Sign up for The Gear Shakedown Hands-on gear tests for hardcore adventurers. Best Overall Nemo Switchback See It Warmest Exped Flexmat Plus See It Best Supplemental Gossamer Gear Thinlight Pad See It The best foam sleeping pads for backpacking are made of closed-cell foam, meaning they’re lightweight, waterproof, and best of all, can’t puncture. If inflatable pads have left you sleeping ground too many times, you’re trying to cut down ounces, or you just prefer a more stable, firm, and silent sleep system, foam sleeping pads are the answer. I slept on the best foam sleeping pads in the backcountry…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Email address Sign Up Thank you! By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Traeger makes some of the best pellet smokers and grills. Outdoor Life editors put a range of Traeger products to the test and our all-time favorite is the Ironwood, now $100 off for Amazon Prime Day. Woodridge Electric Wood Pellet Grill and Smoker is $100 off at $800 Woodridge Pro Electric Wood Pellet Grill and Smoker is $150 off at $1,000 Ironwood…

As of July 31, the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center will stop sharing satellite weather data with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a NOAA release. “This service change and termination will be permanent,” according to the NOAA release. Data gathered from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, or DMSP, all Near-Earth Space Weather instruments and other Defense Department-owned systems will cease to be provided to NOAA.The DMSP satellites capture global imagery from space twice a day, monitoring cloud formations, velocities, compositions and drifts, and provide NOAA with data and imagery. “Military weather forecasters [using the DMSP]…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › While Independence day is usually celebrated with fireworks and grilled meat, the Fourth of July is one of the best days to buy a new gun. Retail sites like Palmetto State Armory and Guns.com are offering tremendous discounts on firearms that can be ordered and shipped straight to your local FFL dealer. I’ve picked through these sites for some of the best deals on guns for hunting, recreational shooting, and personal protection. There’s everything from irresistible budget buys to high-end premium…

Israeli airstrikes killed Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, a top cardiologist and hospital director, alongside his family, intensifying Gaza’s healthcare collapse. More than 70 healthcare workers have been systematically targeted and killed by Israel in 50 days, with medics and hospitals repeatedly bombed. Global medical groups condemn the assassination as catastrophic, highlighting Israel’s deliberate strategy to dismantle Gaza’s healthcare system. Families of slain doctors endure unimaginable trauma, with survivors facing lifelong physical and psychological scars. Gaza’s civilians, including thousands of children, continue to die in designated “safe zones” as Israel faces accusations of genocide under international complicity. The Israeli military’s ruthless campaign…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, a Democrat, sparked a firestorm during Tuesday’s House Rules Committee hearing on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, accusing pro-life Republicans of caring only about children during infancy.Frost, who represents Orlando and is the first Gen Z member of Congress, was seated as a witness in the hearing when he described how gun violence shaped his decision to seek public office and made the remark that sparked the uproar.The situation heated up after ranking member James McGovern, D-Mass., said it “blows my mind there’s more passion and energy”…

Editor’s note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here.The U.S. Air Force dropped a dozen ground-penetrating bombs, each weighing 30,000 pounds (13,607 kilograms), in a raid on Iran’s nuclear site at Fordo on June 21, 2025. The attack was an attempt to reach the uranium enrichment facility buried deep inside a mountain. The target, President Donald Trump declared, was “completely and totally obliterated.”Others were less sure. On June 24, the administration canceled a classified intelligence briefing to members of Congress, leading to frustration among those with questions about White House…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Native habitat restoration doesn’t usually raise tempers, but it escalated into police reports and death threats this week thanks to what started as a well-intentioned PSA about land managmeent misinformation. Alabama-based Native Habitat Project founder and social media educator Kyle Lybarger posted a video to Instagram Monday warning people to avoid habitat restoration advice from alleged scammer and New York-based influencer Alexandra Fasulo. Lybarger has since deleted his video due to threats to his safety. In it, Lybarger warned his followers…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. If you’re OK with a slightly older model smart watch, you can save more than 40% on one of our favorites. The Garmin fēnix 7 Pro Sapphire Solar is a gps smart watch that does all the smart watch things (texts, heart rate, and calendar). But it also has features specifically meant for the outdoors. The key function is it can help…

Aerial combat has evolved from dogfights between high-speed, maneuverable fighters to duels among missile-armed aircraft at long range. In 2015, John Stillion presciently analyzed this transformation. His research demonstrated that victory no longer results from the fastest, most maneuverable fighter destroying an enemy in a dogfight. Instead, air combat today favors larger, less detectable aircraft using networked information to defeat adversaries with long-range missiles. This shift has ushered in a new regime of aerial combat where future air superiority aircraft may resemble bombers more than fighters. The Chinese J-36, J-50 and the multinational GCAP aircraft appear to embody Stillion’s principles.…

