Lockheed Martin introduced the company's latest project, known as "Vectis," on Sunday ahead of the annual Air & Space Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference. The aircraft is a "Group 5 survivable and lethal collaborative combat aircraft," the company said in a press release, referring to the largest size of uncrewed aerial systems, or UAS, built to survive enemy defenses and strike back.
BANGKOK A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers pushed for more military-to-military dialogue in a meeting Sunday with China's Premier Li Qiang, a rare congressional visit since the U.S.-China relations soured. The last trip by a group of senators was in 2023, and Sunday's delegation was the first from the House of Representatives to visit Beijing since 2019. Li welcomed the delegates led by Rep. Adam Smith and called it an "icebreaking trip that will further the ties between the two countries."
National News By Associated Press updated on September 22, 2025 | 11:13 AM HUGO, Okla. (AP) An animal handler was killed by a tiger under his care at a preserve for big cats in southeastern Oklahoma, the organization said Sunday. Growler Pines Tiger Preserve said in a statement that Ryan Easley died Saturday in an accident involving a tiger at the property near Hugo, not far from the Texas border.
The 2025 Laver Cup was a phenomenal success in its West Coast debut, drawing huge crowds for each of its five sessions on its way to ringing up more than 82,000 in attendance for the weekend. The latter is an attendance record for the Laver Cup, which has celebrating its eighth year of existence during this three-day stop at Chase Center in San Francisco.
The long-awaited resumption in the Fed's interest rate cuts occurred, as the central bank weighed the risk associated with a decelerating labor market and accelerating inflation and determined that the job market was the bigger risk to the overall economy. The central bank reduced short term rates by a quarter of a percentage point (0.25 percent), putting the Fed funds rate at a range of 4.25-4.5%.
"The reaction of our players and coaches to the news this morning is a testament to Shawn's character and the impact he had on every life that he touched. He was loved. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Jonelle, and children, Giana and Braxton. We are here to support them and will continue to keep them in our hearts and prayers."
The victims are chief warrant officers Andrew Cully and Andrew Kraus, and sergeants Donavon Scott and Jadalyn Good, the Army said Monday in a release. Cully, 35, was from Sparta, Missouri. Kraus, 39, was from Sanibel, Florida. Scott, 25, was from Tacoma, Washington, and Good, 23, was from Mount Vernon, Washington. The helicopter was on a routine flight training west of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, according to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
The recent death of Robert Redford brought renewed interest to an unresolved search for a murder suspect the one accused of killing the boyfriend of the acclaimed actor's daughter in Colorado decades earlier. As local outlets recounted in the aftermath of Redford's death, his daughter Shauna was attending the University of Colorado Boulder when her boyfriend and fellow student, Sid Wells, was fatally shot in his apartment.
The Bay Area began to heat up again Monday, just as the final official hours of summer ticked away. The temperature liftoff is likely to bring the hottest places into the upper 90s and the usually comfortable places into the 80s, a heat-up that will be complemented by a healthy humidity. It is not likely to last long. By Wednesday, isolated rain storms with the chance of occasional lightning and thunder is set to roll into the region, according to the National Weather Service.
In the first crash, shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, 18-year-old Savannah Salemme of Dighton died at the scene, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. The single-vehicle crash happened at 168 Tremont St. in Taunton. "First responders located a Toyota Tacoma pick up truck that was fully engulfed," the DA's office said. "Initial observations determined that the vehicle left the roadway on Tremont Street, struck the front porch of the home at 168 Tremont Street
Ryan Easley lost his life in an accident involving a tiger under his care, the Growler Pines Tiger Preserve said in a statement posted to Facebook. This tragedy is a painful reminder of both the beauty and unpredictability of the natural world. Ryan understood those risks not out of recklessness but out of love, it said. Describing Easley as a passionate advocate for wildlife conservation, Growler Pines said he had dedicated his life to protecting and caring for big cats.
