A former Air Force major was arrested for allegedly training Chinese military pilots in a scheme arranged by a Chinese national who admitted stealing U.S. military secrets.

65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. flew to China in Dec. 2023 to train pilots and returned in February of this year, according to the Dept. of Justice. He was arrested on Feb. 18 and charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese pilots without U.S. government authorization.

‘He broke that oath and betrayed the country, jeopardizing the safety of our service members and allies.’

More significantly, Brown is also allegedly linked to Stephen Su Bin, a Chinese man who pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to hack into U.S. defense contractors’ computer networks and steal sensitive military data for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Su Bin was sentenced to four years in prison, and he was placed on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List in 2014, along with his company PRC Lode Technology Company.

The DOJ says Brown answered questions about the U.S. Air Force for about three hours on his first day in China and then presented a brief for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force on the second day.

The U.S. has warned that China is actively targeting Western countries in spying operations.

“China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues to target current and former military personnel from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations and other Western countries to help bolster the PLA’s capabilities,” read a warning in a joint 2024 statement from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Brown was known by the call sign “Runner” during his 24 years in the U.S. Air Force. He could face significant prison time if convicted.

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“As an Air Force Officer, Brown took an oath to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. He broke that oath and betrayed the country, jeopardizing the safety of our service members and allies,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro about the case.

“We will hold Brown, and anyone conspiring against our nation, accountable for their actions,” she added. “The Department of Justice and my prosecutors are steadfast in our commitment to use every lawful tool available to keep American military expertise where it belongs — here in America.”

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is fairly certain that President Trump’s State of the Union address will go down as one of the best presidential speeches of our time — though some of the Democrat lawmakers in attendance made it clear they did not think so.

“I just love that the speech was so good. It was just such a positive, uplifting, incredible speech that even CNN had to admit it. They released a poll right after the speech: 64% of people had a positive reaction, compared to 36% having a negative reaction,” Gonzales says.

“They keep trying to tell you that everyone hates Donald Trump. They keep trying to make you feel like you are in the minority. They want you to think that you are in the minority if you appreciate this president following through on his promises,” she continues.

And while 36% had a negative reaction, Gonzales believes those are the same people who would have sat with the Democrats when Trump gave them a chance to publicly, and literally, stand for what’s right.

“If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump said, as the Republican side of the chamber all stood.

“You don’t think that your job is to protect American citizens over illegals? What the hell are you doing in Congress? In fact, I think that that alone is enough to just expel you from Congress. Like that’s kind of like the whole thing. That’s kind of your one job. You swear an oath that resembles, ‘Hey, I’m going to stand up for American citizens,’” Gonzales comments.

“And then to sit down — how absolutely disrespectful. Not even to the president, but to your American citizens and constituents that you claim to represent,” she adds.

Even when President Trump brought in the U.S. men’s hockey team — who just won gold at the Olympics — some of the Democrats stayed seated.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever seen them get up. And actually, not all of them did get up,” Trump said after introducing the team.

“And that is where I think that they have just really shown you their true colors. They don’t actually care about this country. They’re not patriots. They’re not patriotic. They don’t have a sense of patriotism when they think about this country. They actually think this country is bad,” Gonzales says.

Even when Trump paid tribute to the life of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian woman who was brutally stabbed to death while sitting on a train — as her mother cried in the audience — the Democrats stayed seated.

“That’s unspeakably evil. It’s almost like they want the violence and the carnage,” Gonzales says.

“I think that this is why the polls said the people overwhelmingly responded positively. They are tired of this anti-American rhetoric. They were happy that President Trump was actually calling them out on their bulls**t,” she adds.

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Former President Bill Clinton stated during his Friday deposition that President Donald Trump never gave him any indication he was involved with convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).

The committee deposed his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the day prior. During her testimony, she seemed to throw Bill Clinton under the bus by deferring most of their questions to her husband, lawmakers reported.

‘I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.’

Epstein reportedly visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton administration. Flight logs revealed that Bill Clinton took 26 flights on Epstein’s plane, including international trips to Bangkok, Rwanda, Russia, and China. Clinton’s last known documented trip on Epstein’s plane was in November 2003.

Ahead of Friday’s hearing, Clinton shared his opening statement to the public.

“As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,” he wrote.

Clinton advocated justice and healing for the “girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed.”

