It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… lone Army aviation student in the cockpit?For the first time in decades, student pilots are flying solo across the country, the Army announced Thursday, as part of a curriculum change the schoolhouse hopes will create more skilled pilots. The new aviators will prepare for the endeavor with two weeks of cross-country instruction before completing a check ride. Then, with naught but their fresh hands at the controls, the students will fly 50 to 100 nautical miles from Shell Army Heliport, navigating the national airspace without an instructor.Second Lt. Kyler Suerth, one of the first flight school trainees in the new program, was anxious. “We are actually operating in civilian airspace the way aviators do,” the West Point graduate said before his flight in the release. “I am nervous, but every day I get a little less nerve wracked and a little more excited.”Though he said that radio calls — and the challenge of shifting from military to civilian language — was his biggest hurdle, Suerth completed his solo flight this week.The new model was introduced by the 1st Battalion, 223rd Aviation Regiment. Lt. Col. Andrew Bartlett, the unit’s commander, said the flight…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida hospital is the first in the nation to sign the “Make Hospital Food Healthier” pledge, committing to serve more nutritious, minimally processed meals to patients.Tampa General Hospital CEO John Couris signed the pledge Thursday during a news conference attended by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins and celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian.The 1,000-bed medical facility partnered with Zakarian last year to overhaul its menu based on the “food is medicine” concept.CELEBRITY CHEF SAYS IF YOU CAN DRIVE TO MCDONALD’S, YOU CAN COOK HEALTHY MEALS AT HOMEThe revamped menu features items that are high in nutrition and “can help prevent, manage and treat illness,” the hospital said in a 2025 news release announcing the partnership.”If you go to your friend’s house and you say, ‘This tastes like hospital food,’ that’s not a compliment,” Kennedy said during the news conference. Kennedy said hospitals are places where people go to get healthy, “and we were giving them stuff that is going to aggravate and amplify their chronic illness.””We doubled down on the quality of the food,” Couris said of working with Zakarian…

As the U.S. Air Force moves to increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into operations, the force needs to train human operators effectively to use the tools. But the technology might make a better fighter than the human at times, a former Air Force secretary said.At a Thursday roundtable discussion hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Frank Kendall, the 26th Secretary of the Air Force, claimed there are some instances when machines can outperform human operators, since the latter aren’t “perfect.”“When you get to the point where the AI is doing a better job of deciding who to kill than the person, let the AI do it,” Kendall said during the roundtable. “But you got to be confident of that.”To ensure that AI capabilities aren’t outpacing the human operator in the loop, the service needs to verify and test that the tool has been designed to do exactly what it’s meant to, with specific rules it should perform with, Kendall said.The former secretary — who served in the role from 2021 to 2025 during former President Joe Biden’s administration — highlighted that the service needs to train the human operator to use the tool in the way it was intended and…

We’ve got another outdoors fixed blade from Civivi to look at today, the Carveth. The name hints at the role of this one, with a marked bent towards the needs of hunters here. Few things say “hunting knife” more than a handsome, classically proportioned drop point, such as we have here on the Carveth. At 3.59 inches long, the edge is big enough for the (let’s be honest) gnarlier chores such a role demands: things like field dressing and general carving. The Civivi line is dominated by hard working steels, and the design team chose a classic for the Carveth: AEB-L. This user-friendly, low-fuss stainless is to this day a bit of a cult favorite, and has seen more than a little use in the custom knife scene as well; makers like Jesse Jarosz have praised its balanced qualities, and these even-headed characteristics make AEB-L a rock-solid pick for outdooors work of all kinds. The guibourtia wood option comes with a black blade Another hunting knife indicator on the Carveth is an ergonomic feature, albeit not one on the handle (which we’ll get to in a minute). The forward jimping, out near the tip, provides necessary control over that point…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Madison Square Garden Entertainment has filed a defamation lawsuit against WIRED magazine over a recent report alleging the venue keeps a secret watchlist of celebrities.The 40-page lawsuit accuses WIRED of using stolen data to invent a false narrative that MSG maintains an internal blacklist targeting LGBTQ celebrities.The article, titled “Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities,” claims MSG used internal databases to track characteristics of VIP guests and celebrities, including their race, sexual orientation, and gender identity, while assigning “risk scores” to famous fans.MIAMI COPS SUE OVER MATT DAMON, BEN AFFLECK ‘TRUE EVENTS’ FILM, CLAIM IT FALSELY PAINTS THEM AS CORRUPT “WIRED combed the dark web, obtained data stolen from MSG by an extortionist hacking group, and cherry-picked fragments of that data to manufacture a false narrative portraying MSG as targeting the LGBTQIA community for discriminatory purposes,” MSG wrote in the lawsuit, obtained by USA TODAY Sports.MSG accused WIRED and its reporters of intentionally ignoring dozens of normal information fields on the list, such as addresses, phone numbers and dietary restrictions. According to the lawsuit, these mundane fields prove the data was simply part of a standard system used for…