The House passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax, health care, immigration and defense spending law Thursday by a vote of 218-214, securing the first part of the Pentagon’s bank-shot defense budget this year. Among other provisions in the massive spending package, the bill contains $150 billion for the Defense Department, slated for priorities like shipbuilding, the Golden Dome homeland defense project and refilling America’s stores of precision weapons. That total includes $113 billion in mandatory funding for the military, which the Pentagon has said pushes its budget close to $1 trillion for the first time. In its long-delayed budget release…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. It’s not every day you see a black bear with two cubs riding piggyback across one of the biggest bodies of water in Massachusetts. But that’s exactly what angler Izzy Drost of Greenfield captured on video last week while fishing with his buddy, John LaQuire, on the Quabbin Reservoir. The pair spotted a sow black bear paddling hard through open water with a pair of young cubs clinging to her back. He caught the whole thing on video, and the Massachusetts…

The U.S. Navy failed to properly log new recruiting processes that helped the service reach its enlistment goals in fiscal 2024, according to a government watchdog report.The Navy Recruiting Command, or NRC, exceeded its objective of 40,600 recruits in 2024 by streamlining the medical waiver process and modernizing the operational recruitment process.But an improper chronicling of updates to these systems threatened to derail future successes, the Defense Department Office of Inspector General said.“Without documented guidance, the NRC does not have assurance that it can consistently meet future recruitment goals,” the report said.In 2024, the commander of the Navy Recruiting Command…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. A few years ago there was an incredible speed race in the crossbow market. It resulted in several crossbows that shot arrows above 515 fps, which meant you only had to account for 2 inches of drop between 20 and 50 yards. With those fast crossbows came high prices and maintenance costs since the strings didn’t last very long. Currently the market…

The United States has suspended military aid to Ukraine. As part of the Trump Administration’s “America first” policy, Washington’s envoy to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Matthew Whitaker, has told Fox Business that weapons shipments to Kiev will cease. The U.S. now has an insufficient supply of weapons since it got involved in the war with Russia and Ukraine, and says its goal is to put the U.S. slave class first. “This is what ‘America first’ looks like. We first have to take care about the United States’ needs,” Whitaker told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Pentagon needs…

U.S. pilots who carried out the mission to bomb key nuclear sites in Iran were invited to mark the Fourth of July at the White House on Friday, multiple news outlets reported.Pilots flew B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft and F-35 Lightning stealth strike fighters during the June 21 mission, in which 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs were dropped on underground uranium enrichment plants. Concurrently, a Navy nuclear-powered submarine launched over two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles into Iran, striking infrastructure sites in Isfahan.Pentagon officials said the operation involved more than 125 U.S. aircraft, and 14 American B-2 bomber…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Saying my mom was neurotic when I was a child is putting it lightly. I wasn’t allowed to swim for 30 minutes after eating. Whether I was on my bike, a skateboard, or rollerblades, there were pads on every joint of my body. And if I mentioned that I just got a bone while enjoying a fried flounder dinner — the only fish she’d ever buy — I’d hear, “Spit it out right now! Do NOT swallow it!”  This led me to believe that accidentally sending…

U.S. military strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear facilities in June likely set that program back by 1-2 years, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said Wednesday.“We’re thinking probably closer to two years — like degraded their program by two years,” said Sean Parnell in his first standalone briefing. Parnell’s assessment comes at a moment of confusion about the effect America’s massive airstrikes had on Iran’s nuclear program. The administration has repeatedly said that the attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, a characterization Parnell himself repeated Wednesday. But an early Defense Intelligence Agency review — first reported by CNN but later confirmed by…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics This story, “Big-Game Fishing’s Greatest Catch,” appeared in the April 1984 issue of Outdoor Life. Maxwell’s 1964 tiger shark remains tied for the all-tackle world-record (with a shark caught off the coast of Ulladulla, Australia in March 2004). All but two line-class records for tiger sharks — including Maxwell’s fish and another caught in Florida — are out of Australia. THE TIGER SHARK was four times heavier than the muscular stonemason who was bracing his 190-pound, six-foot body against the shark’s first run. His 16/0 big-game…

CHICAGO — Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes.Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure.“I want to let Reba know we’re part of the circle and part of the family,” he said.Mark Bailey was among dozens of attendees at an unusual funeral service with military…

The U.S. Navy will control a new national defense area established across 140 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.The new NDA will become an extension of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and be sited near the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. The announcement comes just days after the creation of another national defense area in Texas. In these zones, military personnel install barriers and signage, conduct patrols and stop and detain trespassers, who they transfer to the custody of law enforcement. The Barry M. Goldwater range is a remote bombing range encompassing an uninhabited…

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This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  Why are thousands of Walmart workers suddenly “vanishing” all over the nation? And why are vast numbers of agricultural workers suddenly no longer showing up for work? What I am about to share with you is extremely alarming. During the “open border years”, our economy became extremely dependent on very cheap migrant labor. Now that the border has been secured and mass deportations are occurring, major employers throughout the country are experiencing a case of severe whiplash. The open border policies of Joe Biden caused a tremendous…

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