President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess as the next chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, the service announced Friday.His nomination now goes to the Senate for confirmation. If approved, Schiess would become the Space Force’s highest-ranking officer and only the third person to hold the title of chief of space operations.He would take over for Gen. Chance Saltzman, who is expected to retire this year after serving four years in the role.”If confirmed, I will focus on sharpening our lethality and accelerating the delivery of space capabilities to the warfighter, keeping the Space Force ahead against any adversary,” Schiess said in a statement.Schiess is currently the deputy chief of space operations, a role in which he’s responsible for developing and implementing policies for the service’s global operations, sustainment, training and readiness. He transferred from the Air Force into the Space Force in 2022.Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink described space as an “increasingly contested domain.” Recent U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela “have underscored Guardians’ ability to deliver combat-ready, asymmetric advantages from space,” the statement reads.Schiess has previously warned that China remains America’s top threat in space and is catching up to…

The WNBA and much of its media are politically liberal and often treat criticism of the league and many of its players, minus Caitlin Clark, as a microaggression or an attack on women’s sports as a whole. That’s ironic, given that they’ve done little to protect the integrity and fairness of the sport, instead backing policies and politicians that, in critics’ view, undermine it.A good example of taking criticism to an unfounded extreme is self-professed “anti-racist”, as it says in her X bio, ESPN’s Holly Rowe. After one of my posts went viral this week, highlighting an abysmal play from Reese’s preseason return to Chicago (she was traded to the Atlanta Dream this offseason), I argued that the idea she’ll be as memorable or impactful as Caitlin Clark 20 years from now is laughable. In response to a repost on Instagram, Rowe wrote, “YO @JonnyRoot_ stop bullying women.”ANGEL REESE LOOKS IMPRESSIVELY BAD IN PRESEASON GAME AGAINST HER FORMER TEAMBefore I respond to that asinine claim, which Rowe has not tried to substantiate in the comment section, nor when I reached out to her individually in DMs, let’s talk about the Angel Reese quote I mentioned.Reese said in 2024, during her…

The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from NATO ally Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, as a rift over the Iran war widens between President Donald Trump and Europe. Trump had threatened a drawdown in forces earlier this week after sparring with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said on Monday the Iranians were humiliating the U.S. in talks to end the two-month-old war and that he did not see what exit strategy Washington was pursuing.A senior Pentagon official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said recent German rhetoric had been “inappropriate and unhelpful.”“The president is rightly reacting to these counterproductive remarks,” the official said.The Pentagon said the withdrawal was expected to be completed over the next six to 12 months. Germany is home to some 35,000 active-duty U.S. military personnel, more than anywhere else in Europe.The official said the drawdown would bring U.S. troop levels in Europe back to roughly pre-2022 levels, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a buildup by then-President Joe Biden.The official also cast the decision in terms of the Trump administration’s push for Europe to become the main security provider on the continent. But it is nonetheless another potent reminder of Trump’s willingness to respond to…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Podcast giant Joe Rogan slammed the Trump Justice Department’s recent indictment of former FBI director James Comey on Friday.”It’s nuts. It’s nuts,” Rogan said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”The DOJ made waves this week, indicting Comey on two counts in North Carolina, including threatening the President, over his viral Instagram post last year showing seashells in the sand spelling out “86 47.” Comey alleged he and his wife stumbled across the message while walking on the beach and that she encouraged him to take a photo and share it. He later deleted the photo amid backlash.The interpretation of “86” has widely been debated, ranging from a restaurant term meaning “to get rid of” to calling for murder.JAMES COMEY TELLS COLBERT WHAT LED HIM TO POSTING CONTROVERSIAL ’86 47′ INSTAGRAM POST “You’re going after someone for something that’s just silly. 86 47 is get rid of 47,” Rogan said. “But it’s just arresting a guy for that is nuts.”Rogan agreed with a guest that the indictment is “retaliation” against Comey for his actions leading up to Russiagate that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Trump fired Comey as FBI Director shortly…

