{"id":462818,"date":"2026-02-11T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462818\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:20:07","slug":"us-reopens-airspace-over-el-paso-after-cartel-drone-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462818\/","title":{"rendered":"US reopens airspace over El Paso after &#8216;cartel drone incursion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Citing multiple sources close to the matter, CBS said the Pentagon had planned to test new military technology &#8211; reportedly a high-energy laser &#8211; to practice taking down drones near a military base next to the El Paso airport. Meetings to discuss the technology&#8217;s safety were scheduled with the FAA, but the defence department wanted to test it sooner, prompting the FAA to close the airspace, according to CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing multiple sources close to the matter, CBS said the Pentagon had planned to test new military technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-462818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}