The House version of next year’s defense budget bill revives a push to use emerging technology to make military rations lighter and more portable. While the standard Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE, delivers nutritionally complete chow in a package weighing 1.5 pounds or less, that adds up for troops on the move: more than 30 pounds of supply per service member for a week-long patrol. And amid efforts across the services to prepare to operate independently in austere environments far from resupply, cutting down the weight and volume of food is a known need.The fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act calls on the secretary of defense to boost these efforts with new partnerships to create the MREs of the future.“It is the sense of Congress that requirements for the future battlefield include dealing with contested logistics that cannot be achieved with the size and weight of currently fielded rations; and could be mitigated by incorporating within rations, components produced with emerging and innovative technologies developed in partnership with the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Research and Engineering Program,” language in the House version of the bill, passed July 22, states.It requires the secretary of defense to seek opportunities to enter contracts…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! First lady Melania Trump’s office announced a fifth group of Ukrainian and Russian children that she helped reunite with their families, as five more children are now with their loved ones.”While diplomacy and peace-building are important to this effort, they are surpassed by our collective ability to place children above international disputes,” Melania Trump said in a statement. “Every reunion is a reminder that compassion, dignity, and family can transcend even the darkest of times: war. My representative and I continue working with the governments of Russia and Ukraine to safely return children to their families and communities.”The first lady’s reunification program officially began in October 2025 after she had President Donald Trump hand-deliver her note to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their August 2025 summit in Alaska. Thus far, the White House reports around 30 Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families.RUSSIA LAUNCHES BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK ON KYIV HOURS AFTER ZELENSKYY WARNS OF MAJOR STRIKE Thousands of civilians, including children, have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with last year being the deadliest year since the war began, according to United Nations figures.ZELENSKYY SAYS PUTIN ‘LOST THE…

This article was originally published by Mark Thornton at The Mises Institute.  I’m not predicting WWIII; I am certainly not calling for WWIII; I’m doing everything in my power to prevent WWIII and illuminate the causes, risks, and general results of future war. We are in a quasi-war with Russia, with Europe planning to fight. We are at war in the Middle East with no end in sight. We have stolen China’s oil source in Venezuela and threatened Denmark with our might. The last decade has seen the entire globe turn from firm allies and admirers of America to disgruntled partners and enemies ready to fight. What we do know is that this pathway to war can easily result in war itself, and once Shakespeare’s “dogs of war” have been released, that chaos and destruction follow on a massive scale and political actors are incapable of stopping it. War is harmful and provides zero benefits to the population. It only provides benefits to some politicians, the military-industrial complex, the deep state, and the global power elites, including the big bankers who finance both sides, only to be paid back by taxpayers. Citizens typically have a very narrow view of the…

We’re two days away from August, and the college football season is already starting to heat up.Sort of.New Florida Gators head coach Jon Sumrall and ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky have been going back and forth this week over the most offseason topic of all time: pedicures.ESPN’S DAN ORLOVSKY WEIGHS IN ON FLORIDA COACH JON SUMRALL’S PEDICURE PREFERENCES, IMMEDIATELY GETS ROASTEDThat’s right. You read that right. Pedicures.Sumrall’s wife let the cat out of the bag last week that the new UF coach has a secret passion for pedicures, saying that it’s his “favorite extra thing to do,” and that he gets one “every two weeks during football season.”Relatively harmless interview, and one that, frankly, I didn’t think would get much play given the news cycle.Boy, was I wrong.Orlovsky hopped on ESPN’s ‘Get Up’ this week, and angered America when he declared that he was “completely against pedicures for dudes.” “You’re a dude. You’re not supposed to get pedicures. I am so against this. You should not be getting pedicures… I’d rather have awful feet than get pedicures,” he continued.Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and Orlovsky made his stance clear. In turn, Sumrall took to X and stuffed the ESPN…

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton and local forces seized an estimated 2,380 pounds of suspected marijuana worth approximately $2.8 million Saturday near Great Inagua, Bahamas.The Charles Sexton crew and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force boarded a suspected drug-smuggling vessel about 80 miles southwest of Great Inagua, where they discovered 97 bales of suspected marijuana. The three people aboard the vessel were transferred to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force for prosecution along with the narcotics.“This interdiction highlights the strength of our partnership and our shared commitment to combating transnational organized crime in the region,” Lt. Peter Fager, commanding officer of the Charles Sexton, said in a statement. “Working together, we continue to disrupt illicit trafficking and protect the security and stability of our maritime borders.”The effort was carried out in coordination with the Bahamian government and U.S. Coast Guard Homeland Security Cutter-Ocean. The Homeland Security Cutter-Ocean initiative is designed to use commercially operated vessels to provide logistical support to Coast Guard cutters while they remain at sea. The initiative aims to improve fleet readiness by delivering personnel, fuel and supplies directly to cutters, allowing them to remain on station longer without returning to port.“As demands on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., had a fiery exchange Wednesday with a reporter from the anti-Israel outlet Drop Site News, accusing the outlet of loving Iran and terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.In a video shared by Drop Site’s Capitol Hill reporter Julian Andreone, Fetterman appeared amused when the reporter told him which outlet he represented.”Oh, you’re Drop Site,” Fetterman reacted as he kept walking.”It’s like a race between who’s the more pro-Hamas — Drop Site or Zeteo,” he quipped, referring to the far-left outlet founded by former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.FETTERMAN TROLLS THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA AS ISRAEL KILLS HAMAS TERRORISTS: ‘CRY HARDER’ Fetterman, the most outspoken supporter of Israel among Senate Democrats, had a message for Drop Site viewers.”I want your viewers to see how much I love to watch Israel eliminating the Hamas leadership,” he told Andreone. “I know that upsets a lot of your viewers and a lot of your founders. But I think it’s a great thing.””So there’s no news coming out of me. I’m going to always back Israel,” Fetterman continued. “The question is, where does your trash outlet come from and who’s funding it?”Andreone pushed…

