When I plucked the September-October issue of Smithsonian magazine out of my P.O. Box, the first article I turned to was “The Secret Life of Cormac McCarthy” by Richard Grant. As I skimmed it, a pull-quote leaped out at me: “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.”“OMG,” I thought, “Cormac McCarthy was one of us!” The movie version of “No Country For Old Men” is replete with interesting firearms, including the tried-and-true 1911. Image: Gail PepinThe article focused on the late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s book collection, which ran over 20,000 volumes. It turns out many of those were gun books. The article includes a photo of one such, along with McCarthy’s hand-drawn plans for equipment to use to rifle one’s own gun barrels.I looked first for the source of that pull-quote. Writer Grant was interviewing Cormac’s younger brother Dennis, who told him, “Cormac kept on ordering books after he was too sick and frail to read, because it was a compulsion, but until that point he would read for hours and hours nearly every day. He never left the house without a book. He never left the house…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A group of professional skydivers who witnessed a plane crash took an extraordinary route to the scene — jumping from their own aircraft to reach the victims.The men, all experienced skydivers with Skydive Milwaukee, were preparing for a jump when they spotted a small plane near East Troy Municipal Airport on Sunday, according to the Town of East Troy Police Department.John Bechtel, one of the skydivers, told local outlet WSMV the plane appeared to be flying unusually before disappearing behind a line of trees.MIDAIR SCARE FORCES PACKED PASSENGER JET INTO EMERGENCY LANDING, TRAVELERS HOSPITALIZED”He kind of banked up a little bit, and then, he disappeared behind the trees,” Bechtel recalled.”We were all sitting there waiting for him to show back up somewhere, and [he] never did,” he added. “We all just kind of looked at each other like, ‘Did we just see a plane crash?’” The single-engine plane had crashed in a cornfield near the airport.The group quickly asked their pilot to identify a safe place for them to jump so that they could help.PROBE UNDERWAY AS 7 FLIGHT ATTENDANTS SICKENED BY BAFFLING ODOR ON MAJOR AIRLINEAir traffic control told the pilot…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! AUSTIN, TEXAS — Former U.S. ambassador and lifelong Democrat Rahm Emanuel doubled down on his declaration that democratic socialists don’t belong in his party while expressing support for a far-left candidate competing in one of the most highly contested Senate races in the midterms.”Democratic Socialists are a separate party. I’ll see you in November,” Emanuel told Fox News Digital at the Texas Tribune Festival.Emanuel, who has been mulling a 2028 presidential bid, has been outspoken against the far-left. While he insisted that the Democratic Socialists of America are their own party, they’ve made their mark on the Democratic ballot, particularly in the 2026 midterms.Democratic socialists have won several congressional Democratic primaries across the country, including three candidates in New York City that were endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani as well as Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Melat Kiros in Colorado and Florida Senate hopeful Angie Dixon.RAHM EMANUEL TOUTS WHAT SEPARATES HIMSELF FROM OTHER DEMS AS HE MULLS 2028 PRESIDENTIAL BID Despite the major gains this election cycle, Emanuel insisted there’s no “takeover” of his party.”You think people wanna support defunding the police? You think they wanna support open borders, open prisons? Run on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two U.S. Navy aviators ejected while trying to land their aircraft on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off the coast of Virginia on Monday evening in what the Navy described as a “mishap” that also injured four sailors.The sailors were onboard the aircraft carrier at the time. One sailor is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Norfolk area hospital, the Navy said.The aviators, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3, were successfully brought back to the ship by search and rescue personnel. They are being evaluated by medical personnel, the Navy said. ONE CREW MEMBER MISSING AFTER US NAVY HELICOPTER MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN ARABIAN SEAThe Navy did not reveal which type of two-seater plane was involved in the accident. It also did not specify what happened to the plane or what could have happened to cause the accident.The Navy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, entered service in 1977.The incident follows several recent mishaps in which military aviators had to eject. PILOT EJECTS AS F-35 CRASHES AT MCAS MIRAMAR, SPARKING FIREIn May, four Navy crew members ejected safely after…

