Fighters participating in the Ultimate Fighting Championship matches on the White House grounds later this month aren’t the only ones who need to make weight. Service members attending the event must also meet certain physical standards, according to an internal document reviewed and authenticated by Military Times. In the document, the Pentagon called on commanders to find volunteers to attend the June 14 matches, which are being held in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary — and President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.The administration set aside about 1,200 tickets for active-duty troops, said Dana white, CEO of the UFC. Celebrities and personal invitees of the Trump administration and UFC leadership will also attend.The televised event will take place on the South Lawn, where a caged octagon with a towering patriotic arch was erected for the occasion. The military described it as a “high visibility” event and provided a list of requirements for those selected to attend. Service members must meet a waist-to-height ratio of 0.55 or less, the document states. Troops must also meet their service-specific physical fitness standards to attend. The Pentagon introduced the waist-to-height ratio earlier this year as a means to evaluate the body fat of troops. The ratio,…

People in Kenya are protesting the United States’ plan to create a quarantine facility in the country for Americans who may be infected with the Ebola virus. Kenya’s high court effectively delayed the Trump administration’s plan to send American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to a quarantine unit at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya. A judge at the court, the Honorable Lady Justice Patricia Nyaundi, said in a ruling that the next proceedings in the case would not take place until June 23rd, at which point a date for a full hearing would be set, according to a report by The New York Times. This will effectively delay any action on the matter until then. The court suspended the plan for the facility last week, after the Katiba Institute, a Kenyan civil society group, filed a petition challenging its constitutionality. As part of its response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the Trump administration announced last week that it would prevent any American citizens exposed to the virus from returning to the United States for observation and treatment. That decision, a departure from U.S. policy during previous Ebola outbreaks, has shocked many health experts. –The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former UFC fighter and Olympic wrestler Ben Askren will be fighting for the first time in nearly seven years after undergoing a double-lung transplant.Last year, Askren was on a ventilator and ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), with his wife, Amy, going as far as saying he needed a “miracle.”Well, the miracle occurred, and a comeback is now on the horizon. Askren will face former UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad in a wrestling match at Real American Freestyle 11 on July 18, his 42nd birthday, in Milwaukee. RAF was co-founded by the late Hulk Hogan.Askren “developed severe pneumonia which came on very suddenly” last June, Amy said, and was eventually put on life support. Askren was placed on the transplant list on June 24 and received a donor organ days later.Askren later said that he did not remember anything from May 28 to July 2 and “only died four times” while losing 50 pounds in the hospital. He was released from the hospital on July 22 after 59 days.”It was hard, it was hard. And I said this already in one of my videos, but the support you guys gave me, whether it was sending a GoFundMe,…

Lockheed Martin has downed a Group 3 one-way attack drone for the first time using a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, fired from its GRIZZLY containerized launcher. The test integrated the company’s Sanctum counter-unmanned aerial system battle manager with Fortem R-40 radars for detection, tracking and engagement.Announced June 3, the live-fire demonstration paired the radars, Sanctum software and launcher to destroy the target at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, according to the company. Lockheed said it integrated the system and completed live-fire testing in under 45 days.The Fortem R-40 comes from a counter-drone partnership Lockheed strengthened in April, when it invested $25 million into the Utah-based firm to incorporate its radars and interceptors more tightly into the Sanctum system.The test builds on GRIZZLY’s first live-fire in March, when Lockheed fired a Hellfire missile from the same container system during a vertical-launch test at Yakima Training Center, Washington, six months after the program began. The launcher is designed to fire both the Hellfire and JAGM and borrows design elements from Lockheed’s M299 launcher. Where March proved the launcher, the June test added the JAGM and a full detect-track-engage kill chain against a live Group 3 drone target, a class the Defense Department defines as…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio forcefully pushed back Wednesday against a Democratic lawmaker’s suggestion that President Donald Trump may have considered personal financial interests when making decisions related to the recent conflict with Iran.Rubio called the allegation “completely false” and said he has never heard the president discuss his own finances in connection with war or foreign policy.The exchange came during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, when Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., pressed Rubio about whether he warned Trump that military action against Iran could increase costs for Americans and whether the president’s personal stock holdings created a potential conflict of interest.HOW TRUMP HANDED THE DEMOCRATS A GIFT BY SEEMING TO DISMISS FINANCIAL WORRIES OF AMERICANS”Not once. Just to be clear, not a single time, not even for a millisecond,” Rubio said. “Has the president ever discussed his personal economics and relations to war or any public policy that he’s made, for that matter? And I’ve been in every one of his foreign policy meetings for the most part.”Rubio’s remarks came after Meeks questioned whether Trump had been warned that “personal stock purchases and companies profiting from the war that he launched…

