NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CNN is facing backlash on social media over a now-deleted Tuesday post on X about the two “Pennsylvania teenagers” who were charged with throwing bombs at a protest near Gracie Mansion in New York City on Saturday.”Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,” the post read. “But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home. Here’s what we know so far.”The suspects, 18-year-old Emir Balat of Langhorne and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi of Newtown, traveled from Bucks County to Manhattan on Saturday, where police said they ignited and hurled explosive devices into a protest crowd outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence.Federal prosecutors charged the suspects with material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and use of a weapon of mass destruction.The post has now been deleted. CNN followed up with this explanation on X: “A post regarding the two individuals arrested for throwing homemade bombs outside of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home…

The Marine Corps plans to combine water survival training with underwater egress training, a change that will result in more demanding swim tests, Military Times has learned.Under guidance posted in a Marine Administrative Message, or MARADMIN, on March 6, Marines will be required to train to the new standards beginning Oct. 1, 2026.According to the guidance, the changes are intended “to increase unit readiness and enhance capabilities in maritime environments” across the fleet while also improving “individual Marine comfort level in the water,” according to the release.In layman’s terms, the service is adopting a “building blocks” approach to training, Maj. Hector Infante, communications director at Marine Corps Training and Education Command, explained in an email. “While basic water survival skills are introduced during recruit training, the new order places a strong emphasis on continuous training and qualification opportunities for Marines throughout their careers,” Infante said.The push for training that results in competency in the water has been ongoing. As Military Times previously reported, the Training Command has been exploring ways to improve Marines’ swimming proficiency since 2022. Under the updated guidance, Marines will qualify under five water survival levels: Basic, Novice, Competent, Proficient and Advanced.“Basic,” however, is only a temporary…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One week into the war with Iran, U.S. officials say American and Israeli forces are moving toward “complete control” of Iranian airspace — clearing the way for deeper strikes, a broader target list and a conflict that appears to be expanding rather than winding down.In briefings this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine described what they called near-uncontested airspace over key corridors, a shift that allows sustained bombing operations deep inside Iran. “We are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives,” Hegseth said in a press briefing Tuesday morning. AFTER THE STRIKES, HOW WOULD THE US SECURE IRAN’S ENRICHED URANIUM?Caine said U.S. forces have now struck more than 5,000 targets in the first 10 days of operations, including dozens of deeply buried missile launchers hit with 2,000-pound penetrating bombs.The message from Washington is one of overwhelming military advantage. But the broader picture, rising oil prices, expanding drone warfare, strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure, and regional spillover touching NATO territory, suggests a conflict that is growing in scope even as U.S. officials project confidence in its trajectory.Leadership hardens in TehranAmid the intensifying conflict, Iran’s Assembly…

This article was originally published by George Ford Smith at The Mises Institute.  Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most capital-intensive industries in history. Consider: Semiconductor fabrication plants cost tens of billions of dollars. Massive data centers consume extraordinary amounts of electricity, sending power bills soaring. Specialized engineering talent commands premium wages. (Although the median salary for an AI professional is $160K annually, the top 1 percent of AI researchers receive compensation packages exceeding $1 million). Global supply chains must coordinate rare materials, precision manufacturing, and complex infrastructure. Yet discussions about artificial intelligence almost never address the most important economic variable shaping its development: money. From an Austrian perspective, the future of artificial intelligence ties directly to the monetary system that finances it. Whether AI produces sustainable prosperity or another boom-bust cycle depends less on algorithms than on interest rates. As we’ve seen throughout history, interest rates in a fractional-reserve banking system trend ever lower when a new technology gets underway. This generates the illusion of prosperity called a boom, followed inevitably by a bust. As a reminder of what is meant by a “bust,” keep in mind the figure $16.2 trillion—“The total net worth American households lost between 2007 and 2009 of the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert mocked Paramount for canceling his show after being honored at the 2026 Writers Guild Awards Sunday night.At the ceremony, Colbert received the Walter Bernstein Award for demonstrating, with “creativity, grace and bravery, a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity” after his show’s recent cancellation by CBS and its parent company Paramount.Though Colbert denied connections between himself and the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter behind the award’s name, he joked about Paramount effectively ending the “revolution” by ending his show.COLBERT ACCUSED OF ELECTION ‘STUNT’ TO PUSH TALARICO AHEAD OF CROCKETT IN TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY “This is not the 1950s,” Colbert said. “This is not the Red Scare. And, as far as I can tell, no one in late night is fomenting a revolution. As we know, the revolution will not be televised. It was going to be televised, but then Paramount bought it.”He added, “Evidently, the revolution was losing, like, $40 million a year — it had to go. I guess the revolution is thinking about starting a Substack.”Fox News Digital reached out to Paramount for comment, but did not immediately hear back. CBS announced in…

