Within two years, the U.S. Air Force will stand up a new career field to defend American air bases worldwide.Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ken Wilsbach announced Monday at the Air and Space Cyber Conference that the service is advancing two initiatives in the wake of devastating Iranian attacks on U.S. bases across the Middle East in recent months. “First,” said Wilsbach, “we will establish the point defense weapons system, bringing together kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities to secure our air bases.”“Second,” he continued, “we established a new career field of point defense airmen. This new career field will be operational in two years.”Two airmen, Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Lewis and Senior Master Sgt. Brandon Spears, are the first field managers within that career track, Wilsbach added. While details regarding the new career field are sparse, a June 2026 release notes that these specialized units will include units drawn from multiple career fields operating at select Air Force installations. The need for base defenses in light of the Iran war has become imperative.RELATEDFar from isolated, America’s sprawling — and easy-to-find — Middle East footprint has been repeatedly subjected to assault since the start of the Iran war. In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan’s progressive Democratic Senate nominee, while sitting atop an organization with ties to an alleged terrorist group, once protested an event where a trio of “ex-terrorists” discussed their conversion to Christianity.Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in Michigan’s highly watched and hotly contested race for Senate against GOP nominee and former Rep. Mike Rogers, was a leader of a protest against three “ex-terrorists” that spoke on-campus at the University of Michigan in 2007, according to an unearthed report.The protest, chronicled by the Michigan Daily at the time, was against three speakers, Walid Shoebat, Zachariah Annani and Kamal Saleem, self-described former terrorists who were making the rounds during the mid-2000s to discuss their lives in the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Muslim Brotherhood before converting to Christianity.TOP GOP SENATOR REVEALS WHAT DEM COLLEAGUES ARE FRETTING ABOUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Students attending the talk staged a walk-out, which El-Sayed cheered afterward.”We’ve done something good today, and we need to keep that going in the future,” El-Sayed said.El-Sayed’s campaign spokesperson, Cole Wozniak, told Fox News Digital that the candidate had “unequivocally denounced terrorism.””Two decades ago, he protested against speakers who have been widely condemned by experts,…

The FQ-42A and FQ-44A, the U.S. Air Force’s newest Collaborative Combat Aircraft, have been dubbed “Vengeance” and “Fury,” respectively.Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink used the names for the first time during a Monday keynote address at the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference while announcing that the Air Force intends to have at least 500 autonomous aircraft in service by 2032. The CCAs are expected to perform many of the same missions manned fighters complete currently. “Because of the steps we are taking today, we will have a significantly different force by 2032,” Meink said at the conference. “By then, our special operators will have the ability to employ thousands of autonomous one-way attack systems, and we will have autonomous fighters like the Collaborative Combat Aircraft.”Meink highlighted that the aircraft went from contract award to first flight in fewer than 18 months, “almost unheard of in aircraft development.”General Atomics’ FQ-42A took its first test flight in August 2025 — over a year after its contract was awarded. Anduril, the second defense company tasked with production of the FQ-44A, rolled its first aircraft off the assembly line in July after flight testing in October…

When most people picture an emergency stockpile, they imagine a basement lined with shelves, a spare bedroom packed floor to ceiling, or a garage full of five-gallon buckets. And if you’ve got that kind of room, great. But a lot of us don’t. If you live in a small house or apartment, you might have nothing more than a single closet to work with. Here’s the good news: it absolutely is. This is where microprepping comes in. Microprepping is all about squeezing a bunch of survival supplies into a tiny space by being organized, intentional, and clever about what you choose to store. Emergency supplies can take up a ton of room if you’re careless, but if you plan well, you’d be surprised how much you can fit in one closet. In fact, you can put together a full 60 days of supplies for two adults in a single linen closet. We’re talking food, water, health items, self defense, all of it. It just takes a bit of thought about what earns a spot on the shelf. We found this microprepping demonstration on the YouTube channel, Wandering Prepping, where the host empties out a bathroom linen closet and rebuilds it…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Justice Department investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump.Ken Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, disclosed in a court filing Monday that prosecutors last Thursday presented him with a subpoena for Brennan to appear Oct. 15 before a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida. He said he was told that the subpoena relates to a “far-reaching” criminal probe examining a loosely defined theory that the government officials who have investigated Trump over the last decade conspired to deprive Trump of his civil rights.The Associated Press contributed to this report.This is a breaking news update. Read the full article here

Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez takes a look at the Springfield Armory 1911 Emissary 4.25″ AOS pistol chambered for the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge as a modern self-defense handgun. The firearm was provided to the author by the company for this article. I didn’t step into the firearms space thinking reviews were going to become the main focus. That wasn’t the plan. Like most things, it developed over time. The Springfield Armory 1911 Emissary 4.25″ AOS 9mm offers a modern take on the self-defense 1911 pistol that still respects the traditional foundation of the design. I was already spending time behind pistols, already paying attention to how they behaved — how they tracked in recoil, how they grouped, how they held up once the round count started climbing. At some point, the evaluation side of it became just as interesting as the shooting itself. Service-Grade Perspective So here we are, and here’s my take on the Springfield Armory 1911 Emissary 4.25” AOS 9mm pistol. I think it matters to be clear about the perspective I’m bringing to the table. My background is service-grade. I’m not chasing competition stage times, and I’m not approaching pistols from a gunsmith’s bench. I’m…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s administration targeted the Associated Press (AP) over rights to the iconic photo of the president in Butler, Pennsylvania, taken after an assassination attempt, according to a New York Times report.The AP has repeatedly sparred with the Trump White House after the president was elected in 2024. The outlet was banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One shortly after Trump was inaugurated because the AP continued to use “Gulf of Mexico” after the president renamed it the Gulf of America in 2025. The ban has led to a First Amendment battle in court.However, according to the Times, White House aides also connected the ban to the AP’s refusal to give them rights to the infamous photo of the president after he was shot. The Times cited two people briefed on a private lunch with Trump and network anchors in 2025. INSIDE AP’S FIRST AMENDMENT BATTLE WITH TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE AS ‘GULF OF AMERICA’ DISPUTE HEADS BACK TO COURT”We’re focused on continuing to stand for the right of the public and the press to speak freely without government retaliation or control,” a spokesman for the AP told Fox News Digital…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Alaska teenager who survived nearly two days atop an overturned fishing skiff told his rescuers that his cousin had slipped away during the night and that his older brother remained beneath the vessel after the three were thrown into the frigid Bering Sea, according to rescuers and family members.Derek Parker Aghnaanga, 15, was spotted Monday morning on the capsized skiff roughly four miles east of St. Lawrence Island after he, his 35-year-old brother Sidney Kulowiyi and their cousin disappeared during a fishing trip.”Through the teeth chattering, he had mentioned that his brother was still under the skiff,” Adam White, captain of the fishing vessel Northwest Explorer, told Anchorage affiliate KTUU-TV. “And then he said that, in the previous night, before our rescue, that his cousin had slipped away.”A GoFundMe page organized by relatives said Aghnaanga tried to hold onto his brother and cousin after they died, before their bodies were recovered.TRAGEDY AT SEA LEAVES TEEN STRANDED ON OVERTURNED BOAT FOR NEARLY 3 DAYS IN FRIGID WATERS A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircrew from Air Station Kodiak spotted Aghnaanga atop the overturned vessel and dropped a survival raft and equipment before…

California-based Swarm Aero on Monday unveiled a new low-cost unmanned aerial system capable of carrying a payload of more than 2,800 pounds.The new UAS, dubbed Gamera, comes as the Air Force searches for risk-tolerant aircraft that can be produced cheaply and in large numbers as part of its new Massed Modular Aircraft, or MMA, program. The company revealed the platform at the Air & Space Forces Association’s annual conference near Washington.In a press release, the company said Gamera is the first UAS designed to carry bomber-class strike munitions such as the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range, or JASSM-ER, as well as other cruise and hypersonic missiles. The company added that it “will be able to deliver all of the capabilities of the MQ-9, as well as employ payloads that the MQ-9 cannot, at a fraction of the price.”Although Swarm did not give a specific price point, the company said comparable strike effects would cost 10 times less than existing platforms. The company also cited recent Defense Innovation Unit statements, calling existing systems “unsustainable.” The MQ-9 Reaper purportedly costs more than $30 million apiece.Oliver Palmer, Swarm’s chief revenue officer and co-founder, explained that the design’s…

Welcome in on this beautiful morning for a flaming hot edition of Monday Screencaps where we dive right into the world of football, a new cross country personal record for Screencaps Jr., my trip to Detroit to see a former NFL Super Bowl QB and anything else on my mind because I built this column and they pay me to write things for the readers.Let’s start with the world of football with some quick hitters:• As many of you know, I’ve been all over the death of the NFL chain gang topic for the last 2-3 years. Yesterday, I noticed the NFL is now using a virtual measurement tool that sure looks like MLB’s ABS system for strike zone challenges. There was a moment in the Packers-Vikings game where Jordan Love ran a QB keeper into a massive pile of humanity and the line judges came rushing in to spot the ball. The human places the ball, the head ref says it’s too close to call, so they go to the NFL’s ABS. The ball was six-inches short of the first down. Folks, what are we doing? We have AI that is going to kill us all and yet we…