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Trump signs order to combat fraudulent ‘Made in America’ labels, White House says

March 13, 2026 7:40 PM UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive ​order on Friday that the White House ‌said was aimed at combating fraudulent

Tillis breaks with Trump on voter ID legislation as GOP preps key vote | Fox News

Tillis joins Murkowski in opposing the SAVE America Act, creating razor-thin margin for GOP floor strategy

By Alex Miller
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Published March 13, 2026 3:39pm EDT

Senate Republicans are gearing up for a floor battle over Trump-backed voter ID legislation, but another GOP senator plans to oppose it.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., won’t support the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a decision that could throw a wrench into the GOP’s plan to force Senate Democrats into tough vote after tough vote next week.

“I’m a no,” Tillis said. “I’m going to do everything I can to prevent it from even moving forward.”

SENATE GOP EYES BLAME GAME AS TRUMP-BACKED SAVE ACT HEADS FOR DEFEAT

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., vowed “to do everything I can” to stop the SAVE America Act, which the Senate is expected to vote on next week.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He did offer an alternative, arguing that if Republicans were “serious” about voter ID, they’d consider legislation that incentivized states to use the practice in exchange for federal funding. If not, the money would go toward ensuring “election integrity” oversight.

“Who could be against that? You know, and then rock on, California, if you want to enable [ballot harvesting,” Tillis said. “Make sure you do it on your nickels, because we’re going to spend the money to oversee the elections to make sure you did it legally.”

His resistance to the bill comes after President Donald Trump demanded that Republicans ram the bill through Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats’ blockade with a talking filibuster.

TRUMP, THUNE CLASH ON VOTER ID ULTIMATUM AS GOP REMAINS DIVIDED ON PATH FORWARD

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump host a Women’s History Month Celebration at the White House March 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republicans landed on a plan to put the bill on the floor that doesn’t take the route of a talking filibuster, given that there isn’t enough unity among Republicans to block Democrats’ amendments that could drastically change the bill.

However, that process is in the spirit of the talking filibuster and will allow Republicans to load up amendments on the floor for a marathon debate session. Still, it won’t lower the threshold to pass the bill with just a simple majority, something the talking filibuster would have done.

Republicans know it’s destined to fail and are trying to shift blame to Schumer and Democrats with their floor strategy.

THUNE GUARANTEES VOTER ID BILL TO HIT THE SENATE DESPITE SCHUMER, DEM OPPOSITION: ‘WE WILL HAVE A VOTE’

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., departs following a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, 2026.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

But Tillis, who was a co-sponsor of the bill’s predecessor called the SAVE Act, disagreed with the changes Trump proposed to the legislation, which included banning mail-in ballots with limited exceptions, halting men in women’s sports and stopping transgender surgeries for minors.

“You know, taking the language from the White House without understanding the [state-by-state implications, politically and procedurally, just doesn’t sound like we’re letting the people at the tip of the spear — that’s these people running for re-election — define what we should be voting on next week,” Tillis said.

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Tillis joins Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in opposing the bill. Their defection, coupled with Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., announcing on CBS’ “The Takeout with Major Garrett” that he wouldn’t support the legislation in its “current state” over Trump’s criticism of mail-in balloting, gives the GOP a razor-thin margin of error in trying to even open debate on the bill.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Rabbi credits training for saving lives and says Michigan synagogue attack “could have been a far worse tragedy”

By Kelsie Hoffman
Updated on: March 13, 2026 / 12:54 PM EDT / CBS News

Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel says the attack at his synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on Thursday “could have been a far worse tragedy,” and he credits the staff’s security training for saving lives.

“As part of the Jewish community, we are ready for these kinds of threats,” Bennett told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Friday.

“We have a full security team who is tasked with keeping us safe but also training us to know what to do in the event of one of these events,” Bennett said. “So we knew something like this might happen. Of course we hope and pray that it never does.”

Bennett said everyone in the building “did exactly what they were supposed to do” when a man rammed his vehicle into the building.

Police said security guards shot and killed the suspect, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. Sources say Ghazali, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen, had a rifle and explosives in the vehicle.

