NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s efforts to issue a pair of grand jury subpoenas sent to the Federal Reserve Board after concluding they were merely a “pretext” to pressure Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates or resigning.In the ruling, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said there “is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will.” “The Court must thus conclude that the asserted justifications for these subpoenas are mere pretexts,” he added.The news comes after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said last year it had opened a criminal inquiry into Powell related to the testimony he gave to Congress last year regarding the $2.5 billion renovation of the Fed’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.  This is a breaking news story. Check back shortly for updates. Read the full article here

More than 36 years and 6,000 flight hours later, U.S. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Paul Anderson concluded his career this month with record-setting flying hours. Anderson, assigned to the 305th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, is ending his service after achieving the feat of being the longest-flying helicopter pilot across active duty, Reserve and Guard components, the Air Force confirmed.The flying hours he notched were spent in the HH-60G Pave Hawk and the HH-60W Jolly Green II, per an Air Force release. He reached 1,000 more hours than the helicopter pilot with the second-most hours.Anderson’s Air Force career began in 1990 as a maintenance officer in Indiana and Alaska, the release says. A few years later, he was selected to attend pilot training, where he made a “spur-of-the-moment decision” that would “define the next three decades of his life.”“The flight commander came up and offered a helicopter slot,” Anderson said in the release. “I thought about it for a couple seconds and said, ‘I’ll take it.’”He attended helicopter training in Fort Rucker, Alabama, according to the release, and graduated in 1995. After spending time at locations like Kadena Air Base, Japan, and Nellis Air Force Base,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran is deploying explosive-laden drone boats disguised as wooden fishing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a defense expert has warned — a move that signals a new phase of hybrid maritime warfare in one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes.Cameron Chell, CEO of drone technology firm Draganfly, spoke after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) confirmed that a Marshall Islands–flagged oil tanker was struck March 1 by an Iranian unmanned surface vehicle north of Muscat, Oman.”UKMTO has received confirmation that the vessel was attacked by an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV), and that the crew has been evacuated to shore,” UKMTO said in a threat assessment.Reports also indicated that two additional oil tankers were hit March 11 by remote-controlled explosive boats in the Gulf, as Iran intensified attacks on foreign vessels following the start of the U.S. Operation Epic Fury against the regime on Feb. 28.FIRES RAGE AT IRAN’S BANDAR ABBAS NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, STRAIT OF HORMUZ TRAFFIC STALLED The use of so-called “suicide skiffs” represents a growing asymmetric threat in the narrow, 21-mile-wide Strait, Chell warned, while highlighting the technological capabilities behind these attacks.”The Iranians probably have use of radio…

An Army lieutenant colonel who instructed Old Dominion University’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps was killed on campus Thursday when a shooter opened fire in his classroom. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger confirmed the shooting victim was Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, who enlisted in the Army in 2003 and received his Army commission in 2007 after graduating from ODU. Shah led the ROTC program at the Norfolk, Virginia, university since 2022.“A devoted ROTC instructor, Lt. Col. Shah didn’t just lead a life of service to our country, he taught and led others to follow that path,” Spanberger said in a post on X. “I am grateful for his example, deeply saddened by his death, and praying for his family.”Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Norfolk field office, identified the suspect as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. He yelled “Allahu Akbar” before opening fire, killing Shah and wounding two others, according to the FBI.Jalloh had been in the Army National Guard and pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to aid the Islamic State. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was released from federal custody in December 2024.ROTC students subdued and killed Jollah, according to the FBI. They “rendered…

Some time has passed since the last time we took a peek at what Artisan Cutlery had cooking – but we’re glad to do so now, because we can talk about the incoming Trust, from designer Theo Estevao. The Trust is an elegant design, but also quite a large one. The blade length is listed as 3.76 inches – that’s a considerable run of steel, enough for chores both in suburbia as well as out in the rough and tumble of the great outdoors. The blade shape, a modified wharncliffe (or reverse tanto if you’re nasty), provides dependable, predictable geometry – the Trust has a look unique to itself, but it won’t cause any surprises when it comes to separating matter. Symmetry is maintained on the Trust despite it being a frame lock The reliable performance of the Trust continues in Artisan’s choice of blade steel, S35VN. This is a couple generations of super steel behind the curve, but it’s hard to imagine any but the most recalcitrant of steel addicts quibbling with it here; for use in a knife like the Trust, whose sizable blade may do chores both heavy and light, S35VN’s balanced, but still elevated, performance will…

