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Five federal agencies warned Dallas drone operators on Sept. 8 that flying inside the RNC Midterm Convention's 3-mile, 400-foot TFR risks $75,000 civil fines, criminal prosecution, and interception by Secret Service counter-drone aircraft.
Read the story →The FBI is asking OMB to approve a revised paperwork requirement for local police running counter-drone operations under the SAFER SKIES Act, with public comment open through November 2.
A CNN investigation details how Army, FBI, DHS and Pentagon teams used electronic warfare to force down a drone that probed White Sands Missile Range for five days, leading to the detention of Chinese nationals in a rented RV.
A side-by-side comparison of the five ways drones are actually defeated today — kinetic interceptors, RF/GPS jamming, high-power microwave, directed-energy lasers, and net-capture systems — with range, cost per engagement, tradeoffs, and who's legally allowed to use each under SAFER SKIES.
A new Interim Final Rule, effective July 1 and published July 6, 2026, lets trained state, local, Tribal and territorial agencies detect, track, disable or seize drones — backed by FCC spectrum actions and a mandatory FBI training course at Redstone Arsenal.
A federal grand jury in Ohio indicted eight men on terrorism and murder-conspiracy charges over an alleged plot to fly explosive-laden drones into the White House UFC Freedom 250 event and shoot fleeing spectators.
TSA says federal and local agencies have confiscated over 600 illegal drones near FIFA World Cup 2026 stadiums since June 11 — double the total reported just two weeks earlier — with Kansas City, Seattle and San Francisco leading the tally.
A DOJ/DHS interim final rule effective July 1 lets state, local, tribal, territorial and correctional agencies detect, track and shoot down drones — but only after FBI certification, which is also the gate to a $500M grant pool.
For America 250, the National Mall fireworks earned National Special Security Event status for the first time — putting Secret Service counter-drone teams, the FBI, and the National Guard over 150,000 people inside an airspace that has been off-limits for half a century.
Multi-agency federal operations across 8 U.S. host cities logged 145 drone incursions and seized 39 aircraft in the first six days of FIFA World Cup 2026, with criminal charges — including an illegal-reentry case in Atlanta — marking early serious enforcement outcomes.
For 17 consecutive nights in December 2023, unidentified drone swarms penetrated restricted airspace over Joint Base Langley-Eustis, forcing the relocation of F-22 Raptors — while the military's C-UAS authorities and tools proved wholly inadequate to respond.
In late 2024, weeks of nightly drone sightings across New Jersey and the Northeast triggered a federal investigation, thousands of public tips, and emergency airspace restrictions—before a four-agency joint statement concluded most reports were misidentified manned aircraft, with no foreign nexus and no national security threat.
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