One security guard was injured in the incident, but everyone else in the building got out safely, including all the children at the preschool.

Cassi Cohen, a staff member at Temple Israel, said she was standing near the hallway where the car breached the building. She and several other staff members “heard a loud crash and a bang” and “immediately knew that something was wrong.” They were able to hide in her office nearby.

“It was honestly just a gut instinct,” Cohen said. “We have been trained for this and so we all knew that we should not be near that or in the area and the best thing for us to do was to lock down in a secure area.”

There were about 140 students at the early childhood center who were “taken out of the building immediately” and went with their teachers to a nearby reunification site, Bennett said. “And because of the training that we’ve all gone through, it happened naturally and calmly and it was really miraculous that everybody was safe,” he added.

The rabbi said they’ll be taking steps to care for the mental health of the teachers and staff.

“When we get through this, we are going to go back to business as usual because that is our obligation as a strong Jewish community,” he said.

The FBI is leading the investigation and said the attack is being investigated as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.”

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called the attack “every community’s worst nightmare,” and said it was “hate, plain and simple.” She urged Americans to “lower the rhetoric” amid what she called a rising wave of antisemitism.

Bennett said a key message is that the community’s preparedness paid off: “I think that the most important takeaway for me is if a community pays attention to the training, to a security detail, to making sure that the people are safe and everybody acts accordingly, we can keep our communities safe.”

Iran moves hundreds of millions in crypto during nationwide internet blackout, report reveals

New report claims hundreds of millions flowed from Iranian accounts after strikes, with funds supporting proxy operations and personal wealth protection

By Efrat Lachter
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Published March 13, 2026 2:36pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE: Cryptocurrency infrastructure linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continued operating during the country’s nationwide internet blackout after the Feb. 28 U.S.–Israeli strikes, a cyber intelligence report reviewed by Fox News Digital claims. It allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto to move out of the country.

Omri Raiter, founder and CEO of RAKIA, a cyber intelligence firm that develops data analysis platforms used by governments and security agencies, told Fox News Digital his team began monitoring Iranian cryptocurrency activity in real time after the attacks and quickly detected a surge of funds leaving Iranian-linked crypto accounts.

“We’ve seen a surge of funds since the first hours of the war,” Raiter said. “It started with tens of millions in the first hours, and it grew to hundreds of millions and more. Money was just flowing out from Iranian crypto accounts.”

Wallets linked to the IRGC received more than $3 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, according to the internal report based on blockchain intelligence data cited by RAKIA. The report also cites publicly available data from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, which estimated Iran’s cryptocurrency ecosystem reached $7.78 billion in activity in 2025.

IRAN PROXIES WAGE WAR ON ISRAEL, THREATEN US INTERESTS AS IRAQ SLAMMED FOR NOT DISARMING THEM

Strikes on the Iranian leadership, the IRGC and Iranian naval vessels and oil infrastructure have roiled the markets.(Sasan/Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Raiter said the data suggests Iran has developed a significant crypto-based financial infrastructure capable of operating even during heavy sanctions and communications shutdowns.

“The IRGC has been financing proxy operations through the very same crypto corridors that sanctions were designed to shut down,” Raiter said.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges tied to Iranian actors Jan. 30, marking one of the first times the U.S. targeted entire digital asset platforms rather than individual wallets for sanctions evasion linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move was part of a broader effort to disrupt financial networks connected to Tehran, Iran.

“The Treasury will continue to pursue Iranian networks and corrupt elites who enrich themselves at the expense of the people,” Bessent said in a Treasury press release in January. “This also applies to attempts by the regime to use digital assets to circumvent sanctions.”

The recent surge appears to reflect two parallel trends: funds moving to support Iran’s regional proxy networks and money being moved by individuals connected to the regime seeking to protect their personal wealth, according to RAKIA’s analysis.

“The proxy war funding and the personal capital flight are two sides of the same coin,” Raiter said. “They move through the same pipelines.”

