NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans in Pennsylvania are pressuring Democrats to act on a legislative crackdown targeting illegal immigrant truckers on America’s highways.Several foreign nationals involved in dangerous incidents around the country were found to be holding PennDOT CDLs, leading to tensions between Harrisburg and the Department of Homeland Security and calls from Republicans for state Democrats to address the issue, arguing such discrepancies do not appear to occur at the same level in other states.Democrats, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, previously alleged DHS failed to properly maintain its “alien verification” (SAVE) database, which PennDOT said it uses to verify an applicant’s “lawful presence,” while a top Republican recently demanded answers from PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll after illegal immigrants with CDLs were apprehended as far away as Oklahoma.On Wednesday, Shapiro’s camp did not dismiss Republican-led bills aimed at addressing the issue, including efforts to shut down so-called “CDL mills,” which allegedly produce unqualified truckers and generate significant profits. TransportationSecretary Sean Duffy said the Biden administration adjusted rules to allow trucking schools to self-certify, creating a dynamic he compared to the Minnesota-Somali social-services fraud scandal and called “total bull—” at a recent conference.LAWMAKERS WARNED PENNDOT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT-CDL…

The U.S. military is tightening its entry standards by shifting more than two dozen medical disqualifications to the earliest stages of the recruitment process. U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, also known as USMEPCOM, announced this week that it will prescreen prospective recruits for 28 medical conditions that have been deemed highly unlikely to receive enlistment waivers. The change does not alter the current eligibility standards so much as it recalibrates the timing of judgement. Determinations that once emerged later in the process will now be flagged at the very first point of contact. “This is a shift order,” Army Col. Megan McKinnon, USMEPCOM command surgeon, said in a statement. “Instead of doing complete processing and then handing it to the waiver authority, we’ve created a trigger on the front end for these specific conditions that requires additional Service sign off, because all Services agreed that they are unlikely to be waived on the back end.”Officials say the goal is to conserve resources and reduce unnecessary medical evaluations, particularly in cases not expected to be approved. The list features ailments such as heart valve disease and narcolepsy.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also issued a memo in March directing a comprehensive review of…

An alleged suicide note, handwritten by Jeffrey Epstein, was found by the late financier’s cellmate back in 2019. A federal judge has just released the note to the public. Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in August 2019. His death was officially ruled a suicide, though it has continued to fuel public scrutiny and conspiracy theories because of his connections to wealthy and powerful political figures. White House Says Trump’s “Birthday Letter” To Jeffrey Epstein is “Fake News” The note was reportedly found in July 2019 by Epstein’s then-cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione. It has now been unsealed nearly seven years after the disgraced financier died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. American Gulag Death Of Jeffrey Epstein: Will Julian Assange Be Next? Tartaglione found the note after Epstein was discovered injured in what officials later described as a failed suicide attempt. Tartaglione, a former police officer later convicted of quadruple murder, said he found the note tucked inside a book and gave it to his lawyers, according to a report by RT.  Epstein’s death has spurred all kinds of conspiracy theories and exposed a large-scale pedophile ring in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Yankees outfielder Jasson Dominguez was carted off the field after crashing into the fencing of the outfield wall.In the first inning of the Yankees matchup against the Texas Rangers at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Rangers leadoff hitter Brandon Nimmo ripped the ball to left field off Yankees starter Paul Blackburn.Dominguez hustled back to the wall and made a spectacular catch, but crashed incredibly hard into the wall. The 23-year-old’s hat and sunglasses popped off his head upon contact with the fencing on the left-field wall. Dominguez impressively held onto the ball despite the hard collision, but lay facedown on the warning track. Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham came over and rested his hand on Dominguez until the medical staff came out.He remained down for several moments while he received medical attention. Dominguez was eventually helped to the cart, where he appeared to begin crying once seated.Upon Dominguez’s exit, Cody Bellinger shifted from right to left field, Amed Rosario moved from third base to right field, and Ryan McMahon came off the bench to play third base.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!…

A U.S. Navy installation in Italy confirmed the presence of a toxic gas in some of its non-residential buildings, including schools, after previously rejecting the results of the detection test that uncovered the problem, the service announced.Naval Support Activity Naples conducted a year-long analysis of radon levels at non-residential facilities from August 2024 to September 2025 but announced on Feb. 9 that the results it received in January were not reliable, as they did not meet the Navy Radon Assessment and Mitigation Program’s quality assurance standards. NSA Naples has since reversed course, however, announcing May 4 that the results were in fact “valid and reliable.”“Between August 2024 and October 2025, alpha track detectors were installed for long-term radon monitoring across 1,536 testable locations/rooms in 123 non-residential buildings at NSA Naples,” the Navy said. “Results were obtained from 1,449 of these locations, revealing 37 instances of elevated radon average concentrations.”The Navy did not test residential buildings because those facilities were last tested in 2022 and 2023, and the Navy Radon Assessment and Mitigation Program requires testing every 5 years.RELATEDThe service began an error analysis process after the initial rejection of data occurred in February and found that the results met accuracy…

