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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadCharlie Kirk was assassinated earlier today. The news just broke—and it’s already sending shockwaves. People on the right are stunned. Many are enraged. And there are some on the left who are—insanely enough—celebrating. Whether you followed him or couldn’t stand him, here’s the truth: This could get worse before it gets better. This has the potential to become a flashpoint that leads to further violence. As one person said on X: “Charlie Kirk is a fixture of the Gen Z social media diet. People feel like they know him. This will hit very, very…

The Navy has awarded contracts to develop Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones to major defense contractors Anduril, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.The CCAs are uncrewed systems that would be launched from carriers to augment the Navy’s power to deliver airstrikes in a maritime setting, and also complement manned fighter aircraft launched from carriers. Development appears to be in its early stages.Details about the contract awards were disclosed in a slide originating from Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR) Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO U&W). It was first reported by Breaking Defense. A Navy…

We’ve chronicled many times before how bad guys with knives, axes and other weapons that are less effective than firearms have come out on the wrong end of illegal encounters. But this is the first time I can remember reporting on a home invasion where the intruder carried a screwdriver. Repeat Chicago criminal Shelby Hurd was a product of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s early parole programs. Like many such criminals, however, Hurd decided that rather than going straight after receiving that break, he’d bust into a home and steal whatever he wanted. After all, he’d done it before and was…

At 69 years old, after decades in uniform and a promise of lifetime health care, I never thought I would have to fight the Pentagon for medications my doctor deems essential. Yet the Defense Health Agency has terminated coverage of weight-loss medications for 2.5 million Medicare-eligible veterans in Tricare for Life — the Tricare plan for Medicare-eligible military retirees and their Medicare-eligible family members — while continuing to cover the exact same prescriptions for younger retirees. This is not just unfair, it is unlawful. In 2001, Congress ended decades of second-class treatment for older retirees with the creation of the…

Photos courtesy Miami Armored Did you know that if you win a sizeable enough lottery jackpot in certain states that your name, residence, prize amount, and other details become matter of public record that are essentially out of your control? That might be nice when Lamborghini solicits you to come test drive that Revuelto you’ve always wanted, but guess what? Your anonymity is pretty much out the window.  At the very least, you’ll start getting letters from random people asking you to help them with hospital bills they say they can’t afford. Those in the exploitation business are also actively…

House lawmakers on Wednesday approved plans for a $893 billion defense authorization bill despite strong objections from Democratic lawmakers about social issue fights and a lack of restrictions on presidential use of the National Guard. The final 231-196 vote by the chamber included only 17 Democrats backing the must-pass budget policy measure, which includes a host of pay and benefits reauthorizations as well as spending guidelines for hundreds of Pentagon programs. Four Republicans voted against it. The measure includes a 3.8% pay raise for service members in 2026 and an increase of the Defense Department’s end strength by about 26,000…

This article was originally published by Ramon Tomey at Natural News.  Qatar denounced Israel’s surprise attack on a Hamas compound in Doha, calling it a violation of diplomatic norms and warning of a potential regional escalation. The IDF/Shin Bet operation disrupted U.S.-brokered peace negotiations, with Qatar accusing Netanyahu of sabotaging diplomacy for political gain while still pledging to mediate. The White House publicly distanced itself from the attack but privately supported Israel’s goal of eliminating Hamas leadership, exposing tensions between diplomacy and tacit approval of aggression. The strike mirrors historical triggers (e.g., 1967 Six-Day War) and risks drawing Gulf states…

It seems that recently, I have reviewed an unusual number of 9mm pistols. From micro- to duty-sized, the 9mm juggernaut is still rolling. I’ve looked at several brands of pistols with barrel lengths from a paltry three-plus inches up to a duty-sized 5 inches. Generally, I have been impressed with them, some more than others. I just picked up another interesting pistol – they’re all interesting, in some respects – that has a four-inch barrel and uses 15-round magazines. These numbers are common… the guns that sport them have typically been designed in response to the Austrian elephant in the…

A Yorktown sailor pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty at a special court martial Monday, marking the end of a tragic saga that left one U.S. Navy service member dead.Master-at-Arms Second Class Petty Officer Jackson Bower, who was assigned to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Virginia, was charged with negligent homicide, making a false official statement and two counts of dereliction of duty in the 2024 death of Master-at-Arms Third Class Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, 22.Bower will serve 70 days of confinement in the Navy’s Chesapeake Brig, according to Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.Bower initially faced a maximum sentence of eight years’ confinement and…

In 1943, the Placid Lassie took to the skies for the U.S. Army Air Forces, and since that date, it has never stopped. But this C-47 is not just a Frankenstein-esque hull of itself. It is not a replica nor a restoration. “These same rivets,” according to the Tunison Foundation, “crossed the English Channel on June 6, 1944, in service of our country.”Known as the workhorse of World War II, more than 10,000 C-47 variants were built throughout the course of the war. Operated by a crew of four — pilot and copilot in the cockpit, and a radio operator…

As Marines past and present know, Tun Tavern is the birthplace of the U.S. Marine Corps, as declared by the Second Continental Congress on Nov. 10, 1775. Patrons may one day be able to visit a replica of the tavern, located just a block away from the original structure that burned down in 1781 in Philadelphia. Marine Corps veteran Monty Dahm recently entered into an agreement to purchase Lucha Cartel, a 2,400-square-foot Mexican restaurant located at 207 Chestnut St. Through a multiphase renovation, which Dahm is self-funding, he will construct a replica of the historic tavern.“It’s going to be an…