An “engineering casualty” broke out on Tuesday on the USS Higgins, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer currently deployed in the Indo-Pacific, Navy officials confirmed to CNN. The incident was immediately contained by the crew, and there are no reported injuries as of Friday, according to the Navy statement.While the Navy did not explicitly use the term fire, CBS News, citing unnamed U.S. officials on Thursday, described the situation as a fire limited to one piece of equipment that did not spread flames.However, the incident knocked out the ship’s electricity and propulsion for “several hours,” according to the CNN report. The outage rendered the 300 sailors aboard the Higgins essentially sitting ducks as they were unable to control the destroyer’s movements for a time.“Initial reports indicate an electrical malfunction, which may have produced sparking or smoke that ceased once power was removed,” Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a spokesperson for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said in the statement to CNN on Friday.Power and propulsion have since been restored aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Comer said.This is the fourth fire in as many weeks that have disrupted the fleet.On April 19, three sailors were injured when a fire broke out on the USS Zumwalt…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Real Housewives of New Jersey” alum Joe Giudice doesn’t believe the crimes he committed warranted his 2019 deportation.During an interview with Page Six, Giudice said, “I definitely don’t think I should have been deported.” The former reality TV star was born in Italy and moved to New Jersey when he was a baby.”I was [in the US] since I was a year old. I have four kids there. I was married. Got my whole family there. I mean, it was my fault that I got deported because I should have just became [sic] a citizen a long time ago, so I’m not blaming anybody. You know, it was my fault. I had a chance to become a citizen many, many times,” Giudice told the outlet. Giudice was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison in 2014 after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including bankruptcy and mail fraud. His case stemmed from years of submitting false financial information to obtain loans and avoid taxes. Giudice served his sentence beginning in 2016 and was later released in 2019, after which he was deported to Italy due to his non-U.S. citizenship.TODD AND JULIE…

The U.S. Marine Corps has accumulated thousands of first-person view drones over the span of several months, with thousands more on the way, the service said Thursday.The meteoric rise of the service’s autonomous weapons stockpile was a result of a clear edict from the top down and service member adaptability, according to Commanding Officer of the Weapons Training Battalion Col. Scott Cuomo, who spoke at the Modern Day Marine exposition in Washington.“Rewind your brain to October,” Cuomo said. “We had zero FPV attack drones in the United States. We have over 3,500 right now.”First-person view drones allow operators to watch a live feed through either goggles or a screen that provide visuals from the drone’s vantage point. Many weigh several pounds, can carry explosives and travel close to 100 mph.Once the top brass signaled the service’s shift toward modernizing its unmanned strike capabilities, the Marine Corps responded swiftly, ramping up the service’s development and utilization of FPVs.In January 2025, Commanding Generals of Training Command Maj. Gen. Anthony M. Henderson and Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory Brig. Gen. Simon M. Doran launched the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team, recognizing the necessity of first-person view drones after the proliferation of the technology during…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Team Canada is under the microscope again.Canadian Olympic bronze medalist pole vaulter Alysha Newman has been banned from her sport for 20 months after missed drug tests, though track and field investigators accepted she had ended her career as a pole vaulter. Newman won bronze for Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympics.She more recently competed at a pair of Diamond League meetings in May 2025 in Qatar and Morocco. Newman is the latest Team Canada figure to incite controversy after incidents during and around the 2026 Winter Olympics.Two controversies surrounding Canadian winter sports teams in early 2026 involve allegations of rule violations in curling and competition manipulation in skeleton. Canadian curlers were accused of “double-touching” stones at the Milan Cortina Olympics, while the skeleton team was found to have manipulated a Lake Placid race to protect Olympic qualification points, causing major uproar.The Athletics Integrity Unit said Newman was unavailable for an unannounced doping control in February last year and twice more in August. Three so-called “whereabouts” failures in a 12-month period can be prosecuted as an anti-doping rules violation.At the third incident, the AIU said in its published verdict the athlete told…

A U.S. military-run body near Gaza that critics say failed in its mission to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boost aid flows to besieged Palestinians is set to be shut by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.The ​closing of the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel would mark the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, already undermined by repeated Israeli attacks since the October truce and a refusal ‌by Hamas to lay down its arms.Diplomats said the move, which has not been previously reported, underscores the difficulties facing U.S. efforts to oversee the truce and coordinate on aid, as Israel seizes more Gaza territory and Hamas firms its grip in areas under its control.The move could add to unease among Washington’s allies, whom Trump encouraged to deploy personnel to the CMCC and commit funds for his Gaza rebuilding plan, effectively on hold since the U.S. launched its joint war with Israel against Iran.Trump-led board denies CMCC is closingAccording to the sources, seven diplomats familiar with CMCC operations, the U.S.-led body’s aid and monitoring responsibilities would soon be handed to a U.S.-commanded international security mission that is meant to deploy to Gaza. U.S. officials have privately…