US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions."

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Trump Says It's No Biggie That Putin Is Helping Iran

President Donald Trump defended the easing sanctions on Russian oil, excusing reports that the nation’s dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been assisting Iran in its war efforts against the U.S.

“I think [Putin] might be helping [Iran] a little bit,” Trump said during his call-in to Fox News on Friday. “And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?”

At least 13 U.S. soldiers have died since the start of the war. Trump’s decision to launch a war with Iran is a boon for Putin, creating chaos in the oil markets.

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Trump: The Iran War Will End 'When I Feel It In My Bones'

During a Fox News interview this morning, Trump explained there is no military objective that would signal the end of his Iranian war, only when he gets a feeling deep inside his bones.

If the USA had a credible Congress, it would have called a meeting right now to discuss Trump's malignant thoughts on the Iran war that he started on a whim after being prodded by warmongers inside and outside the US.

TRUMP: I'm doing something about it, and I had to take an excursion. We had the greatest economy in history, we do, we still do. Oh, this will bounce right back. When it's over, and I don't think it's going to be long. When it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast.

KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it's over?

TRUMP: When I feel it.

KILMEADE: Okay.

TRUMP: When I feel it in my bones.

KILMEADE: Will you ask anybody in particular would that be some of these a joint decision with people?

TRUMP: I have great people.

There is nothing great about Trump, including his economy.

Trump's economy is horrific. People are taking a second job to pay for healthcare costs, and millions have lost access to healthcare because of the Big Ugly bill and his refusal to extend ACA subsidies.

Inflation has skyrocketed, and now fuel costs are rising because Trump declared war on Iran.

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Travis Kalanick launches a new company called Atoms focused on robotics

Kalanick's existing ghost kitchen company CloudKitchens will be rolled into Atoms, which also wants to get into mining and transport.

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Trump Attacks 'Rotten Reporter' For Refuting His Arizona Voter Fraud Lies

During another annoying helicopter press gaggle, Trump attacked a journalist for being a "rotten reporter" for refuting his election fraud conspiracy when she asked why the FBI confiscated Arizona's voter records for 2020, when Bill Barr, his own Attorney General said there was no fraud in Arizona.

On Monday, it was reported that the FBI obtained records relating to the 2020 election in Arizona to continue to pursue Trump's conspiracy theories over his brutal loss in 2020.

PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Liz Landers did what every reporter and journalist should do when confronted with Trump's insane lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Every reality based person knows all the evidence proves he got trounced by Joe Biden.

Landers did not go quietly in the night.

LANDERS: Sir, in Arizona, why did the FBI seize election records in that state?

TRUMP: Well, they probably thought the election was rigged, right?

LANDERS: It wasn't rigged, though.

TRUMP: Oh, really? How do you know?

LANDERS: Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election.

TRUMP: I think it was rigged.

LANDERS: There's no evidence. Sir, where's the evidence for that? It wasn't rigged.

TRUMP: If you think it wasn’t rigged, you’re a rotten reporter!

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Why Rivian is holding the $45,000 base model R2 until ‘late 2027’

Rivian spent the last two years promoting the R2 as a $45,000 SUV. But buyers won't be able to pay that price until late next year -- if at all.

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We Just Went Through One Of The Warmest Winters On Record

This was a very bad winter if you're concerned about the changing climate -- and of course you are.

Yale Climate Connections reports that Winter 2025-26 (December through February) was the second-warmest in U.S. records going back to 1895. The average temperature for the contiguous states was 37.13 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the monthly roundup released on March 9 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Given that the warmest winter on record was 2023-24, with 37.47 degrees F, the two warmest U.S. winters in 131 years of data have now occurred in the last three years.

Many parts of the northeastern half of the country, roughly from the Great Lakes into the Eastern Seaboard and Deep South, did see stretches of cold and snow that rivaled anything over the last few decades. Where you live, it might not have been a record-breaking winter at all – except for large stretches of the nation from the Great Plains westward, where many states and communities saw their warmest winter-long averages in more than a century of record-keeping.

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