Disappearing into the wilderness for a week is a great way to learn and practice survival skills, but for many of those skills, it’s not really essential. Your garage, porch, or backyard can be the perfect training ground. It’s controlled, convenient, and forgiving, which is great when you’re still a newbie. Below are ten survival skills you can teach yourself at home. A few are fun weekend projects, some are surprisingly practical, and all of them build confidence fast. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! 1. Knot Tying Rookie survivalists tend to take knots for granted. Big mistake. Knowing the right knot for the right situation can be a literal lifesaver. Plus, it can actually be pretty fun once you start to get good at it. There are knots for tying flat straps together, joining two ropes of different widths, securing buckets or barrels, shortening a rope without cutting it, and so much more. I suggest starting with these five knots. Most people learn best by watching and doing, so check out this excellent site. It includes pictures, animations, videos, and written instructions for every kind of knot you can imagine. 2.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi claimed on Sunday, on “Face the Nation,” that President Donald Trump launched attacks against Iran “because it is fun,” accusing the United States of starting what he called an “illegal war” during an interview with CBS host Margaret Brennan.”We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes,” Aragchi said. “There are people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun… they are sinking ships and targeting different places because it is fun.”The comments came as the war between the United States and Iran continues to escalate, with the Trump administration signaling the conflict could continue longer than initially anticipated. TRUMP DEMANDS IRAN ‘SURRENDER,’ SAYS HE’S HEARING NEW LEADER ‘NOT ALIVE’ Trump told Fox News Radio that he will ultimately know when the conflict is nearing its end, saying he’ll recognize that moment “when I feel it in my bones.”The White House did not respond for comment from Fox News Digital.During the CBS interview, Brennan pressed the foreign minister about Iranian drone and missile attacks across the Gulf region and their impact on neighboring countries that host U.S. military forces.Aragchi defended Iran’s actions, claiming Tehran…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A veteran “60 Minutes” journalist slammed the previous owners of his parent network, CBS, for settling an election interference lawsuit with President Donald Trump.”Our previous owners at CBS faced political pressure and crumbled‚” Scott Pelley said, according to The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr, referencing the fallout over the legal dispute between Trump and CBS. Pelley was introducing former “60 Minutes” executive producer Bill Owens at the National Press Foundation Annual Journalism Awards Dinner last week. Pelley was referencing former CBS parent company, Paramount Global, before it was merged with Skydance Media, run by David Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison.CBS NEWS IN TRANSITION: WHO’S IN AND WHO’S OUT AFTER A TUMULTUOUS YEAR AT THE NETWORK In the days leading up to the 2024 presidential election, CBS News aired its “60 Minutes” interview featuring then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Critics at the time noticed that an answer she gave to a question about Israel that first aired in a preview clip on “Face the Nation,” which was mocked by conservatives for her “word salad” comments, appeared to have been swapped with a different answer that aired during the primetime election…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., deflected blame when pressed whether their party should vote to end the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown on Sunday, which has left workers without paychecks for weeks.”We saw terror attacks in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk, Virginia. This morning, the CEOs of the nation’s major airlines and cargo carriers have written a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, talking about the importance of American security in the airways,” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Schiff during “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding with the threat of terror attacks looming during this conflict?”Schiff said the Democrats wanted to separate ICE from the rest of the funding, and offered to do so multiple times to fund the other agencies affected by the shutdown.”We offered vote after vote, resolution after resolution—even as recently as this week—to reopen those agencies, to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down. We said, ‘Let’s wall off ICE funding, let’s fund these other agencies that protect the country,’ and the Republicans, one after another, voted them down. Voted down…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant released during the Biden administration has been charged with multiple counts of assault and battery after allegedly groping female classmates in the hallways of a Virginia high school, according to parents and school officials.”I think this entire horrifying situation is the direct consequence of policy with really dysfunctional priorities, and that’s to shield adult illegal immigrants at the expense of children’s safety, even in their public schools,” Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, the mother of 3 students in the Fairfax County School System, told Fox News.Lundquist-Arora joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” to discuss the arrest of an 18-year-old student accused of touching several female classmates inappropriately while they were walking through the halls of Fairfax High School.