NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Surveillance video captured the final moments before a Pennsylvania State University student was killed after an armed robbery attempt.The Philadelphia Police Department said Billy Schmidt, 22, was close to home when the armed robbery attempt happened on Saturday around 1:30 a.m. When officers arrived, the college student was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m., according to police.Schmidt can be heard saying, “Give me my phone,” before a gunshot could be heard seconds later.Bill Schmidt, his father, told ABC7 that his son was coming back from a bar where he was watching the NBA Finals with his friends. Additional security video shows a man throwing a cellphone before another individual can be seen running around a corner being chased by Billy Schmidt, who was then shot in the chest.SEND US A TIP HERE “He was a really good person who cared about everybody and never hurt or bothered a soul, never bothered anyone and for him to get shot like that is a travesty,” Bill Schmidt said. “I’m shocked when they stole his phone that he chased them.”LISTEN TO…

The Pentagon recently named the winners of the Lethality Prize Challenge in the Drone Dominance program, a $1.1 billion effort to expand domestic drone production and reduce the cost of commercial drones for military use.The Defense Innovation Unit announced in a LinkedIn post last month that the winners — Bravo Ordnance, Kela Technologies, Kraken Kinetics, Mountain Horse Solutions and Northrop Grumman — developed “cost-effective, mass-producible, and easily integrated lethal payloads for small drones.”According to the program’s Industry Day presentation, military officials reviewed submissions from 17 vendors. Evaluators examined both the payloads themselves and how they interfaced with various Electronic Safe and Arm Devices, or ESADs, as well as their compatibility with drones being considered in the program’s broader competition.Although the cash prize was just $10,000 — a modest sum compared to the scale of the Pentagon’s investment — the selected designs will be presented to companies participating in the program as “preferred munitions” for one-way attack drones.Northrop Grumman’s winning design, dubbed the Common UAS Payload, was built to require “no redesigns” and is “ready to integrate and deploy immediately,” according to a statement from Tanya Santers, the company’s director of fuzes and warheads.The company added that it has invested more…

I recently heard someone say that handguns have no place in military combat. History shows us otherwise. For the tanker, artilleryman, radio operator or medic whose hands are too busy at designated tasks to hold a rifle, the pistol makes enormous sense. Behind the lines when unpleasant surprises come, the handgun is just as much an emergency rescue tool as an armed citizen’s carry gun in civilian society. Medal of Honor recipient Alvin York single-handedly killed or captured a reported 132 German soldiers with his rifle as well as his 1911 .45 pistol. Image: NARA My older daughter owns a .38 Special revolver bought from the heirs of a Navy cook who took it with him to the Pacific in World War II and used it to kill two Japanese sappers who had attacked the cook’s base camp. We’ll look here at the single service handgun that served America’s military longest — the 1911/1911A1 .45. No American fighting man ever earned more respect than Audie Murphy, the Medal of Honor winner and most highly decorated soldier of WWII. In his autobiography “To Hell and Back,” here’s what he had to say about his issue .45 auto, speaking of a time behind…

The media is reporting on the “good news” about the Ebola outbreak this week. The first piece of good news is that three new vaccine candidates are being “fast-tracked” to create one that will work well in a short amount of time. Authorities also said that they have downgraded both the confirmed number of cases and deaths in the region affected, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the second piece of “good news.” First, we heard there’s new funding of up to US$62 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the type of virus circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda. As of June 2nd local time, DRC health authorities reported 344 confirmed cases, including 60 confirmed related deaths. Uganda has reported 15 confirmed cases, including one death. Previously, suspected cases in the region were more than 1,000. –Science Alert There are currently only two approved Ebola vaccines. One is Ervebo, the other Zabdeno/Mvabea. However, neither is effective against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola that’s circulating in Africa. Different types of Ebola viruses have different surface proteins that the vaccine targets. This means existing vaccines against the Zaire virus aren’t effective enough to be used against the Bundibugyo virus. The outbreak of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Landon Donovan is the reason why so many people in the United States are soccer fans.In the 2010 World Cup, Donovan scored a last-minute goal against Algeria, giving the Stars and Stripes a victory in their group and bringing a country together.”That kind of moment, it changed my life forever,” Donovan told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “I mean, there is not a day that I’m at an appearance or doing something that someone doesn’t come up and say something about that. And honestly, the thing I get more than any is, ‘I became a soccer fan that day watching that game,’ which gives me chills because that is what we’re trying to do. “Since I was 16 years old as a young professional, we were not only players in this country, we had to be ambassadors because nobody was paying attention then. So we were trying to grow the sport all the time. When one literal 122nd-minute moment of me kicking a ball into the net exponentially expedites that process, it’s amazing because you’ve been working so hard. I did 10 years of appearances and media and playing and…

