Just after midnight on Monday, July 30, 1945, the first Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS Indianapolis’s starboard bow. Then another. Within 12 minutes, the heavy cruiser sank — taking hundreds of its crew with it. Only 316 men of the original 1,195 were alive, making the sinking the greatest loss of life at sea in American military history. Among those 316 sailors was Seaman Second Class Harold Bray, who today is the last living survivor of that wartime catastrophe.On June 13, Bray’s 99th birthday, the Benicia Community Foundation, in partnership with the City of Benicia, California, honored the former…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics A 12-year-old Minnesota angler has officially one-upped her older sister by catching a bigger rainbow trout and taking her place in the record book.  Minnesota wildlife officials announced Thursday that Sadie Spatafore had set a new steelhead record, and they congratulated the young angler for replacing the catch-and-release record that her older sister Lucy had set last summer, in August. Sadie’s fish measured 30 inches long — just 1.5 inches longer than Lucy’s standing record rainbow. Both catch-and-release records fall short of the certified weight record,…

United States ruler Donald Trump appears to be the only one in power who thinks the Iran deal, scheduled to be signed in a special ceremony in Switzerland on Friday, was a good deal. Israel said that Trump screwed them, while US Congressman Seth Moulton says the deal is a “lose, lose, lose” for the US. Trump’s looming Iran peace deal looks like a “surrender document” to Moulton, a democrat. He said it fails to deliver anything America did not have before the war. The insinuation is that the war was started for no reason, and Americans were forced to pay…

A pilot safely ejected from an F/A-18 Hornet on Saturday after experiencing an aviation mishap 55 miles southeast of Seattle, Washington, according to the U.S. Marine Corps.The jet, assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, was conducting a routine training exercise when it crashed, the service confirmed.“The cause of the mishap is currently under investigation,” the Marine Corps said.The Yakima County Sheriff’s Office received calls around 12:15 p.m. involving a military plane that crashed into a mountain in the area of Rimrock Lake.A law enforcement officer responded to the scene and helped transport a pilot who’d ejected…

The United States and Iran have agreed on a roadmap that will allegedly lead to peace and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The rulers have agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending the conflict. The current war, which began on February 28th with a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign, has prompted Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz to most shipping. In response to that economically devastating move, the US initiated its own naval blockade. Tit for tat strikes have also been ongoing, even though a ceasefire was agreed to in April. U.S. Begins Blockade of…

The United States and Iran have reportedly agreed to terms to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, news that brought relief to markets — although the pact may hinge on an end to hostilities in Lebanon and defers talks on Tehran’s nuclear program.While still a framework, the deal marked the biggest breakthrough towards resolving the conflict that has killed thousands and upended energy markets since it began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February.“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at around…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “Jack O’Connor’s Last Hunt,” originally ran in the March 1988 issue of Outdoor Life. The whitetail buck was enormous, bigger than any I’d ever seen before. Though I’d hunted around the world many times, I’d never been as excited as I was at that moment. The buck’s rack was high and heavy, with at least 12 points on each side, and his brow tines were each easily one foot long. As an official Boone and…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “The Silent Hunter,” originally ran in the July 1967 issue of Outdoor Life. I was only nine or 10 years old when I acquired the best dog I’ve ever had. Tip was a Boston bull and German shepherd cross, but none of the hounds I have owned since could equal him at hunting cats. I started Tip as a pup on ground squirrels and rabbits, but he quickly showed a strong preference for house cats, and from that quarry…

United States President Donald Trump has claimed that he is expecting to sign the US-Iran peace deal today (Sunday, June 14th), opening the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels. The Pakistani prime minister has said that both sides have already agreed to the text of the agreement; however, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is still pushing back on some sticking points. Qatari negotiators made their way to Tehran this morning to help facilitate the finalization of the agreement. According to a diplomat with knowledge of Iran-U.S. diplomacy, as reported by CBS News, should both sides sign the deal as expected,…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  We have been warned for a long time that a nightmarish global food crisis was coming. We are facing an unprecedented fertilizer shortage, extremely high diesel prices, and long-term droughts in many of the most important food-producing regions of the world, and now a “Super El Niño” is in the forecast. So a lot of experts have been projecting that we would experience a very serious global food crisis beginning in the second half of this year, but the truth is that it is already here. In…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Terror in the Cassiars,” appeared in the April 1963 issue of Outdoor Life. John Baumgardner was saying to me, “You know, these grizzlies ain’t much. Back home, lots of people think they’re the top trophy of the whole business. It don’t make sense. I’ll hate to tell everybody I shot mine while it was eating grass like some nearsighted cow in a pasture.” John had something there, I had to admit. Earlier that day he’d killed his first grizzly.…

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