After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling to catch up.

Pentagon officials had undertaken planning to use military technology near Fort Bliss, in El Paso, to practice downing drones.

The U.S. military shot down a suspected drone near El Paso; the object was later identified as a party balloon, reports say.

With a single invisible shot, Raytheon's Coyote Block 3 UAV zapped swarms of drones out of the sky in a US Army demonstration showing that a reusable drone with electromagnetic weapons is an economical alternative to explosive interceptors.

Amazon announced Feb. 9 that its Prime Air drone delivery service is now live in the Kansas City metro. The drones will be flying in from facilities adjacent to Amazon’s MKC6 fulfillment center, 6925 Riverview Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

Amazon is bringing drone delivery to Chicago’s south suburbs, with plans to launch its Prime Air service from its massive fulfillment centers in Markham and Matteson later this year. The company’s drone program would allow customers within roughly a seven-and-a-half mile radius to receive certain packages by air in as little as two hours .

Ukraine is still mourning Lana Chornohorska, a 26-year-old drone pilot beloved by many as a "catalyst" in art and cultural activism who never seemed to run out of energy. Chornohorska, who went by