Marines have less than two months to select a religious affiliation from a newly condensed list of 30 options the service announced Tuesday, as part of a Pentagon-wide overhaul to reduce the number of faith designations. The new list replaces more than 200 affiliation codes that were previously available to service members, grouping many individual identities into expansive categories. The move comes amid sweeping changes to the military’s religious programs and chaplaincy under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Marines have until Sep. 30 to update their personnel records to reflect the slimmed-down options, the service said in an administrative message. When the Pentagon announced the overarching changes earlier this year, Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesman, said the shift was designed to help chaplains understand the composition of their units, not delegitimize religious beliefs. The Marine Corps’ administrative message addressed the intention Parnell described, but said: “as a result of this change, some previously authorized faith and belief designations are no longer individually represented and have been consolidated into broader religious affiliation categories.”Marines are instructed to choose “the most appropriate” identity when making their selection. This is not the only recent change to the military’s approach to faith and chaplaincy under…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A socialist candidate for governor in Wisconsin with an extensive history of inflammatory online posts once described America as “an abundance of suffering,” Fox News Digital has found.”I want this country to stop being an abundance of suffering but a wealth of opportunity,” reads a Jan. 20, 2022 X post from Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong, who is running in the Democratic Party’s primary election to become the state’s top official.”We can do this by providing equal rights to Black and Brown folks,” the post continues. “Elect more Black and Brown folks who won’t be racist obstructionists. We can all be better and do so much more.” SOCIALIST FRONTRUNNER IN THE HOT SEAT AFTER ‘CANCEL THANKSGIVING’ POST EMERGES ONLINEThis isn’t the first time the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate has faced scrutiny for past comments on social media that are especially critical of America and its institutions and ideals.”Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621,” Hong wrote in a now-deleted post on X.”If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed indigenous folx [sic] and women, so…

The U.S. Air Force selected over 12,500 senior airmen to be promoted to staff sergeant in the 2026 cycle, a decrease from last year’s promotion cycle.The service chose 12,671 senior airmen out of the 39,774 who were eligible for promotion, resulting in a selection rate of 31.86%, according to a Monday Air Force Personnel Center release.The 2026 staff sergeant promotion list will be made publicly available on Thursday, according to the statement. In 2025, nearly 15,900 senior airmen were promoted out of approximately 47,000 eligible, resulting in a selection rate of 33.81%, marking the largest number of staff sergeant promotions in almost a decade. The Air Force last selected a large number of senior airmen for promotion in 2016, with a total of slightly over 16,500 at a selection rate of 42.25%.The largest selection class was in 2002, less than a year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when 19,448 airmen were selected at a rate of 62.98%. The number of those promoted in the 2026 cycle is still a large increase from the lowest number of promotions in the past decade of around 9,700 and 9,000 seen in 2022 and 2023, respectively.To advance from senior airmen, E-4, to staff sergeant,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two custodians were found shot to death Monday inside a Chicago elementary school after one of them allegedly killed his co-worker before turning the weapon on himself, according to reports.A 48-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man were found unresponsive inside Mark Twain Elementary School just after 3:30 p.m., the Chicago Police Department said.Both were shot once in the head, authorities said. They were taken to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead.TWO FOUND SHOT TO DEATH INSIDE CAR ON UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CAMPUS: REPORT An unspecified weapon was found at the scene.School principal Matthew Moline confirmed the deaths in a letter to parents, WTTW-TV reported. He said shots were fired inside the building at a time when no students were present.”I am sorry to share that members of our school community were impacted,” he wrote.SEIU Local 73, the union that represents Chicago Public Schools custodial employees, confirmed both unidentified victims worked at the elementary school.DISPATCH AUDIO RELEASED IN MICHIGAN FAMILY MURDER-SUICIDE AS TROUBLED FAMILY’S SECRETS EMERGE “The only facts we know right now are that two families have lost a loved one and our prayers are with their families, and the staff,…

MANILA, Philippines — A senior Pentagon official pushed back against reports that the U.S. military’s stockpiles and capabilities are strained following Operation Epic Fury, while reaffirming Washington’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific amid China’s increasingly assertive military activity in the South China Sea.Department of War Undersecretary for Policy Elbridge Colby made the remarks in Manila on Monday amid growing concerns that China has been narrowing the gap — or eclipsing — U.S. military capabilities, as its demands in the Middle East have potentially drained stockpiles.“There’s been a lot of news about the United States military being stretched. Please don’t be misinformed,” Colby told Manila’s defense and security elites at a closed-door event organized by the Stratbase Institute think tank.“The United States military, and especially including those [maritime and aerospace] capabilities, are ready and capable of filling the priority missions that the president has given to them,” Colby said.Colby, one of the Pentagon’s leading strategists, has pushed to prioritize the Indo-Pacific and East Asia over the Middle East and Europe. The Manila stop is the first in a week-long Southeast Asian tour that includes visits to Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. His visit also comes amid an increasingly tense period between Manila and…

