NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The NTT IndyCar Series is gearing up to hit the streets of Washington, DC for the first time on Aug. 23, and now, we know when the green flag will wave.There is absolutely no question about it: the Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, DC is going to be a full-on spectacle as cars race past some of the most iconic monuments our nation has to offer.As such, it’s getting the level of coverage it deserves.TRUMP TOUTS INDYCAR DRIVERS’ ‘SPECIAL’ ABILITY AT FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX SHOWCASE, SEEMINGLY ENDING HOT DEBATEPractice sessions 1 and 2 will air Saturday, Aug. 22, on FS1 and FS2, respectively. Qualifying will take place that evening from 5 to 6:30 p.m. ET on FS2.Then, Sunday morning, the IndyCar broadcast booth regulars — lap-by-lap commentator Will Buxton, along with former drivers-turned-broadcasters Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe — will call the warm-up from 9 to 10 a.m. ET on FS1. After that, expanded pre-race coverage will get underway on FOX at 11:30 a.m. ET, with the race getting started shortly after 1 p.m. ET.SCOTT DIXON LEAVING CHIP GANASSI RACING THROWS A HUGE WRENCH INTO INDYCAR’S SILLY SEASONOn top of…

Thanks to his Masters wins in 2025 and 2026, most people have forgotten about Rory McIlroy’s struggles in major championships over the past decade. Of course they have, since he’s won two of them.But it’s worth remembering that, outside of the Masters, McIlroy hasn’t won one of golf’s other three majors since 2014. He famously let the 2024 U.S. Open slip away by making three bogeys in the final four holes to lose by one shot to Bryson DeChambeau.The biggest factor in those bogeys was McIlroy’s inability to convert short putts, including a missed 2 1/2-footer on No. 16 and a miss from inside 4 feet on No. 18.SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER, RORY MCILROY DISCUSS THEIR THOUGHTS ON LEGACY AHEAD OF THE OPEN: ‘WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE’ Well, those woes came back on Thursday during the first round of the 2026 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. He missed putts from inside 4 feet on both No. 7 and No. 8 before adding a miss from just over 4 feet at No. 10.After missing six putts from inside 12 feet on his first 12 holes, McIlroy drained a 23-footer for birdie on No. 13.He gave the shot right back with a sloppy…

The U.S. Navy announced that it will be conducting a safety review after videos began circulating online of the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron flying dangerously close to civilians on a Florida beach.The service acknowledged that an aircraft from the Navy’s Blue Angels flew “lower than standard profiles” over Pensacola Beach on Wednesday, creating a disturbance that affected civilian chairs and umbrellas.“The safety of our hometown community, spectators, and our pilots is our highest priority,” the Navy said. “Team leadership is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the maneuver and conducting a thorough safety review to ensure all operations adhere to strict Navy and FAA safety standards.”Despite the tenor of the Navy’s statement, the Trump administration appeared to embrace the incident.“The flyovers will continue until morale improves,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a social media post.On X, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell uploaded a screen grab from one of the viral videos with a caption that read, “Carry on patriots.”And the White House posted an animated picture of the event with the word “freedom” emblazoned across it and a caption that said, “It’s okay to love America.”Founded in 1946, the Navy Blue Angels comprise 158 active-duty sailors and Marines who perform flight demonstrations…

Morale in the United States was lower during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Unfortunately, many Americans were not feeling very festive or positive about the US. Two weeks before the US’s anniversary, The Associated Press published a poll that captured the depth of American anxiety about the ruling class and life in general in the country. The numbers were grim. More than two-thirds (70%) of Americans no longer consider their country the greatest nation on Earth, while 64% believe American democracy is in danger. And 38% don’t believe the United States will survive another 250 years as a single country. Only about one-third of Americans believe that the “American Dream” still exists. The lack of confidence stems from the ruling classes’ consistent slide into tyranny. People are beginning to feel the immorality of government, even if they can’t quite put their finger on it just yet. The first problems with people’s perceptions of the US began with the Millennial generation. This is the generation born between 1981 and 1996. Their parents got rich, bought homes, built savings, and traveled abroad, but they inherited student debt, unaffordable housing, unstable work, and the strange feeling that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism online over a press conference where a local housing advocate claimed evictions are a form of “violence” as the mayor stood behind her.”Our city is turning the corner on tenant power. When we organize, we win results. The Mamdani administration is emboldening us so we no longer tolerate the violence of evictions as a matter of business as usual,” Antonia Marrero, a member of the Housing Organizers for People Empowerment (HOPE) Tenant Union, said during a press conference on Thursday.Mamdani, who has faced heavy criticism over the past year for his housing policies, was quickly blasted by conservatives and political commentators in general on social media over the comment.”This looks like a scene out of a Batman movie,” Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez posted on X.MAMDANI SPARKS FIERCE BACKLASH FOR WORLD CUP STUNT ‘PALLING AROUND’ WITH RIKERS ISLAND CONVICTS “Theater of the absurd,” Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on X.”Look at Mamdani’s face in the back,” the conservative influencer account End Wokeness posted on X, referencing Mamdani’s grin as the woman was speaking.”Impossible to describe how much damage Fauci and…