A measure included in the House’s version of the fiscal 2027 defense bill calls for more integration between U.S. and Israeli defense technology sectors — an idea that is receiving pushback before the bill goes up for debate Thursday. The United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, part of the House’s edition of the National Defense Authorization Act released last week, would “expand and accelerate bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation,” according to the bill. The measure was introduced by Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Adam Smith, D-Wash., the chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. It calls for the defense secretary to designate an executive agent to synchronize cooperate efforts between the two countries.Congress has a decades-long tradition of strong bipartisan support for Israel, and following Hamas’ deadly attack on Oct. 7, 2023, the United States sent $13.4 billion in military aid to the country.U.S. and Israeli defense companies also cooperate on weapons development and manufacturing, including collaboration between U.S.-based RTX and Israel’s Rafael Systems on Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. The directive for further technological integration between the U.S. and Israeli militaries comes as the two countries pursue a war…

This article was originally published by Willow Tohi at Natural News.  Russian wheat exports to Kenya rose 10% year-on-year, reaching 1.4 million tons by late May 2026 Russia now controls 40% of Africa’s wheat import market, with exports to Sudan surging 143% Ukraine opened its first agricultural processing hub in Ghana on April 14, 2026, as part of its “Food from Ukraine” initiative Ethiopia remains heavily dependent on Black Sea wheat, with Russia supplying 68% of its imports Russia’s total agricultural exports to Africa exceeded $5 billion in 2025 and could surpass $7.5 billion by 2030 The competition for Africa’s breadbasket Russia and Ukraine are locked in an escalating competition for Africa’s wheat market, with Moscow solidifying its dominance while Kyiv expands its footprint through new strategic partnerships. Russian wheat shipments to Kenya climbed 10% year-on-year this season to approximately 1.4 million tons by late May 2026, according to Russia’s agriculture export agency Agroexport. The figure already surpasses the roughly 1.3 million tons delivered during the entire previous season, trailing only the record 1.7 million tons shipped in the 2023/24 season. This surge reflects a broader Russian strategy to cement its position as Africa’s primary grain supplier. Moscow now controls…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee said a communications staffer was reprimanded after making a “stupid” and “hurtful” social media post.”Earlier today while working on the farm, my phone began going crazy because of a post made by a member of my comms team. The post was stupid, hurtful and a complete distraction from my America First focus. The employee has been reprimanded,” Ogles said in a post on Tuesday night.The House Republican appears to have been referring to a post on his @RepOgles X account that read, “Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month.”REPUBLICAN SAYS ‘MUSLIMS DON’T BELONG IN AMERICAN SOCIETY,’ DRAWS FIERCE DEMOCRATIC BACKLASH Fox News Digital reached out to Ogles’ office on Wednesday.Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution that cleared the Tennessee state legislature to designate June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month.”CHICAGO COLLEGE REMOVES LGBTQ PRIDE FLAG OVER INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY CONCERNS “Homosexuality exists. In America. In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian. It doesn’t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American. What an absolutely idiotic statement to make,” Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of…

The U.S. Army is exploring how to get better boots that are made in America.The goal is twofold: improve the quality of military footwear and revitalize American footwear manufacturing that has largely been outsourced overseas.“The intent for this project and funding is to support re-shoring of the domestic footwear industry, improve capabilities for the domestic military footwear industrial base, and ultimately provide the best performing footwear technology to the warfighter,” explained a new Request for Information from the Army.Finding American-made footwear can present a challenge. In 2020, imported footwear accounted for 99% of the U.S. market, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.The RFI wants companies to describe their ideas in four areas, with one being how to “increase domestic production capacity and adopt advanced manufacturing technologies to enhance productivity.” Another is how to reshore manufacturing from overseas.The Army also wants to know how companies can implement “flexible, automated, or digital manufacturing approaches adaptable to multiple footwear types.” And, lastly, how American manufacturers can “improve the cost-effectiveness, quality, or performance of military footwear.”Respondents must have U.S.-based manufacturing facilities. They also must meet the Berry Amendment, which restricts the Defense Department from using funds for the procurement of food, clothing, fabrics,…