Trading cards have been having a moment ever since COVID — hey, there are worse things to get into when you’re locked inside for months — and one of the most sought-after in years has been found.A 1-of-1 Cooper Flagg rookie card from Topps with the 2025 first pick’s NBA Debut patch from his first game has been the holy grail of sports cards as of late, so much so that the Dallas Mavericks put out a “bounty” for it.Well, according to ESPN, the card has been discovered by RhodyBreakers, some folks that rip open packs of cards on live streams (and if that concept sounds weird to you, it’s time to think about scheduling a colonoscopy).Alright, don’t go sticking that one in the spokes of your Huffy so it sounds like a motorcycle.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEThere was fervor around a similar card for Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes, and, as with that one, whoever found it has to decide what to do with the card. The obvious thing is to put it up for auction, because, while the current record for a Cooper Flagg card is $366,000, this one is expected to go for a lot…

Moscow on Tuesday freed a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since 2022 after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon for the ailing American based on humanitarian reasons, U.S. officials said.The White House and the State Department had urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he can receive medical treatment in the United States.Gilman was being held in a prison in Voronezh, about 340 miles south of Moscow. The exact circumstances of his health are unclear.But Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, an advocacy group representing Gilman’s family, told Reuters last week that Gilman was moved in late June from the prison hospital to the psychiatric ward of a civilian emergency hospital in a catatonic-like state assessed as a “dissociative stupor.”The U.S. officials said Gilman on Tuesday was on a State Department plane carrying him from Russia to Washington Dulles Airport.A U.S. official who spoke to Gilman said he was walking and talking.“All things considered, he seems to be in good shape,” the official said.Gilman will be evaluated on the flight by four doctors, said the U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. His mother, Nina, was also on board.The U.S. officials said Gilman, upon…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chrissy Metz is opening up about her decision to use a GLP-1 after years of skepticism about the popular weight-loss medications.During an appearance on “The Today Show” on Monday, the “This Is Us” star, 45, explained that she reconsidered the drugs as she entered perimenopause and thought more seriously about her health and her family’s history with obesity.”I was very skeptical about GLP-1s for years,” she said. “I had a friend who was like, I don’t know, he gave me a thesis and I was like, ‘OK, this might be helpful.'”MAYIM BIALIK DETAILS ‘NIGHTMARE’ AFTER ONE INJECTION OF GLP-1 DRUG LED TO WEEKS OF DEBILITATING SIDE EFFECTS After witnessing her father experience complications with his own health, Metz thought, “Maybe I should try and get ahead of it.””It was something that I thought would be good for me,” she said.Since taking the drug, Metz said she’s noticed a difference in her energy level, as well as her “overall health.”Despite the previous skepticism, Metz said the most important thing for her is “longevity.””Learning what it really was and how it affects everybody differently … my doctor and my team were like, ‘Yeah, I…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday he is working to fix telecom issues flagged after a military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump last week came too close to a passenger jet departing Reagan Washington National Airport.The incident raised serious questions about why the passenger airplane was allowed to depart while ​Marine One was nearby, a time when commercial traffic is typically halted. Following a January 2025 crash between a ​military helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration barred mixed helicopter ⁠and jet traffic around the airport.“There have been some telecom issues,” Duffy told reporters at Newark Liberty International Airport. “That’s been now elevated,” he said, adding that he is working with the FAA on a fix with the White House. Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford spoke to media at the New Jersey airport for an event marking the installation of a new surface movement radar used to improve runway safety. The FAA is spending billions to replace outdated air traffic control telecom infrastructure and radar surveillance systems after a series of failures, including significant, serious outages covering Newark and Washington traffic and a 2023 failure of an FAA system that forced a…

What we are discussing here today is a rare military and police firearm that dates back to a time when Poland was behind the Iron Curtain. As a result, it was rarely seen in the United States during the Cold War, yet it still managed to earn a level of infamy as it was a sidearm of choice of East Germany’s Volkspolizei and Stasi. The 9x18mm Polish PM-63 tried to combine the attributes of a pistol and a submachine gun, offering a folding stock and foregrip. Image: Author’s Photo Development of the select-fire pistol began in the late 1950’s when the concept was first proposed at the Warsaw University of Technology in response to calls for a light hand-held defensive weapon for rear-echelon soldiers, including gun crews and vehicle drivers. In essence, a personal defense weapon (PDW). Design work was initiated by Polish firearms engineer Piotr Wilniewczyc in 1960, but after his passing just two years later, the compact machine pistol’s development resumed and it was completed by the state-operated Łucznik Arms Factory in the city of Radom, where it was first produced in 1963 — while it issued to the Polish armed forces two years later. RAK It Up Designated…