Army mortar teams have replaced 20-year-old software used to calculate firing data and ballistics with a new application designed for smartphones and tablets.In a press release, the Army said the Mortar App was approved for release to all Army mortar units in March 2026 following roughly three years of testing and six years of development.Julia Gustafson, a computer engineer at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center and the app’s project lead, described it as “something modern, user-friendly and responsive.”According to Gustafson, soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were able to use the app effectively with minimal training. The Army said the software retained the workflow of the legacy system, making the transition intuitive for experienced mortar crews.Unlike the previous systems, the Mortar App runs on Android devices, allowing soldiers to download it onto smartphones and tablets instead of relying on laptops.The Army’s existing tools — the Mortar Fire Control Software and the Lightweight Handheld Mortar Ballistics Computer — entered service in 2003 and 2004, respectively.Gustafson said the new application can also be updated more easily than its predecessors. After its initial release in 2023, the Army continued testing and refining the software, which is now in its fourth…

Researchers say there’s no better way to get your Tuesday morning started in June than settling in for another edition of Screencaps where we check in with the 1A or 1B best pitcher of this generation, Paul Skenes, to see what he’s up to off the field. *Ohtani has to be in the best pitcher discussion. Yes, I’m aware that Shohei is 31.I don’t care if Paul and Livvy Dunne pulled off this visit to a local Pittsburgh baseball field as part of some brand campaign or just for some great press, this is how it’s done. You know what I love more than anything about the boys surrounding Skenes for autographs? They’re not being coached by scumbag parents like at ballparks where the dads pawn off their kids to stand along a rail in order for dad to add to HIS collection. You know what I’m talking about. Autograph hound dads are the worst. In this case, it appears to be calm. The kids are talking shop with a baseball hero like it’s the 1950s in Pittsburgh. This is the America I love. And that’s why Livvy is a complete emotional mess. She feels the America 250 emotions. She…

Editor’s note: This is a developing story.Two U.S. Army soldiers were rescued Monday after their AH-64 Apache helicopter went down near the coast of Oman, U.S. Central Command said. The crew was rescued by American forces within two hours, at 7:33 p.m. Eastern Time, according to the release. Both are in stable condition. The helicopter was “patrolling regional waters,” according to the command, and the cause of the incident is under investigation. U.S. Navy assets from Naval Forces Central Command, including Task Force 59, and the 82nd Airborne Division led the rescue, with assistance from the Air Force.Task Force 59 is the Navy’s Bahrain-based unit, responsible for integrating artificial intelligence and unmanned systems into maritime operations in the U.S.’s Fifth Fleet Area of Operations, which includes the Strait of Hormuz. ABC News reported on Tuesday that the crew members were rescued by an “unmanned surface vessel,” a detail that has not been publicly confirmed by Central Command. Military Times has reached out to the command for comment. Eve Sampson is a reporter and former Army officer. She has covered conflict across the world, writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Associated Press. Read the full article…

This article was originally published by Zoey Sky at Natural News.  A major new Pew Research Center poll shows that in 32 out of 36 countries surveyed, the majority of people now view Israel unfavorably. On average, 67% of adults across these nations hold negative opinions, with only 25% having a positive view. This marks a sharp and historic decline in Israel’s global reputation. The most intense negative feelings come from countries like Turkey (97% unfavorable), Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. But the shift is also dramatic in Western nations that have long been Israel’s closest allies. For example, unfavorable views rose to 60% in the U.S., 69% in the U.K., and 79% in Australia, showing that support is eroding even among traditional friends. The ongoing war with Iran, which began in late February and disrupted global oil supplies, is seen as a major tipping point. Combined with Israel’s military campaign in Gaza—which has led to at least 73,000 Palestinian deaths and the destruction of 81% of buildings in the area—the violence has fueled international anger and condemnation. A person’s political ideology heavily influences their opinion of Israel. In the United States, the gap is huge: 83% of liberals hold unfavorable…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Your phone rings. It’s your son’s voice. Panicked. He says he’s been in a car accident. He hurt someone. He’s about to be arrested. He needs $15,000 wired before the end of the day, and please, don’t tell anyone yet. You’d wire the money. Of course you would. Except it isn’t your son.It’s a scammer who spent about 10 minutes online, pulled three seconds of audio from a Facebook video your son posted last Christmas, and fed it into an AI voice cloning tool that costs less than a Netflix subscription. The voice that broke your heart wasn’t real. The emergency wasn’t real. But the $15,000 transfer? That would have been.This is already happening to families right now, in every state. And what most people don’t understand is that the voice clone is actually the easy part. What makes these attacks so devastatingly effective is everything that happens before the call.Join CyberGuy Live: Lock Down Your Phone in 30 Minutes (Saturday, June 13, 10 am ET)Your phone holds your email, passwords, photos, banking apps and personal data. In this free, live online class, Kurt the CyberGuy will walk you step by step…