President Donald Trump demoted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to fill the post, which is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration and dozens of other federal agencies. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Mullin will take over the department on March 31, although he must go through the Senate confirmation process. Noem will become a special envoy for a new security initiative called the “Shield of the Americas,” which Trump said will be unveiled Saturday. Mullin is a former mixed martial arts…

The U.S. military’s increased use of missile interceptors during the war with Iran poses long-term strategic risks to integral defense capabilities if fighting spills into a long term conflict, experts caution.Military Times spoke with several national security specialists, defense analysts and foreign policy pundits who warned that the U.S. military’s finite interceptor stockpile could be strained and potentially exhausted if the ever-changing projected timeline of Operation Epic Fury depletes a resource that cannot be replenished at the scale and pace of war.“You can’t replace those kinds of missiles overnight,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a…

The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude.The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately.”The decision appeared to shut down the opportunity for further negotiation with Anthropic, nearly a week after President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of endangering national security.Trump and Hegseth announced a series of…

Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Thursday that Iran’s navy has been decimated and its drone capabilities damaged, as the United States and Israel continues military strikes against Iran.Cooper spoke alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, providing updates regarding Operation Epic Fury, which began early Saturday morning.“We’re now up over 30 ships,” Cooper said of the number of Iranian navy vessels that the U.S. has sunk or destroyed. “And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Jim Franklin of Hemphill, Texas, was fishing alone on March 4 at the south end of Toledo Bend Reservoir. The famed lake on the Texas-Louisiana state line is well known for giant bass, and Franklin has fished it most of his life. “I’d been catching a lot of bass, some days up to 50 fish, but nothing over 5 pounds,” Franklin tells Outdoor Life of his last few trips to Toledo Bend. “I decided to change it up and fish another area I hadn’t tried this…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  A Global Food Catastrophe Has Been Ignited The United States and Israel have struck Iran, and the consequences are already cascading far beyond the Middle East. This is not merely another regional skirmish; it is the ignition of a global food catastrophe that will unfold with terrifying speed. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global energy and fertilizer shipments, is effectively closed. This single act has severed a massive portion of the world’s natural gas supply, the foundational feedstock for modern agriculture. If nothing changes, the price…

The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to war with Iran.While the tally in the House, 212-219, was expected to…

Democrats are condemning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he derided media coverage of the six American service members killed in the war with Iran, accusing the press of focusing on the fallen soldiers to make President Donald Trump “look bad.” “This is what the fake news misses,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, in which he also avowed that the United States was “winning decisively” in its battle against the Islamic Republic. “But when a few drones get through, or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news,” he said, adding, “I get it – the press only wants to make…

The war in the Middle East is quickly expanding. Israel was pounded with missiles by Iran overnight. The hopes of a “quick victory” are evaporating. Israel was hit hard overnight, according to a report by ZeroHedge. The United States Senate blocked an effort to curb President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. The vote, which was 53–47 against a procedural motion aimed at limiting the warring operation. At the same time, Iran is increasing its response to the “preemptive” strikes on the country over a failure to come to terms on its nuclear policy.  Tehran officials are saying that the war is…

The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected and tracked two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft operating within the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones on Wednesday.The command dispatched two U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, two F-22 Raptors, four KC-135 Stratotankers, one E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, two Canadian CF-18 Hornets and one CC-150 Polaris tanker to positively identify, monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft, according to a NORAD release.The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. “This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the heart of Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve.  That’s where they were on Jan. 13, as Carl drove the truck from Bear Island campground to another site. He was with his wife, Tasha, their 20-year-old son, Ryker, and 16-year-old daughter, Jazzlyn. Although they’d hunted snakes before, Ryker and Jazzyln had just…

The largest U.S. Department of Defense hospital abroad is pausing its labor and delivery services until further notice to focus on the needs of the conflict across the Middle East.The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, located near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, is temporarily referring some labor and delivery patients to other hospitals within the local community, hospital officials told Military Times on Thursday. The medical center sent a notice about the halt in those services to Landstuhl patients through a Tuesday memorandum that circulated on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page. “Our staff is in direct contact with impacted…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is pushing nationwide constitutional carry for firearms, a move that would eliminate concealed carry permits, fees and criminal penalties for people who want to carry a firearm in public.Lee’s National Constitutional Carry Act, first obtained by Fox News Digital, would eliminate several hurdles Americans face with concealed carry across the country.”The Founders established a national right to keep and bear arms, not to ask for permission from hostile local officials or risk imprisonment for crossing the wrong state line,” Lee said in a statement to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Tuxpan Tigre,” appeared in the July 1960 issue of Outdoor Life. I couldn’t blame my friends for thinking my jaguar hunt in Mexico was a reckless plan. They weren’t entirely wrong. The trip to Nayarit, Mexico, from my home at Sacramento, California. was to be made in a light plane that I’d pilot myself, and there are hazards in flying a light plane into a region that has only a few primitive landing strips. I planned to get my jaguar…

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin claimed that the recent Ukrainian attack on a liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker was an act of terrorism. According to the Transport Ministry in Moscow, the ship was targeted by a drone near Malta this week. Putin stated that “this is a terrorist attack” and added it’s not the first time that Russia has faced energy-related terrorism. Russia continues to call attacks on it terrorism, as the war appears to have no end in sight. Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Another Terrorist Attack The Russia-flagged Arctic Metagaz was targeted this week close to Malta’s territorial waters. According…

The Coast Guard chose the site of a former college in Birmingham, Alabama, as the location for its new recruit training center. The campus of Birmingham-Southern College, which closed its doors in 2024 as a result of financial straits, is considered a turnkey location that could start training new Coast Guard members by the end of the year. The location was selected because it met nearly immediate occupational requirements at less cost than new construction, federal officials said. “The acquisition of the historic Birmingham-Southern College as our new training center is a critical step in our Force Design 2028 strategy,…

The United States has said that the war with Iran has “only just begun.” It added that it has already struck more than 2,000 targets since the initial joint attack with Israel. Iran’s Health Ministry says more than 920 people there have been killed. “We’ve only just begun to hunt, dismantle, demoralize, destroy, and defeat their capabilities,” Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday. That statement echoed U.S. President Donald Trump’s sentiment.  Trump said Monday that “we haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.” Iran, Israel, And The…

The United States and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Various countries, including the United States, have approached Ukraine for help in defending against the Iranian drones, Zelenskyy said late Wednesday. He said he has spoken in recent days with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait about possible cooperation.Russia has fired tens of thousands of Shaheds at Ukraine since it invaded its neighbor just over four years ago, launching a swarm of more than 800 drones and decoys in one…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. JASON BALDES leans against his dad’s red Toyota 4-Runner, two long braids draped over a T-shirt that reads “Make Buffalo Great Again.” Richard Baldes sits in the driver’s seat, silver hair poking out from under his Buffalo Bills hat. It’s a tribute to the animal, but also to former University of Wyoming and current Bills quarterback Josh Allen. The Baldeses talk about Jason’s travel schedule (too busy, according to his dad), long-ago trips to Africa (formative for them both), and hunting…

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This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute.  Over the weekend, the US and Israeli governments attacked Iran. In the days since, both militaries have reportedly struck thousands of targets, and Iranian forces have retaliated by launching hundreds or even thousands of missiles and drones at Israel and at US bases in surrounding Gulf countries. When announcing the operation, President Trump explicitly said it was meant to free the Iranian people from the regime they currently live under. And, indeed, the first strikes targeted and killed dozens of Iran’s leaders—including the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. However, it…