The Department of the Navy is officially weaponizing data and artificial intelligence.In a memorandum signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao, the strategy unfurling across the branch it set to allow the department to “to equip and empower all DON missions with the data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities necessary to rapidly learn and adapt to fight better tomorrow,” according to a Navy release. “This strategy positions the Department of the Navy to out-learn and out-fight any adversary by rapidly deploying data and artificial intelligence,” said Cao. “It is our roadmap to building an ‘AI-first’ Fleet, one that turns information into warfighting advantage and enables faster, better decisions.”The problem, the release notes, is how to convert large swaths of data and optimize it within the Navy’s technology ecosystem and turn it into “mission-relevant actionable information.”Positing that speed is the name of the game, the department’s integration and utilization of AI and other data is crucial, it noted, to remain ahead of adversaries and to deploy effective combat operations at sea. In order to do so, the Navy laid out a sequential five-step digital framework, dubbed the Bits2Effects Cycle, in which the branch:Collects: automatically captures data from sensors, weapons…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the alleged ringleaders of the massive Feeding Our Future pandemic relief fraud scheme in Minnesota has been brought back to the United States to face charges, authorities said.Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was arrested on June 26 in Somalia and extradited back to the U.S. on Thursday, the FBI said.Federal prosecutors allege Eidleh was the mastermind who bilked taxpayers out of $250 million by exploiting federal child nutrition programs meant to feed vulnerable children. Authorities have described it as one of the largest fraud cases in Minnesota history.”Today is a historic moment in the FBI’s war on fraud,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The Foreign Transfer of Custody of Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh brings to justice one of the alleged ringleaders of the $250 million ‘Feeding our Future’ fraud scandal out of Minnesota—where the FBI has already helped secure over 70 guilty pleas from fraudsters in partnership with the Justice Department.”MINNESOTA MAN CAPTURED IN SOMALIA AFTER ALLEGEDLY HELPING ORCHESTRATE $250M CHILD NUTRITION FRAUD SCHEME Eidleh faces 31 counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, federal programs bribery, conspiracy to commit money…

Scam artists have been targeting the $100,000 now available to eligible New Mexico victims of radiation exposure dating back to the world’s first atomic bomb explosion code-named “Trinity” in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert on July 16, 1945, according to New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez.“New Mexicans who have been affected by these exposures deserve compensation and they deserve to get that compensation free from bad actors attempting to take advantage of them,” Lopez said in a release shortly after a major expansion and extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025.The measure finally included the New Mexico “Downwinders” from the Trinity blast and their surviving families who were excluded from coverage when RECA initially passed in 1990. Previously, it covered only specific counties in Nevada, Arizona and Utah, which had been exposed to fallout from the more than 900 atomic tests, including 100 above ground, at the Nevada test range between January 1951 and September 1992.The government at the time claimed there was insufficient data on the impacts of the fallout from the Trinity test to include New Mexico in the coverage. When the new RECA bill passed last year…

As the world’s fastest Ebola outbreak spreads, more health care workers strike at facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The current Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is still spreading, and new challenges are emerging even as work begins on a study of two badly needed treatments for a type of Ebola that currently has none. The Bundibugyo strain is having a major impact on the ability to slow the spread of the virus. The more common Zaire strain is better-known, making it easier to treat. Over 2,000 cases, including over 750 deaths, have been confirmed. Now cases are suspected in two more provinces, including one of Congo’s largest cities, Kisangani, as responders struggle to understand how far Ebola has spread, according to The Associated Press. Eighty percent of new cases are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The outbreak’s origin is still not known. Ebola is highly contagious and can be transmitted to people from wild animals. It spreads in the human population through contact with bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen, and with contaminated surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing. –The Associated Press US Bans Americans From Leaving DR Congo As Ebola…

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