NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former CNN host Don Lemon revealed he was “totally serious” about considering a presidential run during a podcast on Wednesday and said people kept asking him if he’s going to run.”Can’t be Censored” hosts Travis Dhanraj and Karman Wong asked Lemon if he had political ambition, to which the ex-CNN host said no, but revealed people had been asking him to and that he was thinking about it.”I actually think I would be a really good president of the United States,” Lemon said.DEMOCRATS WISH KAMALA HARRIS RAN FOR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR, NOT LOOK TO 2028: REPORT”Okay, like you’re being serious?” Dhanraj asked.Lemon said he was being totally serious and was asked what it would take for him to run. “For the people to want me. What it would take is if I ran a political campaign, a presidential campaign, I would like to run it, and I don’t know if this is realistic or not, without having to beg for money. I would like it to be a voter-citizen-driven campaign for as much as it can be. Maybe at some point I might have to take a donation. I would rather not do…

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.Two months before Pete Hegseth appeared in front of Congress to testify in his confirmation to be secretary of defense, he sat across from the podcaster Shawn Ryan, talking about the Pentagon’s 2015 decision to open ground combat roles to women.“It hasn’t made us more effective. It hasn’t made us more lethal,” Hegseth said. “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.”By the time of Hegseth’s appearance on the show in late 2024, women had been serving in combat positions for nearly a decade across the military. The decision to integrate women had been thoroughly studied — before, during, and after the process — and thousands of women had served in roles ranging from infantry to combat engineers to special operations. The debate over women in combat was largely considered to be over.But Hegseth was looking to reignite that debate. His book, “The War on Warriors,” which he was on the show to promote, dedicated a full chapter to the idea.“Dads take us to push risks. Moms put the training wheels…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For many rural patients, getting treated for a sore throat or the flu is needlessly burdensome. It can mean missing work, driving hours, waiting days for an appointment, or ending up in urgent care for a problem that should have been handled quickly. That is what provider shortages look like in practice. Seventy-four million Americans live in areas with health care shortages, and by 2036 the United States could be short by as many as 86,000 physicians. Yet many states still prevent pharmacists, one of the most accessible health care professionals in these communities, from treating minor, protocol-driven conditions. That should change.Many rural patients live far from a hospital, and even routine care can impose real costs. A parent seeking treatment for a child’s flu or strep throat may have to take an entire day off work just to get a basic prescription. Pharmacists, by contrast, are already located in many of the communities where physician access is limited. A nationwide analysis found that 88.9 percent of Americans live within five miles of a community pharmacy and 96.5 percent live within 10 miles. For minor conditions, a pharmacy visit can be faster,…

This article was originally published by William L. Anderson at The Mises Institute.  He spoke with a very thick Sicilian accent.“Ah, young fellow,” he said to Vito. “People tell me you’re rich. You and your two friends. But don’t you think you’ve treated me a little shabbily? After all, this is my neighborhood, and you should let me wet my beak.” — The Godfather, Don Fanucci tries to shake down Vito Corleone In the mid-1990s, Microsoft stood atop the high-tech world, and its founder and chairman, Bill Gates, had guru status among his fellow Americans. Microsoft had recently come out with its own Windows program, allowing it to compete with Apple Computer’s system and giving its company a huge advantage in the cutthroat world of technology. Gates was interested in furthering Microsoft’s fortunes, not its political ones. Michael Kinsley writes: For many years before the lawsuit, Microsoft had virtually no Washington “presence.” It had a large office in the suburbs, mainly concerned with selling software to the government. Bill Gates resisted the notion that a software company needed to hire a lot of lobbyists and lawyers. He didn’t want anything special from the government, except the freedom to build and sell software.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Following a week of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle stops making national headlines, a federal special agent working in deportations revealed why vehicle stops are a “very important” part of the agency’s operations.After the second ICE officer-involved shooting in a week took place in Maine on Monday, agents nationwide were given guidance to pause vehicle stops until further notice. That guidance, however, was overruled by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, who called vehicle stops “one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools.”Though controversial, the agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said vehicle stops are actually the preferred tactic for many officers, because they are safer for both law enforcement and the subject than home apprehensions, and they allow more time to identify the target than street apprehensions.Perhaps most notably, while vehicle stops have been widely criticized, the agent explained that they decrease “collateral” arrests, which they said are the apprehension of illegal immigrants who were not the target of the operation but were “at the wrong place at the right time.””[Vehicle stops] lead to a higher success rate in apprehending the target that they [ICE officers]…