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — On March 4, when a U.S. Navy submarine torpedoed an enemy combatant for the first time since World War II, three Australian submariners were aboard.This was a contentious point for Canberra, as it is not a party to military actions against Iran.Two days later, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the presence of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) sailors aboard the U.S. submarine when the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena was sunk.“We wouldn’t normally confirm such an issue, but given our meetings and the public interest, I can confirm that there were three Australian personnel on board that vessel,” Albanese revealed.He added, “I can confirm also, though, that no Australian personnel have participated in any offensive action against Iran.” He noted, too, frameworks are in place to ensure Australians do not participate in such combat actions.Albanese elaborated: “These are long-standing, third-country arrangements that have been in place for a long period of time, and what they do is ensure that Australian Defence Force personnel, where they are embedded in third countries’ defense assets, they act in accordance with Australian law, Australian policy.”Jennifer Parker, principal and founder of Barrier Strategic Advisory, told Defense News it would have been possible for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has gotten a pass from much of the media after reports that she liked social media posts celebrating the Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis carried out by Hamas.Rama Duwaji, a Houston-born illustrator who identifies as Syrian and married Mamdani in early 2025, liked several posts in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that were critical of Israel, Jewish Insider first reported. Duwaji also liked a February 2024 Instagram post claiming The New York Times’ investigation into sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack was “fabricated,” according to The Free Press.The reports sparked immediate and intense backlash toward the socialist mayor from conservatives and pro-Israel accounts on social media, but much of the mainstream media has downplayed the situation. SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS ON MAMDANI OVER REPORTS HIS WIFE LIKED PRO-OCTOBER 7TH POSTS: ‘THIS IS WHO THEY ARE’ NBC 4 New York’s report stressed that it occurred “almost a year and a half before she married Mamdani” and that “roughly 35,000 other accounts also liked that same post.” Vanity Fair made sure to note that she is “not” a Hamas sympathizer in parentheses immediately after noting that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its 2026 Campus Antisemitism Report Card, revealing a discrepancy between universities’ improved policies and students’ experiences with anti-Jewish hate.The report card assessed 150 colleges and universities using 32 criteria that fell into three categories: administrative policies, Jewish life on campus, campus conduct and climate concerns. The number of colleges and universities receiving As and Bs on their report cards more than doubled since 2024, going from 23.5% to 58%. Additionally, the ADL noted that grades of 48% of the 135 schools assessed in 2025 improved in 2026. The grade distribution among the colleges and universities included 23 As, 64 Bs, 53 Cs, 6 Ds and 4 Fs.ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt credited three things for the improved grades among colleges and universities: improved policies on campus, oversight from the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers and pressure from outside organizations.”The truth is that campuses are now enforcing their policies and driving better practices. It’s improved. There’s just no doubt that we’ve seen a range of different institutions realize that extremism on their campuses needs to be confronted,” Greenblatt told Fox News Digital.JOSH SHAPIRO URGES PHILLY SCHOOLS…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the lapse in funding at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues, TSA agents have been grappling with partial paychecks — and soon-to-be-empty paychecks if the shutdown persists.These days, the shutdown is causing massive delays at some airports across the country, with wait times for travelers of 3.5 hours reported at major hubs due to officer shortages.The TSA website and app paused operations on Feb. 17. The site “will not be updated until after funding is enacted,” the TSA says on its site — leaving travelers high and dry when it comes to finding wait time information.SHUTDOWN SPARKS FLIGHT CHAOS AS TSA LINES SPILL INTO PARKING LOTS WITH 3-HOUR WAITS OR LONGERA TSA spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Monday that staff managing the website and app have been furloughed.”Some individual airports track [security line] wait times, [so] we would point them [in] that direction,” said the spokesperson. The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana advised passengers to arrive at the airport three hours early on Sunday via social media posts.In Houston, Texas, the William Hobby Airport said on its website that travelers should “plan to arrive 4 hours before…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the Pentagon keeps releasing video of bombs destroying parts of Iran, the smoke can’t obscure an increasingly urgent question here at home:How high a price are Americans willing to pay for this war?I don’t mean in terms of casualties, as the seven Americans killed so far is a relatively low figure, although each fallen soldier is a tragedy. Each should be honored for their sacrifice, as the first half dozen were in a Delaware ceremony attended by President Donald Trump and other dignitaries. It’s that the financial turmoil is really taking a toll on the homeland, not to mention around the world. Markets are tanking. Oil prices are soaring. Jobs are declining. And this has fueled doubts about Trump’s decision to wage relentless attacks against Iran – and offering a series of shifting explanations as to why the war is necessary, and why it needed to be launched now. WHY TRUMP INVOKED REGIME CHANGE IN ATTACKING IRAN, AND THE MEDIA MUST LEARN FROM PAST MISTAKES All major wars involve sacrifice. But since the president never made a prime-time speech to support his decision, many Americans have the sense that they woke up one…