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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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Retired Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara found himself back in crisis mode Thursday, not on the streets of Mill City, but 35,000 feet in the air, when what should have been a routine United Airlines flight suddenly turned chaotic.O’Hara told Fox News Digital he watched flight attendants spend nearly 45 minutes trying to de-escalate an increasingly belligerent passenger, prompting him and two off-duty Bergen County, New Jersey, sheriff’s deputies to intervene.The retired police chief, who was traveling with his wife aboard United Flight 1364 from Newark to Fort Lauderdale, said the passenger repeatedly berated flight attendants, tried to get out of his seat and behaved erratically as crew members worked to keep the situation under control.FRONTIER PASSENGERS TACKLE MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY CHOKED OFF-DUTY FLIGHT ATTENDANT, TRIED TO OPEN DOOR MID-FLIGHT “About like for the last 45 minutes of the flight … all the flight attendants came over, and they were incredible,” O’Hara told Fox News Digital. “Incredibly professional, just trying to talk to this guy to de-escalate things.”According to O’Hara, the passenger became increasingly agitated after flight attendants refused to serve him more alcohol, a detail O’Hara said he later learned from…

Uncontrollable variables and physics argue strongly against excessively long-range hunting. But how far is too far?We don’t wish to create a political divide here. Nor can we, because the debate over long-range hunting has long existed. But technological advances over the past quarter century have accentuated it. Laser rangefinders. High magnification scopes. High-BC bullets. Pocket anemometers with barometric pressure gauges. Computerized scopes and binoculars. Turret dialing scopes. Even scopes that automatically illuminate the proper aiming dot for precise shot placement at any distance.We have the equipment. Question is, do we have the wisdom?You know the arguments…“I have a world-class, ¼-MOA rifle, scope, and ammunition that prints 3-inch groups at 1,000 yards. All day, every day. Why shouldn’t I target deer and elk at that range?”“Anyone who launches any bullet at any game animal beyond 300 yards isn’t a true hunter, but an unethical, irresponsible poacher!”And those are the milder statements.But which is right? How far is too far? How do we define unethical and irresponsible? And how can we enforce any limits on shooting distances? Or do we even need to try?Let’s start by trying to define “ethical” hunting. This is an old idea that probably emerged with the wealthy,…