A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter out of Fort Campbell in Kentucky made an apparently unplanned landing in a wooded area of the Colorado foothills west of Denver on Tuesday. The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office said four people were aboard when it came down to the north of Golden Gate Canyon State Park, and that…
The U.S. Army is planning to phase out a drone battalion tasked just last year with studying and taking on board lessons on drone warfare, including from the ongoing Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. Multiple current and former U.S. officials told CBS News the decision to nix the unit…
The summer of 1936 wasn’t just hot; it was dangerously hot. At least 5,000 people ended up dying from heat-related causes. “New York City, Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, Lexington, Kentucky, Minneapolis – I mean, cities were hammered,” said Geoff Williams, the author of “The Summer of Death,” about that great heat wave. “For weeks, some cities…
A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was “killed in action during a controlled detonation” of the drone at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said…
