NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Super Bowl champion quarterback Craig Morton died last week at the age of 83, and on Monday, his cause of death was revealed.Morton died on May 9 from “acute respiratory failure due to severe sepsis due to urinary tract infection,” a Marin County, California, Vital Statistics Office spokesperson told the California Post.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Kym Galloway, the wife of the former quarterback, told The Denver Post that Morton was tired of being in pain and dealing with his back.”And he just said, ‘I give (up). I’m ready to go. I don’t want to do this anymore. I’ve had an amazing life. And I’m just tired,” Galloway added. “And then … he said, ‘I’ve never said I give (up), in my life.”Morton was critical in helping the Broncos reach their first-ever playoff appearance, ultimately getting them to Super Bowl XII during the 1977 campaign.After going 12-2 during the season and getting wins in the playoffs over the Pittsburgh Steelers and then-Oakland Raiders, Morton was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Year. Morton also won Sporting News Player of the Year,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The next ten percent of military degradation now costs more than the first ninety, and that is the operational lesson of the past four years and the central problem facing modern military strategy.The wars in Ukraine and Iran are depictions of a bygone era of high-intensity conflict, with immense casualties in the case of Russia and Ukraine, and simultaneously a rehearsal of the conflicts that will define the 21st century. Unmanned systems, data science at scale to enable information processing and targeting, distributed command and control, and cheap precision strike have demonstrable effects on the battlefield that portend an uncertain future, and cheaper lethal effects and available software pose the real possibility of a democratization of organized violence that implicates the expectations nation-states can carry when choosing to take a country to war.The Russia-Ukraine war, more than four years on, is the deadliest interstate war in Europe since 1945, with Russian casualties exceeding one million killed and wounded and Ukrainian casualties running 250,000 to 300,000 by the same accounting. Europe will never be the same after this war, but the epochal shift has occurred on a battlefield that is relatively stable if…

WARSAW, Poland — Polish government leaders are concerned over the Pentagon’s abrupt cancellation of a deployment of more than 4,000 soldiers to NATO’s eastern flank, citing Warsaw’s status as a multibillion-dollar U.S. weapons client in their appeal to retain American soldiers.On May 18, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, the country’s deputy prime minister and national defense minister, attended a ceremony in eastern Poland related to the launch of a new engine servicing hub for the Polish fleet of Abrams tanks. The event, designed to highlight existing trans-Atlantic defense ties, was overshadowed by Washington’s recent order to halt a planned nine-month U.S. Army rotation to Eastern Europe.“The United States military that is stationed in Poland, stationed in Europe, gives security guarantees,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said at the event. “On the other hand, we have not only a [U.S.] military presence, but also great, strategic purchases in the United States. And it is difficult to find in the world, not only in Europe, a second country that has invested so heavily in purchases of the best American gear for its own needs.”Kosiniak-Kamysz referred to Poland’s numerous U.S. weapon purchases from the past years which, in addition to tanks, comprise procurements of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! HEBRON, KY – Six states from coast-to-coast hold primary elections on Tuesday in one of the busiest and potentially most consequential days of the 2026 midterm calendar.Voters in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania will cast ballots in Democratic and Republican primaries for the U.S. House, Senate and governor, as well as in down-ballot races. The nominating showdowns tee up this autumn’s midterms, when Republicans will defend their slim Senate and razor-thin House majorities.Meanwhile, some of Tuesday’s most high-profile primary ballot box face-offs will serve as the latest tests of President Donald Trump’s immense grip over the Republican Party and the strength of his endorsements in GOP nomination races.Two weeks after purging five state senators in Indiana’s primary who had opposed his push for congressional redistricting, and three days after helping to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana – as the senator who, five and a half years ago, voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial lost his bid for renomination – Trump has a new target: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.DEFENSE SECRETARY HEGSETH JOINS TRUMP’S POLTICAL WAR AGAINST MASSIE Massie, who for 14 years has represented Kentucky’s 4th…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The following is kind of a made-up story, but required reading for anyone with a 2028 fixation.I don’t mean that it’s fictional. This Axios piece is based on real reporting.But it’s just another angle out of a thousand possible angles about who might win the next Democratic nomination.I’m an Axios fan. I’ve written many such stories myself. It’s what you do when there’s no hard news about an event that won’t start for another year and a half.  You’ve got to keep feeding the beast.AOC, ASKED ABOUT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, SAYS HER AMBITION IS ‘WAY BIGGER THAN THAT’ (In fairness, Axios’ first three stories yesterday were about the war, Donald Trump’s suit against the IRS and congressional maneuvering.)So this is one of those in-between stories, for days when there are no hard-news developments.We used to call this the “invisible primary.” But that term has to be retired. In the era of X and Instagram, of group chats, of powerhouse podcasts, nothing is invisible anymore. Anyone can go on Substack and try to draw a following, with varying levels of insight and accuracy. Few “scoops” last more than two minutes in this echo…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former Virginia assistant principal is on trial on felony child neglect charges after prosecutors say she ignored warnings that a 6-year-old student had a loaded gun before the child shot his teacher in 2023.Jury selection began Monday in Newport News in the trial of Ebony Parker, the former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School. Parker, who has pleaded not guilty, faces eight felony child neglect charges tied to the shooting of first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner, according to The Associated Press.Prosecutors allege several school employees warned Parker that the student might have a gun, but she failed to take action before the shooting happened, the outlet reported.Parker’s defense has argued she is being unfairly blamed for broader failures that preceded the shooting.ATTORNEY SAYS VIRGINIA SCHOOL MISSED WARNINGS BEFORE 6-YEAR-OLD SHOT TEACHER Prosecutors brought one count for each of the eight bullets loaded in the gun. If convicted, Parker could face up to five years in prison for each count, AP reported.The shooting happened on Jan. 6, 2023, when authorities said the 6-year-old student shot Zwerner while she was teaching. She was hospitalized for nearly two weeks and underwent six surgeries after the bullet…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Oklahoma City Thunder came into Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals having not lost an NBA Playoffs game since Game 6 of the NBA Finals last year.But they hadn’t faced Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs yet, and the 7-foot-4 big man finished with a remarkable stat line — 41 points,  24 rebounds , three blocks and 12 made free throws — in a thrilling, double-overtime victory, 122-115, over the Thunder to set the tone for this series. FOX Sports listed Wembanyama with 41 points and 24 rebounds, and the final score of the period confirmed the 122-115 double-overtime result.Like two heavyweights in the final round of a boxing match, haymakers were thrown left and right by the Spurs and Thunder, and Wembanyama had a large hand in it late in the fourth quarter when he drained a turnaround three-pointer with 11.5 seconds left on the clock to give San Antonio a 101-99 lead. However, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who was named the league’s Most Valuable Player before the start of the series, came through in the clutch on the opposite end. With 3.1 seconds remaining in the game, his sprint…

