by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Jun 4, 2026 | Capitol, Defense Department, Donald Trump, January 6, News
The Pentagon has hired a convicted January 6 rioter to work in a Defense Department office that manages highly classified military operations, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Elias Irizarry — a 24-year-old Trump loyalist who took part in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021 — has been hired at the Defense Department’s Special Operations and Low…
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by Connor Echols | Feb 18, 2026 | cluster bombs, Defense Department, Israel, Military, News, United Nations, weapons
A coalition of human rights organizations, anti-war groups, and Christian churches are urging the U.S. to cancel its $210 million purchase of next-generation cluster munitions from an Israeli state-owned company, citing the “severe, foreseeable dangers” these weapons pose to civilians. In an open letter shared exclusively with RS, the organizations write that cluster munitions “disperse…
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