NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When you picture the person running an international ransomware operation, a 16-year-old probably does not come to mind. Yet investigators say a teenager was the suspected main operator behind KillSec, a cybercrime group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. About 500 of those attacks have so far been identified as successful.Now, an international law enforcement operation has taken KillSec’s leak site and key servers offline. Authorities also secured at least 110 terabytes of stolen data that could have been exposed or used to pressure victims. The takedown offers a remarkable look at how accessible cybercrime has become. More importantly, it shows how attackers continue to find their way into poorly protected systems and turn stolen files into leverage. What investigators uncovered about KillSec shows how the group operated, how AI reportedly played a role and what you can do to make ransomware attacks harder to pull off.Join us for a free CyberGuy LIVE class.Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson shares practical ways to stay safer, smarter and more confident with technology. Explore classes on stopping spam, phone security, financial protection and using AI to get better health care. Each class is free, easy to…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell recently. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. On Sept. 29, he declared that “The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Having Emmanuel Macron holding forth on free speech is akin to Joey Chestnut proselytizing on veganism.France has been in a headlong plunge into censorship and speech criminalization. These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating” others based on race or religion.For example, fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty in a French court on charges of making antisemitic comments in a Paris bar in 2010 and 2011.MACRON TRASHES AMERICAN FREE SPEECH AS RIOTS GRIP FRANCE — INTERNET UNLOADS: ‘ENORMOUS FOOL’In another case, the father of French conservative presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was fined because he had called people from the Roma minority “smelly” in 2013. A French teenager was charged for criticizing Islam as a “religion of hate” in 2020. Many of us were disgusted recently when Macron celebrated Brigitte Bardot’s life as someone who “embodied a…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is confident that Democrats will win the Senate, but whether they support him as leader remains to be seen.Schumer, who has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017, believes that Democrats have “wind in our sails” heading into what some Republicans fear could be a brutal midterm election in November.And win or lose, he plans to retain his spot as the top Democrat in the Senate.12 RACES SCRAMBLE SENATE BATTLEFIELD AS DEMOCRATS EYE COMEBACK “I am running for re-election for leader,” Schumer told Politico. “Period.”But some of his own candidates on the trail running in elections that could shape the balance of power in the Senate aren’t keen on supporting him to once again lead Senate Democrats since he took the mantle from his friend and mentor, the late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.Adam Hamilton, who has gained enough ground on incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in ruby-red Kansas to make it a toss-up race, reiterated this week that he won’t support Schumer for leader in either a majority or minority.”And no disrespect for him at all, it’s just that I think we need new ideas,” Hamilton…
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MoreNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When you picture the person running an international ransomware operation, a 16-year-old probably does not come to mind. Yet investigators say a teenager was the suspected main operator behind KillSec, a cybercrime group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. About 500 of those attacks have so far been identified as successful.Now, an international law enforcement operation has taken KillSec’s leak site and key servers offline. Authorities also secured at least 110 terabytes of stolen data that could have been exposed or used to pressure victims. The takedown offers a remarkable look at how accessible cybercrime has become. More importantly, it shows how attackers continue to find their way into poorly protected systems and turn stolen files into leverage. What investigators uncovered about KillSec shows how the group operated, how AI reportedly played a role and what you can do to make ransomware attacks harder to pull off.Join us for a free CyberGuy LIVE class.Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson shares practical ways to stay safer, smarter and more confident with technology. Explore classes on stopping spam, phone security, financial protection and using AI to get better health care. Each class is free, easy to…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell recently. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. On Sept. 29, he declared that “The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech.” Having Emmanuel Macron holding forth on free speech is akin to Joey Chestnut proselytizing on veganism.France has been in a headlong plunge into censorship and speech criminalization. These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating” others based on race or religion.For example, fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty in a French court on charges of making antisemitic comments in a Paris bar in 2010 and 2011.MACRON TRASHES AMERICAN FREE SPEECH AS RIOTS GRIP FRANCE — INTERNET UNLOADS: ‘ENORMOUS FOOL’In another case, the father of French conservative presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was fined because he had called people from the Roma minority “smelly” in 2013. A French teenager was charged for criticizing Islam as a “religion of hate” in 2020. Many of us were disgusted recently when Macron celebrated Brigitte Bardot’s life as someone who “embodied a…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is confident that Democrats will win the Senate, but whether they support him as leader remains to be seen.Schumer, who