'Most Divided' Fed In 32 Years Refuses To Cut Rates (Again)

Since the last FOMC meeting (on June 18th), stocks have soared and gold (and crude oil) have been sold while bonds and the dollar have trod water…

So, while expectations are for no rate-cut today, hints of future dovishness (in the statement as well as in Powell's presser) are a key focus as the potential for the first double-Governor-dissent since 1993 is on the cards…

So, what did The Fed actually do (and say)…

The Fed held rates flat (as expected):

*FED HOLDS BENCHMARK RATE IN 4.25%-4.5% TARGET RANGE

But see some weakness…

*FED: ECONOMIC GROWTH MODERATED IN FIRST HALF OF YEAR

It's a Double Dissent Day, dude!!

*FED GOVERNORS WALLER, BOWMAN DISSENTED IN FAVOR OF RATE CUT

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-1

Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business For The Military Industrial Complex

Multiple corporations across the western world are shamelessly profiteering from the mass slaughter in Gaza.

The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate.

The secret consortium appears to have been seeking practical ways to realise US President Donlad Trump’s “vision” of Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”: transforming the small coastal enclave into a playground for the rich and an enticing investment opportunity, once it can be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian population.

Meanwhile, the UK government has declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation – the first time in British history that a direct-action campaign group has been banned under Britain’s already draconian terrorism legislation.

Notably, the government of Keir Starmer took the decision to proscribe Palestine Action after lobbying from Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons maker whose factories in the UK have been targeted by Palestine Action for disruption. Elbit supplies Israel with killer drones and other weapons central to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

These revelations came to light as the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, published a report – titled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” – exposing Big Business’ extensive involvement in, and profits from, Israel’s crimes in Gaza.

In an interview with US journalist Chris Hedges, Albanese, an expert in international law, concluded: “The genocide in Gaza has not stopped, because it is lucrative. It’s profitable for far too many.”

Albanese lists dozens of major western companies that are deeply invested in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.

This is not a new development, as she notes. These firms have exploited business opportunities associated with Israel’s violent occupation of the Palestinian people’s lands for years, and in some cases decades.

The switch from Israel’s occupation of Gaza to its current genocide hasn’t threatened profits; it has enhanced them. Or as Albanese puts it: “The profits have increased as the economy of the occupation transformed into an economy of genocide.”

The special rapporteur has been a growing thorn in the side of Israel and its western sponsors over the past 21 months of slaughter in Gaza.

That explains why Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state, announced soon after her report was issued that he was imposing sanctions on Albanese for her efforts to shed light on the crimes of Israeli and US officials.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-industrial-complex/israels-genocide-is-big-business-for-the-military-industrial-complex

Rotherham Grooming Gang Victims Accuse Police of Rape, Sexual Blackmail, and Coverups

Multiple victims of predominantly Pakistani-Muslim child rape grooming gangs in Rotherham have claimed that they were also sexually abused and exploited by local police, some of whom also engaged in efforts to cover up for the grooming gangs.

Five female victims of the infamous grooming gangs in Rotherham have said that they were simultaneously being victimised by the very police who were supposed to protect them. The alleged abuses by the police are said to have occurred in the mid-1990s and the early 2000s against young girls, the BBC reports.

One such victim, whose name has been withheld, alleged that she was systematically sexually abused by hundreds of grooming gang members from the time she was just 11 years old in 1997. In a report to the police, she alleged that Police Constable Hassan Ali and another unnamed officer of the South Yorkshire Police also raped her in the back of a police car.

“The first time, he literally said: ‘You do it for the other officer. So you’re gonna do it for me,'” she said of her rape by Ali, who died as a result of a car crash in 2015 and thus avoided prosecution.

She described how the police officer would call on grooming gang members to threaten her if she refused his demands for sex, saying: “I would rather be raped once, or give one man oral sex, than to be taken somewhere where I know it’d be 15… 20 guys one after another. That was just easier.”

