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Most Americans deem the United States military’s strikes on Iran excessive, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Wednesday.The survey, conducted from March 19 to March 23, found 59% of respondents say the scale of Operation Epic Fury has gone too far, while 26% believe it has been about right. Only 13% think the campaign has not gone far enough.A separate Pew Research Center poll released earlier this week showed low confidence in President Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict, with 37% approving and 61% disapproving. RELATEDThe public’s skepticism comes as Adm. Brad Cooper, the…

Recent headlines have reported sudden closures of TSA (Transportation Security Administration) lanes at major airports and the strategic mobilization of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in urban centers, allegedly tied to the government shutdown. The situation in the United States is looking increasingly problematic as the country continues its quick trek toward authoritarianism. Trump Threatens To Deploy ICE To Airports But could we see food and fuel rationing too, as tyranny takes hold? According to some international agencies that have released warnings about it, fuel and food shortages are looming. To most, these appear as unrelated symptoms of a…

Active-duty Coast Guard personnel have been paid through the partial government shutdown but the standoff is affecting civilian employees, recruiting, maintenance and non-emergency operations, the service’s vice commandant said Wednesday. According to Adm. Thomas Allan, civilian workers have not received a paycheck since Feb. 14, and the service has stopped processing merchant mariner credentials, affecting 16,000 applications. It has failed to pay 5,000 utility bills and it is not paying the vendors who feed recruits at the service’s Cape May, New Jersey, training center. It has also halted fisheries enforcement operations and routine maritime patrols. And families are operating under…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. There are plenty of freaky invasive species to worry about these days. Florida is a hotbed of weird reptiles, zebra mussels are the bane of boaters nationwide, and spotted lanternflies are flying out of control. But some of the worst invaders are actually noxious weeds, which can be directly harmful to humans, livestock, pets, and wildlife. And one of the (literal) biggest problem weeds Americans should know about is invasive giant hogweed. Hogweed sap is the biggest concern, as it can…

The Navy admiral tapped as the new head of U.S. nuclear forces on Thursday endorsed a finding by the Energy Department and Pentagon that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is safe and reliable and there is no need to conduct nuclear warhead tests.Admiral Richard Correll’s comment comes as officials are assessing how to implement a directive issued in October by President Donald Trump to conduct nuclear weapons tests.Correll, testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his confirmation as U.S. Strategic Command chief, was asked if he saw a military need for the U.S. to conduct nuclear warhead tests, the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics It’s hard to make the argument that catching nightcrawlers for bait is going to save you tons of cash, unless, of course, you’re a walleye charter captain who buys them by the pound for a season’s worth of trolling worm harness rigs. But gathering your own bait is a lot of fun. Catching crayfish, as an example, is often as good a time as catching smallmouth with them, especially because I can get my kids splashing around in the creek to help fill my bait bucket…

Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s initial ceasefire agreement, saying that the war will end when they decide to end it and on their terms. The U.S. offered a ceasefire proposal on Wednesday, and Iran has already countered it. While Iran has said it isn’t really in talks with the U.S., it has passed along the agreement.  Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, later said the proposals had been “passed on to the country’s senior authorities” but Iran had “no intention of negotiating for now,” accoridng to a report by The Guardian.  Iranian state TV quoted an anonymous official as saying Tehran…

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Recently it was reported that Amazon convened an internal “deep dive” after a string of outages disrupted its retail site, apparently caused by AI assisted coding tools. The meeting followed several highly visible failures and a growing recognition inside the company that safeguards around generative AI in production systems are inadequate.It is an early glimpse of a broader problem that many organizations would prefer not to acknowledge: As AI is rushed into critical systems, it is introducing new failure modes faster than they can understand or control them.For defense organizations increasingly integrating AI into mission-critical systems, the implications are far…

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A sailor was injured on March 25 aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln while the carrier was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea, the Navy announced.“The sailor has been transported ashore for additional medical care and remains in stable condition,” according to a U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet post on X.The injury was not life threatening, the service stated. The circumstances of the incident are under investigation.The carrier remains deployed as a part of Operation Epic Fury, conducting strike missions on Iran. RELATEDThe USS Abraham Lincoln departed Naval Base San Diego, California, on Nov. 21, 2025, for an…

This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute.  When Trump ordered the first wave of strikes in this ongoing war with Iran last month, he did so while his administration was engaged in active negotiations with the Iranian government. That echoed the situation last June when Israel launched a bombing campaign days after Trump scheduled new talks with Iran—a move Trump later claimed was a deliberate deception to help make the Israeli strikes more effective. This time around, in that first wave of strikes on February 28th, American cruise missiles targeted and destroyed a building that ended up…

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It was perhaps the politest “battle” in human history. Upon entering Guam’s harbor on June 20, 1898, instead of experiencing the expected whizz of bullets and the booms of a cannonade, U.S. Navy Capt. Henry Glass and his crew aboard the re-commissioned cruiser USS Charleston were greeted on the beaches by curious residents who mistook Charleston’s warning shoots as a salute. No one had bothered to tell the residents on the island that they were at war. The small, neglected island under Spanish rule hadn’t received a message from Spain since April 14, 1898 — a full month before hostilities…

Seventeen elite sniper teams put their skills to the test this month in the U.S. Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.The competition, which ran from March 15-19, is an international event designed to test combat readiness among elite, specialized snipers from across the joint force and partner nations. “This competition represents the pinnacle of the sniper craft,” Army Col. Simon Powelson said in a release. “These competitors are not just here by chance; they are the product of intense and specialized training within their respective units.” Participants included teams from the Army’s Green Berets…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Bass guide Lawrence Lee, of Toler, Texas, has been on the kind of roll that most anglers only dream of. On Tuesday, Lee notched his name in the states’ trophy bass history book when he caught two 13-pound largemouths in one day. He donated both fish to the ShareLunker Program run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. This was just a few weeks after he caught and donated another 13-plus-pound bass. Every one of those trophy fish have come from his home lake, J.B. Thomas…