Three years into her WNBA career, most people still can’t have an honest conversation about Caitlin Clark. So we’re going to have one right now.Clark emerged as a phenomenon during her junior season at Iowa. Very few people had a negative word to say about her. That changed during the NCAA tournament when LSU forward Angel Reese taunted Clark with the “You can’t see me” gesture, the celebration Clark had made famous throughout her college career.Reese’s taunt drew criticism online. Notably, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy called her a “classless piece of s—.”From that moment forward, a new narrative took hold, one that stated Reese received more backlash than Clark for the gesture because she is Black. At this point, Clark was no longer just the sport’s biggest star. She became a symbol in a broader cultural argument about race.The argument, of course, ignored an obvious distinction. The “You can’t see me” taunt, popularized by John Cena, had become Clark’s signature. Reese intentionally stole it and waved it directly in Clark’s face. In wrestling, that would be viewed as classic heel behavior. Context mattered.But as you will soon read, facts matter very little in the commentary surrounding Caitlin Clark, much…

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that the current Ebola outbreak could become the largest on record. Health officials still say that the risk to Americans is low. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC or DR Congo) says that the number of confirmed Ebola cases has reached 1,274, including 360 deaths. Contact tracing covers only 30% of cases as the Bundibugyo virus spreads through refugee camps with over 1,100 infections and 250 deaths since May, when the outbreak was first noticed, according to a report by DongA Science.  Jean Kaseya, the Director General of Africa CDC, said that in order to contain the spread of this virus, 80% of contacts of confirmed cases need to be traced. That is far below the current contact tracing rate of only 30%. Kaseya added that “community transmission is extremely severe.” The current outbreak is spreading mainly in Ituri Province in eastern Congo. Since May, more than 1,100 people have tested positive for Ebola, and according to the Congolese Ministry of Health, over 250 deaths have been recorded. Because the virus may have spread for several months before it was detected, the actual number of deaths is believed to be…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Charlie Kirk’s parents and his widow Erika Kirk will attend Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing in Utah next week, according to a source familiar with the situation.It marks the first major hearing Kirk’s family is expected to attend since Robinson’s arrest in the days after his assassination.The family is not expected to speak publicly, however.Robinson, 22, is accused of fatally shooting Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025. He has not yet entered a plea.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X The preliminary hearing is expected to take the full week of July 6. Prosecutors will call witnesses in a bid to establish probable cause for the case against Robinson, and if they succeed, the court will allow the case to go to trial.There is a chance that the hearing gets pushed back, however, with the Utah Supreme Court weighing a defense appeal over Judge Tony Graf’s denial of Robinson’s motion to ban news cameras from the proceedings — a motion opposed by designated victims’ advocate Erika Kirk.The state’s highest court could issue a decision before the end of the week.”[The…

Since its creation during the World War II, the Presidential Unit Citation has only been bestowed roughly 100 times — the through line being some of the most elite units and daring operations in U.S. military history. Now, an oil replenishment ship will join the ranks alongside storied units such as the Blackhorse Regiment and receive the nation’s highest military honor for unit-level combat valor.Next month the USNS Kanawha, a Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler under Military Sealift Command, will receive the PUC for its support of the Ford Carrier Strike Group during Operation Epic Fury.During its 204-day deployment, the ship, named after the Kanawha River in West Virginia, operated in the U.S. 4th, 5th and 6th Fleets, delivering more than 17 million gallons of fuel, 3,000 pallets of supplies and performing 113 replenishments to 29 U.S. and coalition vessels, according to the Defense Department. Described by the department as a “strategic enabler,” the floating warehouse sustained Operations Southern Spear and Epic Fury before returning to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, on May 16.The ceremony, set for mid-July, will make Kanawha the first auxiliary ship to receive the award, and the first in Military Sealift Command’s 77-year history. The MSC…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended a socialist “insurgency” inside the Democratic Party on Monday, insisting the change ushered in by figures like Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “bluntly needed” and evidence of disillusionment with the status quo.”We needed a change because [of] what happened in 2024,” de Blasio told “America’s Newsroom.””People saw the Democratic Party [as] part of the status quo that they did not like. Ironically, Trump seemed like the guy who was ready to break the status quo. Now the tables have turned. Trump is the status quo guy.”JOE SCARBOROUGH GOES OFF ON ‘HORRIBLE’ DNC CHAIR, ‘CRAZY’ DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN SCATHING ON-AIR CRITIQUE The New York Democrat likened Trump to former President Joe Biden, insisting that both leaders have been guilty of “defending” agendas that many Americans believe have not produced favorable results.He argued that both presidents spoke positively about their agendas and the economy under their administrations, even as many Americans struggled and felt their needs had gone largely unaddressed.”He’s [Trump is] constantly talking about how great things are when people don’t feel great… [he] seems out of touch with the day-to-day kitchen table reality of…

Of 116 Naval Criminal Investigative Service case files opened into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct onboard Military Sealift Command ships over a 20-year period, just five show that the case concluded at court-martial or in civilian court.That information is now public and searchable as a database due to a records request from the Maritime Legal Aid Foundation, which represents those who report being victims of shipboard harassment and abuse. Launched earlier this month, the archive, which covers all relevant cases between 2000 and 2022, shows a broad range of alleged misconduct — most of which has never before been made public. Most of the cases, as far as records show, ended with administrative discipline, or none at all.Among the cases unearthed in the records trove are a 2018 incident in which a government-contractor engineer onboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy exposed his genitals to the crew of a passing Navy helicopter, later acknowledging to investigators he had “just whipped it out.” Documents show that NCIS found no criminal statute applied and the engineer received a 30-day suspension.Another case, from 2019, involved a Merchant Marine midshipman — a college student — onboard the dry cargo ship USNS Richard E. Byrd.…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A liberal television icon issued a blunt warning to the Democratic Party about the upcoming midterm elections after a rash of far-left socialists won primary elections last week.Bill Maher, a comedian known for his political commentary, said Democrats are “well on their way” to blowing the November midterms after voting for three “outright really crazy” socialists in New York’s primary elections rather than their more establishment Democrat counterparts.Three socialists, Darializa Avila Chevalier, New York State Assembywoman Claire Valdez and former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander all won Democratic primaries in New York City congressional districts last Tuesday. BILL MAHER CALLS MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST ‘PATIENT ZERO’ OF THE ‘WOKE MIND VIRUS’In the wake of the socialist sweep, Maher was asked Sunday during an event in Washington, D.C. about comments he made claiming the 2026 midterms are the Democratic Party’s to lose.”I did say that, it was about two months ago, and you see how quickly the news changes in just two months, because that was before the Supreme Court made a ruling on voting rights,” said Maher, referencing the April Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which said congressional districts in that…

Military commanders love to warn troops that overreliance on GPS technology could spell disaster when signals are jammed or networks go down. But could handing navigation over to a computer be diminishing their powers of observation and decision-making skills as well?That’s the question an upcoming study from the University of Texas at Arlington aims to find out. The yearlong, $200,000 study, funded through the Department of Defense via a sub-grant, will use virtual reality simulations to track aspects of observation and recall in subjects with and without navigation aids.Steven Weisberg and Hunter Ball, associate professors of psychology at the university and the leaders of the study, said findings could help inform the design of computer interfaces and even guide personnel assignments in a unit, based on how much technological support troops need and how their brains respond to it.“If you’re fostering a scenario in which people are overrelying on things, they might not be able to use their own cognition when the time comes for them to do so, and so we want to identify … the specific design features that help out with that,” Ball said. “We also want to identify — more long-term — individual differences. If I’m…