After becoming pregnant and being forced to have an illegal abortion, she said that social services and the police contacted her. However, she said that she felt “destroyed” after seeing that one of the officers sent to investigate her case was one of her abusers. She claimed that he later ripped up her statement to the police in front of her and that no further action was ever taken.

PC Ali died by being hit by a car on the very same day he had been placed on restricted duties due to an investigation into misconduct relating to the abuse scandal, and consequently was never arrested. Three other former officers were arrested last year on suspicion of rape and police misconduct. However, none have been charged so far.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/30/rotherham-grooming-gang-victims-accuse-police-of-rape-and-sexual-blackmail/

==Gaza starvation children

This isn't a 'war' — Israel is destroying a population==

Starvation is just one weapon if eradicating 'the enemy' is the Netanyahu government's ultimate objective

The prospects for negotiating a ceasefire and an end to the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip appear as dim as ever. Israeli and U.S. representatives walked out of talks with Hamas in Qatar that had been mediated by the Qataris and Egyptians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is talking about “alternative” means of achieving Israel’s goals in the territory.

President Donald Trump, echoing Netanyahu’s levying of blame on Hamas, asserted that “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die.” Trump went on to mention a need to “finish the job,” evidently referring to Israel’s continued devastating assault on the Strip and its residents.

I have been thinking for a long time about the negotiation of ceasefires. Nearly 50 years ago, I wrote a book, “Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process,” which explored the diplomatic and military dynamics of how two belligerents negotiate a peace while simultaneously fighting a war.

What is taking place in Gaza now is mostly not a war, even though that term commonly is applied to the violence there. It is instead a largely unilateral assault on a population and its means of living. It is a situation in which one side, Israel, has — as Trump might put it — nearly all the cards.

The news stories emerging almost daily from Gaza are not about pitched battles between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas fighters. They are mostly not about battles at all. Instead, they are about the latest large-scale killing by Israel of Gazans, mostly civilians, at a rate that has averaged about 150 deaths per day since the current round of carnage began in late 2023. Civilians are killed largely with airstrikes but also more recently through getting shot while seeking ever-scarcer food.

Mass starvation has become perhaps the most gut-wrenching part of the Gaza catastrophe, and one where Israel has again tried to shift blame onto Hamas. A longtime Israeli accusation in endeavoring to shut down the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)—the principal international organization with the mission of aiding Palestinian refugees, including in Gaza—is that Hamas supposedly was stealing UNRWA-supplied food. Trump has echoed that accusation.

A study by the U.S. Agency for International Development (before the Trump administration dismantled the agency) of reported incidents of loss or theft of U.S.-supplied humanitarian assistance in Gaza found no evidence that Hamas has engaged in widespread diversion of aid. More recent press reporting shows that the IDF itself has found no evidence of Hamas seizing or diverting aid.

Israel’s opposition to UNRWA has nothing to do with Hamas or with theft of humanitarian aid. It instead concerns how UNRWA — because it is a United Nations agency explicitly focused on Palestinians — constitutes an international recognition that the Palestinians are a nation and that many of them are refugees from their homeland.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hamas-israel-starvation/

https://www.antiwar.com/

Ethnic cleansing

Abolishing the First Amendment

I testified at the New Jersey state capital in Trenton last week against Bill A3558, which would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

“This is a dangerous assault on free speech by seeking to criminalize legitimate criticism of Israeli policies,” I said. “The Trump administration’s campaign to ostensibly root out antisemitism on college campuses is clearly a trope to shut down free speech and deport non-citizens, even if they are here legally. This bill falsely conflates ethnicity with a political state. And let’s be clear, the brunt of repression on college campuses is directed against students and faculty who oppose the genocide in Gaza, 3,000 of whom were arrested and hundreds of whom were censored, suspended or expelled. Many of these students are Jewish. What about their rights? What about their constitutional protections?”

