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On the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is honoring its forefathers as it prepares to face off against the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday.In its 10th season collaborating with Nike, the Army football program alongside the U.S. Military Academy’s Department of History and War Studies have unveiled its latest specialty uniform, 1775, for the Army-Navy game.The uniform, from helmet to cleats, features details reflecting the history and traditions that have been the hallmark of the service for 250 years.To celebrate the Army’s birth, the service academy is traveling back to 1775 to honor the…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional leaders Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors, even as he faced intensifying demands from Congress for disclosure.Hegseth provided a classified briefing for congressional leaders alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top national security officials. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said that when he asked the defense secretary whether he would allow every member of Congress to view the video of the attack from September, Hegseth’s response was: “We have to study it.”But lawmakers are…

The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.Public flight tracking websites showed a pair of U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jets fly over the Gulf — a body of water bounded by Venezuela and only about 150 miles at its widest point — and spend more than 30 minutes flying over water. A U.S. defense official confirmed that a pair of jets conducted a “routine training flight”…

The U.S. Navy has activated its first information warfare squadron in an effort to leverage intelligence and cyber expertise for carrier strike group commanders. Dubbed Information Warfare Squadron Two, it is one of two squadrons approved to be set up within a 48-month pilot program approved by the service in June, which will see information squadrons formed on the east and west coasts and evaluate their performance to enhance doctrine, according to a service release. Intended to streamline intelligence and analysis, these squadrons will consist of staff with expertise in information warfare drawn from various naval commands.IWRON Two is commanded…

This article was originally published by Willow Tohi at Natural News.  A CDC advisory panel voted to end the universal recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. For infants born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis B, the decision is now one of “individual-based decision-making” between parents and doctors. The change follows scrutiny of the vaccine’s necessity for low-risk infants and criticism of its original safety trials, which lasted only days. The policy had been in place since 1991, despite hepatitis B primarily being a risk for adults through specific behaviors or…

The U.S. Air Force is turning to artificial intelligence to boost its wargames.The Air Force wants a cloud-based, AI-powered “digital sandbox” as a hub to generate and run wargames at speeds of up 10,000 times faster than real time, according to a recent request for information.The WarMatrix system aims to remedy some of the problems that have hampered defense wargaming for years, such as cumbersome, labor-intensive simulations. “Currently, the DAF [Department of the Air Force] faces challenges including the inability to answer critical questions about capabilities, Courses of Action (COA) analysis, or costing, due to a reliance on disconnected, outdated,…

The U.S. Naval Academy’s uniform for Saturday’s Army-Navy game pay homage to the U.S. Navy’s original six frigates from the service’s 250-year history.The Under Armour-made football jerseys and helmets include elements that honor the USS Chesapeake, USS Congress, USS Constellation, USS President, USS United States and USS Constitution, the only remaining frigate of them all and the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat.The font for the jersey’s wordmark and numbers are inspired by the “Act to Provide Naval Armament” document that authorized the invention of the first fleet.The U.S. Naval Academy’s helmet for this year’s Army-Navy game features an image…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. We take our gun testing seriously at Outdoor Life. Each year we collect the new rifle, shotgun, and handgun introductions, assemble a team of shooters, and then put each gun through a detailed testing protocol. We fire thousands and thousands of rounds during these week-long range testing sessions. When the dust settles, we fill out score sheets for subjective criteria, and all the guns are panel scored so no one person’s opinion can sink or elevate a gun. This year we’ve compiled our 11…

Vice President JD Vance said that mass immigration to the United States is ruining the American Dream. Instead of blaming the horrific inflation and cost of living increases that are currently impoverishing millions of Americans, Vance is blaming those who want to immigrate and live under such an economically oppressive system. Vance has consistently complained that mass immigration is the cause of rising prices, and it is making housing unaffordable. “A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants,” he told Fox News last month.…

