NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, is calling on Congress to put more support behind joint efforts between the U.S. and Mexico to combat Mexican drug cartels in the wake of the death of “El Mencho,” the leader of the “most violent and deranged cartel.””This is the beginning of the war against the most violent and deranged cartel in Mexico: El Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación or OJNG,” Crenshaw said in a post to X on Monday morning.Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, believes the strike on El Mencho represents a needed expansion of U.S. efforts to combat cartels and a window of opportunity for increased coordination between U.S.-Mexican forces.”Over the past year, most of the attention has been on the Sinaloa Cartel. This is a much-needed refocusing on CJNG. Both are major traffickers of fentanyl, but CJNG is more like ISIS than the mafia,” Crenshaw said. Crenshaw believes Congress has a role to play in combating that threat.”I’ve authored a dozen pieces of legislation to support our military, intelligence and law enforcement efforts in Mexico. It’s time for Committees to take them up.”Among them, Crenshaw introduced a bill in 2023 alongside 24 other cosponsors that…

The United States has ordered nonessential personnel and their family members to leave its embassy in Beirut, a senior State Department official told Military Times on Monday, as Washington continues a massive military buildup in the Middle East.The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said the drawdown is a “prudent” step to reduce the American footprint in the region while President Donald Trump mulls a strike on Iran. “The Embassy remains operational with core staff in place. This is a temporary measure intended to ensure the safety of our personnel while maintaining our ability to operate and assist U.S. citizens.”Embassies are often thinned when security threats in the region rise. Prior to Operation Midnight Hammer — the multipronged U.S. attack on three Iranian nuclear sites last June — the State Department withdrew nonessential personnel from posts in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon. Beirut was the site of deep trauma for the U.S. a generation ago. In 1983, Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed proxy group, killed 220 Marines, 18 Navy sailors and three Army soldiers in a suicide bombing of the Marine barracks in the city.Today, Lebanon remains the primary base of Hezbollah. The latest U.S. evacuation…

China is urging the United States to remove all of its imposed tariffs that came in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision that officially struck down most of the tariffs enacted. In a statement on Monday, the Chinese Commerce Ministry urged Washington to lift the tariffs, arguing they now violate even U.S. domestic law. Trump immediately responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling by imposing a temporary 15% global tariff under a different law. Global Tariffs Raised to 15% According to Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, the administration is preparing alternative legal measures to reimpose permanent tariffs. Some of those policies include trade investigations into “unfair trade practices” targeting major partners. Greer later said that the U.S. expects its partners that agreed to deals under tariff pressure (including the UK, South Korea, and the EU) to “stand by” their commitments despite the ruling. Trump imposed tariffs on many trading partners early last year, accusing them of unfair trade practices, according to a report by RT. Most faced a universal 10% baseline tariff, with additional surcharges for large trade imbalances. Late last week, however, the Supreme Court ruled Trump lacked authority to impose tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Georgia congressman is calling for a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to his state after a teacher was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant fleeing law enforcement.”It is truly a tragedy,” Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital. “This is something that should have never happened.”A special education teacher at a K-8 school in Savannah, Ga., was killed when Oscar Vasquez Lopez ran a red light while trying to leave the scene of an ICE operation earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. DHS said Vasquez Lopez is “a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala who was issued a final order of removal by a federal judge in 2024.”Carter, who has previously called for more ICE agents in Georgia’s capital, said he believed having more federal agents throughout the Peach State could help prevent such tragedies in the future.”I’ve already called for more ICE agents to be in Atlanta, and now I’m calling for more ICE agents to be out throughout the state of Georgia,” Carter said. “Listen, this is serious. We need to get rid of the criminal illegal immigrants here in this country. We’ll…

