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[Regnum] A third magnetic storm has begun on Earth since the beginning of January. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The third magnetic storm of January has begun," reads the caption under a diagram published on the laboratory's Telegram channel.
Earlier, on January 3, a predicted magnetic storm was recorded on Earth. According to the forecast, moderate solar flare activity was expected during these days.
Sergei Bogachev, Head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported that Earth is expected to experience numerous magnetic storms in 2026. He noted that strong and very strong storms are also possible.
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This just went, in the last 48 hours from an ordinary large coronal hole to an extraordinarily huge coronal hole!
Its shear size spans from deep in the southern hemisphere well into the northern hemisphere on the earth facing side of the sun. This is well over 250,000 miles… pic.twitter.com/gyFLIowner
This is a deep dark opening in the sun’s atmosphere that is spewing high speed solar wind towards earth that could easily spark geomagnetic storm activity!
More updates as this continues to evolve and possibly get bigger.
[Breitbart] Breitbart News Senior Contributor and author of The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon Peter Schweizer talked about immigration in an interview set to air on FNC’s "Life, Liberty, and Levin" this weekend.
Schweizer said that immigration conversations have mostly looked at the impacts on the economy, crime, and culture, and those are important.
He added that "foreign adversaries and neighbors like Mexico or countries like China or like the Muslim Brotherhood are using mass migration as a political weapon against us. So, when somebody comes from Somalia...Mexico...China, they are bringing with them...political networks. And these political networks are hostile to the United States. I quote extensively in the book from people from all three of those areas how they view mass migration as a way of fundamentally transforming America." And "government officials from Mexico, individuals from China, from the Muslim Brotherhood, they are responsible for a lot of the chaos in our streets."
⚡️Heavy regime casualties reported and weapons seized as Fano repels January 13 offensive in Raya-Kobo Woreda (📍North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia) amid drone and artillery attacks on civilians.
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⚡️Heavy regime casualties reported and weapons seized as Fano repels January 13 offensive in Raya-Kobo Woreda (📍North Wollo Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia) amid drone and artillery attacks on civilians.
🔵 On January 13th, intense fighting erupted between Fano forces and regime units across multiple locations in Raya-Kobo Woreda, particularly in and around Kalim town, near Woldia city. The engagements involved units from the Hawano and Asaminew Divisions (AFNF-MC).
One dead, four injured in communal clash in ngidoje village in Yobe
By Zagazola Makama
A 20-year-old man has been killed while four others sustained injuries in a clash involving youths in Ngidoje Village, Yobe State.
Sources said the incident occurred on Wednesday around 10:00 p.m. when some Fulani youths reportedly had a misunderstanding that escalated into a fight involving sticks and cutlasses.
[DW] Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit, but says the company now mainly serves Microsoft's interests. OpenAI has accused Musk of leading a campaign of "harrassment."
[JustTheNews] In October, President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signed an agreement calling for investments totaling $550 billion to further revitalize the U.S. industrial base, with Mitsubishi Electric set for a commitment of up to $30 billion in a partnership to supply power station systems and equipment for data centers.
Daily gas production in the Haynesville region in early 2026 has averaged about 14.3 billion cubic feet, with Aethon accounting for 15%.
[Breitbart] Do dead people get a Cost of Living adjustment?
Congress has passed a bill that would stop payments from going to deceased people, said a celebrating Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA).
In a video posted on X, Kennedy explained that the Social Security Administration (SSA) “maintains a list of dead Americans” called the Death Master File. Kennedy added that the SSA had not shared “this information” with other branches in the government, and that after he was informed that the SSA would need Congress’s permission, he passed a bill called the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act.
Since the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act temporarily shared data, Kennedy went on to introduce a second bill, titled Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act, that would “make this data sharing arrangement permanent.”
“I have been working for years, literally years, to target welfare fraud — especially the fraudsters who conduct fraud in the name of deceased Americans,” Kennedy said. “In 2023 alone, for example, the federal government sent $1.3 billion — not million, billion. The federal government sent $1.3 billion to dead people.”
“It’s so pervasive that the Social Security Administration — which maintains a list of dead Americans, known as the Death Master File,” Kennedy added. “If someone dies, the state sends the name of the deceased person to the Social Security Administration, and that person’s name is listed on what’s called the Death Master File.”