IRAN WAR, 11 DAYS IN: US CONTROLS SKIES, OIL SURGES AND THE REGION BRACES FOR WHAT’S NEXT

Tehran’s skyline, including the Azadi Tower, became the backdrop to a crisis shaped as much by cyber disruption as by missiles in the sky.(Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

Raiter said the firm identified cryptocurrency flows connected to networks previously associated with Iran-backed groups.

“Some of the accounts we saw are connected to areas where money historically flows to proxy wars,” he told Fox News Digital, citing activity linked to Lebanon and Yemen.

“Some of it could be people inside the IRGC trying to move their own money,” Raiter said. “But when you see the scale and the timing, it looks coordinated.”

The report produced by RAKIA claims the activity continued even after Iran imposed a sweeping internet shutdown across the country. National connectivity dropped to roughly 1% of normal levels during the blackout, according to internet monitoring group NetBlocks.

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Military members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in western Tehran, Iran(Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Despite that shutdown, RAKIA researchers said they detected more than 1,100 active cryptocurrency nodes operating inside Iran.

“When the internet is at one percent and you still see over a thousand active crypto nodes, you’re not looking at retail users,” Tom Malca, RAKIA’s head of cyber and AI research, said in the report. “Those nodes require dedicated bandwidth, stable power and deliberate exemption from the shutdown.”

RAKIA researchers said the activity suggests specialized infrastructure continued operating even as millions of Iranian civilians were cut off from the internet.

Most of the nodes were concentrated in the Tehran–Qom corridor, according to the report, an area that includes major government and IRGC institutions. Smaller clusters were detected in Iranian cities, including Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz and Kermanshah, according to the analysis.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps special forces walk on the U.S. flag during a rally commemorating International Quds Day, also known as Jerusalem Day, in Tehran, Iran, March 28, 2025.(Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

RAKIA said its investigation relied on a combination of network monitoring and publicly available blockchain intelligence.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York for comment on the claims made in the report. The mission did not respond.

Efrat Lachter is a foreign correspondent for Fox News Digital covering international affairs and the United Nations. Follow her on X @efratlachter. Stories can be sent to efrat.lachter@fox.com.

Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, says probe was politically motivated

By Tierney Sneed, Jake Tapper, Bryan Mena

Updated Mar 13, 2026, 3:33 PM ET

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2026, 3:20 PM ET

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell departs following a press conference in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2025.

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A federal judge has quashed subpoenas the Justice Department had issued against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents unsealed Friday.

The ruling is a major blow to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates and urged the Justice Department to investigate the outgoing chair.

US District Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg wrote in the new opinion that a “mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.”

“On the other side of the scale, the Government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime; indeed, its justifications are so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual,” Boasberg said.

The federal probe underscores the Trump administration’s intense pressure campaign Powell and the Fed in a bid to get the politically independent central bank to lower interest rates.

Trump continues to insult Powell on social media, calling him every name in the book, and his administration is currently trying to push out Fed Governor Lisa Cook, appointed by then-President Joe Biden, in a landmark case at the US Supreme Court.

Powell had stayed mostly mum in the face of Trump’s attacks, but just a few days after he was served with a subpoena in early January, the Fed chief released a remarkable video calling out the investigation as an affront to the Fed’s independence.

Powell’s term as chair expires in May and Trump in January nominated former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh to run the central bank. But Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, a key vote on the Senate Banking Committee that would confirm the nomination, has said the committee should not consider a vote until the criminal probe of Powell is resolved.

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Iran war deprives US farmers of affordable fertilizer as spring planting looms

March 13, 2026 6:18 PM UTC / Reuters

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• Summary

• Fertilizer shortage due to Iran war alarming U.S and Canadian farmers
• Fertilizer dealers could be 25-35% short of usual spring fertilizer supplies
• Prices have surged since Iran war began

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 13 (Reuters) – Farmers in the U.S. and Canada, who were already worried about prospects for another year ​of low profits or losses, now could have spring planting disrupted as they struggle to find fertilizer, and prices ‌for any available supplies have spiked more than a third since the war in Iran paralyzed global trade.

The U.S., which in some years imports half of its urea fertilizer, is about 25% short of the usual supplies that farmers buy for spring planting, according to The Fertilizer Institute, which represents the U.S. fertilizer ​supply chain.

