NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio has become one of the Trump administration’s most visible multitaskers, racking up a string of additional titles that have fueled viral memes, and on Tuesday, he is set to add another spotlight role when he takes the podium of the White House press briefing. “As an invaluable member of President Trump’s national security team, Secretary Rubio will provide an update on the humanitarian successes of Project Freedom and other foreign policy priorities,” White House Principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital.Tuesday’s press briefing will mark the first since press secretary Karoline Leavitt took maternity leave at the end of April ahead of the birth of her second child. MARCO RUBIO SPOTTED BEHIND DJ BOOTH AT FAMILY WEDDING AS SOCIAL MEDIA REACTS TO VIRAL CLIP While Leavitt is on maternity leave, the White House is planning to have a rotation of Trump admin officials take the podium, such as Vice President JD Vance and even Trump himself.The Secretary has been a robust figure in the Trump administration, holding multiple public-facing official and unofficial titles that have led to a parade of memes on social media. For example, Rubio…

The Defense Department wants to change how it pays for the military health system, splitting the account into two programs to safeguard funds for providing medical care to U.S. service members.The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request calls for dividing defense health program funding into two: a Combat Operational and Medical Readiness account, or COMP, and a Private Sector Care Program section, or PSCP.The COMP budget would pay for healthcare and medical readiness of active duty personnel and support military treatment facilities, while the PSCP would cover Tricare, the department’s private health program and other care that is not offered at military hospitals, according to budget documents.The new structure would prevent one program’s costs from affecting the other, ensuring that “essential battlefield medicine and medical force generation is managed alongside other warfighting capabilities,” the budget documents state.“By splitting out the cost of private sector care into its own account, the department is enhancing transparency and accountability, making it easier to track how resources are balanced between military medical platforms and the care through our civilian partners,” Space Force Lt. Gen. Steven Whitney, director of force structure, resources and assessment for the Joint Staff, said during a Pentagon budget briefing April 21.The…

It takes a special kind of crazy to be a successful head coach in college football, doubly so if you want to survive in a conference like the SEC, where “it just means more.”Nice guys and well-adjusted dudes get chewed up and spit out annually in the Southeastern Conference, and only true football psychopaths will make it very far in this league.Take Kirby Smart, for example.Any man who can rock a bowl cut and a visor and not look like a complete buffoon is clearly not a normal human being, and if you’ve heard any of his leaked halftime speeches from the locker room, you know exactly what I mean.GEORGIA’S KIRBY SMART TAKES SWIPE AT JOHNNY MANZIEL: ‘CHAMPION OF FIREBALL’ I’m not sure if new Florida head coach Jon Sumrall will be in Gainesville for a long time or not, but he absolutely has the kind of psychotic temperament you need to succeed in the SEC.You may recall his choice in strength coach, a dumbbell-chomping, forehead-bleeding maniac by the name of Rusty Witt, or the fact that he postponed his anniversary trip to get a few more hours of watching film under his belt, but in a recent interview with…

The recent exchange of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz does not constitute a breach of the fragile four-week ceasefire, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday.Since the truce took hold, Iran has mounted more than 10 attacks on American forces, Caine told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing. But he characterized the hostile actions as “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.” Demarcating that threshold is “a political decision above my pay grade,” Caine said, before adding, “It’s low, harassing fire right now. It feels like Iran is grasping at straws.”Caine also sounded a warning, saying: “No adversary should mistake our current restraint for a lack of resolve.” The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was speaking in the wake of the Army’s AH-64 Apache and Navy’s MH-60 Seahawk helicopters reportedly destroying six small Iranian boats on Monday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had threatened both U.S. and commercial ships with cruise missiles, drones and fast boats, Central Command said.A senior figure in the Islamic Republic, however, has accused the U.S. of undermining the ceasefire and insisted that Tehran has yet…

Fars News Agency, a state-run Iranian media outlet, has reported that a United States Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings to stay out of the critical waterway. The media outlet claimed that the boat was “forced to retreat,” without providing information on the damage. Iran had warned the US to stay out of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump: US Will “Guide” Neutral Ships Through Strait of Hormuz Far News Agency, which is also said to be closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported on Monday that the unidentified vessel was moving near the Iranian coastal town of Jask, some 140 km from the strait’s narrowest point, and was “violating security and navigation rules [and] intending to pass through” the chokepoint. The ship did not heed warnings from the Iranian Navy and was targeted by a missile attack, the report said, according to RT, adding that “the American patrol boat was unable to continue its route due to the hits and was forced to retreat and flee the area.” The US has already dismissed the claim. US Central Command (CENTCOM) has stated that “no US…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is blasting local officials in Virginia after the agency says it arrested an illegal immigrant convicted of child rape who was released back onto the streets by local officials.On Friday, ICE says it arrested Guatemalan national Walvin Victor Hugo Garcia after an appearance in Fairfax County court following his June arrest on felony charges of rape of a child less than 13 years of age, aggravated sexual battery of a victim under 13 years of age, use of a computer to commit sex offense with a minor, and distributing drugs to a minor.  ICE had lodged a detainer after his arrest in June asking the county not to release Garcia but, according to an ICE press release, “sanctuary politicians refused to cooperate with ICE” and Garcia was “allowed to leave court without ICE being notified.”The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a statement placing the blame at the feet of local officials in Virginia, as well as with Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger.GUATEMALAN MAN CHARGED WITH CHILD PORN POSSESSION RELEASED BY FAIRFAX COUNTY DESPITE ICE DETAINER, DHS SAYS “Governor Spanberger and her fellow sanctuary politicians…

