The Marine Corps is looking for its next recruit: small in stature and between 8 and 16 weeks old by the time paws meet yellow footprints.Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, put out a solicitation this week for a purebred English bulldog puppy to fill the role of its next mascot. The puppy should have white and brown markings, be of “sound and stable temperament” and come from a lineage with “genetic tolerance to the heat and humidity” unique to the swampy Parris Island environment.The request notes that the future mascot must be a female and registered with the American Kennel Club by the Dec. 1 to Dec. 15 delivery window.The Parris Island mascot attends parades, ceremonies and other events across the depot to boost morale for recruits, Marines and their families.The current Parris Island mascot is Cpl. Opha Mae II — named after the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps, Opha Mae Johnson — who reported for recruit training in March 2023 and graduated two months later. New mascot recruits are obtained no less than three months before the retirement of the incumbent mascot to avoid a gap in service, according to a 2021 MCRD…

Editor’s Note: The Ed Brown Metal Grip Module reviewed in this article was provided to the author by Ed Brown Products. The 1911 DS Prodigy used for testing the Metal Grip Module was loaned to the author for this review by Springfield Armory. For the history of the 1911, you might find pistols with two slides, but virtually never with more than one frame. It’s the serialized part specifically fitted to the slide and barrel, containing the fire control parts. Shown is a Coyote Brown 5” 1911 DS Prodigy AOS 9mm, fitted out with the Ed Brown Metail Grip Module and a Trijicon RMR red dot optic. Image: Carson McDaniel/Springfield Armory Enter the 9mm 1911 DS Prodigy from Springfield Armory. At first glance, what the pistol brings to the table is double-stack capacity (that’s what the “DS” in the name stands for) to the classic 1911 design. However, a closer look reveals more. At its core, the Prodigy features a modular design to its frame. Rather than being one piece, the “frame” is a metal receiver (billet aluminum on the compact models, steel on others) that incorporates the slide rails and contains all the fire control parts save the trigger. Attaching…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Pittsburgh pediatrician is dead and his wife is hospitalized after a home invasion stabbing attack in their Edgewood, Pennsylvania home, according to authorities.Allegheny County police have arrested 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway, of Pittsburgh. He has a rap sheet in the county courthouse going back to 2016, with his most recent prior arrest coming in July in connection with a burglary that took place in February, according to court records.He was released without bail on that charge.PITTSBURGH DOCTOR STABBED TO DEATH AFTER INTRUDER ALLEGEDLY ATTACKS HIM, WIFE AS THEY SLEPT: POLICE On Thursday, authorities brought seven new charges against him in connection with the attack — including criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and trespassing.Hemingway is accused of breaking into the victim’s home on Linden Avenue around 12:30 a.m.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUBDr. Idris Evans, 46, was pronounced dead at the hospital. His wife was listed in stable condition.SEND US A TIPEvans was the medical director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Several fans who attended Ed Sheeran’s concert in Philadelphia last weekend after Macklemore was dropped for making “Free Palestine” comments, warned other artists that if they make political statements, they will alienate half of their audience.The “Bad Habits” singer is expected to play his second and third concerts since the controversy this Friday and Saturday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is owned by Robert Kraft.The New England Patriots owner allegedly threatened to cancel the concerts at his venue if Macklemore wasn’t taken off the tour, according to the “Thrift Shop” rapper.ROBERT KRAFT, GILLETTE STADIUM BOOT MACKLEMORE FROM ED SHEERAN TOUR OVER ‘FREE PALESTINE’ RANT Macklemore also claimed Kraft got other stadium owners to agree to not allow Sheeran to play at their venues if the rapper was still with his tour.”The fact that they’re forcing Ed Sheeran to have an opinion is not right,” one woman told Fox News Digital outside last Saturday’s concert. “He wants to stay in the middle – if you have an opinion, that’s fine, but you’re going to alienate at least 50% of your population, and it causes unrest.”GOO GOO DOLLS’ JOHN RZEZNIK DRAWS LINE…

At a windswept gravel airstrip in eastern Greenland, a small Danish military detachment has quietly kept watch for decades.Now, under a new U.S. defense agreement signed this week, the outpost at Mestersvig could soon become a key American military foothold in the Arctic.Mestersvig sits 149 miles from the nearest settlement (population 330), at the edge of an uninhabited national park larger than Germany and France combined. The place is covered in darkness during winter, with average temperatures of around 14 degrees Fahrenheit.“This is as remote, as cold, and as extreme as you can find in the world. You have to go to Antarctica to find similar conditions,” said Anders Ibsen, a former officer with Denmark’s Sirius dog sled patrol, an elite unit that uses Mestersvig to resupply.STRATEGIC CHOKEPOINTIt oversees the stretch of ocean between Greenland, Iceland and Britain — known as the GIUK gap — that Russia’s Northern Fleet must cross to reach the Atlantic. For NATO, controlling this chokepoint is critical to containing Russian naval power.Local member of parliament Justus Hansen welcomed the expansion, saying, “In east Greenland, we really need that new money.”Under the defense agreement, Washington will be allowed to establish a new base at Mestersvig and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A metal detectorist in Finland unearthed a massive Viking Age silver hoard estimated to contain more than 4,000 coins — the largest discovery of its kind ever found in the country.The hoard, uncovered by metal detectorist Kalle Lappinen, was found near the village center of Sysmä, a town about 105 miles northeast of Helsinki.Lappinen discovered the hoard on Sept. 3 and promptly reported it to authorities. Archaeologists from Lahti Museums began recovering the silver the very next day.PUZZLING SOUND IN BACKYARD LEADS HOMEOWNER TO MASSIVE 1,000-YEAR-OLD TREASUREThe hoard consists of “thousands of silver coins, hack silver, a silver bracelet, a mount and a bead,” according to a museum release.The hoard includes coins from present-day Sweden, Britain and Germany, as well as dirhams originating from areas that are now part of Turkey and Iran. The recovered coins weigh approximately 10 pounds in total and are believed to date to between 1000 and 1050 A.D., as Lahti Museums archaeologist Esko Tikkala told Fox News Digital.Tikkala oversaw the hoard’s recovery. He said the dating remains preliminary and will be refined after the coins have been cleaned and thoroughly studied.MYSTERIOUS 3,000-YEAR-OLD HOARD WITH VIOLENTLY SMASHED SWORD…