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Supplies could grow still scarcer if fertilizer destined for the U.S. gets rerouted to other places willing to pay more ​for it, an analyst said.

Josh Linville, a fertilizer market analyst at StoneX, said the price offered in New Orleans, ⁠the port area where most offshore U.S. imports enter and prices are set, is as much as $119 less per metric ton than global prices.

“Not only am I ​worried about incoming vessels being turned around to other, better-paying destinations, there’s an argument to be made, if somebody was willing to go ​and buy up (supply on) barges, to load them onto a vessel and export it,” Linville said.

Farmers who do significant springtime fertilizer application and have not already purchased their supplies are finding retail centers empty, or stocked with supplies sold at such a premium that it’s unaffordable for some.

“It sends shivers down your spine,” ​said Saskatchewan, Canada farmer David Altrogge, whose broker told him that a local fertilizer dealer had stopped offering prices for fertilizer due ​to the shortage.

He bought his urea in December, but if he bought it today it would cost C$44,000 ($32,069.97) more. Some farmers in his area now face that price hike ‌or ⁠may not even be able to buy any, he said.

The Iran war has cut off critical nitrogen fertilizer supplies from the Persian Gulf to the world’s farmers. More than 30% of world nitrogen fertilizer exports, as well as fertilizer components like sulfur, pass through the now effectively closed Strait of Hormuz.

Unlike China, most countries do not hold strategic reserves of fertilizer, and much of the U.S. fertilizer dealer system does not hold stocks, ​leaving it vulnerable to sudden ​supply shortages.

“It’s not like there’s ⁠a whole lot of fertilizer sitting on the shelf,” said Veronica Nigh, an economist at The Fertilizer Institute. “It’s very much a just-in-time business model.”

The length of time that the Strait of Hormuz is closed is ​critical. Fertilizer loaded onto ships in the gulf can take weeks to reach markets like the ​U.S., and then ⁠must be transferred to river barges, trucks or trains to reach farmland. Most fertilizer needs to be applied before the crop starts growing, so any supplies arriving too late cannot be used for the 2026 crop.

This week, the American Farm Bureau Federation warned that fertilizer supply shortages could hit ⁠the U.S. ​food supply.

On Thursday, Senator Josh Hawley asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether ​fertilizer companies were involved in price-gouging. Hawley noted that prices have soared as much as 32% since the start of the war and said this was not reasonable.

He also sent ​a letter to the largest fertilizer companies demanding they explain the price hikes.

($1 = 1.3720 Canadian dollars)

Reporting by Ed White; Editing by David Gregorio

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President Donald Trump is expected to remove Richard Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The move comes as the arts and culture institution, which now bears Trump name on its façade, is expected to close for two years for renovations as the president seeks to remold it in his image.

The announcement of Grenell’s departure could come as soon as today, two of the sources said.

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Grenell’s tenure as interim president of the Kennedy Center since February 2025 has been marked by tumult, plagued by high-profile performance cancellations, protests, declining ticket sales and financial strain as he sought to execute the president’s vision for the arts center.

Despite earlier warmth between Trump and Grenell, a longtime loyalist who has served in various roles across the president’s two terms in office, the president had become frustrated with a slew of negative headlines about his revamp of the arts institution, the sources said.

One source familiar with the White House view said that the president liked Grenell, but felt that he had fumbled when it came to his leadership of the Kennedy Center, including on managing the publicity.

A White House official insisted that Grenell wasn’t being fired but that he was always intended to help during the Kennedy Center’s transition period and then leave the role.

While leading the Kennedy Center, Grenell often bucked the trends of the arts world, defying traditions and stretching norms in place for decades, which critics contend has led to strain and brought irreparable harm to the institution.

Those who work with Grenell described him as combative, confrontational and headstrong. A source close to the Kennedy Center lamented that Grenell had no experience or grounding in the arts world and came in “with a sledgehammer” and “campaign schticks” that are moving the institution in the wrong direction.

But others contended that he was exactly the person to carry out Trump’s vision and that he brought a “no-nonsense mentality” to his work and brought in many new staff to the center.

