NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites it described as Hezbollah command centers in Beirut’s southern suburbs Sunday, hours after Israeli officials said Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. Hezbollah did not immediately claim responsibility.The escalation came days after the U.S., Israel and Lebanon announced a renewed conditional ceasefire framework requiring Hezbollah to halt fire and withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon. It also followed the release of IDF footage that Israel said showed troops dismantling a Hezbollah explosives facility, where an outside expert said components appeared consistent with anti-personnel shrapnel devices designed to wound or kill people on foot.The strikes mark a major cross-border escalation days after the U.S., Israel and Lebanon announced a renewed conditional ceasefire framework requiring Hezbollah to halt fire and withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the military action was direct retaliation for the group’s violation earlier in the day.HEZBOLLAH FIRES BARRAGE OF ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL AFTER IDF TARGETS HEZBOLLAH COMMAND CENTERS IN BEIRUT Concurrently, footage released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) showed troops locating and dismantling a hidden, booby-trapped explosives warehouse.The multipurpose assembly hub appeared to contain materials that could…

Emergency candles have been a survival staple for generations, but carrying loose candles and matches is a sloppy solution. They roll around, get lost, and offer no wind protection when you actually need a flame. That’s where a little historical inspiration goes a long way. The Civil War era produced some remarkably clever field gear, born out of necessity and built from whatever was on hand. This candle lantern design draws directly from that tradition. It’s compact, functional, and built from common materials. It holds up to three candles and a book of matches, and it doubles as a wind break and reflector. I came across this particular tutorial on the YouTube channel WayPoint Survival, hosted by James Bender, who adapts the old-school design using an Altoids tin. This is one of those projects that’s both quick to build and genuinely worth having. You can watch the video and read the instructions below. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! What You’ll Need 1 standard Altoids tin About 9 inches of 12-gauge copper wire 1 nail (a 16-penny nail works well) 1 small pan-head bolt (¼ inch) with matching nut and washer Blue…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News leadership of political bias and incompetence in his first sit-down interview since he was fired from the network last week after clashing with new management.Pelley told The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro that he hoped Paramount leadership would intervene after recent upheaval at the long-running newsmagazine.”Right now, CBS News is on fire,” Pelley said.Pelley, who spent 37 years at CBS News, said the turmoil began after CBS dismissed several senior “60 Minutes” staffers and installed tech journalist Nick Bilton as the program’s new executive producer under CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. CBS NEWS CHIEFS TOLD SCOTT PELLEY THEY WANTED HIM TO STAY ON ’60 MINUTES’ BEFORE TENSE CLASH WITH NEW PRODUCERPelley described the staff cuts as a “Black Thursday massacre” and said employees were left without a clear explanation.”This is our entire senior staff,” Pelley said. “Tanya Simon, our boss, she’s the first woman ever to be executive producer of ‘60 Minutes.’ And she concluded this season with a growth in our audience of 9%, which is unheard-of in broadcast television, and a growth of our online presence of 190%.”Pelley said he canceled…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Republican Steve Hilton blamed Democrats Sunday for turning the Golden State into a place where residents can no longer afford to live. He blamed soaring costs, crushing taxes and government dysfunction for driving families and businesses out of the state.”California today is what you get when Democrats get everything they want,” Hilton told “Fox & Friends Weekend.”Pointing to high taxes and rampant homelessness, Hilton criticized the Democratic-controlled state legislature, executive leadership and state Supreme Court, highlighting their claimed failure to resolve some of the state’s most pressing concerns.”They’ve had 16 years to show us that their ideas can work, and they’ve had nothing stopping them,” he said.NEWSOM CONFRONTED ON CALIFORNIA BEING THE ‘HIGHEST COST OF LIVING’ STATE IN THE US AMID AFFORDABILITY CRISIS “They’ve had all the statewide offices. They have had both chambers of the state legislature with a two-thirds majority. They can literally pass anything they want. They run all the big cities, all the big counties. They had the state Supreme Court, 6-1 Democrat majority, and yet still they can’t do it,” he added. Hilton’s frustrations come as he attempts to upend the Democratic Party’s stronghold in the state.STEVE…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! People who incorporate strength training into their weekly routines may be more likely to live longer, according to a new study.Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed data from 147,374 adults and found that people who engaged in moderate amounts of resistance training had a lower risk of dying from several major causes, including heart disease and neurological disease.The findings were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.OLDER ADULTS SHOULD TARGET THESE MUSCLES WHEN STRENGTH-TRAINING, SAYS FITNESS PROPeople who performed between 90 and 119 minutes of resistance training per week had a 13% lower risk of death from any cause compared to those who did no strength training.The same group also experienced a 19% lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 27% lower risk of death from neurological diseases, most of which were related to dementia. Researchers found that the greatest benefit occurred when resistance training was combined with aerobic exercise.Adults who regularly participated in both forms of exercise had up to a 45% lower risk of death than those who did little aerobic activity and no resistance training.