NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! With Super Bowl Sunday just about here, hosts across America are pulling together grocery lists and final preparations for game day.Many partygoers gathering with friends and family will expect the typical offerings: chicken wings, pizza, nachos, pigs in a blanket and plenty of beer.But on Super Bowl Sunday — the first major hosting event for many people since New Year’s Eve — could bring some surprises this year.AMERICA’S FAVORITE HOT SAUCES RANKED — INSTACART REVEALS THE TOP PICKSAt least one chef has observed some trends that she expects will impact game-day menus.Executive chef Kathryn Neidus, an executive chef at the StoneWater Golf Club in Ohio, told Fox News Digital that people are getting more creative with dips in particular. “Think jalapeño popper dip, hot bacon pickle dip or crab rangoon dip,” she said.”There’s also more experimentation with what to pair them with — from wonton chips to air-fried vegetables.”And spicing up the dips doesn’t need to be unhealthy. She cited cottage cheese and Greek yogurt as options that are lighter than sour cream but don’t sacrifice flavor — and they align with health trends of recent years. Baked sliders, a longtime party…

Sailors who served aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke have been awarded the Armed Forces Service Medal for their support and execution of ballistic missile defense operations in 2024 and during last June’s “12-Day War” between Iran and Israel, the ship said in a Facebook post Wednesday. RELATEDSailors who served aboard the vessel from Aug. 15, 2024, to Dec. 16, 2024, or during the 12-day armed conflict from Jun. 12, 2025, to Jun. 24, 2025, are eligible, according to the post.Sailors who qualified under both stretches would receive the medal and a subsequent award.The medal is authorized for service members who participate in a U.S. military operation of “significant activity” that did not involve foreign armed opposition or imminent threat.On June 13, 2025, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, such as the Natanz Nuclear Facility, that killed top military leaders. The country said it did so to prevent Iran from continuing to build its nuclear arsenal.Iran retaliated by firing nearly 900 ballistic missiles at Israel, according to the Foreign Policy Research Institute.About a week later, on June 21, President Donald Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer, ordering airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities. The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Country music singer Brantley Gilbert was tapped to perform at Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” Sunday to counter Bad Bunny’s spectacle at the Super Bowl.Gilbert will be one of four performers at the Turning Point USA event. Kid Rock is the headliner along with Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. Gilbert has been performing professionally since 2007 and released his debut album in 2009. He may not be a household name for some Americans and football fans. He addressed those who were asking who he is and why he’s performing at the event.”I’m a songwriter who grew up, and still lives in Jackson County, Georgia, whose goal in the music business was to sell out the local theater a few miles from my house and somehow make my living writing songs,” he said in a statement. “I’m a recovering addict with the history of all the bad choices that come with it. I’m not proud of those choices, but I am proud of the choice I’ve made to live in another direction.”I share my story through my music in hopes that it may help and inspire others in their darkest hour. I’m a Christian,…

The Navy’s top civilian leader was listed on a passenger manifest list for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane, documents reportedly show.According to a flight manifest, Navy Secretary John Phelan traveled from London to New York City on March 3, 2006, on the disgraced financier’s private jet, CNN reported Friday.Epstein was awaiting trial for child sex-trafficking charges when he was found dead in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide by medical examiners.A close friend of Phelan’s confirmed to CNN he was on the flight but that it was the only instance Phelan interacted with Epstein and that Phelan, then working in the financial sector, was invited to fly by the late Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne. CNN did not identify the friend.The friend told CNN that Phelan did not know they would be flying in Epstein’s plane prior to their arrival and that Phelan never interacted or spoke with Epstein again. CNN further reported that there is no evidence Phelan was aware of any wrongdoing by Epstein or Epstein’s associates at the time of the flight.Phelan founded Rugger Management LLC, a private investment…