“I have had numerous relationships with Israeli journalists and political leaders,” I went on. “I knew, for example, former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin who negotiated the Oslo peace agreement. Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli ultranationalist who opposed the peace accord. Rabin stated bluntly on numerous occasions that the occupation was harmful to Israel. Israeli colleagues frequently criticize Israeli policies in the Israeli press in language that would be defined as antisemitic by this bill.”

“For example,” I continued, “the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, who served in the Israeli army and writes for the newspaper Haaretz, has called for sanctions to be imposed on Israel to stop the slaughter in Gaza, saying ‘Do to Israel what you did to South Africa.’”

“Omer Bartov, who served as an Israeli company commander in the 1973 war, is Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University,” I said. “He stated in an article on July 15 in The New York Times that his ‘inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.’”

“These kinds of statements, and many more I can quote from Israeli colleagues and friends, would see them under this bill criminalized as antisemites,” I added.

Committee chairman Robert Karabinchak, a Democrat, muted my microphone, banged his hammer for me to stop and allowed gaggles of Zionists, who openly harassed and insulted Muslims in the room, to jeer and shout me down.

There I was arguing that this bill would curtail my free speech, at the same time I was being denied free speech.

https://youtu.be/ky5811p43-I

AI pretends to be pastors to dismantle religion and push sinister new beliefs

AI pretends to be pastors. It is happening now. No soul behind the voice. Just code. Faith used to come from people. Now it is from machines. Slowly they break down beliefs. Then fill the empty space with some AI god. Sounds creepy but it is real. Watch the video if you want proof.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/ai-pretends-to-be-pastors-to-dismantle-religion-and-push-sinister-new-beliefs/

New Russiagate release: Russia held damaging info on Hillary

https://youtu.be/XDrc-HM0boM

Knesset Speaker Ohana: 'If you want a Palestinian state, build it in London or Paris'

During his speech, Ohana also pulled out a tablet showing a video from Iran's parliament in June during which members shouted "Death to Israel, Death to America."

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana denounced plans to recognize a Palestinian state during his speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva on Wednesday.

“If you want a Palestinian state, build it in London or Paris,” Ohana told the participants, referring to recent statements by both British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron on their plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September.

Representatives from Iran, Yemen, and the Palestinian Authority left the hall in protest during Ohana’s speech. The representatives were seen exiting the hall directly under the podium as Ohana spoke.

While speaking, the Knesset speaker showed the participants a video on his tablet of Iran’s parliament members shouting, “Death to Israel, death to America,” during an Iranian parliament meeting in June after a law was passed to sever ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-862745

This Israeli Mother Has Made it Her Mission To Block Aid to Starving Babies in Gaza

A year ago, correspondent Inigo Gilmore traveled to Israel to report on how Israelis perceive the country’s war on Gaza in Zeteo’s original documentary ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’. What he documented remains true today as Israel continues to block aid into Gaza while its population starves, as seen in this video.

https://youtu.be/3YmHUi8TdNc

Jewish Congressman DELIGHTS In Gaza Starvation

Congressman Randy Fine told Palestinians suffering from lack of humanitarian aid to "starve away." Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

https://youtu.be/0j-lrhCTxDc

Ofcom threatens American company ‘Rumble’ with censorship

https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1949846824237379809

🚨HUGE: Barry Gardiner admits the Online Safety Act is not just about children, it's also to censor and monitor adults.

Labour are lying to the ENTIRE country.

This is truly dystopian.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1949927197310894442

The UK is at war with it's own people and is backing the invasion army they imported

UK launches elite police unit to monitor anti-migrant posts

The Online Safety Act doesn’t ban criticism of illegal immigration It reclassifies unlawful immigration as “priority illegal content,” That’s not a label, It’s a trigger

Platforms must assess risk levels for 17 categories of illegal content, Unlawful immigration is one of them, That means anything algorithmically adjacent, protest footage, satire, policy critique, gets flagged, Not because it’s illegal, Because it’s risky

Ofcom’s guidance requires platforms to assign risk levels, Even neutral discussion can be flagged if it’s linked to unlawful immigration, The result, preemptive moderation, Content blocked before it’s even published