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A burger stand in a popular beach town has managed to keep its signature burger at a little over $1 for nearly 20 years, even as food and energy prices have soared.Chris Higgitt, owner of Higgitt’s Las Vegas Arcade Blackpool & £1 Burger Bar in the seaside resort town of Blackpool, England, has been selling the same burger for £1, or about $1.34, since opening the business in 2006, news agency SWNS reported.The burger includes a bun, an English beef patty, onions and sauce.CHILI’S TROLLS FAST-FOOD GIANTS AS VALUE MEALS FACE BACKLASH FROM PRICE-WEARY CONSUMERSHiggitt, 58, said the low price has become a major attraction, drawing long lines of customers during the busy tourist season.”I am very proud of being able to keep the price for this long,” Higgitt told SWNS. “It is more popular than ever,” Higgitt said, noting that people will wait in line for more than an hour to buy one.Prior to working in the burger business, Higgitt worked as a processing and quality engineer. He later operated a bed-and-breakfast with his wife, Karen, before the couple purchased an arcade in 2006.”The arcade wasn’t performing very well and Karen…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced the departures of Steve Maclin and Myla Grace on Sunday.TNA announced the releases in a note posted to its website.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! “TNA Wrestling has come to terms on the release of Steve Maclin and Myla Grace, effective immediately. We wish them the best in their future endeavors,” the company said.Grace, who is from Northern Ireland, started her stint at TNA in June 2025 when she appeared on the Against All Odds event pre-show. She teamed up with Xia Brookside and Harley Hudson.She had a handful of singles and tag team matches since making her debut. She never was able to hold a championship in TNA. Her last appearance came in a March taping where she lost to Elayna Black. She hadn’t appeared for the company since then. Maclin had been with TNA since 2021. He was the first TNA international champion, holding the belt twice. He also held the Impact World Championship once. He was in an intense storyline with TNA world champion Mike Santana, which saw him get injured and “fired” before…

This article was originally published by Michael Dioguardi at The Mises Institute.  Previously, I have argued that sovereign credit systems are structurally biased toward expansion: crises justify new interventions, those interventions are never fully reversed, and each cycle leaves behind a higher institutional baseline than before. The Cantillon effect ensures that the gains from monetary expansion distribute unevenly, flowing first to those nearest the financial system. In another article, I examined why market discipline cannot correct this: Banking regulation assigns zero risk weights to sovereign bonds; liquidity rules mandate their ownership; central bank collateral frameworks treat them as foundational assets. The system is not merely insulated from discipline, the regulatory architecture ensures that insulation compounds over time. Those two pieces established the machinery. This one follows its output to the logical destination: the household budget. The affordability crisis in housing, healthcare, and education is not a market failure. It is the cumulative distributional consequence of a sovereign credit system that resolves economic stress through expansion rather than liquidation, shifting the cost onto the consumers least positioned to absorb it. Cantillon at the Checkout Counter Richard Cantillon observed in the eighteenth century that the sequence in which new money enters an economy matters as…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Although the pair live in separate houses, Danny DeVito says he and wife Rhea Perlman remain “best of friends.””We are not living together anymore. She lives close by,” the “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” comedian told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.He added, “We are really good, best of friends, and we always were from the very, very, very beginning.”The 81-year-old said he and Perlman love talking about their passions, mainly movies and acting.ED BURNS CREDITS ‘TWO-WEEK RULE’ WITH WIFE CHRISTY TURLINGTON FOR KEEPING THEIR 22-YEAR MARRIAGE STRONG  “And we talk, we love movies. We love, you know, we love acting,” he said. “We love talking about it. We always, we read plays. We’ve always kept it alive with the kids, you know, with the movie business.”DeVito and Perlman married in 1982, and they share three grown kids: Lucy, 43, Grace, 41, and Jake, 38.He explained that Lucy and Jake both work in the business and Grace is a “wonderful painter.”MARK WAHLBERG ADMITS HOLLYWOOD FAME COMES WITH ‘BAGGAGE’ FOR HIS KIDS”But Lucy’s an actress. She’s in the new movie we just produced called ‘Drag,’ which is coming out in the [winter]…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Spencer Pratt’s independent bid to make the Los Angeles mayoral runoff hangs in the balance nearly a week after Election Day.With the jungle primary leaving incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass already ruled to have advanced to a November runoff, Pratt’s margin over Democrat City Councilmember Nithya Raman has slimmed to just 1% with a few thousand ballots left to make up the difference.Pratt led Raman by just 7,494 votes in the latest AP elections tally with 78% of the vote counted to date. Bass remained in first place with 235,180 votes (34.8%), while Pratt had 184,596 votes (27.3%) and Raman had 177,102 votes (26.2%).Los Angeles County continues to count ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by Tuesday, June 9, drawing the attention of the Republican National Committee. The election results must only be counted within 30 days and certified by July 10.CALIFORNIA’S SLUGGISH VOTE COUNTING RIPPED ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM: ‘EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING’ “The California primary ended on June 2, 2026; yet California is still counting ballots,” the RNC website tracker counting the seconds since polls closed reads.”The state’s election system is a complete joke. The RNC is tracking every…