has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017, believes that Democrats have “wind in our sails” heading into what some Republicans fear could be a brutal midterm election in November.And win or lose, he plans to retain his spot as the top Democrat in the Senate.12 RACES SCRAMBLE SENATE BATTLEFIELD AS DEMOCRATS EYE COMEBACK “I am running for re-election for leader,” Schumer told Politico. “Period.”But some of his own candidates on the trail running in elections that could shape the balance of power in the Senate aren’t keen on supporting him to once again lead Senate Democrats since he took the mantle from his friend and mentor, the late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.Adam Hamilton, who has gained enough ground on incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in ruby-red Kansas to make it a toss-up race, reiterated this week that he won’t support Schumer for leader in either a majority or minority.”And no disrespect for him at all, it’s just that I think we need new ideas,” Hamilton…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has heard evidence concerning possible false statements former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Fox News Digital has learned.Additional evidence could be presented to the grand jury as soon as next week, according to a source familiar with the matter.The proceedings remain in the grand jury phase, and no final decisions have been made about whether the matter will result in criminal charges, the source said.FORMER CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY IN FEDERAL TRUMP CONSPIRACY CASE Hutchinson, a former top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, emerged as one of the most prominent witnesses before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.During a nationally televised hearing in June 2022, Hutchinson provided testimony about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, including an account she said she heard from another White House official about the president’s reaction after being told he could not travel to the Capitol.Her account of an alleged confrontation inside the presidential…
Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy & The Five Elements: how two self-defense frameworks fit together.Spend enough time studying the law of armed self-defense and you will eventually run into two influential ways of thinking about when deadly force is justified. Massad Ayoob has spent decades teaching ability, opportunity and jeopardy—the AOJ triad. Attorney Andrew Branca, author of The Law of Self Defense, offers a five-point framework: innocence, imminence, proportionality, avoidance and reasonableness.More than a few gun owners have seen these as competing systems. Which one do you pick? But that’s the wrong question. AOJ and the five elements aren’t rivals. Rather, they are complementary frameworks and understanding how they fit together makes both more useful.The Five ElementsBranca’s framework starts with “innocence.” The person claiming self-defense cannot also be the unlawful aggressor who started the confrontation.“Imminence” asks whether the threatened harm is happening now or is about to happen. Self-defense law is preventive, not punitive or retaliatory. You cannot use deadly force today because someone threatened you last week, and you cannot keep using force once the threat has ended.“Proportionality” asks whether the force used matched the severity of the threat. Deadly force generally requires a threat of death or serious bodily injury,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Officials are monitoring renewed volcanic activity at one of Hawaii’s most popular tourist destinations as hundreds of earthquakes and rockfall risks prompt temporary trail closures.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued a volcanic activity notice earlier this week for the Kīlauea volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, reporting renewed spattering at two vents following recent activity beneath the summit.The National Park Service (NPS) announced Wednesday that Halemaʻumaʻu Trail and part of Byron Ledge Trail would temporarily close amid increased seismic activity and concerns about rockfalls. The closures affect a combined 1.3 miles of trails.HUSBAND AND WIFE GET TRAPPED IN PREMIER HIKING DESTINATION; ONLY ONE OF THEM MAKES IT OUT ALIVEOver 200 shallow earthquakes were recorded beneath Kīlauea’s summit during the past week, according to the NPS, citing the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. A magnitude-3.4 earthquake on Sept. 30 caused small rockfalls along the caldera’s north wall.Kīlauea remained at an ORANGE aviation color code, the second-highest level on the USGS’ four-tier scale, as of Thursday. The designation indicates heightened volcanic activity and the potential for an eruption, or an eruption underway with limited hazards to aviation.The intrusion, which occurred from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1, is…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When you picture the person running an international ransomware operation, a 16-year-old probably does not come to mind. Yet investigators say a teenager was the suspected main operator behind KillSec, a cybercrime group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. About 500…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! French President Emmanuel Macron went full Orwell recently. While long the darling of Western media, Macron has been one of the most anti-free-speech leaders in the world. On Sept. 29, he declared that “The so-called American ‘free speech’ today, which some people…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is confident that Democrats will win the Senate, but whether they support him as leader remains to be seen.Schumer, who has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017, believes that Democrats have “wind in our sails”…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has heard evidence concerning possible false statements former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Fox News Digital has learned.Additional evidence could be presented…
Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy & The Five Elements: how two self-defense frameworks fit together.Spend enough time studying the law of armed self-defense and you will eventually run into two influential ways of thinking about when deadly force is justified. Massad Ayoob has spent decades teaching ability, opportunity and jeopardy—the AOJ triad.…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Officials are monitoring renewed volcanic activity at one of Hawaii’s most popular tourist destinations as hundreds of earthquakes and rockfall risks prompt temporary trail closures.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) issued a volcanic activity notice earlier this week for the Kīlauea volcano at…
It’s official: Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer has the hottest seat in the NFL.Schottenheimer was stumped on the sideline at AT&T Stadium on Thursday night as his squad fell 24-16 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who entered the game 0-4 and started a rookie quarterback in his first career…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded that President Donald Trump end all ICE enforcement in the state after a federal agent shot an illegal immigrant in the Bronx on Thursday, sparking protests and confrontations with law enforcement.At a news conference late…
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Cancel culture is making a comeback, unfortunately.In case you missed it, Good Good Golf has been dragged by the golf establishment for an advertisement they posted in collaboration with Callaway golf, which promoted the Quantum Max Driver with Good Good branding. The ad features many of Good Good’s top personalities, including co-founder Garrett Clark, who is seen shoving a woman before she’s able to get a hold of the driver in his bag. He stands over her as she lays on the ground and tells her not to touch his driver.Reading this makes it sounds bad, and watching it is “cringe,” as Clark stated, while apologizing in a lengthy Instagram post following the backlash. The advertisement was done and presented in poor taste and the public didn’t receive it well. Even though it was meant to take inspiration from the hit horror movie “Obsession,” as Clark stated in his instagram video, where a character becomes obsessed with another due to a magic spell, causing them to be insanely and violently overprotective, it was not perceived that way. Many viewers missed the point and it fell flat, to say the least. But, what has been done in the aftermath since the…
A sailor assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln expected to reenlist before the ship’s current deployment began. Now, after more than nine months of continuous operations, training and drills, the service member is questioning whether the U.S. Navy could be a long-term career.“I planned to reenlist before this deployment, but now I’m reconsidering,” the sailor told Military Times on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal.Aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which was extended to support operations in the Middle East, uncertainty about the mission has taken a toll, the sailor said.“Not knowing what’s happening wears me down,” they said. “If we’re not in active operations, we’re training and running drills. It is non-stop round the clock, and it has been for months.”That pressure has begun to affect relationships. There’s more fighting, short tempers and “bad feelings,” even among people who were previously cordial to each other, the sailor said.“We just need some relief,” the sailor added. “It’s not sunshine and rainbows out here.”The sailor’s experience comes as the Navy faces a broader question about how sustained operational demands affect the people it needs to retain. Historical research by the service has found relationships between deployment patterns, time underway and retention, while…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Gov. Gavin Newsom is making affordability a focal point of his agenda as the potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender moves to tackle housing costs — seizing on an issue that hurt Democrats politically while converging with pieces of President Donald Trump’s deregulatory housing agenda before the midterms.Newsom’s biggest recent housing reforms in California came before Trump’s March 2026 executive order on regulatory barriers, but the two are pushing some of the same ideas, including faster approvals, fewer regulatory hurdles and more housing construction.”This is a pattern that we’ve seen a couple times with Democrats, where they will fight tooth and nail against economic common sense, but if it starts pulling the wrong way for them, then they’ll come around to reality. So you know he’s focusing on a lot of things that Trump has been championing,” economist Peter St. Onge told Fox News Digital. “…These are things that the free-market economists have been championing for decades.”St. Onge said while Newsom’s “transformation has been certainly striking,” California’s struggle to rebuild after the Palisades fire underscores whether that shift will translate into results.THE KEY STRATEGY RED STATES ARE USING TO LOWER HOUSING COSTS…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has uncovered a massive suspected Chinese bot farm conducting “influence operations” online in the United States, including pushing an anti-artificial intelligence and anti-data center narrative.This comes as a national debate rages over the costs and benefits of continuing to develop artificial intelligence at breakneck speed and the massive data centers required to power it. The debate also has immense political implications, dividing parties internally as many members of the GOP break with President Donald Trump on AI and data centers.As this national conversation unfolds, X’s Global Government Affairs account said the platform’s safety team identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts “involved in influence operations.”The X team said that within the bot farm, 200 accounts were found posting “in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.”BLANCHE URGED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN FIGHT AGAINST DATA CENTERS According to the platform, posts by these accounts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. The X team said other accounts also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data…
