The two top officers of the U.S. Navy released a video Tuesday assuring sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt that their impending deployment would incorporate valuable lessons learned from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s historic deployment to the Middle East.Following the Lincolns’ nearly 10-month deployment that saw 264 days without a port visit, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman said the Roosevelt will maximize its loadout of food and hygiene products before setting sail, among other improvements.“As one carrier returns home, we listen to its sailors and families,” Perryman said in the video. “We capture what works and what didn’t and we make it better the next time.”The Roosevelt, which is currently underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations conducting training, is set to replace the Lincoln in the Middle East as the Lincoln wraps up its Thailand port visit on its way home to San Diego, California.Families of sailors aboard the Lincoln expressed concern on Aug. 11 during a San Diego town hall meeting with then-Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao that their loved ones were experiencing food shortages.Those potential shortages appear to have been at least partially…

Picture this: you drive out to the range with a rifle you know is zeroed. You spent good money on a scope, so you have a crystal-clear, parallax-free view of your target. You get your rifle set up on a good rest, chamber a round, and pull the trigger to the rear. You are rewarded with a perfect center-punch. Two more rounds follow closely behind it, carving out a ragged hole. Let me ask you this: is there anything missing from the story? Are you aware of how much consistency in the your ammunition can impact your accuracy? It matters. A lot. Indeed there is! The savvy marksman knows that even with a surplus of talent and an excellent firearm to work with, printing a tight group also depends on using good ammo. Collectively, it’s the guns, glass, and gear that tends to consume a great deal of our attention — at least according to most of our YouTube algorithms — but quality ammunition is a non-negotiable element of what allows us to place bullets where we want them to go. A good variety of shooters, however, find themselves flummoxed when it comes to explaining why that is. Today, let’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A sobering warning from Sandra Bullock’s sister became a wake-up call for the actress as she quietly navigated her late partner Bryan Randall’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Bullock reflected on how caring for Randall through his illness forced her to recognize her own limits – and ultimately ask for help after years of putting others first.”I’m always a caretaker,” she said during an appearance on “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.” “Always. And I learned that I didn’t take care of the person that was taking care of everybody else. And that was a big wake-up call for me. And I’m not good at asking for help, but I needed help and I needed to ask it in a way that was safe.”SANDRA BULLOCK SAYS BRYAN RANDALL WAS ILL FOR ‘HALF OF OUR RELATIONSHIP’ AS SHE OPENS UP ABOUT HIS DEATH “The Blind Side” star said she was grateful for the people who stepped in to help guide her through the difficult time. She also credited her sister with ringing a much-needed alarm, warning that she needed to start taking care of herself so she could continue being there for her children,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Skillet frontman John Cooper believes people labeled “woke” are often motivated by good intentions — but warned their approach can ultimately “hurt society.””I think it’s really worth mentioning that people that we would call woke, the things that we find really problematic, I think it’s worth mentioning that most of those people really have big hearts,” Cooper said during a recent appearance on the “Unashamed with the Robertson Family” podcast. “They want justice. They want the world to be better.””They’re just going about it in a way that they don’t know is wrong, and it’s actually hurting them,” he continued. “It’s hurting everybody. It hurts society.”SKILLET’S JOHN COOPER SAYS CHRISTIANS WHO CALL ROCK MUSIC ‘DEMONIC’ ARE ‘GETTING THE GOSPEL WRONG’ He said that inner cities in particular are “getting so much worse,” saying, “I look at the things that the politicians that say they want to help the poor, they want to help the marginalized, they want to help people of color, whatever it may be, and all they do is keep hurting them more and more and more.”BRANTLEY GILBERT SLAMS ARTISTS WHO BACK OUT OF PATRIOTIC SHOWS UNDER HEATCooper said he…