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING NJ TEEN COULD BE RELEASED UNDER SANCTUARY POLICIES, ICE WARNS The student, identified as 18-year-old Israel Flores Ortiz, was arrested and charged with nine counts of assault and battery after allegedly touching female students while they were walking through the hallways between classes, according to a letter sent to parents by Fairfax High School officials.Lundquist-Arora claims officials at the high school waited two weeks to inform parents and the move only…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr issued a warning to the media on Saturday calling on networks to “correct course” before their license renewals come up. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” he wrote on X, in response to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump about coverage of the war in Iran. “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.”He went on, “And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.”In his Truth Social post, Trump took issue with reporting from newspapers about tanker planes and said the claim that they were “struck” and “destroyed” was untrue. Carr appeared to reference the controversy surrounding CBS and Stephen Colbert in his statement on X. Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico and did not air the interview on the show, citing pushback from CBS.REPUBLICANS…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rihanna’s star status nearly cost her her life last weekend during an attempted drive-by shooting at her Beverly Hills home.Ivanna Lisette Ortiz allegedly drove up to the “Diamonds” singer’s mansion and fired multiple rounds from a semiautomatic weapon at the house, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Ortiz, 35, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder and faces life in prison if convicted on the charges.Following the shooting, cryptic posts were unearthed from Ortiz’s social media channels and provided an eye-opening look at overbearing celebrity fans.RIHANNA’S BEVERLY HILLS HOME TARGETED IN BRAZEN DAYLIGHT SHOOTING According to Ortiz’s Facebook, the self-employed suspect addressed Rihanna just weeks before the attack.  “@badgalriri — Are you there?” she wrote. “’Cause I was waiting for your AIDS 5-head self to say something to me directly instead of sneaking around like you’re talking to me where I’m not at.”In a Dec. 20 post, Ortiz wrote that she was “already through with Rihanna,” before referencing another major A-list star. “I restricted that stupid b— Kim Kardashian,” she wrote. “Your turn hiding b—-, stop begging for a look.”Additionally, Ortiz hosted a daily prayer for 60 days on her YouTube channel. In…

This article was originally published by Attila Rebak at The Mises Institute.  In the spring of 1812, British textile workers smashed power looms across Nottinghamshire, convinced that the machines would make their skills worthless and their families destitute. They were right about the disruption. Mills did displace hand-weavers. Communities that had organized themselves around a particular kind of skilled labor were genuinely torn apart. The Luddites weren’t stupid, and they weren’t wrong to feel the ground shifting. They were wrong about one thing: the conclusion. The labor those machines displaced didn’t vanish. It migrated into factories, railways, cities, and industries that hadn’t existed, filling wants that hand-weavers in 1812 couldn’t have imagined needing to satisfy. We are the Luddites now. Not the smashing machines part—the being right about the disruption and wrong about the conclusion part. Artificial Superintelligence will displace work on a scale that makes the power loom look modest. The disruption is real. The conclusion being drawn from it—permanent mass unemployment, the end of human economic relevance—is the same mistake, wearing better clothes. What Production Actually Does In 1803, Jean-Baptiste Say made an observation so simple that economists have spent two centuries finding ways to misread it: production…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Utah Valley Wolverines suffered immense heartbreak in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) men’s basketball championship game against California Baptist on Saturday.The Wolverines were down 63-61 with about 10 seconds left to play. Utah Valley ran a play as they inbounded the ball from the sideline. Trevan Leonhardt got the pass and Isac Davis set up the pick and roll. Leonhardt got around the defender and Davis had a wide-open opportunity. Davis went up for an alley-oop dunk, but just couldn’t finish it. He sat on the ground in disbelief.The Lancers won the game and earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.California Baptist star Dominique Daniels Jr. scored 23 points and nailed two 3-pointers in the final two minutes of the game to lift his team to the big dance. Bradey Henige had 11 points and Jonathan Griman added 10.2026 NCAA TOURNAMENT BERTH TRACKER: AUTOMATIC BIDS, CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TIMES, AND DEFENDING CHAMPS It will be the first tournament berth in California Baptist men’s basketball history. The school transitioned from Division II to Division I in 2018 and became eligible for the postseason during the 2022-23 season.Utah Valley saw its…