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The District of Columbia National Guard has commissioned its first maritime security vessel this week, giving the unit a waterborne capability to support security at major events and overall homeland defense in the nation’s capital.The vessel is assigned to the 260th Special Purpose Brigade, which was created in response to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in 2025 to address a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C. The order called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to establish a specialized unit within the D.C. National Guard dedicated to “ensuring public safety and order” and strengthening coordination between military forces and civilian security agencies responsible for protecting the nation’s capital. The new vessel expands that mission into the city’s waterways.“Homeland defense is a team sport. We’re the connective tissue between military response and the agencies that secure the capital every day,” Army Col. Larry Doane, commander of the 260th Special Purpose Brigade, said in a release.The vessel was acquired through a partnership with the U.S. Navy and is the first maritime security vessel operated by an Army unit in Washington, D.C. With protected airspace, federal buildings, overlapping jurisdictions and two major waterways, Washington presents an uncommon security environment. The vessel will…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that it had struck U.S. Navy facilities in Bahrain and warned that regional oil and gas exports could be blocked entirely in response to American attempts to control the Strait of Hormuz. The IRGC accused Washington of acting like ‘pirates’ by restricting energy flows in the region. ‘Regional oil and gas exports are either for everyone or for no one,’ the IRGC said in a statement [1]. The warning came as part of what the IRGC described as the fifth wave of Operation Nasr-2, which the group said targeted an NSA management center, a command-and-control center, large warehouses containing military parts and equipment, and fuel storage tanks belonging to the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. According to the IRGC, the facilities were ‘smashed and destroyed’ in an early morning strike. The U.S. military had not commented on the claim as of Tuesday afternoon [1]. Background on Strait of Hormuz closure Tehran previously declared the Strait of Hormuz closed until the U.S. ends what it calls ‘illegal’ military intervention in the region. The strait is a critical chokepoint for about 20%…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Paul Pelosi, the husband of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was formally charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run Friday following an incident earlier this month, according to authorities.The Napa County District Attorney’s Office announced the filing Friday, charging Pelosi, 86, with misdemeanor hit-and-run and an infraction for unsafe turning movement stemming from a July 3 incident.According to the criminal complaint, Pelosi allegedly damaged a parked Tesla before leaving the scene without attempting to identify the vehicle’s owner or leave the information required under California law. Deputies later located Pelosi roughly a half-mile away, where he allegedly told officers he had intended to return to the scene.PAUL PELOSI, 86, FACES A HIT-AND-RUN CHARGE AFTER STRIKING A PARKED CAR IN NAPA COUNTY: SHERIFF’S OFFICE The complaint alleges Pelosi made an unsafe turning movement before colliding with the parked vehicle, resulting in property damage. Prosecutors contend those actions formed the basis for both the misdemeanor charge and the accompanying traffic infraction.The Napa County District Attorney’s Office included a copy of the criminal complaint with its announcement of the charges.This is a developing story; check back later for updates.Fox News Digital’s Brittany Miller contributed to this…

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… lone Army aviation student in the cockpit?For the first time in decades, student pilots are flying solo across the country, the Army announced Thursday, as part of a curriculum change the schoolhouse hopes will create more skilled pilots. The new aviators will prepare for the endeavor with two weeks of cross-country instruction before completing a check ride. Then, with naught but their fresh hands at the controls, the students will fly 50 to 100 nautical miles from Shell Army Heliport, navigating the national airspace without an instructor.Second Lt. Kyler Suerth, one of the first flight school trainees in the new program, was anxious. “We are actually operating in civilian airspace the way aviators do,” the West Point graduate said before his flight in the release. “I am nervous, but every day I get a little less nerve wracked and a little more excited.”Though he said that radio calls — and the challenge of shifting from military to civilian language — was his biggest hurdle, Suerth completed his solo flight this week.The new model was introduced by the 1st Battalion, 223rd Aviation Regiment. Lt. Col. Andrew Bartlett, the unit’s commander, said the flight…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida hospital is the first in the nation to sign the “Make Hospital Food Healthier” pledge, committing to serve more nutritious, minimally processed meals to patients.Tampa General Hospital CEO John Couris signed the pledge Thursday during a news conference attended by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian.The 1,000-bed medical facility partnered with Zakarian last year to overhaul its menu based on the “food is medicine” concept.CELEBRITY CHEF SAYS IF YOU CAN DRIVE TO MCDONALD’S, YOU CAN COOK HEALTHY MEALS AT HOMEThe revamped menu features items that are high in nutrition and “can help prevent, manage and treat illness,” the hospital said in a 2025 news release announcing the partnership.”If you go to your friend’s house and you say, ‘This tastes like hospital food,’ that’s not a compliment,” Kennedy said during the news conference. Kennedy said hospitals are places where people go to get healthy, “and we were giving them stuff that is going to aggravate and amplify their chronic illness.””We doubled down on the quality of the food,” Couris said of working with Zakarian…