South Dakota has kicked off “bird flu season” by slaughtering 134,000 turkeys. The turkeys spanned three facilities and were killed in response to an outbreak of the HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza). The only other state reporting confirmed infections in commercial flocks during the last 30 days is North Dakota, where 60,300 turkeys have been killed in response, according to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kennedy Wants To Stop Culling Birds To Produce Natural Immunity According to a report by South Dakota Searchlight, these detected infections should be a warning to health officials.  Positive…

A Delaware judge has ruled that the state law that prohibits adults aged 18, 19 and 20 years old from purchasing a firearm is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. Former Gov. John Carney signed legislation raising the purchase age to 21 back in 2022. The problematic law also created adult supervision requirements for residents under the age of 21 while hunting in the state, which drew pushback from hunters as well as Republican lawmakers. In the ruling from the Kent County Superior Court, judges noted that several circuit courts had struck down similar laws affecting adults under 21, while several others…

The Air Force may be forced to keep operating its already half-century-old Minuteman III nuclear missiles until 2050, as the replacement Sentinel program continues to run into delays, government auditors said Wednesday.The service had previously expected the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the end of its service in 2036, the Government Accountability Office said in its report, “ICBM Modernization: Air Force Actions Needed to Expeditiously Address Critical Risks to Sentinel Transition.”Minuteman III currently makes up the land-based portion of the nation’s nuclear triad, with 400 missiles deployed across roughly 450 silos in Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Colorado and…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. If you’ve been following news from the whitetail world this summer, you’ve likely seen headlines from local news sources about Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease outbreaks in Ohio. But longtime deer tracker and drone pilot Shon Butler says that EHD-caused dieoffs in southeastern Ohio and western West Virginia are much worse than many folks realize.  “It’s an extreme kill over in Ohio,” Butler says. “And I dare to say there’s some properties and some drainages that have 100 percent death rate, so it’s…

Soldiers who score a 465 or better on the Army Fitness Test will not be subject to flagging actions for body fat percentage, the service decided this month.Soldiers who don’t meet the body fat standard but do pass the fitness requirement will not be enrolled in the Army Body Composition Program, nor will they have to undergo a tape test, in which proctor takes a waist measurement to measure body fat circumference, the Army said. The service will still make a record of their height and weight data.“This policy applies to Soldiers who complete all five events of the AFT;…

United States President Donald Trump has criticized Israel’s attack on a Hamas compound in Qatar. Trump said Israel’s decision was “unilateral” and had nothing to do with the U.S. Trump stressed that West Jerusalem’s airstrike on a Hamas compound in Doha was a decision made without his consent. Israel carried out the operation inside Qatar, which had been made unilaterally by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not by Washington. According to a report by RT, approximately 15 Israeli warplanes fired at least ten missiles during the operation on Tuesday, reportedly killing several Hamas members, including the son of senior…

A Democratic senator will attempt this week to block the Defense Department from providing full military funeral honors to the veteran killed while attempting to breach the House floor during the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who served in the Marine Corps in Iraq, in late August wrote on social media that the veteran, former airman Ashli Babbit, “deserves nothing, certainly not full military honors” because of her actions in the attempted insurrection. Babbitt was shot by a Capitol Police officer after repeated warnings while she attempted climb into the Speaker’s Lobby of the House…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Just as it is proposing rollbacks to conservation measures on U.S. Forest Service lands, the Trump administration today announced plans to rescind the BLM’s Public Lands Rule, which elevated conservation as a multiple use on par with grazing and oil drilling on millions of acres of mainly Western rangelands. This morning Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2024 Public Lands Rule that was intended to broaden the BLM’s ability to manage landscapes and enter into leases…

Within a week of Donald Trump’s election, Sen. Lindsey Graham counseled the president-elect to quickly send a message to the drug cartels from the White House.“Blow up something,” Graham told Trump.The brazen military strike on a suspected drug-smuggling speedboat carrying 11 people from Venezuela this month is just what the South Carolina senator had in mind. But it has cleaved fresh divisions within the Republican Party over Trump’s campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of foreign entanglements and the reality of a commander in chief whose America First agenda is pursuing a tougher military stance.And it’s raising stark questions…

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent allegedly threatened to punch Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte “in the f***ing face” during a private dinner. The show is on full display, and there’s plenty of bread and circuses to go around. The alleged exchange, which is being reported by several media outlets, took place last week at the Executive Branch club in Washington, DC, a private club co-founded by Donald Trump Jr., during a dinner hosted for podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya’s birthday. Bessent reportedly launched a profanity-laced tirade at Pulte, whom he believed was badmouthing him to U.S. President Donald Trump. …

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The 113,000-acre Emigrant Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada range is challenging terrain for even the most prepared backpackers. Boy Scout Troop 26 of Santa Barbara, California, entered the wilderness area as ready as ever in early August, but they never expected they’d have to rescue someone else — much less a former scoutmaster. One of the troop’s leaders says they came across the older man on day four of their one-week trip. “There were a lot of red flags. The biggest…