The U.S. Navy’s expensive effort to install hypersonic missiles on three Zumwalt-class destroyers is two years behind schedule, according to government auditors. In addition to problems stemming from both the destroyers and the missiles, the Navy and Army are reportedly not coordinating work on the joint Conventional Prompt Strike missile program. Missile flight testing scheduled for 2025 has been pushed back to 2027. “Despite recent successes testing the CPS missile, the Navy faces several programmatic challenges associated with developing, delivering, and deploying the CPS missile on the DDG-1000,” warned the Government Accountability Office report. “These challenges include rising costs, schedule delays, reliability issues with DDG-1000 class destroyers, and CPS production challenges, among other things.” In search of a mission for the DDG-1000 after escalating costs and capability concerns resulted in the program being cut from 32 ships to just three, the Navy decided in 2022 to arm the Zumwalts with CPS boost-glide hypersonic missiles. CPS uses a two-stage booster to loft a high-altitude glider that can hit a target thousands of miles away in 30 minutes or less. Two Zumwalts have been delivered, and the third is scheduled for 2028. In addition, CPS missiles will arm Virginia-class attack submarines, while…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida officials recently revealed that a Disney World guest died after experiencing a cardiac emergency on a fan-favorite ride.The visitor, a 54-year-old man, suffered a heart-related emergency on the “It’s a Small World” ride in the Fantasyland section of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on April 2, according to the state’s latest quarterly report on theme park injuries and illnesses.The man was taken to a hospital where he later died, FOX 35 Orlando reported.DISNEY WORLD GUESTS SHAKEN AS RARE EARTHQUAKE NEAR CUBA JOLTS FLORIDAThe guest, who has not been identified, had a pre-existing condition, the report said.The iconic ride opened at Magic Kingdom in 1971 and has enjoyed “immense popularity” since, according to Disney World’s website. Fox News Digital reached out to Walt Disney World Resort for comment. The park describes the ride as a “whimsical boat ride past a jubilant chorus of children from around the globe.”SIX FLAGS GUESTS STRANDED 245 FEET IN AIR AFTER POWER OUTAGE FORCES COASTER EVACUATION”Cruise along the Seven Seaways Waterway on a gentle 10-minute journey through all 7 continents,” the site says. The recent report listed five other medical incidents at Disney World this spring.CLICK HERE TO…

U.S. Navy leadership announced Thursday that the flight demonstration squadron involved in an abnormally low flyover at Pensacola Beach, Florida, will not face consequences.Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao absolved the Blue Angels of their unorthodox Wednesday flight maneuver, which rattled civilian chairs and umbrellas.“Flight debrief complete,” Cao said in an X post. “No reprimands. No firings. No problem.”The Navy initiated a safety review shortly after the incident, but it is unclear what effects Cao’s comments will have on that process, if any.Cao’s remarks came amid a flurry of support from the Trump administration for the Blue Angels after online videos began circulating of the jets closely soaring over civilians on the beach.“The flyovers will continue until morale improves,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a social media post.The main social media account for the White House echoed the same sentiment, posting an animated picture with a caption that read, “It’s okay to love America.”Despite the Pentagon’s support, Blue Angels Commanding Officer Adam Bryan appeared to admit that one of the pilots flew lower than usual over the crowd, leading to an unsafe situation, according to a video circulating on Reddit. In the clip, Bryan said they’ll initiate a review of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary Marco Rubio’s call for global cooperation to combat far-left political terrorism could implicate Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist nonprofit financier who is currently facing a federal grand jury probe in New York.Singham, a 72-year-old American who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, is known to fund pro-Chinese Communist Party groups that operate in the U.S. He has funneled $278 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. These groups regularly organize and participate in anti-ICE, anti-Israel and pro-Iran demonstrations.At a State Department summit held in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Rubio urged more than 60 countries to treat far-left global terrorism as a counterterrorism priority. DOJ LAUNCHES GRAND JURY PROBE INTO MARXIST MOGUL NEVILLE ROY SINGHAM’S FUNDING OF LEFTIST GROUPS”For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot – a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left, Rubio said. “Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.”Rubio noted that…

The U.S. Navy announced that certain commands are no longer authorized to provide photos and biographies of leadership on public-facing websites.The decision was made to enhance security for sailors and their families, the service said.“Adversaries increasingly aggregate publicly available data to track, profile, and target our personnel,” a Navy administrative message read. “By creating an unnecessary spotlight and surge of online interest, routine command triad biographies inadvertently expose our people to elevated risk.”Commands led by vice admirals and officers with a lower rank, including civilian equivalents, are now prohibited from uploading the personal information on public websites.The official leadership biographies to be removed include those of commanding officers, executive officers, chiefs of staff, chief staff officers, deputies and command master chiefs or equivalent.Official flag and senior executive service biographies will continue to be hosted on the official websites for the Navy and the secretary of the Navy.Commands led by admirals, however, will be allowed to maintain leadership biographies on websites.Internal non-public websites will also continue to host biographies and portraits of service members.Riley Ceder is a reporter at Military Times, where he covers breaking news, criminal justice, investigations, and cyber. He previously worked as an investigative practicum student at The…