Kennedy’s video continued in part:
We found that Social Security was not sharing this information — the names of the folks on the Death Master File, with the rest of the federal government. One branch of government wasn’t talking to another branch of government.
The Social Security Administration told me — when I confronted them about this, and I asked them, ‘Why don’t you talk to your colleagues and other colleagues in the federal government so we can stop paying dead people?’ Social Security told me it needed Congress’s permission to share this information with, for example, the Treasury Department — so it could include the list of dead Americans in its Do Not Pay system.
I didn’t argue with them, I said, ‘I’m just going to pass a bill.’ Well, a few years ago I did. I passed a bill called the Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act. And, that bill allowed the Social Security Administration to temporarily share it’s Death Master File with the Department of Treasury.
I had to amend the bill … it’s a long story, and it was frustrating — to provide for a temporary share. They wanted to try it out first, well it worked. Duh. Since December of 2023, this bill has saved the federal government at least $330 million in improper payments. We’re no longer paying dead people, and having their friends, or relatives, or whomever cash the checks.
It was obvious that Congress needed to make this data sharing arrangement permanent, so I had to introduce — and was happy to do it, I introduced a second bill to do just that.
“This week, I’m pleased to say, the House passed my bill, the Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act,” Kennedy added. “This bill had already passed the Senate, and now that it’s passed the House, it’s on its way to President Trump’s desk so he can sign it into law.”
[TWZ] he U.S. military, including the U.S. Coast Guard, has a long history of operating high-flying surveillance aircraft based on or otherwise derived from powered gliders. Recent pictures show U.S. special operators are at least training with one particularly rare type, the Grob G 520.
On July 12, 2017, Indiana’s North Vernon Municipal Airport posted a series of pictures on its official Facebook page of U.S. Air Force and Army special operations aircraft on their way to an exercise. The photographs showed what appeared to be C-130H Hercules and an MH-47G Chinook, as well as what looked like stock photos of a CV-22B Osprey, an AH-6M Little Bird, and multiple MH-60M Black Hawks. There was also a picture of an odd looking white-and-gray aircraft and someone had blacked out its only apparent marking.
(TWZ) The U.S. Army has confirmed to TWZ that it plans to start fielding its new MV-75 tiltrotors in 2027. This is some five years earlier than originally planned, at least, and three years earlier than what the service was targeting just 12 months ago. The Army has been pushing for some time now to accelerate this program, which it sees as especially critical for any future high-end conflict in the Pacific region.
Bell, a Textron subsidiary, is developing the MV-75, which is based on its V-280 Valor tiltrotor, under the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program. The service announced Bell had won the FLRAA competition in 2022, at which point the expectation was that the first examples would begin entering service in the mid-2030s. By the start of last year, the target in-service timeline had moved to 2030. The Army subsequently disclosed it was looking to push that further to the left to 2028.
[BBC] Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed space station – quickly.
On Thursday (15 January), the four astronauts who made up Crew-11 on the International Space Station (ISS) splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the four crew members had reported a medical emergency which couldn't be treated with the space station's modest resources. Instead, they had to evacuate.
America's Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan's Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov had arrived in August 2025 and planned to stay the standard six-and-a-half months on the station. But the medical emergency necessitated the entire crew coming back together on the SpaceX-made capsule that had delivered them to the ISS.
The incident shows human exploration of the Solar System, even in low orbit, can never be considered routine.
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[Regnum] The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is exhibiting a new anomaly related to changes in the cloud of dust and gas around it. This was reported in a blog post by renowned Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
"Notably, there are no traces of microscopic dust particles that would enhance the blue color due to Rayleigh scattering. Moreover, these small particles would have been subjected to strong solar radiation pressure and would have formed a standard cometary tail extending from the Sun," he wrote in the publication.
The scientist also noted the change in the glow of the halo surrounding the object as noteworthy after passing perihelion.
On December 19, the 3I/ATLAS object passed its closest point to Earth, bringing the distance from the celestial body to the planet to approximately 269 million km. The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences emphasized that this is a huge distance by terrestrial standards, but absolutely negligible in terms of interstellar distances. 3I/ATLAS's next stop will be Jupiter, which it will pass on March 16 at a distance of approximately 53 million km.
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"3I/ATLAS's next stop will be Jupiter, which it will pass on March 16 at a distance of approximately 53 million km." At which point it will stop and begin its gas mining operation. Just spitballing.
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^ Lol.
"It's changing, like a team that has their home and away colors"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