Admittedly, the Echelon had a steep hill to climb. At its launch in mid-2023, the then-new Echelon faced a packed market of duty-style, polymer-framed, striker-fired 9mm pistols. To say there was a plethora of choices would be a remarkable understatement. As a result, the Echelon had to bring something new to the table to forge its path. Shown here is the new Springfield Armory Echelon Alpha. The Echelon Alpha is chambered for the 9×19 Parabellum cartridge and is a perfect pistol for self-defense and duty use. Image: Carson McDaniel/Springfield Armory It did just that. In fact, it did more than that. Rather than offering a singular new feature to make it stand out, it introduced a remarkable combination of features into the duty-grade 9mm pistol platform. First and foremost is the Central Operating Group (or “COG”, for short). The COG is a stainless-steel serialized chassis that can be easily swapped between interchangeable grip modules. Adding to the COG’s modularity in the Echelon is the pistol’s remarkable Variable Interface System. Designed as a simplified solution to plate-based optics mounting systems, the patent-pending Variable Interface System allows users to direct-mount most of today’s most popular red dot optics directly to the slide. This…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two American nationals were reportedly arrested in Japan on Sunday after one allegedly entered the enclosure of Punch, the young macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who became famous online for his inseparable bond with a stuffed orangutan toy.Videos circulating online appear to show a person dressed in an emoji costume climbing over a barrier into the Japanese macaque enclosure before dropping a small stuffed toy near the animals, startling them and causing them to retreat, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).The suspects were identified as a 24-year-old college student and a 27-year-old self-described singer, AFP reported.PUNCH THE MONKEY, VIRAL STAR, EXPERIENCES DRAMATIC BREAKTHROUGH AMONG ZOO MATES Zoo staff quickly intervened, and authorities said neither suspect made physical contact with the monkeys, according to AFP.Ichikawa Police told AFP the two men were arrested on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business.One suspect was not cooperating with police, while the other denied the allegations, according to reports citing NHK.In a statement posted to X on May 17, Ichikawa City Zoo confirmed the pair had been turned over to police and said safety inspections were conducted afterward. ORPHANED BABY MONKEY FINDS COMFORT IN STUFFED ANIMAL AFTER BEING ABANDONED…

The suppressor-ready JP-5 PDW Package is purpose-built for compact performance.Personal defense weapons, or PDWs, were originally designed for second-line troops who needed more firepower than a pistol could provide, but didn’t want the bulk of a full-sized rifle. Compact carbines were the perfect bridge for that gap. Guns like the FN P90 submachine gun, SR-2 Veresek and the H&K MP7 are some of the early versions of military guns used in the PDW capacity.The evolution of compact firearm platforms has increasingly emphasized portability, modularity and refined shooting performance, opening up a market for civilians. Some notable PDWs that have gained traction are the Sig Sauer MPX and the Daniel Defense DDM4. And, of course, JP Enterprises‘ JP-5 PDW.Few modern systems embody the PDW shift as clearly as the JP Enterprises JP-5 PDW. When JP saw an opportunity to get into the civilian home defense market, they created the Suppressor-Ready PDW Package. Built on the company’s flagship roller-delayed platform, this configuration is designed not just as a firearm, but as a complete, low-profile system optimized for discreet carry and suppressed use.When paired with a purpose-built bag like the Eberlestock Little Trick backpack, it illustrates how modern pistol-caliber carbines (PCCs) are evolving…