There is a comfortable lie sold by war movies and video games that a tank survives incoming fire simply by being an absurdly thick wall of solid steel. You take a hit, the hull rings like a church bell, sparks fly into the dirt, and the crew rolls forward without spilling their coffee.Anyone who has ever actually sat inside an armored vehicle knows better. Tanks are not indestructible metal boxes, they are rolling compromises. Every extra pound of protection you add onto the chassis directly inhibits the machine’s ability to traverse mud, cross bridges, and keep its transmission from tearing itself to pieces. A British Mark V tank crosses a ditch during the Hundred Days Offensive in November 1918. Image: IWM/Public DomainEven worse, the game of simply making steel plates thicker died decades ago. A modern anti-tank round doesn’t politely poke a hole through the metal. Instead, it hits with the hyper-dense kinetic fury of a two-foot-long depleted uranium dart traveling a mile a second. Either that, or it focuses high explosives into a jet of molten copper slicing through armor at Mach 25.To keep four human beings breathing inside that enclosed metal space, modern armor had to stop being a…

You know when something goes wrong at work and you just want to slam your laptop shut, walk out of the office and quit? Apparently, professional athletes know that feeling, too.Tennis star Sorana Cirstea lost 6-2, 6-3 to Alexandra Shubladze in the quarterfinals of the Hong Kong Open on Friday night and shocked the tennis world by retiring from the sport immediately after the match.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Cirstea, 36, was the No. 1 seed at the Hong Kong Open and the 15th-ranked player in the world. She came into the season saying 2026 would be her final year on tour and decided to follow through with that plan after the upset loss.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE “Given how things ended here in Asia, with several early losses, I think the decision is pretty clear,” Cirstea said in the press zone, according to Tennis Temple.”I was running on empty, I had no energy left. It’s been a long year. I need to step back and…

KYIV, Ukraine — Thousands of European troops will gather in Poland next week for the Coalition of the Willing’s first major military exercise, a rehearsal for deploying a multinational force to Ukraine once the war with Russia comes to an end, European officials announced this week. The exercise comes as U.S., Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are set to meet in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 10 and 11, special envoy Steve Witkoff said Monday. The meeting caps a tumultuous year for Ukraine’s peace talks, which stalled after the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran in February and revived only in September, when Witkoff and fellow envoy Jared Kushner met Putin in Moscow before traveling to Kyiv for their first visit as negotiators. Britain and France will jointly lead KOALICJA 26.2 from Nov. 9 to 22, bringing together 2,800 troops from 11 nations for coordinated activities in Poland, France and Turkey under the coalition’s military arm, the Multinational Force-Ukraine (MNF-U). American troops will not participate. The drills will combine air, land and sea forces to “test how to move, protect and supply a force that would help rebuild Ukraine’s Armed Forces once the fighting ends,” according to a British Ministry of Defence…

Welcome to Screencaps, “America’s Best Daily Column,” as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn’t for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let’s have some fun.If there was ever a good sign, after so many bad headlines over the last 2-3 years, this is itAfter I broke the news in October that the Daytona International Speedway Hooters had been permanently closed, there haven’t been bright moments for the legendary brand this fall. No bright spots. Sure, there’s word of some sort of Hooters documentary, but that’s been overshadowed by the news of Hooters closing locations in Chicago and Atlanta.It’s been an incredibly tough news cycle for those of us who grew up going to this iconic restaurant with our fathers and uncles before football and baseball games.How about some good news for once? Hoots and the Hooters Girls will be at Miami-Homestead Speedway this weekend for the Cup championship to celebrate the No. 41 Chevy Hooters car driven by Cole Custer.HOOTERS RESTAURANTS KEEP CLOSING EVEN AS CEO SAYS THERE’S…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The broadcast networks energetically predicted doom for the Republicans during the fall campaign. And they got their wish. The dramatic blue wave – with the most dramatic shock coming in Texas – caused a wave of positive coverage.On Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, you might expect any winning candidate who gets interviewed is going to receive soft questioning, a form of congratulations. But you might be a little surprised by the fountains of gush.On ABC, former Clinton press secretary George Stephanopoulos was teeing up Texas Sen.-Elect James Talarico with this: “You said you want to pursue a politics of love. For a lot of Americans who may be hearing you for the first time this morning, spell out what that means.”DEM WINS TRUMP-TARGETED TEXAS DISTRICT IN REBUKE OF REPUBLICAN REDISTRICTING SHAKEUPTalarico happily complied: “Yeah, I think we are all tired of this politics of division, this politics of hate, this politics of fear. I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor.” It’s really annoying when Democrats like Talarico or former President Barack Obama accuse the Republicans of seeking to “divide us” even as they…