A new police unit called National Internet Intelligence Investigations was quietly formed under the Home Office, It operates from the same facility that enforced pandemic lockdowns, Same tactics, New target

British users on X report automated blocks on protest footage, Message says, “Due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age,” That’s not age verification, That’s geo-fencing dissent

Civil liberties groups say the Act enables algorithmic censorship, Free Speech Union says platforms are suppressing content before it’s posted, The penalties are steep, Up to £18 million or 10 percent of global revenue

https://citizenwatchreport.com/uk-launches-elite-police-unit-to-monitor-anti-migrant-posts/

James Woods: If these people are not indicted, this country is done.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1950069512100778440

Trump admin blocks investigation into Epstein money trail

A four-year congressional investigation into the assets of millionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been stalled indefinitely by the Trump administration, which has revoked access to sensitive documents that had been granted under former President Joe Biden.

The US Senate Finance Committee began its inspection of Epstein’s financial history in 2022, when ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) discovered Wall Street executive and Trump ally Leon Black vastly overpaid Epstein for tax and estate planning services. Further digging revealed that Black had reached a $65 million settlement agreement in 2023 with the US Virgin Islands — home to Epstein’s infamous enclave — in exchange for immunity from an Epstein-related prosecution. Immunity was granted despite prosecutors’ conclusion that “Epstein used the money Black paid him to partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.”

“Over the course of the ongoing Finance Committee investigation, my staff have uncovered new evidence, including through review of federal government records, indicating that money paid by Black to Epstein was used to finance Epstein’s sex trafficking operations,” Wyden said. “Major US financial institution failed to do legally required due diligence on the payments.”

JP Morgan Chase settled lawsuits similar to Black’s in 2023 with the US Virgin Islands and Epstein’s alleged victims, where the bank paid over $350 million and admitted no wrongdoing in its failure to disclose 15 years' worth of suspicious activity by its client until after Epstein was arrested.

Based on the committee’s findings, the Biden Administration in 2024 granted investigators access to suspicious activity reports held by the US Treasury that were filed confidentially in 2019 by Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan Chase. Due to the sensitive nature of the reports, committee staffers were prohibited from taking them from the Treasury or making any copies, but they were allowed to write down notes on what they found.

https://www.beltway.news/p/trump-admin-blocks-investigation

Palantir is the $375 billion spy empire tracking your every move

Palantir is now worth $374.75 billion. Bigger than Home Depot. Procter & Gamble. Bank of America. Coca-Cola. But it only brings in $3.1 billion annually. That’s a 120x price-to-sales ratio. Not driven by product. Driven by surveillance.

In Q2 2025, Palantir’s government contracts surged 45 percent. The spike wasn’t military. It was federal civilian. IRS signed for a searchable taxpayer database. ICE paid $30 million for a deportation tracking system. CIA linked Palantir into biometric scans, intercepted calls, and utility data. DOJ fed it court filings. USPS is testing predictive mail routing.

Gotham and Foundry ingest everything. Surveillance feeds. License plates. Bank records. Health files. Social media. Visa logs. Then they predict. Patterns. Risk scores. Behavior forecasts. Target flags.

Hospitals use it to predict patient outcomes. F1 teams use it to win races. Citibank replaced whole analyst teams with Palantir models. JPMorgan uses it for internal threat detection. Hedge funds detect market irregularities before they register.

