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Red state official touts readiness to unleash energy across US: ‘We have our own Greenland’
EXCLUSIVE: Alaska Department of Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum discussed President Trump’s key role in unleashing energy independence in the state while speaking to Fox News Digital and explaining that Alaskan resources are ready to be used if the push to acquire Greenland is unsuccessful.
Crum, speaking to Fox News Digital at the State Financial Officer Foundation conference in Orlando, Florida, explained that the «vast majority» of state government funds in Alaska come from developing natural resources, including mining and crude oil, and praised the Trump administration’s moves to reverse course from the Biden administration when it comes to that development.
«President Trump, you know our Governor Dunleavy has actually said he’s probably one of the best presidents for Alaska,» Crum said. «In his first term he did tremendous things for us and now in his second term, we were the only state that had an executive order directed at us and that was such a crucial thing, and it really improved our economic outlook within the state.»
On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order advancing the Ambler Access Project, a 211-mile industrial road through the Brooks Range foothills that enables commercial mining of copper, zinc and other materials in a remote Arctic area in Northwest Alaska.
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Fox News Digital spoke to Alaska Department of Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum, right, about energy production in his state. (Fox Digital/Getty)
Experts told Fox News Digital in February that the action, which reversed course from the Biden administration, will play a critical role in developing mineral resources in the state.
«We think that we are on the precipice in Alaska on an energy boom, when it comes to large-scale oil development, the natural gas line getting developed that the president really pushes very hard for, as well as all of these critical minerals that we need to get processed,» Crum said.
President Trump has vocally called for the United States to acquire Greenland for strategic purposes as well as due to its natural resources. Crum told Fox News Digital that Alaska is ready to step up when it comes to natural resources.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
«We do have our own Greenland. We have our Greenland that has a long history and track record of developing these resources in an area of the world that people would never have thought that it could be done responsibly,» Crum said. «We’ve processed oil for over 60 years on the Arctic Ocean, and we have done so while at the same time building an 800-mile crude oil pipeline that actually has seen the caribou numbers increase over time with that pipeline being built. And so Alaskans are conservationists by nature.»
«We are hunters, we are fishermen, our indigenous population are subsistence, they gather, but we are the ones who use the land. We also want to be able to develop the land, so we make sure we do it the correct way,» Crum continued. «In Alaska, we call it the Alaska standard. We don’t need outside groups telling us that we have to do it responsibly. This is what we demand of companies as they come up there. Come up, be profitable, be clean. Profit Alaska, let Alaskan’s have jobs and opportunities and also go enjoy the outdoors.»
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Aerial view of oil fields in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Prudhoe Bay on March 28. (Simon Bruty)
Ultimately, Crum told Fox News Digital that Alaskan energy independence will not only be good for the United States, but it will also help push back against dependence on countries that have been hostile to the country, including China.
«We also have antimony deposits, which is a rare thing because China is the vast producer and processor of antimony, which is needed for not only technology, but also like munitions and military, and so we’ve got very viable deposits within Alaska on these things,» Crum explained.
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India’s Modi gives army freedom to act as tensions rise with Pakistan after deadly terror attack

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is giving the armed forces near complete freedom of action to respond following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region on April 22 that saw 26 people killed by terrorists. India and Pakistan have exchanged fire every day since the attack along the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir.
The Times of India reported on Tuesday that Modi has given the military the operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets, and timing of the response to the attack in Kashmir.
PAKISTAN FEARS INDIA INCURSION ‘IMMINENT’ AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS FOLLOWING TERROR ATTACK
Kashmiri villager women walk past the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials all is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Monghama village in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Modi is set to convene another meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday to coordinate India’s next moves.
Modi recently said India will «identify, track and punish every terrorist, their handlers and their backers,» in a post on X. «We will pursue them to the ends of the earth,» Modi added.
India’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters that the country has mobilized its forces because retaliation is «something which is imminent now.»
The Resistance Front (TRF), an extremist group linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack in Pahalgam. Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and is known to have links with the Pakistani military and a partnership with Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Pakistan has denied any involvement in the attack.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Rajnath Singh, left, party President JP Nadda, right, and Amit Shah, at the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
The attack, which killed 26 people and was the worst terrorist attack on India since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has increased tensions on the Indian subcontinent between two nuclear-armed powers.
«An Indian military response is likely reflecting the more muscular foreign policy of the Modi government as noted by its actions following previous terrorist attacks,» Chietigj Bajpaee, senior research fellow for South Asia at Chatham House, told Fox News Digital.
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Bajpaee noted that a surgical strike or airstrike is the most likely form of retaliation, and the response will likely take a calibrated approach to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties and to control the escalation ladder in order to keep the conflict below the nuclear threshold.
«However, this is easier said than done given the possibility of accidental escalation» and a «broader tit-for-tat military escalation cannot be ruled out,» he warned.
Although there was limited outreach from Modi in the past, two rounds of escalation in 2016 and 2019 have soured relations.