In recent days, Trump has been “kind of is souring on him,” a source close to the Kennedy Center said.

“Ric worked really hard to keep in Trump’s good graces, but Trump got tired of turning on the news and hearing every day how bad the Kennedy Center was being run and (how) Trump is killing it,” the source said.

One of the sources familiar with the plans moving forward for the Kennedy Center also described Grenell’s departure as a transition, not a removal, noting that the arts institution is moving towards the building phase of its planned renovation, and that Grenell did want to be there during the construction.

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The suspect authorities say killed an ROTC instructor at Old Dominion University had previously been convicted of providing material support to ISIS but received a shorter prison sentence than federal prosecutors sought before his release in 2024, according to court records.

Mohamed Jalloh, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Sierra Leone, entered a classroom Thursday at the Norfolk school and opened fire after confirming it was an ROTC class, killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, authorities said. The FBI’s Norfolk Field Office said ROTC cadets physically subdued Jalloh and ended the attack, adding that their actions “rendered [him] no longer alive.”

“The horrific tragedy that occurred today on ODU’s campus never should have happened,” Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, R-Va., said.

Court records show Jalloh was arrested in 2016 for providing material support to ISIS.

Federal prosecutors sought a 20-year prison sentence, but Senior U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady sentenced him to 132 months — roughly 11 years.

According to prosecutors, a now-deceased ISIS member overseas arranged contact between Jalloh and an individual he believed to be a fellow supporter but who was actually an FBI confidential human source. Investigators said Jalloh also traveled to Nigeria as part of the plot.

The overseas terrorist wanted an attack carried out, while Jalloh told the FBI source he decided not to renew his enlistment with the Virginia Army National Guard after listening to lectures from al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico native against whom President Barack Obama ordered a fatal drone strike in 2011.

“The defendant was fully aware of what he was doing and the consequences of those actions. His only misgivings seemed to be a fear that he would waver at the critical moment,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum obtained by The Associated Press.

O’Grady later handed down an 11-year sentence that included mental health treatment and substance abuse testing, according to the wire service, and Jalloh was released in 2024.

Jalloh’s release also required he have no contact with any terrorist organizations and computer monitoring during probation.

“Jalloh was sentenced in 2017 to 132 months in prison for providing material support to ISIS. The [government] had asked for a sentence of 240 months, the statutory maximum,” former federal prosecutor William Shipley wrote on X.

“The Judge who imposed the reduced sentence was Senior Judge Liam O’Grady, in the Eastern District of Virginia, a GWB appointee. Judge O’Grady announced he was taking Senior Status in June 2020 — right in the heart of the start of COVID, meaning there was no chance that Pres[ident] Trump would be able to get his replacement confirmed.

“[Joe Biden] ended up nominating his replacement — Judge Patricia Giles.”

Giles, he said, controversially ruled in 2024 that Virginia had illegally purged noncitizens from the voter rolls too close to that year’s election and ordered their restoration.

Asked whether the spate of recent attacks shows a resurgence of ISIS threats to the homeland or if previously lax immigration policies have played a role, a spokesperson for National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent pointed to recent comments he made after the Iran mission began:

“As the Iran conflict continues to unfold, ODNI’s National Counterterrorism Center is engaged and operating at full capacity, 24/7. We are tracking developments in real time, assessing any potential risks to the homeland, identifying emerging threats and providing timely, actionable intelligence to the White House, law enforcement and interagency partners to detect and prevent attacks against the American people,” Kent said.

Kent said counterterrorism officials are “acutely aware” and focused on eliminating “persistent” threats posed by thousands of people with terror ties who “poured into our nation unchecked during four years of open borders under Biden.”

“Constant vigilance is a must. Stay aware of your surroundings, and if you see something suspicious, report it immediately to local law enforcement. Every one of us has a role to play in keeping this nation secure,” Kent said.

A DOJ spokesperson told Fox News Digital there are “no known or credible threats to the homeland” at this time and that federal agents are “maintaining a constant state of vigilance to keep Americans safe.”