RELATED: ‘Ask my husband’: Hillary Clinton throws Bill under the bus during Epstein deposition, reports indicate

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He framed his relationship with Epstein as a “brief” acquaintanceship that “ended years before his crimes came to light.” He claimed he “never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on,” insisting that he “had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing.”

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton wrote.

The former president warned in his opening statement that he would often answer lawmakers’ questions with, “I don’t recall.”

“That might be unsatisfying. But I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago,” he stated.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to Clinton’s opening statement in a post on X, writing, “We’ve added a new question for former President Bill Clinton to the top of the list: Do you suffer from dementia or memory loss?”

Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice. In a 2001 statement, Clinton confessed to providing false testimony under oath and acknowledged violating a judge’s discovery orders. He conceded that he had “tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely,” admitting that some of his responses “were false.”

RELATED: Hillary Clinton’s Epstein deposition goes off the rails after leaked photo triggers meltdown

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During a break in Clinton’s Friday deposition, Chairman Comer addressed reporters to share a comment the former president made. Comer explained that Clinton stated President Donald Trump “has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved” with Epstein.

“I know there’s a lot of curiosity about President Trump. I thought that was an interesting thing that President Clinton said,” Comer stated.

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The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on Friday charging 30 more people who allegedly stormed Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, last month.

The arrests are related to an incident that occurred on January 18, when anti-immigration enforcement protesters entered the church, disrupting its Sunday service and intimidating the attendees.

‘The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church.’

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she instructed federal agents to apprehend 25 of the newly indicted individuals, vowing that more arrests would follow.

“YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you,” Bondi wrote in a post on social media. “This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith.”

FBI Director Kash Patel revealed additional details about the indictment, stating that the individuals had been charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, commonly known as the FACE Act.

RELATED: Anti-ICE radical who took credit for the invasion of Minnesota church ARRESTED by feds

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Patel explained that the FBI had carried out a joint operation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations to arrest the suspects. He also noted that there would be additional arrests.

“This makes 39 indictments in the Cities Church case total so far, including the arrest of Don Lemon and multiple alleged leaders of the riot last month,” Patel stated. “Let it be known: This FBI will never tolerate anyone who targets, intimidates, or attacks Americans peacefully exercising their right to worship freely.”

Lemon was arrested on January 29 and released the following day. He pleaded not guilty to violations of the FACE Act and conspiracy to violate another’s constitutional rights. The other original eight defendants in the case also pleaded not guilty.

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True North Legal, the law firm representing Cities Church, responded to the superseding indictment and additional arrests in a Friday statement.

“The indictment of 30 additional people for their involvement in the invasion of Cities Church sends a clear message: Houses of worship are off limits for those who would use chaos and intimidation to advance a political agenda,” Doug Wardlow, director of litigation for True North Legal, stated. “The invasion of Cities Church was a planned, coordinated effort to disrupt a worship service and interfere with religious exercise that placed congregants, including children, in fear for their lives. The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church and intimidate, threaten, and terrorize families and children worshipping inside.”

“Cities Church is grateful for the Department of Justice’s continued commitment to enforcing federal law to protect churches and other places of worship. The Department’s aggressive prosecution of this case affirms a foundational principle: In the United States, the sanctuary remains a sanctuary,” Wardlow added.

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Military officials, defense analysts, and critics have issued numerous warnings in recent years about the state of America’s military readiness.

While the Trump administration has taken steps to address some of the problems identified by scrutineers, there is at least one outstanding issue that could impact America’s ability to wage a protracted ballistic war against its adversaries, namely its depleted stores of critical munitions.

‘I don’t want our adversaries to think for a second that we don’t have enough resources.’

Two U.S. military officials recently told the New York Times that the Department of War presently lacks the requisite forces and munitions for an extended bombing campaign against Iran.

One of the officials suggested that the American forces presently positioned in the region could continue strikes in the region for only seven to 10 days.

Christian Brose, the president of the American defense firm Anduril, similarly suggested earlier this week in a piece for the Wall Street Journal that “in a conflict with China, the U.S. would run out of critical munitions in days, according to the results of war games.”

Amid such chatter and mounting concerns over what America’s stockpiles might look like in the wake of a lengthier conflict with Iran, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to Politico, “The Department of War has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of the president’s choosing and on any timeline.”

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The Pentagon’s confidence notwithstanding, some American officials and analysts are worried about how America’s stockpiles will look after a potential conflict with Iran.