Every season we get one of those College Football Playoff rankings, and instantly everyone talks about how wrong it is. It really doesn’t matter what our opinions are. I’m sure that someone will miss out on the Playoffs and everyone will be upset about it. It is inevitable, and it seems like this year there is more parity than ever before. It feels like almost weekly we get a new top team in the nation. The current top team takes the field tonight as Miami takes on Notre Dame.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Miami has passed every test to start this season, but this is arguably the biggest test of the entire year for them. They come into this game at 8-0, and they have done it behind very strong quarterback play from Darian Mensah. For the season, Mensah has thrown for 2,425 yards and 25 touchdowns with just one interception. 13 of those 25 touchdowns have gone to Malachi Toney, who is missing this game with an…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Living a healthy lifestyle is not as complicated as many Americans make it out to be, according to a nutrition scientist, who says people shouldn’t try to be perfect but should focus on gradually improving their diet day by day.”It is simpler than people think,” Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., a nutrition scientist at Stanford University and author of the book “Food Sense: What to Eat and Why,” told Fox News Digital.He believes that the 80/20 rule is a solid framework for a healthy diet. The approach encourages people to make nutritious food choices about 80% of the time while allowing flexibility for indulgences the remaining 20%.NEW PROTEIN RANKING NAMES UNEXPECTED WINNER OVER BEEF, SALMON AND EGGSGardner also works with the Stanford Prevention Research Center, where a big part of his role is trying to figure out how to get people to follow guidelines that “everybody knows” but doesn’t necessarily follow, such as eating a healthier diet, exercising more and smoking less, he said. He advises against trying to follow all the latest wellness trends because, sometimes, they’re not based on factual information.He doesn’t recommend cutting out an entire food group or following a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Some troops have gone a year without hot water. Others are sleeping in their cars to escape barracks without air conditioning. And some are asking for little more than drywall, spackle and paint so they can make repairs themselves.Those are among the conditions Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer says he has encountered while touring military installations on a mission from War Secretary Pete Hegseth: Fix a barracks system plagued by decades of neglect.”I would tell you that there’s only a couple that I’ve seen that are good,” Meyer told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.Meyer, who serves as senior adviser to the Pentagon’s Barracks Task Force, has visited more than eight installations across the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps since taking on the assignment and plans to visit 30 before the end of the year.”What I thought was gonna be a professional job very quickly turned into personal,” Meyer said.DAKOTA MEYER TALKS SERVICE, BLASTS CONTROVERSIAL DESIGN FOR GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR MEMORIAL At one installation, Meyer recalled asking a 19-year-old service member what she would change about her living conditions if she could “wave a magic wand.””If she…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., are calling for an investigation into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), previously led by Elon Musk, as talks have heated up among Democrats to launch a probe into the multibillionaire.”I had no specific plan,” Raskin told Fox News Digital about the potential investigations. “Look…DOGE was a catastrophe for America, and at least one committee, I feel pretty certain, will investigate it. It needs to investigate it.”Musk has emerged as a potential target of Democratic oversight, with some lawmakers calling for scrutiny of his time as head of the DOGE.The calls for an investigation come as Democrats have started rallying the party to look into corruption under the Trump administration after coming out victorious in midterms.SCHUMER, JEFFRIES SIDESTEP QUESTIONS ON NUKING FILIBUSTER, LAUNCHING ELON MUSK PROBE AFTER BLUE WAVE The tech CEO helped launch DOGE at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term to root out waste and be more transparent about the federal government’s spending.DOGE’s efforts included deferred resignations and buyouts of employees at federal agencies and contributed to a significant downsizing of the federal workforce, which contracted by about 250,000…

Brandon Aiyuk returned to the San Francisco 49ers facility on Friday, but it did not appear as though he was very welcome.The rift between Aiyuk and the Niners has gone on for well over a year now after the team voided the remaining guaranteed money he was owed on his extension. The 49ers did so after Aiyuk didn’t participate in rehab sessions for a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus he suffered in his right knee during the 2024 season, which he still has not returned from.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated. This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Members of the Niners weren’t exactly thrilled about him coming back, and head coach Kyle Shanahan made his feelings well known.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE “I could care less,” Shanahan said when asked about a potential meeting with Aiyuk and Niners brass.”It’s been over for our football team for a long time,” Shanahan added. “I don’t hear much except questions about it today. But it’s not too big of a deal for me to answer.””I’m feeling…