Indian army officers stands guard near Pahalgam in south Kashmir after assailants indiscriminately opened fired at tourists visiting Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Sadanand Dhume, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital that Modi is facing pressure to mount a tough response.
«The Indian public is outraged by last week’s terrorist attack in Kashmir, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under immense pressure to respond to the atrocity by striking Pakistan, which has long sponsored attacks on India,» Dhume said.
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Already India has suspended the landmark 1960 Indus Water Treaty, a key water-sharing agreement covering rivers that overlap both countries. Pakistan’s Minister of State for Law and Justice told Reuters that Islamabad plans on challenging India’s suspension of the treaty and is raising the issue with the World Bank.
Pakistan said the impediment to the free flow of water would constitute an act of war.

Supporters of the Pakistan Murkazi Muslim League party protest against the suspension of water-sharing treaty by India with Pakistan, in Lahore, Pakistan on Thursday, April 24. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
The rivalry between India and Pakistan dates back to the partition of the former British colony of India in 1947, with the establishment of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. The partition plan also provided the contested regions of Jammu and Kashmir with the opportunity to choose if they wanted to join either newly established nation. Kashmir ultimately decided to join India in exchange for help against invading Pakistani militias, with India and Pakistan fighting three wars over the territory since 1947.
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Un nuevo artefacto permitirá identificar planetas escondidos: cómo funciona

A lo largo de la historia, la astronomía se ha dedicado a buscar nuevas formas de vida por fuera de la Tierra con distintos mecanismos, además de innumerables estudios para hallar cuerpos que aún no han sido reconocidos en el espacio. Ahora, un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad de Arizona creó un innovador coronógrafo, un artefacto que permitiría encontrar planetas ocultos que son invisibles para un telescopio común y corriente.
En simples palabras, este aparato logra bloquear la luz que irradia un objeto para poder ver otro que se encuentre atrás o más alejado, y que se encuentra tapado por la iluminación. En este caso, el estudio realizado por Nico Deshler agregó innovaciones para que pueda ayudar a la ciencia a descubrir la existencia de exoplanetas.
La Universidad de Arizona realizó una investigación, con Nico Deshler a la cabeza, que resultó en la creación de un nuevo coronógrafo que logra revelar la existencia de exoplanetas que son tan pequeños que se encuentran tapados por la luz de las estrellas que están cerca o por encima.
En conversación con la revista especializada llamada Optica, el jefe de este estudio explicó las razones de su creación y comentó que “los planetas similares a la Tierra en la zona habitable —la región alrededor de una estrella donde las temperaturas podrían permitir la existencia de agua líquida— pueden ser fácilmente hasta mil millones de veces más tenues que su estrella anfitriona”.

“Esto los hace difíciles de detectar porque su luz tenue queda opacada por el brillo de la estrella. Nuestro nuevo diseño de coronógrafo desvía la luz de la estrella que podría oscurecer la luz del exoplaneta antes de capturar una imagen”, comentó sobre las cualidades de su artefacto.
Además, Deshler diferenció su descubrimiento y explicó que “en comparación con otros diseños de coronógrafos, el nuestro promete proporcionar más información sobre los llamados exoplanetas subdifractivos, aquellos que se encuentran por debajo de los límites de resolución del telescopio. Esto podría permitirnos detectar potencialmente biofirmas y descubrir la presencia de vida entre las estrellas”.
Si bien el coronógrafo es un artefacto que inventó en el 1931 el científico Bernard Lyot, el creado por Nico Deshler en la Universidad de Arizona tiene algunas diferencias que lo hacen aún más útil para la detección de exoplanetas:
Mecanismo de eliminación de luz
- Coronógrafo tradicional: estos bloquean la luz proveniente de una estrella central mediante un disco oscuro o una máscara. Si bien son útiles para disminuir la luz de la estrella y mejorar la visibilidad de los exoplanetas cercanos a ella, tienen limitaciones cuando se trata de planetas que se encuentran muy cerca de la fuente lumínica, o cuando hay grandes diferencias de brillo
- Coronógrafo de Nico Deshler: utiliza una técnica avanzada de filtrado espacial, el cual funciona con un “ordenador de modos espaciales” para separar y eliminar la luz de la estrella basándose en patrones únicos de oscilación de luz, como si fueran diferentes frecuencias acústicas en un piano. Así, crea una imagen del exoplaneta de manera más precisa y permite detectar planetas aún cuando se encuentran por debajo del límite de resolución del telescopio

Capacidad de resolver exoplanetas cercanos
- Coronógrafo tradicional: tiene dificultades para detectar exoplanetas muy cercanos a su estrella, ya que no puede superar los límites de resolución del telescopio, especialmente si el contraste es demasiado grande
- Coronógrafo de Nico Deshler: puede detectar planetas sub-difracción, es decir, planetas cuya distancia a la estrella es tan pequeña que no podrían ser resueltos por un telescopio convencional
Captura de imágenes del exoplaneta
- Coronógrafo tradicional: se limita a medir la cantidad de luz que emite un exoplaneta sin proporcionar una imagen detallada de su posición o contexto en relación con la estrella
- Coronógrafo de Nico Deshler: genera imágenes completas, lo que proporciona un contexto visual y más información sobre la órbita y otros elementos como el polvo disperso cerca de la estrella.
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