BARKSDALE AFB, Louisiana, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news: * * * GT 254: 625 STOS uses ALCS, launches unarmed ICBM * BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. Photo Details / Download Hi-Res Airmen assigned to the 625 th Strategic Operations Squadron employed the Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) aboard a U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury to launch a test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Nov  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release: * * * Marketplace 2026 Open Enrollment Period Report: National Snapshot * The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that nearly 950,000 consumers who do not currently have health care coverage through plans in the individual market Marketplace have signed up for coverage in 2026, since the start of the Marketplace Open  more