This article was originally published by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. at The Mises Institute.  Do illegal immigrants have the right to stay in America, or can they be deported? Of course, they do not have such a right. Furthermore, as Brion McClanahan of the Abbeville Institute has pointed out, the Supreme Court has in numerous cases ruled that control of immigration is a federal matter, not one under state jurisdiction. You can argue that these precedents are wrong,  but that is the law as it exists today. That being so, if “progressive” Governors like Tim Walz of Minnesota oppose the removal of illegal immigrants, they cannot block immigration enforcement within their state. They have no obligation to use state officials to help ICE agents, and if demonstrators against ICE attack agents or try by force to free those they take into ICE custody, state officials must arrest them. For some conservatives, that is the end of the matter: the demonstrators are a raging mob, who have only themselves to blame if some of them are injured or killed. Thus, writing in The Spectator, Dan McCarthy says, “The Border Patrol officer or officers who shot  [Alex]Pretti might have been wrong. But the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The new-look Detroit Lions have been a force to be reckoned with, but this season, they are in what has recently become unfamiliar territory.After making the playoffs in each of the previous two seasons, the Lions missed out on the playoffs after being one of the favorites to win it all in the preseason.In 2023, they were this close to making the Super Bowl for the first time. Last season, they lost in their first playoff game as the No. 1 seed.  “I really think we have all the pieces, and that’s why this year hurt the way that it did, because you know we have this high elite level of talent,” star edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson told Fox News Digital on Radio Row. “I really just think it was a football thing, and it was a lack of complimentary football in critical moments. I think different phases were letting the team down. That’s defense included, too. It sucks that you have to sit there and say it, but I think that’s kind of what happened. Because we have the pieces.””I think we just slipped up here and there. Details kind of…

Look closely at the commemorative flight suit patch for Super Bowl LX and you’ll notice what appears to be an anomaly: while the military aircraft flyover on Sunday is set to include Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and F-16C Eagle fighters alongside Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Lightning fighters, the patch includes silhouettes of another advanced fighter jet: the Air Force F-22 Raptor. According to a planner for the flyover, that’s not a mistake, but evidence of operational needs taking priority.Katie Spencer, the Sports Outreach Program manager for the Department of the Air Force, said the initial flyover plan included a pair of F-22s, to showcase the most advanced jets from both services.“We wanted 5th-generation aircraft from the Air Force and 5th-generation aircraft from the Navy,” Spencer told Military Times in a Friday interview. “But as things happen in our military, you know, operational tempo has increased, and so the F-22s got pulled for some operational assignments.”While Spencer did not go into details about operational needs, F-22s in June played a key role in Operation Midnight Hammer, the B-2 Spirit bomber-led strike campaign on Iranian nuclear facilities. In January and early February, an undisclosed variety of U.S. aircraft conducted…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DECISION TIME: Top teachers union under fire as lawmakers push to strip its unique federal charter  SECRETS EXPOSED: Minneapolis teachers union chief admits elected officials in anti-ICE Signal chats‘POLITICAL SCHEMING’: Rhode Island activist slams adult-run nonprofit that promoted ‘student-led’ anti-ICE school walkout SIGN UP TO GET THE CAMPUS RADICALS NEWSLETTER STAFF TURMOIL: Notre Dame hire of abortion advocate to lead center causes staff to cut ties with university TAKING A STAND: Elementary teacher takes on state union over parental rights ballot measurePRAYERS UP: Leaders of desecrated Catholic school urge prayer for perpetrators after Mary statue, tabernacle destroyed LEGAL TROUBLE: Temple University student who ‘assisted Don Lemon’ charged in federal church-storming case CLASSROOM MISCONDUCT: First-grade teacher flips American flag upside down in San Diego classroom, sparks investigation SOUNDING THE ALARM: Education experts warn Mamdani plan could gut NYC gifted programs, hurt low-income students BIG MOVE: Education advocates praise Texas A&M decision to wind down Women’s and Gender Studies certificateBEHIND CLOSED DOORS: Teachers union president calls Trump a ‘dictator’ on unearthed call with Antifa-linked group Read the full article here

Gambling addiction is now a topic that researchers can study under a Department of Defense program that provides federal funding for issues affecting U.S. military personnel and veterans. For the first time, the fiscal 2026 defense appropriations bill included problem gambling as a research topic sanctioned by the Defense Department under its Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Gambling addiction joins more than 240 subjects authorized by Congress to receive funding under the program. Last July, the National Council on Problem Gambling joined forces with gaming companies BetMGM, MGM Resorts and FanDuel to ask Senate appropriators to include funding for gambling research in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 budget bill. According to the 2022 Defense Department Health Related Behaviors Survey, 1.6% of active-duty service members reported a problem with gambling and 1.7% of reserve members screened positive for a gambling addiction. Despite this, however, there has been a dearth of research on the impact of gambling on the military community, according to the NCPG. Being listed among the allowable topics in the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program doesn’t guarantee that the subject will be studied. But it makes federal funding available and is a step in the right direction, according to NCPG…

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