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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The United States Naval Academy renamed its engineering building Friday after Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President and 1946 academy graduate.

President Joe Biden says three unidentified objects shot down by US fighter jets do not appear to have been used for spying on the United States and are likely tied to benign purposes.

Nearly 2,000 balloons are launched into the sky daily, to monitor everything from the weather to specific phenomena in space

The shootdowns came in steady succession over the weekend, after alarms were raised in early February over an object spotted over Montana.

The US Army launched military exercises with the Kenya armed forces on Monday. American troops will also take part in wargames with Pakistan and separate drills with Japan. This flurry of activity precedes joint South Africa/Russia/China military manoeuvres coinciding with the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding drills in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon

The Philippines has accused a Chinese coast guard ship of hitting a Philippine coast guard vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the disputed South China Sea

The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding drills in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh alleges that US Navy divers laid the bombs that destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea last September, cutting Russian gas supplies to Europe. The Pentagon has denied the claim but Moscow, which Western countries suspect of involvement, says it should be taken…