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President Donald Trump attends the signature ceremony at the Gaza International Peace Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Oct.13 2025. (Yoan Valat, Pool photo via AP)

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President Trump declared the war in Gaza over as he and other world leaders signed a peace deal, ushering in an elusive truce between Israel and Hamas, ending one of the bloodiest and devastating chapters in the volatile Middle East.

China infrastructure hacks are ‘unrestricted warfare’ against America, former NSA director says

American flags are displayed with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on Sept. 16, 2018, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese electronic penetrations of key critical infrastructure systems in the United States are an example of Beijing’s conducting “unrestricted warfare,” according to the four-star general who until recently headed the National Security Agency.

American flags are displayed with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on Sept. 16, 2018, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China infrastructure hacks are ‘unrestricted warfare’ against America, former NSA director says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Teledyne FLIR Defense has been awarded a five-year, $168.3 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army for low-rate initial production to upgrade the M1135 Stryker’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV) Sensor Suite. Teledyne FLIR is the lead integrator in modernizing the Army’s NBCRV system with improved and autonomous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) sensors. Among other third-party solutions, the NBCRV Sensor Suite will feature capabilities of the FLIR Defense R80D SkyRaider™ drone integrated with FLIR’s MUVE™ B330 biological detection payload designed for small unmanned aerial systems. (U.S. Army photo by Tad Browning)

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The Frederick, Maryland, facility that will house X-energy's newest integrated test and training center.

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A person pastes a heart-shaped sticker on a banner with pictures of Israeli hostages during a a gathering at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

CNN’s Amanpour apologizes for ‘insensitive and wrong’ comments on Israeli hostages

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, left, speaks to journalists while standing next to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) ** FILE **

Army Secretary Driscoll lays out vision for the future at AUSA conference

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A person pastes a heart-shaped sticker on a banner with pictures of Israeli hostages during a a gathering at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

CNN’s Amanpour apologizes for ‘insensitive and wrong’ comments on Israeli hostages

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, left, speaks to journalists while standing next to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) ** FILE **

Army Secretary Driscoll lays out vision for the future at AUSA conference

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House GOP leadership deliver the Republican message on the government shutdown, now in its ninth day, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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FILE - New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a campaign rally with community leaders in the Jackson Heights neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, Nov. 1, 2022, (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

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Leftists refuse to help ICE and then blame murderous illegals on Trump

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The Kennedy Center is seen Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

National Symphony Orchestra to play national anthem at start of each Kennedy Center show

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, 88, poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in his office at the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy defends opinions on abortion and gay marriage

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President Barack Obama appears during his final presidential news conference at the White House in Washington on Jan. 18, 2017, left, and Marc Maron appears at a promotional event for his series "Glow" in Los Angeles on May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, left, and Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

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U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, left, speaks to journalists while standing next to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) ** FILE **

Army Secretary Driscoll lays out vision for the future at AUSA conference

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People react as they watch a live broadcast of Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Trump inks Gaza peace accord in Egypt as hostages freed, prisoners released: ‘It’s going to hold up’

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U.S. Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll speaks at the America 250 celebration at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) ** FILE **

Army officials, defense industry leaders to land in D.C. for big military conference

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President Donald Trump speaks at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

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Trump says Phase Two of the Gaza peace plan has already begun

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President Donald Trump waits to greet leaders during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

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‘I’m good at making peace’: Israel-Hamas accord cements Trump’s legacy as peacemaker president

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The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement

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President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before he boards Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, near Tel Aviv, as Israel's President Isaac Herzog watches at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Netanyahu to award Israel’s highest award to Trump

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President Donald Trump clasps hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

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President Donald Trump attends the signature ceremony at the Gaza International Peace Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Oct.13 2025. (Yoan Valat, Pool photo via AP)

Trump ushers in ceasefire, peace plan: ‘At long last, we have peace in the Middle East’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A statue of Christopher Columbus stands in downtown Syracuse, N.Y, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Hill) **FILE**

Legislation seeks to save Columbus Day from being replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House GOP leadership deliver the Republican message on the government shutdown, now in its ninth day, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump speaks at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP)

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The U.S. Capitol is silhouetted by the stark glare of the morning sun as a government shutdown begins its tenth day, in Washington, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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U.S. intelligence officials said they helped capture Jason Duncker in Monterrey, Mexico, during a joint operation with the U.S. Marshals (Courtesy of National Counterterrorism Center)

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In this Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, photo, a group of anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter demonstrators march in front of the Rotunda on the campus of the University of Virginia in anticipation of the anniversary of the previous year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

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Then-President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Newsom vetoes bill allowing social-media companies to be sued for users’ threats

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A person pastes a heart-shaped sticker on a banner with pictures of Israeli hostages during a a gathering at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

CNN’s Amanpour apologizes for ‘insensitive and wrong’ comments on Israeli hostages

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, left, speaks to journalists while standing next to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) ** FILE **

Army Secretary Driscoll lays out vision for the future at AUSA conference

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Police vehicles are parked after a deadly shooting Friday night in downtown Leland, Miss.,on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Katie Adkins)

Four arrests made in mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, that killed six

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Teledyne FLIR Defense has been awarded a five-year, $168.3 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army for low-rate initial production to upgrade the M1135 Stryker’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV) Sensor Suite. Teledyne FLIR is the lead integrator in modernizing the Army’s NBCRV system with improved and autonomous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) sensors. Among other third-party solutions, the NBCRV Sensor Suite will feature capabilities of the FLIR Defense R80D SkyRaider™ drone integrated with FLIR’s MUVE™ B330 biological detection payload designed for small unmanned aerial systems. (U.S. Army photo by Tad Browning)

How the U.S. Army and defense industry will build new generation of counter-drone weaponry

By Ben Wolfgang and John T. Seward - The Washington Times

American flags are displayed with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on Sept. 16, 2018, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China infrastructure hacks are ‘unrestricted warfare’ against America, former NSA director says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

People react as they gather to watch a live broadcast of Israeli hostages released from Gaza at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. The release took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hamas to release bodies of four deceased hostages; hostage families say that’s not enough

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A police vehicle in front of a poster showing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and U.S. President Donald Trump at the Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

World leaders gathering in Egypt throw their weight behind the Gaza ceasefire deal

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Turnovers doom Commanders in prime-time loss to Bears

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin (8) skates during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Capitals start to find footing following season-opening loss

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Then-Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder listens to head coach Ron Rivera during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, in Ashburn, Va., Jan. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, 88, poses for a portrait, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in his office at the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this photo provided by North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, fourth right, Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam, second right, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, right, attend the military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Worker's Party, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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