As if the bird flu hadn’t impacted the egg supply enough, now a Salmonella outbreak has caused the recall of 1.7 million eggs. The outbreak has been traced to eggs distributed by August Egg Company. It has infected 79 people across Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington, with 21 hospitalized. There have been no reported deaths, federal authorities announced. The contaminated eggs, including brown organic and cage-free varieties, were sold in the aforementioned nine states between February and May 2025. This recall comes amid growing concerns over salmonella’s role as the leading cause of foodborne hospitalizations and deaths.…

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The plan — which now moves to the full House for consideration — is the first portion of the annual federal budget approved by either chamber’s appropriations committee. But despite the typical bipartisan nature of the veterans bill, the 36-27 approval vote from the panel came after nearly 12 hours of grueling, contentious debate, with dozens of Democratic amendments rejected by the Republican majority. The budget bill (which also includes $18 billion for military construction projects) is an increase in total VA program and benefits spending of more than $83 billion, or about 22%, from the fiscal 2025 approved levels.…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. A provision that would have issued perpetual mineral leases near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been struck from the House budget bill. It’s the latest victory in a monumental effort by lawmakers and public-lands advocates to strike bad conservation policy from the sweeping legislative package. Tina Smith, a Democratic Senator from Minnesota, announced the news late Tuesday evening on social media.  “Buried deep in President Trump and Republican’s [sic] Big Beautiful Bill was a provision that gave a foreign mining company full…

There have been four days of protests and riots since they broke out in Los Angeles on June 6. President Donald Trump has now federalized and deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the violence. Trump has also deployed 700 Marines to Los Angeles to help the Los Angeles Police Department tame the violent protests. There have been dozens of arrests since the protests and riots broke out. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top military officials are heading to Capitol Hill to testify before House committees, where lawmakers are all but certain to ask them about their…

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The move erases moves by President Joe Biden’s administration to remove any connection to the Confederacy from current military bases. In a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — another base whose name was changed by Biden, then changed back by Trump — the current commander-in-chief said the changes were needed because “we won a lot of battles out of those forts” and “it’s no time to change.”Service officials did not say how much the changes will cost or when the official designations will be updated. The base renaming process began in 2021 and was finalized in 2023, at…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “I Wanted It Wild,” first appeared in the October 1971 issue. It’s the first of the author’s stories from a series of moose hunts. THERE WERE TWO MOOSE on the shore of the lake, both cows. One was a big old girl, so gaunt that her ribs showed. The other was smaller, probably a yearling, and looked in better condition. The big one was feeding in water a couple of feet deep, near the marshy shore. She didn’t pay much attention as…

A Norfolk-based sailor who went missing almost two weeks ago has been found dead, and another sailor is in pretrial confinement in connection with the case, Navy investigators said Tuesday.The body of Culinary Specialist Seaman Angelina Petra Resendiz, 21, was discovered Monday by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in a wooded area in Norfolk, Virginia, NCIS said in a statement.Resendiz, 21, assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer James E. Williams, disappeared May 29 after being last seen at her barracks in Miller Hall on Naval Station Norfolk.NCIS has placed a sailor in pretrial confinement in connection with Resendiz’s death,…

This article was originally published by Laura Harris at Natural News.  The U.S. Department of Education‘s proposed budget would be reduced by 15.3 percent, dropping to $66.7 billion for fiscal year 2026. The maximum Pell Grant award would be cut from $7,395 to $5,710 for the 2026 to 2027 academic year to address a $2.7 billion funding shortfall, though total Pell funding remains flat. Federal Work-Study would lose $980 million, with employers now required to cover 75 percent of student wages (up from 25 percent). TRIO and GEAR UP, programs aiding disadvantaged students, would be eliminated to save over $2.13 billion.…

The United States’ industrial might helped save the free world in World War II. William Knudsen, the Detroit auto titan turned wartime production chief, put it simply: “We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production.”Could the U.S. meet a similar mobilization challenge today? The answer is likely no without real changes to our acquisition system — and our adversaries know it.That’s why the House Armed Services Committee is advancing the SPEED Act — a bold, bipartisan reform effort to overhaul our broken acquisition system.Our acquisition process is too slow, risk-averse and bureaucratic to deliver the capabilities…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. Lone Star lawmakers recently added aoudads to the list of animals hunters can shoot from helicopters in Texas as part of a management tool to aid in the ongoing fight against the invasive sheep.  Senate Bill 1245, which passed both state legislative chambers and was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, will go into effect Sept. 1. The bill expands Texas’ aerial wildlife management permit system, which previously only listed feral hogs and coyotes, to include aoudad. Aerial culling efforts have…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday cast doubt on the future utility of airborne battle management aircraft, particularly the E-7 Wedgetail, and said space-based capabilities represent the future of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.Hegseth’s skepticism of the E-7 and touting of space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, may presage a split between the Pentagon’s top leadership and Air Force leaders and some lawmakers who feel that airborne assets are still the best option for managing battlefields.The Air Force wants to buy 26 Boeing-made E-7s, which have been flown for years by Australia and are being bought by other nations such…

The military’s deployment of almost 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests will cost around $134 million and last 60 days, the Pentagon’s acting comptroller told lawmakers in a hearing Tuesday. That funding will come from the Defense Department’s operations and maintenance budget and cover travel, housing, food and other incidental expenses, Bryn MacDonnel said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing. Together, the description gives the clearest sense yet of the military’s bill for the administration’s controversial deployments to the city. RELATEDIn the last several days, the Pentagon has approved 4,000…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. Wildlife officials with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation have confirmed two photographs of mountain lion kittens in the state. The trail-cam photos shared by the agency Tuesday were captured in October and December 2024 in two different counties. Officials say the photos are the first concrete evidence they’ve seen of mountain lions potentially breeding in Oklahoma. That two-word disclaimer, “they’ve seen,” is notable, because mountain lion sightings have risen sharply in Oklahoma over the last few years. This has led many Oklahomans, including…

NEW from LAS Concealment comes a universal duty light AIWB holster that combines comfort and practical use. Introducing: The Tantō.Designed for use with duty lights like the Surefire X300 or SteamLight TLR1, the Tantō is built to be used with almost any pistol on the market and launches with a huge number of models already tested to fit. This includes 2011-style pistols, 1911, Glock, CZ P10, Springfield Echelon, Walther PDP, Shadow Systems, Ruger RXM, HK PV9, and a lot more.Trying to stuff a full-size pistol with a duty light in your pants is often not comfortable, and this was a…

House appropriators on Tuesday advanced plans for a $831.5 billion defense budget for next fiscal year over concerns from Democratic lawmakers that the spending package is rushed and incomplete, since the White House still has not unveiled its own detailed funding plans for the military. However, the funding plan is designed to run alongside congressional reconciliation plans, which would add another $150 billion in funds for the Defense Department. Republicans assert the combination could bring total military spending for next year to nearly $1 trillion, even though those funds would be spread out over four years. “[This bill] provides the…

Ukraine’s ruler, Volodymyr Zelensky, is well aware that he cannot win the conflict against Russia on his own and is trying to drag NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) into it, Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, has said. This could plunge the world into a new world war, he warned. Tuberville made the statements on John Catsimatidis’ radio show, “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM on Sunday. According to the senator, the conflict between Moscow and Kiev is on the verge of spilling over to other nations and potentially involving the US military. Tuberville also accused Zelensky of trying…