Fox News Digital reached out to ODNI, the FBI and O’Grady for comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Military exercises in Alaska and Greenland test forces on operating in Arctic conditions

March 13, 2026 / 2:51 PM EDT / CBS News

U.S. forces this week wrapped up their participation in an annual Arctic training exercise that for the first time was held in both Alaska and Greenland. Arctic Edge, which began in 2018, includes training to respond to threats that Russia — and increasingly China — could pose to the U.S.

The portion in Greenland was coordinated with Denmark and involved both U.S. and Danish special forces. The long-planned exercise took place despite President Trump’s repeated threats this year to take control of Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark.

According to NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, which ran the exercise, Denmark hosted the U.S. in Greenland for training focused on operating in the Arctic. Every other year, Arctic Edge takes place in the winter and this year’s was the first in recent years to take place in the dead of winter.

File: A U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces (SOF) Airman navigates the ice sheet during a simulated search and rescue for ARCTIC EDGE 2026 (AE26) in Kangerlussaq, Greenland, March 7, 2026. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service

“Half of the battle in exercising in the wintertime in the Arctic is simply surviving,” Royal Canadian Air Force Lt. Gen. Iain Huddleston, the deputy commander of NORAD, told reporters earlier this week.

The overall lesson of the exercise is the military must prepare units for the Arctic before they get there, according to U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, who is the head of U.S. Alaska Command, the Alaskan NORAD region, and commander of the 11th Air Force.

During the training exercise, according to Davis, there are routinely aircraft that are damaged and require additional maintenance because of the lack of familiarity with practices unique to the extreme cold, like warming up hydraulic systems beforehand. Some service members try to open the window on an aircraft too soon, and the window cracks.

“Now you can’t use the aircraft until you replace the window — so, a couple of examples of just some of the practical challenges of not operating on a routine basis, and then all of a sudden coming up into the Arctic and having to do a little discovery learning,” Davis said.

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Huddleston and Davis said the exercise did not have a theoretical adversary but had portions to defend against weapons, like the cruise missiles that only certain countries, like Russia and China, could potentially use to threaten the U.S.

“We don’t have any intelligence that would suggest that we’re actually at risk of them launching cruise missiles against Alaska,” Davis said. “Nevertheless, we feel like we need to be adequately prepared to take the military capabilities that the U.S. government has given to us from a defensive perspective and make sure that we can put them together.”

A smaller weapon of increasing concern to the military is the drone. In the exercise, the military practiced responding to a drone incursion at Fort Greely in Alaska.

According to Davis, they tested scenarios including a single drone that might just be surveilling the installation as well as a small swarm of about six drones, to see if the different systems Fort Greely has were able to detect and communicate information to the Army soldiers.

“None of the drones were completely undetected,” Davis said, adding that there are multiple types of sensors and at least one of them detected each of the drone, and none of the systems were negatively impacted by the temperature, which can plummet to -40 degrees fahrenheit.

The U.S. forces did take down one drone, according to Davis, but used a counter-unmanned aerial system that throws a net over the drone and lowers it to the ground intact so the U.S can inspect it.

Because the counter-drone systems at Fort Greely are mostly electronics based and don’t necessarily require batteries, which can drain quickly in the cold, the temperatures “didn’t really affect them in a negative way, which is good,” Davis said.

He said the speed at which industry and commercial companies are modifying and changing drone technology makes it “really difficult” for the formal programs within the military to keep up. That’s a concern the Pentagon is confronting throughout the armed forces, not just in the Arctic.

The Trump administration says higher gas prices are a short-term pain for a long-term gain. Will voters agree? | CNN Politics

Published 2:07 PM EDT, Fri March 13, 2026 / CNN

CNN’s Dana Bash and the “Inside Politics” panel analyze a recent focus group of Biden-Trump voters in Michigan expressing confusion about the reasons for war with Iran and concern about rising gas prices. David Chalian says that Republican lawmakers are already anxious about the midterm fallout, telling Bash, “to find a way to get out of this quickly, declare some victory on objectives and start focusing the attention back on economic concerns is all I’m hearing of their desire right now.”

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