Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWe move through dozens of different environments every single day. Home → car → gas station → work → school → store → restaurant → home again. Each time we step into a new place or mix with new people, our risk profile quietly shifts. Most folks never notice. I do. You should notice too. All it takes is thirty seconds to update my head—my mindset and situational awareness—and I’m set to go. That habit keeps me calm and keeps me prepared. I always have a plan to get through the few seconds to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. WHEN I WAS 21, my goal was to kill a bighorn sheep solo. In preparation, I took off most of the fall to hunt, and I went in a week before the season to scout British Columbia’s East Kootenay mountains. Just before opening day, I spotted sheep on the back side of a giant peak, and one of them was really nice. I decided to stay up on the mountain all night and shoot the ram in the first hour of opening…

Pentagon leaders faced members of Congress on Thursday for the first time since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard in American cities. During the hearing, held by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrats lambasted the mission as an egregious abuse of power by the president, while Republicans contended the effort was “essential” to protect the homeland. In June, Trump — in response to protests against his immigration policies — announced the Guard would serve as an auxiliary force supporting local and federal law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles. Trump went on to send Guard troops to other cities across…

Service members will see a 4.2% bump, on average, in their monthly Basic Allowance for Housing as of Jan. 1, defense officials announced Thursday. The average increase for 2026 is lower than the 2025 average of 5.4%. Actual amounts can vary widely by military housing areas, and some service members may see a decrease in their monthly housing allowance. But in areas where there is a decrease, service members won’t be penalized. They’ll continue to receive the same amount they received in 2025 for as long as they are stationed there.In their announcement, officials said they expect to pay an…

This article was originally published by Belle Carter at Natural News.  President Donald Trump warned of imposing “very severe” tariffs on Canadian fertilizer imports (potash and nitrogen), citing U.S. dependence on Canada—which supplies 95% of America’s potash—as a vulnerability. A new relief program allocates $11 billion to row-crop producers, aiming to offset trade war losses and rising input costs. This follows China’s retaliatory tariffs, which previously cost U.S. agriculture $27 billion annually. Farmers remain caught in global trade disputes, with China failing to meet its promised soybean purchases (only 25% of the pledged 12 million metric tons delivered since October…

Eligible commissary shoppers near an additional 62 military commissaries will be able to have discounted groceries delivered to their doorstep within a month, the head of the company that is to provide the service told Military Times on Wednesday night.Defense Commissary Agency officials have awarded a contract for the delivery to OnPoint, a delivery service previously known as ChowCall, said Todd Waldemar, founder and CEO of the company. The 70 commissaries that are part of the contract include eight pilot locations that have been offering the delivery service since 2022. Waldemar said the remaining 62 stores will be offering the…

KHARKIV, UKRAINE — The Vampire drone gripped two precious pieces of cargo tightly — a bomb for the Russians and a delivery of still-warm KFC for the Ukrainians in the trench next to them. Nikoletta Stoyanova, a Ukrainian photographer, watched as the six-armed behemoth took flight before soldiers hurried her into a basement. It was the dead of night in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, near the besieged city of Kupyansk. The city had already traded hands twice — the Russians had captured the city in the first days of the war, and the Ukrainians liberated it six months…

Russian scientists have produced the first three test batches of a newly developed cancer vaccine at the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow. This new “vaccine” is said to be a breakthrough drug. It’s an artificial intelligence-assisted, mRNA-based vaccine designed to target malignant tumors using the patient’s own genetic data. Russia’s Cancer “Vaccine” Will Rollout This Fall The center’s director, Alexander Gintsburg, has said that hopefully, the scientists can use this personalized vaccine to train the human immune system to attack tumors in the body. According to a report by RT, initial records on the readiness of the vaccine first emerged in September.…

Throughout its 135-year history, the Army-Nave game has featured hundreds of athletes who would later serve in combat, including the likes of Omar Bradley and Dwight D. Eisenhower in West Point’s Class of 1915, later known as “the class the stars fell on” for producing 59 generals.However, less than a dozen cadets or midshipmen who played for their school have gone on to receive the nation’s highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor. Six midshipmen who lettered in varsity football have received the honor, while five cadets from West Point — who played, albeit minor roles, on their teams…

A measles outbreak is ongoing in South Carolina. Of the 111 cases, 105 are in those who were unvaccinated. Since Friday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health has reported 27 new cases of measles across the state. Sixteen of the new cases resulted from the previously reported exposure at the Way of Truth Church in Inman. The calls for people to get the vaccination have increased as reports continue to surface of the spread of the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States says that measles is a “highly contagious” and potentially serious…

Another 81 women have joined a Texas lawsuit accusing an Army gynecologist of secretly filming them during invasive examinations, according to court documents provided by the victims’ attorney this week.The civil suit alleges that Army Maj. Blaine McGraw “used his position of trust to sexually exploit, manipulate, and secretly record women under his care,” and the news comes after the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel charged McGraw Tuesday with covertly recording at least 44 victims. In total, 82 plaintiffs, referred to in court filings as “Jane Does,” have joined the suit filed in Bell County, Texas, where McGraw is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The farmlands of north-central North Dakota near Minot are well known for their abundance of pheasants. The terrain is ideal upland bird habitat, with abundant wheat and soybean fields and plenty of coulees with cover that ringnecks relish. Local hunter Eric Henke and six buddies were chasing birds on his farm there on Dec. 7. It was a frigid morning — “chilly even for here,” Henke says. “There was 6 inches of snow on the ground, the temperature was 5 degrees…

The House on Wednesday passed a major defense policy bill that would authorize $900.6 billion in discretionary spending for the Pentagon in fiscal 2026.The National Defense Authorization Act will now head to the Senate for final passage, after its 312-112 approval in the House. The NDAA also aims to pressure Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to release more information on controversial strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats from Venezuela, including video of the strikes, and the orders to use lethal force.The bill would withhold 25% of Hegseth’s travel budget until he sends the House and Senate armed services committees “unedited video…

The Pentagon’s clandestine overview of “military power” has shown that the United States is not prepared for a war with China. In fact,  last November, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that in all of the Pentagon’s war games against China, we lose every time. Not that long ago, Hegseth warned that the U.S. needed to prepare for a war. He says it is only a matter of time before China invades Taiwan, somehow making that the U.S.’s problem. Secretary of War Says U.S. “Must Prepare For War” “China’s military threats against Taiwan are becoming more pronounced…They do not believe…

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This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  For the first time, two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets flew deep into the Gulf of Venezuela, the body of water bordered by Venezuelan territory on three sides, in what appears to be the latest ultra-provocative show of force from Washington. Some reports say the jets lingered long in the airspace, circling the gulf for some 40 minutes. The flyover happened on Tuesday and appears to be the closest known approach by American aircraft to Venezuela’s coastline since the Pentagon began a major buildup in the Caribbean several months ago, which has also…

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When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed by the crisis in its war with the Soviet Union. On Dec. 1, 1941, after the serious defeat the Red Army administered to the German forces at the southern end of the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler had relieved Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, the commander in chief of the army group fighting there; the next day Hitler flew to the army group headquarters in the southern Ukraine. Late on Dec. 3 he flew back to his headquarters in East Prussia, only to be greeted by…

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