WWE “Monday Night Raw” came to a raucous end in Milwaukee as the 946 and Bloodline factions came to a crashing head.It had been weeks of mind games between the two sides. Royce Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price set Jey and Jimmy Usos’ car on fire and, last week, kidnapped Solo Sikoa before dropping him off near a beach. Jacob Fatu tried to get his family to simmer down and wait for the right moment to strike, but for him, kidnapping Sikoa was the last straw.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE The Bloodline started the night calling out the 946. When an SUV pulled up to the arena, The Usos and Fatu were there to accost the person coming out of the vehicle. Instead, it was Jaida Parker who exited the vehicle. Parker told Jey Uso she was there to talk to Raw general manager Adam Pearce, which at the time, made sense as she appeared to put her NXT days behind her.Parker would play a larger role later in the night.Keys, Price and Nima finally entered the arena and immediately traded blows with the Usos and Fatu. The fight went all around the arena. The cameras…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Unchecked mass migration, particularly in Western nations where millions have settled after leaving third-world countries, tends to erode national sovereignty, one expert said—an issue President Donald Trump highlighted during his speech last week in front of other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.As migrants continue to reach Western shores, those countries are grappling with stretched resources and tensions between newly arrived immigrants, some here illegally, and the native population, many of whom feel their best interests and cultural identity are being overlooked by government bureaucrats.The pushback stands in contrast to the vision of “global citizenship” advocated by entities like the World Economic Forum and U.N. initiatives, set against the rise of nationalist opposition led by figures like Trump.Much of the push for illegal migration comes from non-governmental groups and other grantmaking networks, Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital.LIZ PEEK: CAN TRUMP MAKE THE UN GREAT AGAIN DESPITE ITS GLOBALIST AGENDA? “It’s no coincidence that we’ve seen the same tactics in a handful of countries at the same time, whether that’s to the U.K., to France, to Germany, other…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As Minnesota’s massive fraud problems continue to gain nationwide attention, an audit is now sounding the alarm about potential fraud in a new area in the state related to contracts doled out by the city of Minneapolis in response to the death of George Floyd.More than 100 contracts were handed out to community groups as alternatives to policing in 2020 and the lax oversight of those contracts, according to a Minnesota Star-Tribune report, was found by an audit to be susceptible to fraud and favoritism.The new Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report, which reviews spending from 2020-2025, shows the city is “not providing sufficient contract oversight or managing contracts effectively” in order to properly manage the more than $36 million that has been spent since 2023 on five major violence-prevention programs.The report warns that Minneapolis’ weak contract controls created a heightened risk of fraud and improper payments. Auditors found contractors often submitted invoices with limited supporting documentation, while the city sometimes continued making payments despite missing records or unresolved concerns. The department is also said to have lacked a standardized process for conducting and documenting site visits to verify that contracted services…

The Senate has passed the Protect College Sports Act, establishing national rules for college athletics, which includes standards for Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals, athlete compensation, recruiting, eligibility, transferring and more.The bill, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., was passed by a vote of 77-22 on Monday night.President Donald Trump has urged lawmakers to pass the bill, saying “we have to get that done” prior to Congress’ summer recess.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE “I’m urging the House and the Senate to come together, bipartisan if possible and it looks like they have done, to send the bill to my desk and I will sign it,” he said the night he hosted members of Team USA from the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, who performed well earlier this year. “I think we have no choice. We have to get that done. If we don’t, we’re very foolish. Nobody knows what will happen. We’re in Never-Never Land. We’re not going to let that be happening. We’re not going to let that happen to these great people and others.”The bill finally got pushed to the next phase earlier this month, giving the Senate the opportunity…

Check out the 6.5 Grendel, a look-alike cousin to the 6.5 PPC but with a different skill set.The 6.5 Grendel cartridge underwent three years of development before Bill Alexander (Alexander Arms) released it in 2003 as a “long-range” cartridge specifically intended for the AR-15 family of rifles and carbines. The 6.5 Grendel transforms the military 7.62x39mm parent case by necking it down to 6.5mm, blowing out the shoulder, and changing to a Small Rifle primer and flash hole. As a close relative of the benchrest-proven 6.5 PPC, the 6.5 Grendel is the ideal length to seat long-ogive 120-grain and 130-grain bullets within the AR-15 magazine length constrictions.Accuracy in the 6.5 Grendel, in suitably barreled AR-15 rifles, readily attains sub-MOA, making it a great choice for long-range deer and varmint hunting. The 6.5 Grendel accommodates lightweight varmint bullets in the 90-grain class, which offer superb accuracy for competition and small-game shooting, mid-weight 108- or 120-grain competition bullets, and 130- or 140-grain game bullets for long shots on medium-sized game.Seventeen 6.5 Grendel cartridges will fit into an Alexander Arms-supplied magazine dimensioned to fit into the magazine well of an AR-15’s lower receiver. The cartridge performs well in a 24-inch barrel using a…

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