The Department of Government Efficiency is pushing full system interoperability. IRS tax data. Social Security files. Immigration records. Palantir is the unified layer. Elon Musk oversees the merger. Internal memos say the firm is building a master database. Former staff say they were told to stop asking questions.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/palantir/marketcap/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-joins-u-corporate-giants-193337664.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-palantir-ai-giant-dominance.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-ocasio-cortez-demand-answers-from-palantir-about-plans-to-build-irs-mega-database-of-american-citizens

https://thedebrief.org/tech-firm-palantirs-government-work-on-data-collection-sparks-new-privacy-fears/

Shameful Tammy Bruce Lying Her Ass Off Spreads The Bogus Pathetic Oct 7th Baby in Microwave Story LIE

https://www.bitchute.com/video/2KqvHkes50a7

Israeli minister boasts of Gaza Final Solution

https://youtu.be/G5LEk0es6N0

Facebook AI tried to get my boss to punish me

Facebook’s AI flagged a user’s COVID post and triggered a message to their boss, prompting a workplace “morality” check. No human reviewed it. Just automated enforcement pushing into employment territory. This is about a system designed to pressure speech through employer intervention, with zero accountability. That Facebook built this quietly and deployed it like standard practice is the part no one voted on.

https://x.com/Smokahontas2024/status/1949850264178929883

The Graphite Controversy: Inside Israel’s Global Spyware Empire

In 2024, WhatsApp exposed a cyberattack targeting 90 journalists and activists using zero-click spyware from Israeli firm Paragon Solutions, co-founded by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The spyware, named Graphite, granted full access to victims’ phones without any user interaction. While Paragon claims to work only with democratic governments, the identity behind the attack remains unknown. The breach has sparked concerns about messaging app vulnerabilities and calls for stronger cyber defenses and scrutiny of past political assassinations potentially linked to digital surveillance.

Introduction

In March 2024 WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, announced that 90 journalists and members of the public who use the popular messaging app had been targeted by spyware developed by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli company specializing in hacking tools. These journalists and civil society members were notified about the possible compromise of their devices’ security. It remains unclear who was behind the attack. Like other spyware vendors, Paragon’s hacking software is used by government clients, and WhatsApp stated it had been unable to identify which clients ordered the alleged attacks.

Experts have reported that the attack was of the zero-click type, meaning the targets did not need to click any malicious link for their devices to be infected. WhatsApp has declined to disclose the locations of the affected journalists and civil society members, including whether any of them were based in the United States. Three of the hacking victims were Italian journalists.

According to reports in The Guardian and Haaretz, Paragon has since severed ties with its clients in Italy, which reportedly included an intelligence agency and a law enforcement organization. Paragon exclusively works with governmental entities. The company’s flagship product, called Graphite, allows users full access to a target’s phone. Paragon claims that the software is intended for criminal investigations. The company is seen as a competitor to the NSO Group, maker of the Pegasus spyware.

Additionally, Israeli media have reported rumors of Paragon being sold to a U.S. company, which were recently denied by Israel’s Defense Minister following Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

More

https://southfront.press/the-graphite-controversy-inside-israels-global-spyware-empire/

The Report Netanyahu Never Wanted You to Read Just Dropped

Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of his rancid far right coalition should be finished by this report, because there's no coming back from it.

Right, so two of Israel’s most established and respected human rights organisations — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel (PHRI) — have just made history, having now crossed a line that decades of war, occupation, and international condemnation had never forced them to cross before. In separate but mutually reinforcing reports, these organisations have now formally accused their own government of committing genocide in Gaza. Not war crimes. Not disproportionate force. Genocide. The word that carries the moral weight of the H*locaust itself with all the gravity for the self proclaimed Jewish state that that carries. The word that Israel was built to prevent — now turned inward on itself.

https://youtu.be/p3Mvl4cQObo

The Shocking Link Between Central Banks and Mass Death - Finally Explained

https://twitter.com/i/status/1950209704606523815

WAR PHASE OF THIS FOURTH TURNING HAS ARRIVED

As I observe the seemingly endless narratives of ongoing and future wars, traitorous machinations of Deep State snakes, curious “assassination” plots, BBB legislation designed to set the stage for financial Armageddon, and the coverup of a global pedophile network implicating the ruling elite, I can’t help but be reminded of Shakespeare’s assertion the world is a stage and we are all merely bit players in this tragedy disguised as a comedy. Based on what I’ve witnessed over the last several months, I would change the line to “the world is staged”. This really came into focus during the Israel – Iran dustup several weeks ago. The entire episode had a theatrical vibe to it, with Israel assassinating key military leaders and the top nuclear scientists of Iran, while both sides launched missiles at each other for a week or so.