A longtime West Point professor is suing the academy, alleging that officials fired him after ordering instructors to stop teaching cadets that humans contribute to climate change. Adam Kalkstein, who taught climate science at the U.S. Military Academy for more than 17 years, filed a lawsuit this week accusing the school’s officials of retaliating when he pushed back on the directive, violating his First Amendment rights and academic freedom. “The U.S. Military Academy is aware of the lawsuit and take all such matters seriously. Because this involves active, pending litigation, we will not comment further on the allegations contained in the public court filings at this time,” the USMA told Military Times in a statement. In September 2025, the lawsuit alleges Geography and Earth Sciences faculty were called to an emergency meeting, told they could no longer teach anthropogenic climate change and instructed to scrub any references to it from their courses. Faculty were also reportedly warned that speaking to the media or politicians could result in the department’s dissolution. Court documents show that Kalkstein objected because the directive required him to omit established science. He relented but raised concerns with department leadership, West Point’s inspector general and the legal…
For the better part of the last two decades, polymer AR-15 magazines have dominated the market, as most clearly represented by Magpul’s PMAG introduced back in 2007. Since then, polymer magazines have evolved substantially, and you can now find every capacity, feature, and color you can think of being offered by dozens of manufacturers. The Lancer L5AWM brings a translucent body to a category long dominated by opaque polymer designs like the PMAG. Today, you can also find a decent variety of translucent AR-15 magazines, which seek to provide a constant and direct visual round count along with a unique aesthetic. Once seen as a novelty, they’ve become a serious contender alongside traditional opaque polymer options. That said, translucent magazines still tend to spark stronger opinions than you’d expect for something as simple as a mag. The Source Before translucent magazines became mainstream, you were forced to keep track of your round count mentally, or by relying on witness windows, like those you find on windowed PMAGs. Both work fine by all means, but under stress or time constraints it can be a bit more difficult than it sounds. So, the search for a more efficient way birthed the concept…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Four years ago, Taif Sami Mohammed was being celebrated by the United States as one of the world’s most courageous women. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the senior Iraqi official as the country’s “Iron Woman,” crediting her with stopping bribes, uncovering schemes that enriched corrupt officials and fighting corruption despite threats against her.Today, Mohammed is believed to be outside Iraq, on the U.S. terrorist watchlist and can no longer enter the United States.A State Department official told Fox News Digital that the department revoked Mohammed’s visa this week, marking a dramatic reversal for an official who received one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile awards for women in 2022.”While the Biden State Department shamefully celebrated and awarded foreigners who threaten our nation, the Trump State Department revokes their visas and ensures these individuals are removed from our country,” Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Dylan Johnson told Fox News Digital.TRUMP ADMIN EYES HISTORIC MASS VISA REVOCATION TARGETING UP TO 200K ASYLUM SEEKERS: REPORT “Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, suspected terrorists will never be allowed to remain in the United States.”The State Department did not immediately provide…
Written by Mike Searson & David Lane If there was ever a knife design that captivates the minds of knife aficionados and casual knife users alike, it is the OTF (out the front) automatic. Alternately and somewhat incorrectly referred to as stilettos or even push-knives, OTFs have been hyped a lot by their use in fiction from pulp novels and spy films of the 1960s to more-modern video games and TV shows like 24. OTF knives represent a relatively small section of the automatic knife market. Most of this has to do with the poorly made imports that were popular at gun shows, flea markets, and gas stations for over three decades. That all changed when a talented young machinist for a major firearm manufacturer began producing high-end OTF knives of his own, with quality materials and manufacturing methods back in the early 1990s. This changed the rules on how automatic knives were made and they were brought from the trash heap to the top of the heap. One of the myths of the OTF is that it can penetrate someone’s flesh in a killing strike by putting the closed knife to someone’s body and stabbing them to death by…
Amid combat operations and related efforts to clear mines and open sea lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, all while sustaining a naval blockade, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle estimates the Navy needs between $6 and $8 billion above what was budgeted for the current fiscal year “to be whole and solvent for [Fiscal Year] 26,” he told reporters at a round-table event on Wednesday.Delivering his State of the Navy address in Norfolk, Virginia, later that evening, Caudle said more than 27,000 sailors and more than two dozen ships had supported combat operations in America’s conflict with Iran.“Think about the scale of what your sailors accomplished,” he said. “We brought together naval forces from waterfronts on both coasts.”In addition to operations, Caudle said costs for personnel are ballooning with what the Navy said are record numbers of reenlistments while in combat theater, which comes with unplanned bonuses to dole out and military moves to fund. “What does that come out of legally? There’s only one place really that can come out of for me, and that’s my [facilities] readiness sustainment modernization account,” Caudle said. “That goes right to the heart of your CNO, because that’s the foundry account,…
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