As the U.S. Air Force moves to increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into operations, the force needs to train human operators effectively to use the tools. But the technology might make a better fighter than the human at times, a former Air Force secretary said.At a Thursday roundtable discussion hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Frank Kendall, the 26th Secretary of the Air Force, claimed there are some instances when machines can outperform human operators, since the latter aren’t “perfect.”“When you get to the point where the AI is doing a better job of deciding who to kill than the person, let the AI do it,” Kendall said during the roundtable. “But you got to be confident of that.”To ensure that AI capabilities aren’t outpacing the human operator in the loop, the service needs to verify and test that the tool has been designed to do exactly what it’s meant to, with specific rules it should perform with, Kendall said.The former secretary — who served in the role from 2021 to 2025 during former President Joe Biden’s administration — highlighted that the service needs to train the human operator to use the tool in the way it was intended and…

We’ve got another outdoors fixed blade from Civivi to look at today, the Carveth. The name hints at the role of this one, with a marked bent towards the needs of hunters here. Few things say “hunting knife” more than a handsome, classically proportioned drop point, such as we have here on the Carveth. At 3.59 inches long, the edge is big enough for the (let’s be honest) gnarlier chores such a role demands: things like field dressing and general carving. The Civivi line is dominated by hard working steels, and the design team chose a classic for the Carveth: AEB-L. This user-friendly, low-fuss stainless is to this day a bit of a cult favorite, and has seen more than a little use in the custom knife scene as well; makers like Jesse Jarosz have praised its balanced qualities, and these even-headed characteristics make AEB-L a rock-solid pick for outdooors work of all kinds. The guibourtia wood option comes with a black blade Another hunting knife indicator on the Carveth is an ergonomic feature, albeit not one on the handle (which we’ll get to in a minute). The forward jimping, out near the tip, provides necessary control over that point…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Madison Square Garden Entertainment has filed a defamation lawsuit against WIRED magazine over a recent report alleging the venue keeps a secret watchlist of celebrities.The 40-page lawsuit accuses WIRED of using stolen data to invent a false narrative that MSG maintains an internal blacklist targeting LGBTQ celebrities.The article, titled “Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities,” claims MSG used internal databases to track characteristics of VIP guests and celebrities, including their race, sexual orientation, and gender identity, while assigning “risk scores” to famous fans.MIAMI COPS SUE OVER MATT DAMON, BEN AFFLECK ‘TRUE EVENTS’ FILM, CLAIM IT FALSELY PAINTS THEM AS CORRUPT “WIRED combed the dark web, obtained data stolen from MSG by an extortionist hacking group, and cherry-picked fragments of that data to manufacture a false narrative portraying MSG as targeting the LGBTQIA community for discriminatory purposes,” MSG wrote in the lawsuit, obtained by USA TODAY Sports.MSG accused WIRED and its reporters of intentionally ignoring dozens of normal information fields on the list, such as addresses, phone numbers and dietary restrictions. According to the lawsuit, these mundane fields prove the data was simply part of a standard system used for…

The U.S. Navy’s expensive effort to install hypersonic missiles on three Zumwalt-class destroyers is two years behind schedule, according to government auditors. In addition to problems stemming from both the destroyers and the missiles, the Navy and Army are reportedly not coordinating work on the joint Conventional Prompt Strike missile program. Missile flight testing scheduled for 2025 has been pushed back to 2027. “Despite recent successes testing the CPS missile, the Navy faces several programmatic challenges associated with developing, delivering, and deploying the CPS missile on the DDG-1000,” warned the Government Accountability Office report. “These challenges include rising costs, schedule delays, reliability issues with DDG-1000 class destroyers, and CPS production challenges, among other things.” In search of a mission for the DDG-1000 after escalating costs and capability concerns resulted in the program being cut from 32 ships to just three, the Navy decided in 2022 to arm the Zumwalts with CPS boost-glide hypersonic missiles. CPS uses a two-stage booster to loft a high-altitude glider that can hit a target thousands of miles away in 30 minutes or less. Two Zumwalts have been delivered, and the third is scheduled for 2028. In addition, CPS missiles will arm Virginia-class attack submarines, while…