The father of a sailor is out to warn others in the military community about a “Good Samaritan” scam that cost his son thousands of dollars.On July 2, two men approached the young sailor, claiming they had lost their wallets and needed help paying for a hotel room. “The men gained possession of his phone under the pretense of entering reimbursement information electronically,” the father wrote in an email to Military Times. “Shortly afterward, he discovered an unauthorized transfer from his Navy Federal Credit Union account.”Young service members are increasingly targeted by financial scammers who, in recent years, have employed everything from romance and investment schemes to fraudulent debt-relief offers and rental and housing scams during PCS season. Military spouses have also been targeted.The Federal Trade Commission reported that military consumers, including active duty, veterans and families, lost $584 million to fraud in 2024.The incident with the sailor, who is stationed in Suffolk, Virginia, occurred around 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot of a Wawa in Norfolk. The scammers were able to use his banking app to transfer a large sum of money, according to Norfolk Police Department spokeswoman Noel Lipieko. “These scams only take seconds to complete,” Lipieko said.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Harrison Bader’s late-night scooter ride on Saturday night/early Sunday morning has officially cost him the rest of the season, but new reported details show how bizarre his crash turned out to be.The San Francisco Giants announced earlier this week that the outfielder, who had been limited to 30 games this year due to plantar fasciitis, had a “scooter accident” which further injured his left foot.However, local reports say that Bader rode his scooter after bar-hopping and crashed it into a San Francisco Fire Department truck at around 1:50 a.m. local time. KPIX reported that Bader was spotted at multiple bars “in different neighborhoods” across San Francisco.BRANDON AIYUK DROVE 104 MPH NEAR LEVI’S STADIUM AND FILMED IT, NOW A WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS ARRESTCLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The truck then ran over Bader’s foot, causing major injury, according to SFist.The San Francisco Chronicle said Bader was hospitalized at around 2 a.m.Giants manager Tony Vitello said Bader was all but shelved for the season with his plantar fasciitis anyway, but the crash ensured it.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS OUTFIELDERS GET TORCHED ONLINE FOR BIZARRE CELEBRATION FOLLOWING WIN OVER DODGERSSomehow, this…

In today’s article, Joe Kurtenbach reviews the Fiocchi Hyperformance SBR Enhanced ammunition. The tested load, the .223 Rem. 77-gr. hollow-point boat tail (HPBT), was provided by the company for this review. “It’s about the most accurate AR ammo I’ve ever tested,” I said to Matt Gann, manager of 340 Defense near Charles Town, West Virginia, as I walked toward the office from the range. I’d just concluded performance and gel penetration testing on Fiocchi’s Hyperformance SBR (short-barreled rifle) Enhanced 77-gr. hollow-point boat tail (HPBT) .223 Rem. ammunition and he’d just asked how the ammunition test had gone. Fiocchi’s Hyperformance SBR Enhanced 77-gr. HPBT loading is designed to maximize performance of the 5.56x45mm NATO ammunition from shorter barrels. Image: Carson McDaniel/Springfield Armory “You said it had a match bullet, right? You may not want them for hunting, but I’d always heard those were great for home defense. Less risk of passing through walls.” And there it was. One of the great debates of Gun-dom. “It worked on that gel about the same way it would on a deer — it blew up. Tiny bits of frag sent in all direction,” I stated. “How far did it penetrate? Far enough?” Core Questions Just…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Monica Lewinsky has evolved since the White House scandal – and she hopes critics one day can, too.Lewinsky, 53, credited time and patience as her saving graces while reflecting on challenges from her past during an appearance on the “All the Cool Girls” podcast.”I think that coming into my 50s was amazing and just the shedding of worries,” she told co-hosts Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill.MONICA LEWINSKY’S LINDSEY GRAHAM TRIBUTE DRAWS CRITICISM AND PRAISE FOR PLACING PEOPLE OVER PARTY: EXPERT “I mean that whole … joke about ‘I don’t give anymore f—s,’ and it’s like you really start to give fewer and fewer f—s, and you settle into acceptance in a way that has been really reassuring for me.”Unlike the critics, the podcast host moved on from past discretions to reclaim not only her life, but also her own story.”In terms of the people who still have old, old beliefs, I wish they would get some new jokes because, I mean, 30 years of the same jokes, Jesus,” she said. “Or 28 years. We’re not at 30 yet.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Lewinsky was 21 years old…

