military participated in Operation Polar Dagger.  The exercises test the most highly trained U.S. personnel in one of the planet’s most…