After all, by arming Ukraine for its ongoing war with Russia, bombing Houthi terrorists in Yemen, vaporizing numerous alleged Venezuelan drug-runners, and helping to protect Israel — which has its own sophisticated albeit depleted missile defense system — from regional threats, the U.S. has reportedly burned through a great many Patriot missiles, Standard Missile-3s, and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors.

According to American Enterprise Institute fellows Mackenzie Eaglen and Todd Harrison, the U.S. expended over 150 THAAD anti-ballistic missile interceptors defending Israel in June 2025 during its 12-day conflict with Iran.

That’s reportedly nearly 25% of its total number of THAAD interceptors and reportedly three times the average annual procurement since 2010.

Each THAAD interceptor is valued at approximately $12.7 million.

The AEI duo noted that during the same conflict, the U.S. also launched over 80 Standard Missile-3 interceptors.

According to a December report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the SM-3 missiles fired last June — which range in cost from around $9.6 million to $27.9 million — represented nearly one-fifth of the military’s stockpile at the end of 2025.

“If the Iranians can deplete 25% of America’s THAAD stocks and a significant portion of our SM-3 magazines in a few days, the Chinese can and will exhaust them in a few hours,” wrote the AEI duo, who proposed that the military “regain its ability to compete at scale.”

American forces in the Red Sea have also expended a significant number of munitions battling Houthi terrorists in recent years.

Stars and Stripes reported last month that Navy forces had fired over 200 missiles and 150 artillery rounds in response to Houthi attacks since November 2023.

Vice Admiral Brendan McLane, commander of Naval Surface Forces, told Stripes that over the past 15 months or so, the Navy had fired 120 SM-2, 80 SM-6, and 20 Evolve Sea Sparrow and SM-3 missiles.

SM-2 and SM-6 missiles roughly cost $2.1 million and $3.9 million each, respectively.

While Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) acknowledged to Politico that munitions scarcity was “not a secret,” he indicated that assembly lines for air defenses such as THAAD systems and Patriot interceptors have been “set up, and they just have to maximize, with double or triple shifts.”

“I don’t want our adversaries to think for a second that we don’t have enough resources,” Calvert added. “We do.”

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A Canadian sports reporter blamed the internet for backlash she received over her questions to American hockey players.

Members of Team USA men’s Olympic hockey team have been lectured by media members for days now after laughing at a joke made by President Trump over the phone.

‘If we were to do it again, I think we wouldn’t do that, and we made a mistake.’

Trump called the team in the locker room after their gold medal win on Sunday and made a joke that has offended woke reporters, seemingly worldwide.

“We’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” the president joked about the Team USA women, who also won gold. He added that he “probably would be impeached” if he didn’t.

For daring to laugh, U.S. players have been subjected to struggle sessions in their individual markets from hockey reporters. Seemingly the worst of such examples has come out of Canada’s capital, where Americans Jake Sanderson and Brady Tkachuk play for the Ottawa Senators.

Both players were given a browbeating from TSN reporter Claire Hanna, a Canadian who lists her pronouns as “she/her” on her X page.

Sanderson told reporters that while he thought things had been “blown out of proportion a little bit,” he still thought it was a “mistake” to laugh at the president’s joke.

“We have nothing but the utmost respect for the women. We had a lounge in the village that we were hanging out with them all the time, watching other events,” Sanderson said.

That answer was not good enough, though, and Hanna sought further clarification.

“Do you understand in the moment how much it could hurt a team to hear them kind of just be put down that way?” the female reporter asked.

“If we were to do it again, I think we wouldn’t do that, and we made a mistake. But again, I think it kind of got blown out of proportion a little bit,” Sanderson answered.

RELATED: Boston Bruins players cave over Trump phone call: ‘Certainly sorry’ — ‘we should have reacted differently’

The scrum of reporters was incessant with questions about the Trump call and the players’ subsequent visit to the White House and State of the Union address.

Tkachuk was not spared from these queries, explaining that only 15 minutes after leaving the ice with the gold medal, “You have the president of the United States calling you. You just can’t really believe [it].”

“You’re still riding the high of being a world champ, and for the president to take time and call …,” Tkachuk trailed off before sharing a memory from the Olympics.

Still, no amount of positive reinforcement about the women’s team could save Tkachuk, as Hanna soon asked, “Do you understand how they could feel pretty put down by that moment?

“I get it,” Tkachuk replied. “I have no really other comments other than, you know, for the things that we can control, and that was, you know, we supported them, they supported us. Can’t control what other people say. That’s just kind of life itself.”

