This article was originally published by Ramon Tomey at Natural News.  The longest U.S. government shutdown has caused a shortage of air traffic controllers, leading to airport ground stops and safety concerns. The FAA and DOE shutdowns have led to air traffic disruptions and paused critical renewable energy initiatives. The U.S. government shutdown is also disrupting global energy and climate collaborations, potentially hindering international efforts to secure a sustainable future. With the U.S. government shutdown tied for the longest in history, leaders must prioritize the well-being of citizens and the global community over political differences. Nearly half of the IRS…

Primary Arms sent me the SLx MD-21 for evaluation, a forged T2 pattern red dot that comes in under $200. Seems like only fifteen years ago, anything beyond irons meant spending rifle money on an optic. Now the market’s flooded with glass at every price point, and Primary Arms has carved a niche by offering feature-rich options that stay affordable. The MD-21 features a 2-MOA dot, twelve brightness settings, and AutoLive motion activation. Instead of traditional capped turrets, it uses recessed exposed adjustments set into the forged housing. The 21 mm objective is only a millimeter larger than the traditional…

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier and warship, along with the USS Bainbridge, a guided missile destroyer, officially departed the Mediterranean for the Caribbean Tuesday morning, according to a U.S. defense official, as both vessels made their way to South America.The carrier completed its transit of the Strait of Gibraltar Tuesday, a move that was made in support of the U.S. military’s increasing footprint in the region.The Pentagon announced in an Oct. 24 social media post it would be sending the carrier and its strike group to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility in support…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are extending moose seasons for resident hunters in parts of southwestern Alaska that were hit by Typhoon Halong in October. The extensions and additional tags are meant to buoy local communities and subsistence hunters in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta — many of whom were displaced or impacted by the storm and could use the extra moose meat. “The typhoon destroyed homes, displaced over 1,000 residents, and ruined critical subsistence food stores in Yukon-Kuskokwim…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. WHEN I ARRIVE IN CAMP, I let my pack drop from my shoulders. It’s the first day of a four-day backcountry trip, and after putting in the miles, I could use a good meal and a crackling fire. I typically carry a lighter in my pocket and fire steel in my pack. But when it comes time to ignite the fire, I don’t reach for these gadgets. Instead, I choose a length of goldenrod and set to work on a hearth…

Israel’s war with the militant group Hezbollah should have officially ended with a ceasefire last November. However, Israel has continued to destroy hundreds of homes and critical civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon. According to a report by NPR, the village of Hula in southern Lebanon bears a monument engraved with the names of almost 100 Lebanese killed there in 1948, just after the creation of the state of Israel. The monument is now covered in graffiti and smashed to pieces. While Lebanon is made up of a variety of religious groups, the majority in the south is Shia Muslim. “The…

Angstadt Arms has recently introduced something truly exciting for rimfire junkies like me — the Vanquish 22 suppressed barrel is finally being adapted for the Ruger Precision Rimfire platform. For those who don’t know, Angstadt’s claim to fame is that they are one of the few companies around that make integrally suppressed barrels that are compatible with off-the-shelf rifles. However, what I think really sets the Vanquish 22 apart is its baffle-free suppression technology. Traditional suppressors, as you know, rely on internal baffles that can trap lead and carbon and are a pain in the ass to deal with when…

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon sounded an alarm on artificial intelligence.  America’s biggest private employer has sent a clear message that artificial intelligence is coming for every single job at Walmart, from the checkout lane to the C-suite. While speaking at a Harvard Business Review event, McMillon said Walmart is “going on the offense with AI.” The CEO is committed to integrating machine learning and automation into every aspect of the business. “Every job we’ve got is going to change in some way, whether it’s getting shopping carts off the parking lot, how our technologists work, or the way leadership roles…

