🔥 Absolutely INCREDIBLE view of Air Force One taking off from LAX tonight
This plane is such an amazing ambassador for our country.
It’s a total jaw-dropper. Watching her take off NEVER gets old 🇺🇸
The future is African. With 75% of the continent under 25, Africa’s youth is the engine that will drive the global workforce. From the beautiful chaos of Lagos to the steady rise of Juba, it’s time we own our narrative. The time is now! @EUinKenya
Staff Sgt. Michael Swinton's family, including his wife, gathered in grief Monday as they received his flag-draped casket at Fayetteville Regional Airport.
The 30-year-old Fort Bragg soldier was killed on July 19 while disposing of a downed Iranian drone in Iraq, and was honored with a water cannon salute before a procession to Hope Mills.
Swinton will be laid to rest following a funeral Saturday at Southview Baptist Church in North Carolina.
President Trump, en route to Las Vegas, told reporters that he has not "made a determination" on Jeanine Pirro's job status, that there is "a lot of progress" on the Strait of Hormuz and touted that the economic numbers of U.S. are "unbelievable like never ever before."
🚨 JUST NOW: Secretary Bessent SWEARS IN Jay Clayton as the new Director of National Intelligence in the Oval Office
President Trump stood up and clapped from the Resolute Desk
Thank you to @pulte for his service as Acting DNI these past few months🫡
At Cyber Shield 2026, @NGB_SEA Raines and I spoke with 1st Lt. Aaron Rosenmund about how the Guard prepares cyber warriors for future threats. Leaders like Rosenmund bridge military and private-sector experience so Soldiers and Airmen stay ahead of evolving threats.
#AlwaysReadyAlwaysThere
As Kenya prepares for its 2027 General Elections, Archbishop Philip Subira Anyolo of Nairobi Catholic Archdiocese has called on Christians to embrace leadership founded on God’s wisdom, saying authentic leadership is measured not by power or success but by spiritual integrity, peace, and selfless service.
In his Pastoral Letter issued ahead of the Archdiocese's annual Family Day, Archbishop nyolo reflects on the Archdiocese's 2026 pastoral theme, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth Peace": Guided by Christ to build a peaceful and faithful leadership, saying the reflection comes as the Archdiocese completes elections of lay leaders and the country looks ahead to national polls.
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General Washington issues an order discouraging profanity among his troops:
“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing (a vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”
FACT: Pictured is Major Fred Nkuranga Rubereza, the Ankole prince who was killed during the NRA bush war. He died in 1981 during the early phase of the war in a grenade explosion. He was the son of the Omugabe (King) of Nkore Kingdom, Charles Godfrey Rutahaba Gasyonga II.
UPDATE: The Archbishop of Mbarara, His Grace Lambert Bainomugisha, has presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Uganda Martyrs Catholic Parish Church in Mbarara, a project estimated to cost Shs28 billion. Archbishop Bainomugisha called on the faithful to support the project through prayers and contributions, saying the church is intended to serve the wider community. The Chairperson of the Uganda Martyrs Church Construction Committee, Charles Byonanebye, said the planned church will accommodate about 3,000 worshippers and include parking facilities for more than 300 vehicles.
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