With Tkachuk praising the women’s team and saying they were clearly the best squad in the tournament, most would think that Tkachuk had touched on the narrative enough, but Hanna again pressed forward.

RELATED: Team USA captain goes full feminist over Trump’s ‘distasteful’ invitation: ‘It’s a great teaching point’

‘”So then why would you laugh when they got invited?” the reporter asked.

“I don’t really have an answer, honestly,” an exhausted Tkachuk stated. “It was just a whirlwind of a moment that you can’t really control what somebody says, and I guess caught off guard a little bit. “

The American reiterated, “When you’re talking to the president 10 minutes after you just achieve your dream, it’s just the fact that you’re talking to him. It’s just, you can’t really believe where your life’s at, that you’re talking to the president of the United States after you just won a gold medal.”

Hanna, seemingly shrugging off a bevy of backlash, wrote on X, “I see the internet is angry today.”

This only garnered more disgruntled fan remarks.

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an argument in opposition to President Donald Trump’s order against birthright citizenship, calling it “immoral.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an appeal from the Trump administration of a lower court ruling siding with a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

‘It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.’

The bishops filed an amicus brief with the court to argue that shutting down birthright citizenship violated the “God-given human dignity” of children of migrants wanting to come to the U.S.

“Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States,” the bishops wrote in the brief. “Yet, this executive order renders them stateless. Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment — one that this court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty.”

Opponents of birthright citizenship say the policy depends on a misreading of the 14th Amendment, which goes back to the Civil War era, and argue that ending it would eliminate much of the motivation for illegal immigration.

The bishops addressed this argument in their brief.

“At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment,” they wrote. “It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.”

They went on to appeal to the court by citing a biblical parable.

“Migrants often flee war and persecution seeking a better life for their families,” they added. “It is critical that we treat our suffering neighbors not with indifference, apathy, or bias, but instead with the same type of mercy as depicted in the story of the Good Samaritan, whose love transcended the most strident ethnic division of that day.”

Some online noted that the counsel of record listed for the brief is Matthew Martens, a Baptist who says he voted for former President Joe Biden.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez says more immigrants are needed to keep social services afloat

Despite an invite from Vice President JD Vance to the pope for the 250th U.S. celebration, the Vatican said Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year.

Six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic.

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Olympic figure skater and gold medalist Alysa Liu has made Americans across the country proud — but BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes there is one thing that needs to be discussed when it comes to Liu’s past.

Alysa’s father, Arthur Liu, fled China as a political refugee and landed in California where he attended law school.

“Now he is the only biological parent that Alysa knows because Alysa was born by surrogacy. He used IVF with anonymous egg donors. This has all been reported publicly,” Stuckey explains.

“And then there’s also something interesting about how Arthur chose the women who were going to be the egg sellers for all of his children. So he specifically chose white women as these egg sellers. I don’t say egg donors because these women are making money from selling their eggs for all of his children,” she continues.

Liu did this because he believed it would give them a “diverse gene pool and reflect his own blend of Chinese and American cultures.”

“That should just kind of make your skin crawl a little bit that you’re creating these designer babies as if out of a catalog. I mean that’s really objectifying these little people,” Stuckey says.

“Arthur has said he doesn’t know the identities of the egg donors or the egg sellers. There are no records available to reveal them, which just again points to something that we need to understand when it comes to egg selling is that we are purposely cutting children off from half of their biological reality,” she explains.

“You don’t get to know the fullness of your medical history. You don’t get to know the fullness of your ethnicity. You don’t get to know the fullness of your origin or your family’s origin. And I think it’s just an innate longing in all of us to know whom we are and from where we come,” she continues.

And Liu’s daughter’s path to the Olympics was no accident either.

In an interview with Liu on “60 Minutes,” he explains that he took Liu to Japan as a child to learn from the top coaches there — spending “half a million to a million dollars.”

“That could probably be said by a lot of these Olympic parents. They invest a lot of time and energy and money into their kids. And I’m not condemning him,” Stuckey says.

“It’s just another opportunity for us to be reminded that yes, while everyone, no matter the circumstances surrounding their conception or surrounding their gestation or birth, are made in God’s image, we are glad Alysa is here, we are glad her siblings are here. It looks like they had a decent upbringing, I hope so,” she continues, though she points out that despite this, no one has a right to a child.

“Children are people. They’re image bearers of God. They’re not something that we are entitled to be able to create by any means necessary,” she adds.

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