Ukraine’s F-16 fighters have become a crucial defense against Russian drones, but repeated interceptions are wearing out the country’s small fleet.Ukrainian F-16s have destroyed more than 2,500 Geran and Gerbera one-way attack drones, wrote airpower expert Justin Bronk in an analysis of the Ukraine air war for the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.“[The] use of fighters against such drones has consumed an unsustainable number of airframe flying hours and air-to-air missiles … since mid-2024, when the Ukrainian Air Force received its first Western aircraft and trained crews,” the analysis reads.“Russian industry produces more than 6,000 [one-way attack] drones per month, and fighter aircraft have only a finite number of airframe hours available before they need time consuming deep maintenance cycles to be performed at a factory by expert technicians.”Ukraine’s fleet currently operates an estimated 39 F-16s, out of about 79 promised by various Western European nations. Ukraine also flies an estimated four Mirage 2000-5 fighters, out of up to 20 promised by France, plus a few Soviet-era Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters.The F-16s have been a game changer in the Ukraine air war. They enable Ukraine’s small air force to launch stand-off attacks against ground targets using American-made…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: TUCSON, Ariz. — The fact that a seven-figure reward remains unclaimed nearly six months after the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills neighborhood tells one veteran investigator that if the masked intruder on her porch had help, it came from a small, tight-knit group.”That tells me the circle who knows is very small, and whoever is in it is bound by something stronger than money: blood, fear, shared exposure,” said Jason Pack, a retired FBI negotiator and supervisory agent who has been closely following the case. “Those bonds hold. Until they don’t.”The more people who know about a crime, the more likely someone would come forward and claim the reward money, he said. The combined sum of rewards in the case is over $1.2 million — and none of it has been claimed 179 days after Guthrie’s suspected abduction.NANY GUTHRIE SHERIFF CHRIS NANOS SAYS HE’S ‘STILL POSITIVE’ CASE WILL BE RESOLVED DESPITE LONG WAIT “Money like that usually pulls somebody loose from almost any group,” Pack told Fox News Digital. “It hasn’t.”Rather than a dead end, Pack sees the untouched reward as another clue.”In my…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The summer’s collective uplift from our nation’s 250th birthday and the United States’ role in co-hosting the World Cup has collided with the ominous spread of socialism among the American left. The dangerous philosophy is no longer confined to Ivy League faculty lounges or deep-blue enclaves of New York City, either. In next month’s primary in my home state of Michigan — a critical national battleground — Democrats could nominate Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate.El-Sayed may try to distance himself from the “socialist” label and his long-standing ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, but his platform speaks for itself. For starters, he not only boasts the support of prominent socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., but has also recently campaigned with them in Michigan. Furthermore, he has gone out of his way to link himself to self-described democratic socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Last summer, his campaign even ran ads declaring, “Zohran won. Abdul is next.”Like the private jet-flying, multiple-home-owning Sanders, El-Sayed is a hypocrite. He has demonized high earners while earning an income in 2025 that puts him squarely in…

What are the odds that you’ll ever need to use a gun for self-defense? Here we break down the data.A few months ago, John Correia of Active Self Protection was confronted by a burglar in his own home. The man fled, no shot was fired, and Correia walked away thinking about a question many armed citizens eventually ask. Realistically, what are the odds I will ever need my gun? In a video on his channel, he ran the numbers from two major firearms surveys and arrived at a startlingly large lifetime probability. This article borrows his framework and pushes further into the underlying data.The starting point is the 2021 National Firearms Survey, conducted by Georgetown professor William English. English polled more than 54,000 Americans, identified nearly 16,700 gun owners, and asked them in detail about defensive gun use. His headline estimate was that civilians use firearms defensively about 1.67 million times a year, and in 81.9 percent of those incidents no shot is fired, since the mere presence or display of the firearm is enough to end the threat. Handguns account for two-thirds of defensive uses, and the large majority happen on the owner’s own property rather than in public.…