The Defense Department on Tuesday launched a major push to get military personnel, civilian employees and contractors to use generative artificial intelligence capabilities, located on its own website.Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government is the first AI capability to be launched on GenAI.mil, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video posted on social media Tuesday.“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled AI,” Hegseth said in the video. “This platform [GenAI.mil] puts the world’s most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior,” he said.Users must have a common access…

The U.S. Navy last week released a redacted version of its report on the USS Harry S. Truman’s Feb. 12 collision with a merchant vessel.The public version of the March 19 report, now on the Navy’s Freedom of Information Act Reading Room site, identifies errors it says led to the collision and makes recommendations for how they might be avoided in the future.Vice Adm. Jeffrey T. Anderson, commander of U.S. 6th Fleet, began the investigation Feb. 15, three days after the Truman collided with the Besiktas-M near Port Said, Egypt.“Though no lives were lost in this incident,” the report says…

Banks are closing branches at an astonishing rate. Banks in the United States have shuttered 439 branches in the third quarter alone, the S&P Global data show. That was up from 199 in the prior quarter. Accoridng to a report by American Banker, this also marked the highest quarterly level of net closings since the first quarter of 2022, when banks turned out the lights on 960 locations. The latest quarterly decline extended a 15-year trend. In 2009, there were nearly 100,000 branches in the U.S. But this trend isn’t necessarily an indication of anything being wrong. Some analysts say…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Darby, a two-year-old English Pointer, is stitched up and recovering after taking a broadhead-tipped arrow through her armpit while chasing birds Saturday. The injury happened north of WaKeeney, Kansas, where Rusty Ullery was hunting a public walk-in area with Darby. They were joined by Ullery’s son, two friends, and a few other bird dogs, and the group started walking after sunrise. They were thirty minutes into working a draw on some CRP land, and they’d already flushed a half dozen pheasants,…

A package of investigations released this week about the carrier Harry S. Truman’s loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and collision with a merchant vessel in four separate mishaps on its last deployment to the Middle East is raising grave concerns about training gaps and sailors’ lack of focus and professionalism when fulfilling their duties. Among the culprits, according to the investigations, were fatigue, stress amid an intense tempo of combat operations, undermanning and unit cultures that stressed a get-it-done mentality rather than ensuring competency or bandwidth for certain tasks. But buried in one of the reports is another concern:…

While Donald Trump focuses on the alleged “narco terrorists” in Venezuela and skirts the line between a war, bigger issues could be brewing. We already know how the Trump administration feels about immigration, but a war with Venezuela will only expand that issue, likely creating millions of refugees. Trump has blamed Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro for much of the migration to the United States, but escalations continue and could make this sticking point worse. As the Trump administration continues its strikes on alleged drug vessels at sea, the president has threatened that attacks against drug cartels on land in Venezuela would begin “very…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The biggest catfish I’ve ever seen in person weighed 52 pounds. I didn’t get to reel it in, sadly, but was awestruck nonetheless by this blue cat. A friend and I were fishing with a charter captain on the James River in Virginia, which is renowned for its trophy cat fishery, so it was no shock that we’d encounter a blue of that caliber. What struck me was the setting and time of year. It was January and so bitter cold that the water, fish slime,…

Donald Trump has revealed phase two of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which has already been violated. Trump’s goal is to announce the plans he’s concocted before Christmas. One of the proposals will be the creation of an international “Board of Peace,” and interim Palestinian governance, but Hamas and Israel remain skeptical. What’s interesting about the “Board of Peace” is that Trump seems more interested in keeping Israel and Hamas from fighting than he is in making peace in the United States. After all, he renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War. While accurate, the renaming is telling.…

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This article was originally published by G. Calder at The Exposé. Children as young as three are scrolling social media feeds built for adults. New analysis has emerged suggesting almost a million UK children aged 3-5 years old are using platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok. That includes an increase of 220,000 this year alone, with usage spiking despite application age limits and an ever-mounting pile of harmful evidence. Former education minister Lord Nash calls it “deeply alarming”, and lawmakers now face a decision that most ordinary people would find obvious. Should the platforms and the overall “attention economy”…