There were several significant battles of the Pacific War, beginning with the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, the Battle of Midway in June, and then the Guadalcanal Campaign from August 1942 to February 1943. The latter was the first major Allied offensive against Japan, and it effectively ended the Japanese offensive efforts, putting Tokyo on the defensive in the Pacific Theater for the rest of the war. USS Princeton (CVL-23) afire on October 24, 1944 after she was hit by a Japanese bomb during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. This view shows smoke rising from the ship’s second large explosion. Image: NARA Moreover, while the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 was a decisive naval battle that resulted in the elimination of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) carrier-based air power, it was the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944 that will forever be remembered as the largest naval battle in history. An American victory, it resolutely crippled the Japanese Navy and ensured near absolute Allied control of the Pacific. The battle is also noteworthy in that it was the last significant battleship-vs-battleship engagement, the first organized use of kamikaze…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Trust and loyalty were two of the biggest themes on “Monday Night Raw.”Nobody on the WWE Raw roster has any trust in Seth Rollins, while Liv Morgan questioned the loyalty of Roxanne Perez after her impromptu meeting with Finn Balor last week.First, let’s get to Rollins.”The Visionary” broke the trust of many when he aligned himself with Paul Heyman to topple Roman Reigns and CM Punk in the main event of WrestleMania 41 Night 1 last year. He picked up the World Heavyweight Championship and brought in Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed to his group, The Vision, which later disintegrated under his watch. Breakker and Reed turned on him as he watched Austin Theory and Logan Paul join the faction before WrestleMania 42 rolled around.PAUL HEYMAN TURNS ON CM PUNK AND ROMAN REIGNS TO DELIVER SETH ROLLINS WIN IN EPIC WRESTLEMANIA 41 MATCH After Rollins lost to Gunther at WrestleMania 42, he’s turned his sights back on Breakker. And even though Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins (the Street Profits) appeared to have his back, they’ve made it clear they have no trust in him. The trust issues became apparent again after Breakker…

Freshly minted reconnaissance Marines were showing up to their first units less prepared than expected, service leaders said. To fix that, the Corps is overhauling how it trains them. The changes were first rolled out in April, but Marine Corps officials on Monday offered a clearer picture of the problems the restructure is designed to solve and how the new training pipeline will better prepare participants. Maj. J.K. Bender, who commands the service’s Reconnaissance Training Company, said the change reflects long-standing concerns within the reconnaissance community that new Marines were starting their careers without a strong enough infantry foundation. “What we’re seeing is, the battalions that just didn’t have that strong baseline — they were kind of struggling,” he said, adding that “it took them additional time for the recon battalions to train the Marines.”Instead of going through Marine Combat Training, or MCT, reconnaissance hopefuls graduating recruit training will now go through the service’s Infantry Rifleman Course before attending two new programs: the Ground Reconnaissance Course and the Amphibious Reconnaissance Course, if they pass the former. All others will continue to attend MCT. “The only occupational field that is affected are the 0321 Marines,” said Maj. Gen. Michael A. Brooks,…

I hit the range to test out Ruger’s RXD 910Ti, a very unique and versatile 10mm suppressor.Without question, we have solidly entered the age of the suppressor. The sound damping device commonly referred to as a “silencer” has now become the most popular firearms accessory.Three things led us to this moment.The first was the introduction of the .300 AAC Blackout cartridge, which elevated general interest in suppressors. The second was the establishment of mail-order suppressors by Silencer Central. And the third was the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill last year that eliminated the $200 tax on suppressors.Probably, to no one’s surprise, Ruger has now entered the suppressor market and with some help from Dead Air, they’ve introduced a new 9mm/10mm suppressor called the RXD 910Ti.The RXD 910Ti from the Ruger and Dead Air collaboration.Ruger RXD 910Ti StatsManufacturer: Ruger/Dead AirCaliber: .40Length: 7.7 InchesDiameter: 1.48 inchesWeight: 11.4 OuncesMaterials: 6AL4V Titanium (body), 17-4 PH Stainless Steel (piston), 7075 Aluminum (endcap)Color: Black or Flat Dark Earth (FDE)Cartridge Compatibility: 5.7x28mm, 9mm Luger, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, 10mm Automatic, .300 AAC Blackout, .400 LegendMuzzle Energy Rating: 1,900 foot-poundsFull-Auto Rating: 5.7x28mm, 9mm Luger, 10mm Automatic, 300 AAC Blackout* (subsonic)Minimum Barrel Length: NoneMSRP: $1,000ProsCompatible with wide range…