NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pete Crow-Armstrong angered a major baseball purist when he brought up a wild conspiracy theory that Babe Ruth did not exist.”I was like dude, that’s awesome,” the Chicago Cubs star and MVP favorite said recently about hearing the theory. “We always talk about how the game is evolving, and people may as well have been under handing the ball to that guy, and he’s still regarded as one of the best players ever. You might as well dive further into it and be like, well maybe he just never existed.”That quote got the attention of longtime talking head and former MLB Network host Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, who said his “derogatory” comments on Ruth “drove me nuts.” “Hey Pete, you’re talking to me now about Ruth! Nobody hit home runs like Babe Ruth. Say what you want about [Shohei] Ohtani, we understand that he’s a unicorn. Babe Ruth is so good it’s mind boggling,” Russo began on “First Take” this week. “Did you know, Peter Crow-Armstrong, that Babe Ruth hit 27 home runs over 500 feet? [Barry] Bonds? Never. Not one… Ruth owned baseball, nobody hit home runs like Ruth! He out-homered…

Samuel Riner may only be in his mid-20s, but he already has more than a decade of knifemaking experience under his belt – and his goal this year is to showcase his work to its widest audience yet. Riner got his first taste of the craft as a kid. His father was actually in the handle material business, creating and selling Micarta slabs for knifemakers. “He showed me the basics, and then I taught myself from there,” Riner tells us. “I was fourteen when I first felt like making a knife – and I had some equipment, so I made my first knife out of O1.” Some business owners will keep the first dollar they ever earned, but in the knife world we do things a little different: Riner still has that first knife and, while it’s retired from active duty, he keeps it around as a reminder of the long art of knifemaking. “I made about 50 knives before I turned out anything that was any good,” he says – a real grind. “Everything takes more time than you imagine.” Riner’s very first knife, made at age 14 But those dozens of practice pieces firmed up Riner’s understanding and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A pair of Senate Republicans are bursting through a crack in the door left by the Supreme Court to force blue states like California to vastly cut down on how long it takes to count ballots.Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation that would create a federal deadline for states to accept ballots received by the time polls close on Election Day across the country.Lankford pitched the bill, called the Ballots by Election Day Act, as a bid to build more trust in the country’s elections.TRUMP UNLOADS AFTER SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LATE MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN MISSISSIPPI “I have made fun of other states for years because there’s quite a few states around the country that can’t seem to figure out how to be able to count,” Lankford told Fox News Digital in an interview. “In Oklahoma, our election ends at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night.””Usually by 9 p.m., all of our thousands of precincts are all in and counted,” he continued. “We start the verification process. We do an audit after that. We have great trust in our elections because we know. We all…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just lost the last little bit of cushion he had left to survive confirmation.Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announced that she would not support Blanche’s nomination to be the nation’s top prosecutor and law enforcement official, dealing another blow to his rocky confirmation process.Her defection, despite a heavy lobbying effort by Blanche that saw him make the trek to Alaska, means that Senate Republican leadership can’t afford to lose anymore votes to get him across the finish line, given that Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., though now back home, has still not returned to the Senate.COLLINS DROPS THE HAMMER ON TRUMP’S PICK TO LEAD DOJ, JEOPARDIZING PATH TO CONFIRMATION Murkowski acknowledged Blanche’s visit to Alaska and heavy lobbying effort throughout the last few weeks, but it’s his connection to President Donald Trump’s nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund, and broader concerns of a weaponized Justice Department, that proved the nail in the coffin for her.”The politicization — even weaponization — of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,” Murkowski said in a statement. “I take issue with the handling of the release of the…

There’s a saying in Formula One that a 15-cent screw can ruin a race just as fast as a blown motor. The little things matter, especially in a 13:1 compression engine spinning at 18,000 rpm. Guns don’t exactly run on gentle unicorn toots either; they’re an instrument of intense heat, pressure, and extreme acceleration in an area no bigger than a Pringles can. If your life depends on your firearm, or a major match is looming on the horizon, you’ll want to prep your gun just like any F1 pit crew would, and that means securing all those 15-cent screws with threadlocker. I was recently at a pistol match with my Sig XCarry, my slide freshly hacked up to accommodate an old Insight MRDS I had bouncing around the bottom of the parts bin. The fitment of the sight was rock solid. However, in the middle of my second stage — BOOM — no dot. I did my best to salvage the remainder of the stage, but blindly shooting your way through a plate rack and a Texas star is a tricky business. I thought maybe my early GWOT-era dot had sh*t the bed, but after a secondary inspection, it…

