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 expanding beyond just direct airstrikes. President Trump claimed he is still seeking a “quick victory”, according to a report by The New York Times on Thursday. The report further claimed that, “[Trump’s] calculation has been that he can launch military operations with the loss of few American lives and minimal disruption to the economy. The opening days of the war in Iran are challenging that assumption.” Already, six Americans have been killed. Gulf allies are under attack. The stock market wobbled. Gas prices are rising. The U.S. military is spending, by some estimates, hundreds of millions of dollars per day. In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Travis Kelce got the invite to Tiger Woods’ The Golf League (TGL) earlier this week, and he got close to some presidential blood.The Kansas City Chiefs superstar tight end was spotted chit-chatting with President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai, before the event that featured Woods’ Jupiter Links team going against The Bay Golf Club, according to a video from Tyler Boronski.Kelce and his brother, Jason, attended the event, which featured a hole-in-one from Tom Kim, helping Woods’ team reach the playoffs.  Trump was first spotted at the TGL events last year, shortly before Woods and Trump’s mother, Vanessa, the ex-wife of Don Jr., made their relationship public that March.Kelce and the president have yet to meet face-to-face publicly, but Kelce was greeted by former President Joe Biden in both 2023 and 2024 in celebrating back-to-back Super Bowl titles.Woods and Vanessa Trump have kept their relationship relatively quiet — when hard-launching last year, Woods asked for privacy regarding the couple. Both Vanessa and Kai attended the Genesis Invitational last month at Riviera, which Woods hosted. Vanessa was also at Monday night’s TGL event.A report in July said the two were “very serious,” and “wedding…

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 not seen as a threat,” NORAD stated in the release.The Tu-142 is a long-range Russian maritime patrol and antisubmarine warfare aircraft developed by the Soviet Union and operated by the Russian Navy, capable of conducting extended overwater missions.An ADIZ begins where sovereign airspace ends and extends into international airspace, requiring identification of approaching aircraft in the interest of national security, according to NORAD.The intercept follows a similar event last month, when on Feb. 19, NORAD tracked five Russian military aircraft, including two Tu-95 bombers, two Su-35 fighters and an A-50 early warning aircraft, operating near Alaska’s ADIZ. Two U.S. F-16s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A popular class of weight-loss drugs may prevent life-threatening cardiac complications by opening microscopic blood vessels that often remain blocked after a heart attack, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications.The research, led by the University of Bristol and University College London, identified a biological brain-gut-heart signaling pathway. This discovery appears to explain how GLP-1 drugs — which mimic glucagon-like peptide-1, a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar and appetite — protect heart tissue from a condition known as “no-reflow.””In nearly half of all heart attack patients, tiny blood vessels within the heart muscle remain narrowed, even after the main artery is cleared during emergency medical treatment,” Dr. Svetlana Mastitskaya, the study’s lead author and a senior lecturer at Bristol Medical School, said in a press release.”This results in a complication known as ‘no-reflow,’ where blood is unable to reach certain parts of the heart tissue.” This lack of blood flow increases the risk of heart failure and death within a year. GLP-1 medications could prevent this, according to the researchers.How it worksWhen the GLP-1 hormone is released in the gut or administered as a drug, it sends a signal…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Valerie Bertinelli is getting honest about her weight and why 2024 was “the worst year of my life.”In a recent interview with People, the 65-year-old actress discussed her relationship with her body, saying that while parts of her body could “be more taut,” she is happy to be alive.”I’ve had this love-hate thing with my body for too many decades. Enough already,” she said. “Felt like I was really getting to the final, like, ‘Oh, I’m healed.’ And then 2024 came, and it was like the worst year of my life.”She explained that she “lost way too much weight in 2024” due to her stress, adding she “had four surgeries within six months” and that her “hair started to fall out,” in addition to “having emotional trouble” with people in her life. Bertinelli went on to say that she “felt like a failure” following her divorce from financial planner Tom Vitale, and that a series of other unfortunate events left her wondering what she was meant to learn from it all.”So I lost my job … My parents died. My son’s father died, and then the surgeries and like just — I…

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 patients to provide additional information and facilitate a smooth transition to our healthcare partners,” center officials told Military Times in a statement.The memo states that the closure of labor and delivery is due to the hospital’s “primary objective.”Although the memo doesn’t elaborate on what that objective is, the hospital’s primary role in critical combat care is to treat patients that are injured during training or combat operations throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East, according to the hospital’s website.During the ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran, the hospital is expected to continue its role in combat care.Six U.S. service members…

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 to Russia’s Transport Ministry, Ukrainian unmanned boats launched from the Libyan coast hit the LNG carrier, which had been sailing from Murmansk. All 30 crew members were safely evacuated. Putin claimed that Kiev is now preparing, “with the support of some Western intelligence services, to sabotage the Blue Stream and TurkStream” gas pipelines running under the Black Sea, “just as the Nord Stream pipelines were once blown up.” He said it is “a very dangerous game” by Ukraine, adding that Moscow has already informed the Turkish side. The September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea is the largest attack on…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Radical Islamist networks pushed out of the Middle East amid Operation Epic Fury could soon attempt to regroup in the West, Hudson Institute research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali warned Thursday.”You have to ask yourself, where are these people going to go? Where will the Islamists, the people who run the Houthis, the people that run Hezbollah, the people that benefited from the Islamist regime of Iran, where will they go? They will try and come to the West,” she told “Fox & Friends.””They’ll try to come to America. They’ll come to Europe.””In America, we have an administration that has closed the borders. Thank you, Donald Trump, for that, and I think as we get into the next phase of this, we’re going to start to look at networks all across the United States of America of subversion through Islamists, whether it’s the Muslim Brotherhood or the Shia branches of that.” Ali issued a stark warning to European leaders, arguing that liberal open-border policies have created prime conditions for radical Islamists to gain influence and possess “enormous clout” politically and financially.She warned that Europe in particular faces what she called a growing “red-green…

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, providing the right facilities necessary to grow our service and ensure the Coast Guard stands always ready,” Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday said in a statement Wednesday. The Coast Guard launched a modernization plan – Force Design 2028 – last year to reform its administration, add aircraft, ships and unmanned systems and grow its force by 15,000 personnel. As part of the effort, service officials announced in November that they would open a second recruit training center to complement its 77-year-old Training Center Cape May in New Jersey. The Coast Guard issued a request for information for existing facilities that met…