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CEO fired over viral photo of family in 'Lake America' sweatshirts 👍 👍 👍​

The chief executive of a Michigan bank has lost her job after facing backlash for a social media photo of her family in sweatshirts that read “Lake America,” referencing Donald Trump’s relabeling of Lake Ontario.

Jane Smith from Family First Credit Union recently went viral after sharing the photo of her and three relatives wearing navy blue crewnecks with the words “Lake America” scrawled in white. The picture was snapped as her family left on September 11 for a 10-day trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, but Smith says the sweatshirts were edited onto their bodies using AI.


"We weren't trying to make a political statement," Smith told Michigan outlet WJRT. "However, we were kind of poking fun at the fact that one of the Great Lakes' names were getting changed."

Family First Credit Union announced Wednesday that Smith was no longer with the company and that Jason Acosta, the chief operations officer, would serve as interim CEO.

“We sincerely apologize for the concern, disappointment and pain this situation has caused our members and community,” the bank wrote on Facebook.
 



Elon Musk returns to Trump administration to co-lead Pentagon war study​


Musk, who in 2024 threw his support behind Trump and helped his return to the White House, served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he spearheaded sweeping job cuts across the US federal government.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump's government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the future of war.

Musk served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he oversaw sweeping job cuts across the US federal government, before departing in May 2025.

In a speech Wednesday at the Quantico military base, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said "Project Meridian" will be "an effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare." "We are leveraging a unique source of American advantage, one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders and our technologists", he added.

Musk will be a co-leader of Project Meridian alongside Palmer Luckey, the 34-year-old co founder of defence technology company Anduril Industries, and Newt Gingrich, the 83-year old Republican former House speaker.

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Musk returns to Trump administration to co-lead Pentagon war study

Musk, who in 2024 threw his support behind Trump and helped his return to the White House, served as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where he spearheaded sweeping job cuts across the US federal government.
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7 Oil Tankers Attacked In Strait Of Hormuz, As U.S. Official Admits Iran's Targeting Abilities Keep Improving

"Until Hormuz fully re-opens and confidence returns, the crude reality is ⁠that pressure at both ends of the barrel will intensify."
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7 Oil Tankers Attacked In Strait Of Hormuz, As U.S. Official Admits Iran's Targeting Abilities Keep Improving​


According to the WSJ, crude oil shipments had largely returned to prewar levels after a series of U.S. strikes took out Iran's radar and communications abilities along the strait. That lull in hostilities, combined with Gulf countries working overtime to find alternative routes that avoid the strait, briefly allowed oil exports to surge. But much like Georgia's suddenly lower gas prices, Iran losing its targeting capabilities was only temporary. Since September 28, UK Maritime Trade Operations data shows Iran has hit seven ships traveling through Hormuz, and it appears Iran struck an eighth ship on Sunday, as well. As the WSJ explained:

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy issued a warning to ships planning to use the U.S.-backed route through the strait on Saturday, saying that they would be targeted and destroyed. "Don't trust U.S. Navy and don't use south corridor at all and don't put your life in danger," a radio message transmitted on a public shipping channel and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal said.

The renewed attacks may already be taking a toll, with early signs that oil flows are beginning to slow, analysts say. Firm data comes with a lag, because many ships are operating without their transponders switched on to avoid becoming targets.
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Soldiers wounded in Iran say Pentagon made them fend for themselves​


In the early hours of President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran, Tehran targeted a makeshift tactical operations center in Kuwait, killing six U.S. military personnel and injuring more than 30 others. Not only did the Department of Defense fail to provide the personnel stationed there with the necessary tools to defend themselves, but multiple servicemembers who were injured in the attack say their government also neglected them in the aftermath.

The Associated Press spoke to a group of nine servicemembers who all claim that the U.S. military’s medical system failed them after they were injured in the deadly attack on March 1.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Arturo Lincón, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffered extensive injuries from shrapnel, including to his left vertebral artery, which put him at risk for a stroke. However, his injuries were not considered serious enough to get him admitted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Instead, he was dismissed to the Army barracks and instructed to schedule outpatient appointments.

“I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that,” Lincón told the AP. He underwent weeks of specialized outpatient care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. Months later, he is still struggling to receive Traumatic Injury benefits under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance.
 
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