We should all be expecting the price of oil to continue to rise, as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Global oil supplies are being hindered, and if the cost-of-living crisis wasn’t bad enough, it looks like it’s about to get much worse. Crude oil, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, natural gas, petrochemicals, power, and fertilizer prices have all risen sharply since the conflict began. The narrow shipping lane, known as the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, remains closed. This lane is the one through which around a fifth of the world’s daily oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply passes.  The closure is threatening to cause economic pain to the everyday human almost everywhere on the planet. Top Middle East oil producers Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait have all cut production at their oilfields because they have to pump oil into storage if they cannot load it onto oil tankers, accoridng to a report by Reuters.  Most investigative journalists agree that this is going to cause a massive economic impact, harming those who have nothing to do with the ruling class’s war mongering. The halt to oil and gas shipments through the strait is the nightmare scenario for the global energy…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cindy Crawford shared a montage on social media of her typical morning routine that included skinny-dipping in her jacuzzi, wearing nothing but a necklace.”I love my morning routine— sets me up to have a great day!” Crawford wrote in the caption of an Instagram video she shared this week.The supermodel’s day starts at 6 a.m. with dry brushing while listening to her Bible app.After doing her face routine, which involves a cleanser and a red-light device, she takes a shot of apple cider vinegar by 7 a.m. — which gives her a little shudder — and then goes outside on her lawn barefoot.SHARON STONE BLASTS HOLLYWOOD’S NUDITY DOUBLE STANDARD IN FIERY INSTAGRAM VIDEO In the video, she then drops her robe before climbing into her oceanfront jacuzzi.By 7:45, the 60-year-old is back inside for her morning coffee with collagen, and she answers a few emails before heading to the gym. Her workout involves yoga, hanging upside down and jumping on a miniature trampoline – all before her Pilates teacher arrives around 8:30 a.m.”And that’s my morning,” she added at the end of the video.Crawford discussed her free-spirited attitude toward nudity in a…

In a United States War Department-issued “Line of Position” notebook, Capt. Robert A. Lewis begins like many service member letters, with a “Dear Mom + Dad.” But this log, dated Aug. 6, 1945, is unlike any other entry from World War II. Lewis, the co-pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay, was en route to Japan from the Pacific island of Tinian when he began recording. Now, his account, written during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, is for sale. His “blow by blow description,” which includes his famous reaction: “My God what have we done,” has just been put up for sale by Dan Whitmore, a rare book dealer in Pasadena, California, the Washington Post was first to report. The price: $950,000.This will be the fifth time that Lewis’ record has appeared at auction: the first being sold for $37,000 by Sotheby’s in 1971. Lewis, present for the auction, reportedly said that he believed that the account was of great historical importance, adding that he “didn’t know what else to do with it.”It sold once again for $85,000 at Sotheby’s in 1978; $391,000 at Christie’s in 2002 (as part of the Malcolm…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! WWE star Bayley earned the opportunity to challenge AJ Lee for the Women’s Intercontinental Championship earlier this week when she won a gauntlet match on “Monday Night Raw.”The match, which will take place on Monday, is nearly 13 years in the making. The last time the two professional wrestlers competed against each other was on Aug. 21, 2013, for the Divas Championship. Lee, a veteran at that point, got the better of Bayley, who was still a newcomer. A lot has changed since then. Lee departed the company in 2015 while Bayley went on to become a four-time women’s champion and two-time women’s tag team champion. Bayley helped shape the WWE women’s division into what it is presently. The Women’s Intercontinental Championship wasn’t even a glimmer in anyone’s eye five years ago let alone 13 years ago.Lee returned to WWE in September, potentially putting the two wrestling greats on a collision course with each other at some point. With Lee winning the title against Becky Lynch, Bayley was able to solidify her path toward a chance at championship gold.”Man, it’s so weird. So weird to think, it’s just like the universe works…