As we near the middle of 2026, it’s clear that Civivi wants to make fixed blades a focus for the back nine. It’s hard to know where to start, but we’ll begin with the High Grass, a smallish field knife with an ergonomic handle and a high-precision blade. This is a Matt Gentry design, the second to appear in the Civivi lineup. Gentry’s first contribution to the company’s catalog was the Gander, another outdoors user. We covered the Gander when it came out last summer, and made sure to bring the bad puns along for the ride, so we won’t be offended if you don’t go back and read that one. Suffice it to say the Gander helped to beef up Civivi’s comparatively slim fixed blade offerings with a highly usable 3.63-inch drop point. The other scale option is green canvas Micarta. The blade here on the High Grass is smaller, measuring 3 inches even (or odd, as the case may be…) and in addition to the length differential it’s a much slimmer overall profile, although still a drop point. The alterations make the High Grass a different kind of outdoors cutter than the Gander, better suited to piercing and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Washington city councilwoman said she would rather fly a pride flag than the American flag while questioning why a local park displays 27 versions of the U.S. flag, some of which she said represent parts of American history that are “not great.””To me, a pride flag is way more relatable than an American flag. I would not raise an American flag at my house because I wouldn’t. I wasn’t even born here. But I would raise a pride flag,” said Lynnwood council member Isabel Mata on Monday. “As the most diverse city in all of Snohomish County, I don’t think that I’m the only one.” Mata, who identifies as a “queer, neurodivergent writer, advocate, and mindfulness meditation teacher” in her government biography, suggested replacing the flags with commemorative ones in an effort to be more inclusive—while downplaying the symbolism of the American flag. Mata has since walked back the remarks, telling Fox News Digital that she was speaking “personally, as a queer woman, about what the pride flag means to me.”TRUMP ADMIN-MAMDANI CLASH OVER STONEWALL MONUMENT REACHES FINAL DECISION At the heart of the argument is Wilcox Park, known as “Flag Park,” which…

The White House on Wednesday released a wide-ranging counterterrorism strategy targeting narcoterrorists, Islamist terrorists and violent left-wing extremists. The 16-page blueprint — the first issued since President Donald Trump’s return to office — describes the triad as “significant and pervasive” dangers to the homeland, to be addressed in phases. During a conference call with reporters, Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, declined to discuss classified details of the initiative but outlined its central objective as systemically eroding each group’s infrastructure. The plan includes identifying their networks; severing their access to weapons, financing and recruitment capabilities; and dismantling their operational capacity. “We see a threat, we will respond to it, and we will crush it, whether it is the cartels, the jihadists, or violent left-wing extremists like antifa and like the transgender killers, the non-binary, the left-wing radicals,” he said. “We will take them on, head on.”Gorka asserted that the administration sees a renewed wave of politically-motivated violence targeting Christians and conservatives, driven by what he characterized as “violent left-wing extremists” who have “espoused extremist transgender ideologies.” He cited the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk, as well as the mass shootings at Covenant School in Tennessee and Annunciation Catholic School…

Israel’s strike on cities in Lebanon continue despite the ceasefire. Some of the more recent attacks have hit a commercial center in the southern part of the country and buildings in Beirut’s suburbs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he had personally approved a strike on Beirut, which he said targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force. According to two videos shared by Ruptly (a video agency subsidiary of RT) on Thursday, the damage is intense. One video showed damage in Bourj al-Barajneh in the Beirut area, where what looked like a market was hit. Several nearby buildings were reduced to rubble in the process, and at least one residential block was heavily damaged. Trump: Israel And Lebanon Agree To A 10-Day Ceasefire “When the first warning arrived, we ran with our clothes,” local resident Hassan Mustafa Harb told Ruptly, as reported by RT. “When things calmed down, we returned to our home here and found this massive destruction.” The second video showed damage on the outskirts of Al-Saksakiyeh in the southern Tyre district, where an attack struck a commercial center. Footage showed smoke rising from the debris and wrecked cars. Some fires were still burning, and blood stains…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Blake Lively went on offense after settling her lawsuit with “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, asking a federal judge to award her potentially tens of millions of dollars.In a new legal filing, obtained by Fox News Digital, Lively’s legal team argued that Baldoni’s dismissed $400 million defamation case was not only baseless but retaliatory. The 38-year-old actress accused Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and others of filing the countersuit to punish her for speaking out about alleged sexual harassment and misconduct.Lively demanded a sweeping financial judgment that includes attorneys’ fees, triple damages for alleged harm and punitive damages aimed at penalizing what her attorneys described as an abuse of the legal system. The move marked a dramatic escalation in an already bitter legal battle, shifting the focus to retribution as Lively attempts to hold her opponents financially accountable.”This settlement is a resounding victory for Blake Lively,” representatives for Lively told Fox News Digital. “By agreeing to this settlement, and waiving their right to appeal, Justin Baldoni and every individual defendant now face personal liability for abusing the legal system to silence and intimidate Ms. Lively.”BLAKE LIVELY AND JUSTIN BALDONI REACH SETTLEMENT IN ‘IT…