Joel Martin Dukes III, a 22-year-old Ramona man, was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting death of Ramona Pastor Felipe Ascencio earlier this month, officials said. Ramona sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a shooting about 2:35 p.m. Sept. 7 at a home in the 700 block of Eighth Street in Ramona. They found Ascencio, pastor of Templo Mount Horeb and a father of two, inside the home suffering from a gunshot wound, officials said.
While most food companies are seeing declines in consumer demand, sales of Hamburger Helper are up 14.5% in the year through August, getting an extra bump from its appearance on an episode of "The Bear" in June, according to the company that owns the brand, Eagle Foods. It's not just Hamburger Helper. Purchases of rice are up 7.5% this year. Distressed shoppers are also buying more cans of tuna, salmon and sardines. Sales of beans and boxes of macaroni and cheese are also strong, based on data from the research firm Circana.
With some enormous matchups next week, Week 4 was light on ranked matchups. The Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Georgia Bulldogs and Texas A&M Aggies were off this week. The Oklahoma Sooners, now ranked No. 7, opened their SEC schedule with a 24-17 win over the Auburn Tigers. The Sooners' defense was outstanding, finishing with 10 sacks and holding the Tigers to just 67 yards rushing.
A federal appeals court ruling today allows for President Trump's ongoing deployment of around 4,000 National Guard members in Los Angeles which continues to see widespread immigration raids. The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents dissented from the majority, stressing that they objected to the court lifting limitations on immigration sweeps without oral argument and through the emergency docket, which the Trump administration used extensively this year.
Especially to those who questioned whether the 2024 Hoosiers belonged in the College Football Playoff, despite the dominance displayed for most of the season. "[The media] controls all that stuff, I just got to get them ready and then we all play our games and see what shakes out at the end of the year," Cignetti said diplomatically.
Syracuse quarterback Steve Angeli will be out for the remainder of the year after an MRI revealed he suffered a torn Achilles tendon, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel. Angeli was injured in Saturday's 34-21 win over Clemson. With the injury coming in the Orange's fourth game, Angeli expects to qualify for a medical redshirt this season, which would give him two more years of eligibility.
This is a bad, bad feeling. Terrible," Swinney said. "This is what we do. This is our passion. We work incredibly hard to get results that we want to get, and when we don't get them, it's a pain that's hard to describe, but it comes with the territory. So we gotta flush it. That's all we can do. There's no hope for a better yesterday.
That should help facilitate a return to catching in 2026, and Jones wrote for MLB.com yesterday that Herrera has spoken with manager Oli Marmol and incoming president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom to work out a plan for an offseason program designed to get him ready to return to catching next year. Jones adds that the club's plan for Herrera's offseason was created with the knowledge of the youngster's impending surgery and with plans on how to incorporate his rehab into his winter assignments.
During President Donald Trump's month-long anti-crime surge in D.C., U.S. Park Police helicopters circled or hovered over the city seven times as much as they did during the same time last year, and they did so at lower altitudes, according to a Washington Post analysis of flight data. That activity accounted for about half of nearly40 hours helicopters from local
Robert Redford died this week at the age of 89. But his performances are indelible. We'll still see him as the Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy, leaping off a cliff into rocky rapids. Roy Hobbs in "The Natural," shattering the stadium lights with a home run. Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men," teamed with Dustin Hoffman's Carl Bernstein: reporters in scuffed shoes and dangling neckties, digging out the squalid details of a presidential scandal.
After winning back-to-back Stanley Cups, the Florida Panthers had a bit of a scare heading into the offseason. Three crucial players, Sam Bennett, Brad Marchand, and Aaron Ekblad, were set up to become free agents. GM Bill Zito had a big task on his hands and knew he had to bring them back. He also had to retool the roster in hopes of being back in the Stanley Cup finals, but was it enough?
Misiorowski, 23, made waves when he debuted back in June by posting massive strikeout totals in the first few starts of his career and landed a somewhat controversial All-Star nod just five starts into his MLB career. At that time, he had a 2.81 ERA and a 33.7% career strikeout rate. He turned in another pair of strong (albeit abbreviated) starts to round out the month of July and bring his ERA down to 2.70 while his strikeout rate crept up to an incredible 36.4%.