Sophie Cunningham has done something far more impressive than anything she’s ever done on a basketball court.The Indiana Fever star has managed to upset both the left and the right with one single social media post.That’s right. It’s almost impossible to do nowadays given how polarizing every issue is. We’re all so black and white in 2026. You’re either far-left, or far-right. No in-between. No middle ground. No fence-sitting.So, when you manage to anger both parties with one simple question, you know you’ve really found the sweet spot.And that’s exactly what Sophie Cunningham did Thursday evening when she took to X and simply asked, “so how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?”Chaos:Sophie Cunningham asks an innocent question and gets bombardedBoom! That’s it. That’s the post that had everyone all fired up over on Elon’s app yesterday. So simple, yet so divisive.That single tweet has over 8 million views, over 4,000 retweets and a staggering 6,000 comments. It is, easily, Sophie Cunningham’s most viral post — which is saying something given she is the WNBA’s biggest start next to Caitlin Clark. WNBA STAR SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM CLARIFIES FREE AGENCY COMPLAINT, WANTED HOUSE IN INDIANA TO…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When the original founders of Hooters took back control of the iconic restaurant chain last year after its corporate bankruptcy, they promised to return it to its roots.That meant dialing back what founding member and Hooters Inc. CEO Neil Kiefer described as an oversexualized image, reemphasizing the food and hospitality, and broadening the brand’s appeal to families and younger customers after years in which some corporate locations had become, in his words, “little boys’ club stores.”But at the South Florida Hooters locations, which have always been operated by the original ownership group, the servers who greet customers every day say they’ve been appealing to families and children all along.HISTORY OF HOOTERS: 5 FACTS YOU LIKELY NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE RESTAURANT CHAIN”Here in South Florida, nothing is changing for us,” Gracie Williams, who has worked for Hooters for nearly six years, told Fox News Digital.”We are the same Hooters girls that we have been from the start,” said the 24-year-old waitress and bartender who also happens to grace the July cover of this year’s Hooters calendar. Micayla Williams, 21, who has worked for Hooters for about two years, echoed that sentiment.HOOTERS DITCHING BIKINI…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The latest wave of socialist victories in Democrat primaries in New York and elsewhere should be a wake-up call for Americans across the country. For years, many people dismissed socialism as a fringe movement within the Democrat Party. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.The wins by self-described New York socialists Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Claire Valdez are the latest evidence that the socialist movement is no longer a fringe faction operating on the margins of the Democrat Party. Socialists are increasingly setting the direction of the Democrat Party — and many voters in progressive areas of the country are willing to embrace it. That should concern every American.All three candidates were backed by fellow socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose rise has transformed him from a local elected official into a political kingmaker. The results stunned Democrat leaders. According to Axios, some House Democrats described the outcome as an “earthquake” and a “huge defeat” for party leadership. Even moderate Democrats will admit they no longer have control of their party, the socialists do.THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS ARE NO LONGER ON THE FRINGEThe significance of these victories goes beyond…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the most memorable moments of the 2026 Winter Olympics came early, when skier Lindsey Vonn delivered a gutsy performance for the ages by competing at 41 just a week after injuring her knee in a crash.Unfortunately, as admirable as her perseverance was, she injured herself badly in another crash just 13 seconds into her run in the women’s downhill final.Five months later, Vonn is still very much dealing with her injuries.MARCELLO HERNÁNDEZ ROASTS JAKE PAUL, TIGER WOODS AND BILL BELICHICK IN ESPYS MONOLOGUE “It’s been a very slow process,” Vonn told People while attending the ESPYs Wednesday in New York City. “It’s been five months since I’ve been able to actually go to the gym in a somewhat meaningful way. And walking is actually still really hard for me. My ankle is still broken.”Regardless of the outcome, her decision to attempt that run remains one of the most courageous moments of the Games. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!Remember when I mentioned that injury before the Olympics? That wasn’t just a minor bump in the road; it was a completely ruptured…

Leupold has just launched the long-awaited LCO Pro F2 carbine red dot sight.Leupold is best known for its rifle scopes, but that doesn’t mean that the company doesn’t know how to make excellent red dot sights. The DeltaPoint Pro, a longtime staple among pistol optics, is proof of that, but Leupold wanted to bring shooters an excellent carbine red dot option as well. Hence, the new LCO Pro F2.The Leupold LCO Pro F2 has a lot going for it, but its most standout feature is probably its viewing window. It’s very large and features a premium aspheric lens that provides a crystal-clear, distortion-free sight picture from edge to edge. The red dot also features a super crisp and bright reticle, and you have four options that you can swap between: a simple 1-MOA dot, a dot with compass points, a dot with a 65-MOA ring, and a dot with a 65-MOA ring and compass points.The LCO Pro F2 also offers unprecedented levels of brightness adjustment with 20 daylight and 10 night vision settings. A protected night vision button also allows you to easily switch between modes, and the rapid illumination dial can instantly cycle through all 20 daylight brightness settings…