The San Francisco-based Salesforce said that the Defense Department and the Army’s Human Resources Command approved its autonomous AI agents for a range of mission sets involving sensitive military information. In Wednesday’s announcements, the company explained that its Missionforce National Security platform received Impact Level 5, or IL5, authorization, meaning it is “trusted” to address the “most sensitive, unclassified missions.” Kendall Collins, the chief executive officer of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce, said the platform is “modernizing government IT” and that they’re “building the trusted AI backbone for America’s national security.” According to the announcement, Missionforce is the DoD-authorized variant of the commercial Agentforce platform, which is a network of AI agents designed to support analysis and decision-making. This is the latest application of the technology since Salesforce won the $5.6 billion contract to build Missionforce in January. In early July, Salesforce said the Air Force deployed Missionforce with the 441st Vehicle Support Chain Operations Squadron to help manage its $13.5 billion fleet of over 84,000 vehicles across nearly 389 locations.The company called the approval a “milestone” because it moves the national security and defense entities “beyond predictive AI and chatbots” and onto “autonomous AI execution.” The AI agents…

The release of the preseason Coaches Poll means one thing: college football season is almost here. And it’s time to start the arguing.That arguing this offseason has mostly centered on the fight for supremacy between the SEC and Big Ten Conferences, thanks to the Indiana Hoosiers winning the National Championship and closing out an undefeated 16-0 season. That was just a few months after Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said undefeated teams were a thing of the past in the NIL era.But 2026 is a new season, and thanks to the transfer portal and NIL, it’s harder than ever to gauge the strength of a team or roster from year to year. This upcoming season might be even harder than most, considering the turnover among coaches at top-tier programs.COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS FINALLY BACK AFTER MONTHS OF NCAA LAWSUITS, NIL DRAMA AND CONGRESSIONAL FIGHTS The Florida Gators have a new head coach in Jon Sumrall. Lane Kiffin fled Ole Miss for the LSU Tigers, while Pete Golding took over in Oxford. Auburn hired Alex Golesh from USF. Penn State replaced James Franklin with Matt Campbell. Kyle Whittingham left his longtime home at Utah to run a Michigan Wolverines program beset by…

It took almost the entire NBC Sunday Night Football pregame show, but just before the Hall of Fame Game began, new studio analyst Mike Tomlin was asked which division he believes is the NFL’s toughest.”Yeah, that’s easy,” the former Pittsburgh-Steelers-coach-turned-analyst said, “I thought you had a tough one: That’s the NFC West, man. It’s ‘The Game of Thrones’ out west.”Everyone dies.”SUPER BOWL-WINNING COACH MIKE TOMLIN LANDS NBC ROLE ON ‘FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA’ BROADCASTTomlin earlier discussed what he’s expecting out of his first NFL season away from the sideline.”I’m looking forward to going undefeated,” he joked.And with that we got a glimpse why there are such high expectations for Tomlin in his rookie season on the pregame show prior to NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast.In those moments, Tomlin was Tomlin. He was candid, pithy, insightful and even funny. But to say the once dynamic coach and leader was that during the rest of this one-hour broadcast is wrong. He wasn’t. He was, instead, kind of scripted.Rehearsed.Tame.So, he’s got some growing to do.We have no idea if Tomlin will tell producers to spare him their stay-safe broadcasting advice and give himself time to grow and loosen up. He might decide this…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: American autism care providers are backing the Trump administration’s crackdown on Medicaid fraud, arguing that the alleged theft of millions of federal funds has hurt both taxpayers and children with autism who rely on those services.A coalition of autism clinicians, behavioral therapists and families of children with autism are speaking out in favor of the administration’s efforts to hold people accountable for the suspected exploitation of the Medicaid system.The group — the Autism Families Alliance — describes itself as a national advocacy organization dedicated to supporting Applied Behavior Analysis providers and the families who rely on their services. It aims to ensure that every child and family has access to high-quality care without unnecessary barriers, reduced access or funding cuts.”We do this work because we believe every child deserves the chance to communicate, gain independence, and live the fullest life possible,” Taylor Sanders, a family advocate at the Autism Families Alliance, told Fox News Digital. “I’ve worked with children who found their voice after being nonverbal. I’ve watched families go from fear and uncertainty to hope because their child was finally making progress. Those are the moments that keep…

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