Image Credit: Glock.Most Glock models are available to shooters in the U.S., but the G46 isn’t.The Glock 46 was designed to fill a contract with the German state of Saxony-Anhalt for its 6,000-plus officers. Rumors about it were around the Internet for a while, but a U.S.-based gun magazine published photos taken from a German-language magazine with an article and photos of the G46. It’s very unique, because instead of the modified Browning cam-locking system used by every other Glock model and most modern handguns, it uses a rotary barrel design.Image Credit: Glock.One of its key features is that it doesn’t require the trigger to be pulled for disassembly, and there’s a knob where the slide cover plate typically is, which is twisted for firing pin removal. The pistol’s left side also has a new disassembly lever.I have been able to confirm only limited information on the G46 at the time of this writing. It’s my understanding that changes have been made since the initial article was written. Glock will not confirm details about this pistol at this time and has provided only limited photos. As of now, the G46 will not be available in the German or European commercial…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you pay an electric or gas bill every month, you probably think about the amount due, not all the personal information sitting behind that account. But your utility company may have your home address, phone number, billing history and other details that can become very useful in the wrong hands. That is what makes the breach at CenterPoint Energy worth paying attention to, even if you have never been one of its customers.CenterPoint says an unauthorized third party obtained personal information belonging to some customers through an external-facing system. A hacker, meanwhile, claims to have stolen 7.49 million customer records, including addresses, account numbers, billing information and partial Social Security numbers.There is an important catch. CenterPoint has confirmed that customer information was stolen, but it has not confirmed the hacker’s 7.49 million figure or the specific information the attacker says was taken. So, there are still plenty of questions about how big this breach really is. Here’s what CenterPoint has confirmed, what the hacker is claiming and what you should watch for now.NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI Saturday, September 26 at 11 a.m. ET /…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NEW YORK — Fears that Russia is preparing for a broader war with NATO aren’t rattling Estonia’s foreign minister, who told Fox News Digital that his country’s intelligence sees no signs Moscow is preparing for a full-scale invasion of the alliance.”We have more and more this kind of panic in Europe that Russia will invade and will be full-scale aggressive against NATO and Europe and the Baltic states, Poland,” Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City before quipping, “But we don’t see it.”Estonia shares a roughly 180-mile border with Russia and has long been among NATO’s most vocal members warning about the threat from Moscow under President Vladimir Putin. But Tsahkna drew a distinction between preparations for a conventional attack and the growing campaign of drone incursions, sabotage, cyberattacks and other provocations that European governments have blamed on Russia.BATTLE-TESTED ZELENSKYY SOUNDS CHILLING ALARM ON WHERE PUTIN’S WAR COULD HEAD NEXT”Our intelligence, we see very, very deep into Russia, we don’t see any change,” Tsahkna said. “We don’t see that Russia is preparing a full-scale invasion or aggression. The other…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! America suddenly has a gambling problem.Sports betting is everywhere. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket let people wager on everything from football games to elections. Politicians and regulators are asking whether we’ve gone too far.Fair question.SEN DAVE MCCORMICK: PREDICTION MARKETS ARE BOOMING. WASHINGTON MUST CATCH UPBut there’s another gambling operation that’s been sitting on street corners for decades, quietly pickpocketing people. The government lottery. And it may offer some of the worst bets in America. Americans bought more than $113 billion in lottery products in fiscal 2024, according to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. That’s more than $300 million every single day.GREED MEETS GREED: DRAFTKINGS TO CLOSE ITS WRIGLEY FIELD SPORTSBOOK AT THE END OF MAY OVER ILLINOIS TAXAnd business is booming. Census Bureau data show state lottery ticket sales nearly doubled from $52.8 billion in 2008 to $104.7 billion in 2024. Apparently inflation hasn’t killed America’s appetite for becoming an instant millionaire.The odds are almost comicalLet’s start with Powerball. Your odds of winning the jackpot are approximately: 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions? 1 in 290.5 million.You could buy one Mega Millions ticket every week for 100…