ID ); $exclude_types = array( '' ); $exclude_types = apply_filters( 'eat_exclude_types', $exclude_types ); // do nothing if the post has already a featured image set if ( $already_has_thumb ) { return; } // do the job if the post is not from an excluded type if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $exclude_types ) ) { // get first attached image $img = rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ); $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $img ); if ( $attachment_id ) { // add attachment ID add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment_id, true ); } } } // set featured image before post is displayed (for old posts) add_action( 'the_post', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); // hooks added to set the thumbnail when publishing too add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); function rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ) { // Find the images in the post_content. $output = preg_match_all( '//i', $post->post_content, $matches ); $first_img = isset( $matches[1][0] ) ? $matches[1][0]:''; // if no images found, do nothing if ( empty ( $first_img ) ) { return false; } return $first_img; } } Around 3,000 More US Troops Deploying to Southern Border – BCI 24 News Network
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Around 3,000 More US Troops Deploying to Southern Border

1 March 2025 11:20 PM
BCI 24 News Network

Around 3,000 additional U.S. troops are set to deploy to the U.S. southern border in the next few weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s expanding border security mission.
In a statement on Saturday, the Pentagon said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered the deployment of elements of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team and a General Support Aviation Battalion to join U.S. troops already deployed along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Hegseth called up these troops at Trump’s direction “to reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States.”…