The U.S. Air Force laid out new, more specific regulations in an Oct. 29 memorandum regarding grooming standards for airmen’s mustaches and sideburns.The updated guidelines are in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s memo issued Sept. 30 to establish uniformed grooming standards across the force, an Air Force spokesperson told Military Times on Tuesday.“The new guidance mandates that sideburns must be above the ear opening and mustaches are prohibited from going beyond the corners of the mouth or into a respirator seal zone,” the spokesperson added.Military Times obtained a copy of the Oct. 29 memo, excerpts of which began circulating…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This year started with the decision my wife and I made to not plant a garden. It felt like giving up, not only on carrots and tomatoes but on our shared joy of coaxing life from the ground. In the last two years grasshoppers had eaten everything so that by mid-July our garden looked like a bonsai Argonne Forest on Armistice Day, all shattered stalks and lifeless vines. Faced with another spring and summer of drought, we threw in the towel…

Everytown for Gun Safety has now set its sights on Sturm, Ruger & Co., calling on the American gunmaker to stop producing its new RXM pistol, just weeks after Glock announced plans to discontinue several of its most popular handguns amid ongoing lawsuits and legislative pressure from anti-gun activists. In a letter sent on Monday, Everytown’s chief litigation counsel, Eric Tirschwell, told Ruger that the company should “put public safety first” by either removing the RXM pistol from the market or redesigning its internal trigger system. The group claims the RXM shares a trigger mechanism similar to Glock’s so-called “cruciform”…

A Marine general fired the commander, executive officer and senior enlisted leader for an Osprey squadron in Hawaii last week “due to a loss of trust” in their ability to uphold safety and readiness standards, according to a statement provided Monday to Marine Corps Times. Maj. Gen. Marcus Annibale relieved commander Lt. Col. Shaina Hennessey, Sgt. Maj. Jamie Lampley and the executive officer, who was not named in the statement.The three led Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268, based out of Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, until being fired Oct. 28.“We hold ourselves to the highest standards of performance,…

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84.Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said Tuesday in a statement.The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice president under Bush’s son George W. Bush.Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Casen Hutfles climbed into his towering tree stand just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 29. The 25-foot-high ladder stand overlooked a travel corridor for deer, a lane where two fingers of woods met. But Huftles had just one deer on his mind that afternoon.     “As soon as I got out of school I headed to the woods, walked in and climbed up,” the 16-year-old hunter tells Outdoor Life. “The stand didn’t have a seat. So, for two hours I stood…

Donald Trump has ramped up the United States’ nuclear testing after ending a moratorium on it, all while somehow also calling for worldwide denuclearization. Trump was quoted as saying the U.S. has enough nukes “to blow up the world 150 times.” While that’s far from comforting, Trump said he reinstated nuclear testing “Because you have to see how they work.” He was answering a question during a CBS interview aired on Sunday, when the comments were made. “I’m saying that we’re going to test nuclear weapons like other countries do. We’re the only country that doesn’t test, and I don’t…

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Massachusetts pro-gun advocates are pushing to get rid of a law passed last year that bans many common semi-automatic rifles in the state. The ban on what the state calls “assault-style” firearms has been a sticking point with gun-rights advocates since its passage last year. Not only does the law infringe on the constitutional rights of lawful citizens in the Bay State, but it also gives a lot of interpretive leeway to anti-gun politicians to determine which guns are actually illegal. On October 31, state legislators held a hearing to discuss the future of the law. And both supporters and…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Is there such a thing as a “dirty” lure to a conventional angler? I’m not entirely sure. I’ve heard people claim a Senko is cheating in the bass game because these soft-plastic Bic pens are so effective, but for the most part, gear anglers don’t really judge what you throw. Fly anglers are different, though. Not all — there are exceptions — but many love to break the sport down and silo the tools and tactics within it into those that “count” as “true” flyfishing and…

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This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute.  “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.”—Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Monsters don’t always come wrapped in the trappings of horror or myth. Most often, monsters in the real world look like ordinary people. They walk among us. They…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Hunters can present a challenge when it comes to gift buying. They already have one of these or two of those. They don’t particularly care for Model A or Brand B. There’s always the $100 Gift Card, but you really don’t want to be that impersonal, now do you?  Fortunately, there’s an almost endless array of “I’d love one of those” gift ideas whether the hunter on your list chases waterfowl, big game, upland birds, or small game. This year, the…

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