The Pentagon has decided which company will make the U.S. Navy’s next-generation stealth fighter and could announce the winner in the coming weeks or sooner, two people briefed on the matter said.Boeing and Northrop Grumman are competing for the contract, which previous programs of similar scope suggest could be worth tens of billions of dollars over its lifetime.The program, currently unnamed but designated F/A-XX, has been buffeted by delays and funding disputes for years. Some Pentagon officials had sought to delay it by up to three years, citing concerns about engineering and supply chain capacity. Congress pushed back, earmarking $750 million for F/A-XX in the massive tax-cut and spending bill signed into law in 2025 and an additional $1.4 billion in fiscal 2026.With China rapidly fielding advanced combat aircraft — including ones Beijing describes as sixth-generation — the stakes of further delay are high, leaving the Navy without a modern fighter capable of operating from carriers in the 2030s and beyond, potentially undermining its ability to project power in contested environments, a U.S. official has said.A Pentagon spokesperson said, “We continue work to award the F/A-XX contract in the near future. There is no additional information at this time.”The carrier-borne…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Lindsey Brooke Isaacs was asleep at home when police arrived and told the 23-year-old that her car had been involved in a crash that killed three people. She knew they had the wrong person. Her black Dodge Durango showed no obvious collision damage, and she had a receipt showing where she had been.Still, the investigation eventually led to her being arrested and 13 days in jail. “My heart was in my stomach,” Lindsey told me on The CyberGuy Report Podcast at Cyberguy.com/podcast/. “I didn’t know what was going on.”Months later, prosecutors dropped all eight felony charges against her and investigators arrested another woman in connection with the crash. Her case now raises a bigger question about how much weight investigators should give license plate camera data when a person’s freedom is on the line.Missed CyberGuy LIVE? Watch the Protect Your Money replayOur free CyberGuy LIVE class, Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest Threats, has ended, but you can still watch the full replay and download our financial protection checklist. Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson walks you through five simple ways to help defend yourself against AI scams, fraud, identity theft and financial hacks. You’ll…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. State Department recently updated its travel advisory for a tourism-heavy South American country — flagging risks ranging from violent crime and kidnapping to terrorism and dangerous drugs.Peru’s Level 2 “Exercise Increased Caution” advisory was just updated, though officials said the overall advisory level did not change.Americans are warned about crime, unrest, kidnapping and terrorism across the country, while several areas carry the more severe Level 4 “Do Not Travel” designation.TRAVELERS WARNED OF MURDER, KIDNAPPINGS AND DRINK-SPIKING ROBBERIES IN VACATION HOT SPOTAngel Castellanos, a California-based travel expert, said Americans venturing beyond Peru’s major tourist areas should take the warnings seriously and research their destinations — while pointing out the advisory does not apply to many popular tourist areas.”If you’re venturing outside those areas, that’s when the State Department invites us as responsible travelers to really investigate further and to look into these situations further,” Castellanos told Fox News Digital. Officials say there are risks of “petty theft, carjackings, muggings, assaults, and other violent crime” that “often happen even in daylight hours and with many witnesses around.”The State Department also warned of “express kidnappings,” in which victims are taken to a bank…

The U.S. Air Force is looking to turn its cargo planes into launch platforms for drone swarms.Or more specifically, the service would like transport aircraft and their retinue of drones to deploy to Air Force bases. Once there, this swarm of AI-controlled drones would autonomously defend the bases — and any aircraft parked there — from attack.The goal is to transform cargo planes into “adaptive, force-multiplying launch platforms” that provide “a rapidly deployable swarm for base security,” according to an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research solicitation. The deadline is Oct. 21.The Air Force is looking for a 3-for-1 deal. One mission is to provide transport aircraft with onboard intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities by enabling them to become high-altitude drone motherships, as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated in 2021 when a C-130 recovered an X-61 Gremlin in mid-air. An X-61 Gremlin Air Vehicle drone and a C-130 during a flight test conducted by DARPA at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, on Oct. 29, 2021. During the flight test, DARPA said it successfully recovered a Gremlin in midair for the first time. (DARPA)A footnote in the SBIR also cites discussion by Air Mobility Command of using KC-135 tankers as…

It may have happened during a quarter-final match, and it may have taken place while most of the country was asleep, but Ben Shelton officially became the face of American men’s tennis on Wednesday morning at the US Open.After four hours and 28 minutes of war, Shelton secured his victory over seven-time major champion Carlos Alcaraz 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) at 3:33 a.m. in New York, making it the longest match in the Grand Slam’s history when the clock ticked past 2:50 a.m.By punching his ticket into the US Open semifinal for the second consecutive year, he guaranteed that the United States will be represented in Sunday’s final as he’ll take on fellow American Francis Tiafoe on Friday in the semis. GROUP OF INFLUENCERS FORCES PAUSE DURING US OPEN MATCH WITH CRINGEWORTHY PHOTOSHOOT IN SUITEAn American man has not won a Grand Slam title since Andy Roddick took down Juan Carlos Ferrero at the 2003 US Open.Shelton certainly had the crowd on his side throughout the match, and admitted that he fed off of the American fans in New York. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!”It’s always about the people in…

When Andy Markoff deployed to Mosul with the U.S. Marine Raiders in 2016, one of the challenges they faced as they pushed ISIS fighters back along a hundred-mile front was that they never had enough munitions, he said.Markoff explained that calling in air support was an effective way to clear an area, but with thousands of potential targets and few available weapon systems, he constantly had to calculate whether a particular target was worth it.“Even if that target wasn’t active, knowing that it might be and maintaining availability of that type of a weapon system on station in case it showed up, that was all math I was doing in my head,” he said, adding, “We had to be really careful about saving those munitions.”In an interview with Military Times, Markoff, now the co-founder and chief executive of Smack Technologies, said his experience in Mosul illustrates the kind of problem his company’s artificial intelligence software, Omega, is designed to help solve.Earlier this month, Markoff spoke with Military Times about Smack’s Alpha, the wrist-worn device for which the company recently raised $61 million. He followed up to discuss its flagship product, Omega. The company shared a 14-minute video demonstration typically reserved…