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear two cases filed on behalf of Air Force personnel who sought back pay and affirmation of their religious First Amendment rights after they were kicked out of the service for refusing to comply with the Defense Department’s 2021 vaccine mandate. The justices denied petitions Monday for Poffenbarger v. Meink and Doster v. Meink — cases that had challenged the vaccine mandate but were dismissed by lower courts as moot, given that the DoD allowed service members who refused the vaccine to begin returning in 2023, and in 2025, announced incentives such as back pay to bring them back in. In the first case, Air Force Reserve First Lt. Michael Poffenbarger filed his lawsuit in 2022, arguing that the order violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First Amendment. Poffenbarger had sought a religious exemption from the immunization and was denied, receiving a letter of reprimand and placed on the inactive list. After a lower court dismissed his case as moot, given that the DoD had begun allowing service members to return to service, Poffenbarger appealed, seeking lost pay and retirement points. The appellate court affirmed the ruling and Poffenbarger petitioned the…

Buck Knives’s thirteenth stealth run has arrived and, while thirteen is sometimes considered an unlucky number, it won’t be for any fans of Buck’s most famous folder. The new stealth run 110 Auto Elite dresses up the automatic variant of the knife in all the right ways. The Folding Hunter family tree has more branches than Starbucks at this point, with not only major format variations – such as the Auto Elite – but, within these variations, smaller editions and riffs, making tracking quite difficult – but maybe we’ll leave that to the Buckologists out there and just enjoy each new incarnation of the 110 as it comes across our desk. Only 750 of these puppies were made While all the stealth run pieces are collectible, no. 13 is geared for performance across the board, starting with a blade made from – surprise surprise – CPM MagnaCut, further bolstered here by a Paul Bos heat treat. Bos manages to make much humbler steels than MagnaCut punch above their weight by fine-tuning the HT, so marrying his process to an inherently high-performance recipe like MagnaCut should produce satisfying results. There are carbon fiber scales in between nickel silver bolsters, with a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin “El Mencho” over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of “total elimination” pursued by the Trump administration against the ruthless Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which is present in almost all 50 U.S. states.Ruben “Nemesio” Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” the leader of the CJNG, was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation in Tapalpa, Mexico, authorities said. Though the operation was carried out by Mexican forces, the United States laid the groundwork, making El Mencho’s fall possible.On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order directing the State Department to designate several cartels and international criminal groups “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs), a designation unlocking military-grade surveillance and “material support” prosecutions. Though lesser known than MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, CJNG was one of the groups designated an FTO by the administration.Shortly after Trump’s executive order, on Feb. 5, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a policy memorandum to all Department of Justice employees, announcing a “fundamental change in mindset and approach” to cartels and transnational criminal organizations to a policy of “total elimination.” …

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The conclusion of the Army’s inaugural Best Drone Warfighter Competition saw soldiers awarded in Best Operator, Best Innovation and Best Tactical Squad categories. On hand to present awards to the winners, who were selected from more than 200 competitors during the Feb. 17-19 event, were Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Maj. Gen. Clair A. Gill, commanding general of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence. Driscoll, who flew to the Huntsville, Alabama, ceremony after participating in Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, spoke to Military Times about the significance of the event and how it will inform the future of drone warfare and the scaling of unmanned systems. ScalingIn remarks shared ahead of the ceremony, Driscoll told Military Times that he hopes the Army will be in position to buy one million drones within the next 18 to 24 months. “A lot of what we’ve been spending the last year doing is reorienting a lot of our systems so that a drone is not thought of as a piece of equipment that a soldier will have to sign out of an arms room and return, but more like an ammunition or a round that you take to…

On Sunday, Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense announced that its special forces had killed drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. The death of Cervantes has sparked cartel violence across the entire country. Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho”, was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). He died from his wounds as a result of a military operation to capture him in the town of Tapalpa. El Mencho was wounded in a clash with soldiers in the town of Tapalpa, in Jalisco state, and died while being flown to Mexico City, the army said in a statement. He had a $15 million US bounty on his head. –LiveMint Battles between cartel gunmen and security forces have broken out in multiple cities across Mexico, according to a report by RT. Airports were locked down and thousands of tourists confined to their hotels and resorts as gunmen ran rampant over city streets, burning cars, shooting, and looting. Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro declared a state of emergency. The violence has quickly spread to the states of Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Colima, and Oaxaca. The Trump administration has praised the killing of Cervantes, calling it a “significant development” for both the United States…