What passes for war these days is now missiles and drones lighting up the sky for TV cameras while inflicting relatively moderate damage and few casualties. Only Putin seems to understand wars are won on the ground, with armies destroying the enemy in brutal bloody combat. Israel appears to have been tasked with lighting the fuse on this Fourth Turning powder-keg of religious hate, neo-con retribution, globalist new world order schemes, Deep State machinations, and an empire of debt, delusion, and degradation in its death throes.

Did Trump know Netanyahu was going to launch a surprise attack on Iran, knowing he lacked the firepower to eliminate their underground nuclear facilities? Or was Trump fully onboard with the plan to distract Iran with fake negotiations, so they would let their guard down? In either case, Netanyahu is calling the shots and Trump has been doing his bidding. Trump, the self-proclaimed peace president, has misled those of us who believed he wanted to end the Ukraine and Middle East conflicts.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/07/30/war-phase-of-this-fourth-turning-has-arrived/

Former Melbourne Storm player Tye Alroe dies suddenly at a Gold Coast gym

Former Melbourne Storm player Tye Alroe has died while exercising inside a gym on the Gold Coast.

A Gold Coast developer and former Melbourne Storm player has died suddenly at a Burleigh Heads gym.

The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Tye Alroe, 39, was exercising at Forever Fitness Gym on Tuesday when he suffered a heart attack and could not be revived.

Mr Alroe is survived by his partner Nikki, daughter Poppy, his parents Vicki and John, and sister Courtney.

The developer had a brief stint with the Melbourne Storm in 2002, but never made his NRL debut, instead chasing his passion for building and construction.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/former-melbourne-storm-player-tye-alroe-dies-suddenly-at-a-gold-coast-gym/news-story/ed964422372e24b065fe77a1bd50c389

Navy Still Searching for Sailor Who Went Overboard During Exercise Near Australia

The Navy was still searching Wednesday morning local time for a sailor assigned to an aircraft carrier whom officials believe went overboard earlier this week north of mainland Australia.

The sailor, assigned to the USS George Washington, was reported missing on Monday afternoon local time, and the Navy immediately launched a search effort in the Timor Sea where the ship was operating, a spokesperson for the carrier told Military.com in an emailed statement.

The Navy has not identified the name of the sailor, citing service policy. The spokesperson, Lt. Cmdr. Mark Langford, said that the circumstances surrounding the overboard incident were under investigation.

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"Our priority is the safety and well-being of our sailors," Langford said. "Currently, all efforts are to locate the missing sailor."

He noted that the weather conditions were clear and water temperatures hovered around 78 degrees when the sailor was reported overboard. The sailor has been missing for more than 48 hours.

However, it is unclear from the Navy's statements how much time passed between when the sailor actually went overboard and when he was noticed missing – a critical detail in determining the likelihood of being recovered.

The Navy trains crews to quickly spot sailors who go overboard, as an immediate response from the ship offers them the best chance of survival – though even then that's not a guarantee.

In some cases, however, sailors are determined to have gone overboard only after they haven't been seen by their shipmates for many hours.

The reasons behind most sailor overboard incidents, which unfortunately occur with some regularity, typically remain undisclosed.

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Robert Smalls, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Shoup, and various fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters joined the carrier in the search for the missing sailor starting on Monday.

The Royal Australian Air Force also contributed a P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, and the Royal Australian Border Force sent multiple vessels to aid in the search effort, which were "focused in the vicinity of the ship's operating area," Langford said.

The George Washington Carrier Strike Group was operating in the Timor Sea, part of the Indian Ocean between the island of Timor and Australia, as part of an exercise known as Talisman Sabre 2025.

The exercise is the largest for Australia and has been conducted biennially since 2005.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/30/navy-still-searching-sailor-who-went-overboard-during-exercise-near-australia.html