Marine Forces Special Operations Command is partnering with SOFWERX, the public-private technology hub for companies wanting to work with military special operations, to modernize armory recordkeeping. SOFWERX, in collaboration the Marine Forces Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, is hosting an event in mid-September to develop ways to replace manual steps for documenting serialized inventory with digital and automated tools. The July 27 announcement said the event’s purpose is “to design a secure, zero-signature automated armory that relies exclusively on optical recognition and computer vision.” But here’s the catch: the tools cannot use RFID — the most common technology for tracking inventory — or active Bluetooth or radiating digital transmitters.“Instead, this event challenges industry partners to develop a passive, image-based inventory system where weapons, gear, and serial numbers are automatically tracked, verified, and logged simply by taking a digital photo or scanning an optical image as items enter or exit the facility,” the invitation said. It explained that the current process requires a person to manually inventory weapons using handwritten forms, resulting in repetitive data entry and multiple independent records. “These processes are labor intensive, susceptible to human error, and consume significant man-hours while increasing accountability risk,” it said. While eliminating…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump unleashed more fury on a Senate Republican he worked to oust who is standing in the way of his personal lawyer becoming the next attorney general.Trump unloaded on Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, over acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s stalled nomination Friday morning, a day after threatening to withdraw Blanche’s nomination from the Senate.He accused Cornyn of previously having no issue with the nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund, one of the issues that he and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., are trying to kill, before Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in their grueling primary showdown.TRUMP THREATENS TO YANK HIS OWN AG NOMINEE AS GOP REVOLT GROWS “John Cornyn never had a problem with the so-called ‘Fund,’ which will not benefit me, but rather the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, until after I decided to Endorse and Support his Republican Primary opponent in Texas, who easily won the Nomination for the United States Senate,” Trump said on Truth Social.Fox News Digital did not immediately receive comment from Cornyn’s office in response to…

Federal just gave Creedmoor its man card with 6.5 Creedmoor +PEAK. Here’s what you should know about it.In June of this year, Federal introduced one of the most significant advancements we’ve seen in metallic cartridges since maybe … well, forever. Their new +PEAK loads for the 6.5 Creedmoor have given that cartridge somewhere between a 250- to 300-fps velocity boost. Granted, we’ve seen what are commonly called “+P, Superformance, or Lite Magnum” ammunition advancements before, and all those loads offered a slight velocity advantage by virtue of the use of more or different powders.However, +PEAK ammo not only provides a velocity advantage, but it also allows for a pressure increase. In truth, this ammo tech might forever change the way we look at ammunition.If you’ve seen this ammo, you’ve probably seen a lot of discussion about it on social media, and it’s almost certain a lot of what you have seen has not been factual. Some like to speculate without facts, and others just don’t know what they’re talking about.So, here are the facts and what you really need to know about Federal’s new +PEAK ammo for the 6.5 Creedmoor.1: What advantage does the new +PEAK 6.5 Creedmoor ammunition offer?Simply…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas teenager is recovering after being bitten by a barracuda while vacationing in Turks and Caicos.Sugar Land resident Claire Macdonel, 13, was swimming in shallow water when the fish bit her hand on Sunday, July 19.The teen was wearing a shiny bracelet on one of her wrists — which likely reflected light and was mistaken by the barracuda for prey. SHARK WEEK DANGERS HIT HOME AS MAN IS BADLY BITTEN WHILE SAVING PREGNANT FIANCÉE FROM HARMJen Macdonel, Claire Macdonel’s mother, told Fox News Digital that the barracuda attack lacerated four of her daughter’s tendons, in addition to a nerve and a ligament. The girl had surgery on Wednesday. “She could have easily lost her whole hand or fingers or worse,” said Jen Macdonel.  The teenager was doing handstands when a barracuda was likely attracted to the reflective items she was wearing, mistaking them for prey.”You know, you’re doing handstands against white sand, clear water, the sun hits that — she probably just looked like a disco ball,” Jen Macdonel said.RECORD SEAWEED INVASION LEAVES BEACHGOERS GAGGING AS FUMES RAISE HEALTH FEARSPhotos shared by the family show Claire Macdonel’s hand covered in cuts and puncture…

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defense capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.The previously unreported findings offer a rare glimpse into how military and security-linked institutions in China are leveraging cutting-edge U.S. AI models as a shortcut to developing specialised systems of their own, despite Washington’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s access to advanced chips and other strategic technologies.The documents show widespread use of a technique known as “model distillation,” in which outputs from a powerful AI system are used to train smaller, specialised models that can be deployed locally without the enormous computing requirements needed to build frontier AI systems from scratch.Reuters’ review, which included research compiled by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and shared exclusively with the news agency, showed distillation is widely used by researchers linked to the People’s Liberation Army and other military institutions.The papers suggest Chinese defense institutions see leading U.S. AI models as both a source of technical insight and a way to close the gap with American rivals.The dispute centres on unauthorised extraction, not distillation itself, a…

This article was originally published by Conner McEleney at The Mises Institute.  Many progressives, such as Robert Reich and Kyle Kulinski, argue that the economy needs a universal basic income (UBI) to fix it. Their argument stems from the idea that UBI has no serious flaws, that many studies show success, and that it’s the moral thing to do. An example that these progressives would cite would be the Denver UBI experiment. The study had three groups of people. Group A had $1,000 per month, and Group B had $6,500 for the first month; the other months were $500. Group C had $50 a month. The study concluded that giving money improved their overall well-being. As the saying goes, it’s too good to be true; the results alone are exaggerated by UBI proponents. The actual results show that in Group A, which received a total of $12,000 in a year, 44 percent of them are housed. Meanwhile, Group C received $600 in the year, and 43 percent were housed. Even though Group A has 20 times the value of Group C, both had similar results. Ironically, the study was not universal because it denied participants who were “having severe and unaddressed mental…