NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A progressive candidate backed by champions of the left, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is close to pulling off an upset victory with votes still being counted in a Democratic congressional primary for a blue-leaning seat in New Jersey.Analilia Mejia, a progressive organizer, has a slight lead — nearly 900 votes out of more than 63,000 votes counted — ahead of former Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski in the battle for their party’s nomination in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District.Mejia and Malinowski are the leaders among a field of 11 Democratic candidates in the race to fill the seat left vacant after now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill stepped down after winning the November 2025 gubernatorial election in the Garden State.The results in the primary showdown are being closely watched by the political world as an early testing ground in the debate between progressives versus the more mainstream elements of the Democratic Party.BALLOT BOX SHOCKER IN HIGH-PROFILE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY And a victory by Mejia, who worked as national political director on Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, would be the latest boost for the left against the establishment since now-New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani,…

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has launched Mission Control, a first-of-its-kind digital command-and-control system designed to unify planning, execution and reporting for all drone operations across the country, as Kyiv seeks more innovative ways to move the frozen front line on the battlefield after almost four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.The new system sits inside DELTA, Ukraine’s battlefield management ecosystem — an operational platform that already connects sensors and shooters across air, land, maritime, cyber, and space domains. Ukrainian drone crews enter operational data into the system, including drone type, launch location, flight route, and mission task, which generates reports on real battlefield activity, according to officials. The process is meant to eliminate paper reports, facilitating an immediate analysis of battlefield conditions and strike effectiveness.Mission Control represents Kyiv’s latest push to turn improvised war-fighting into a standardized, data-driven operation, echoing the sensor-to-shooter integration Western militaries have sought for decades.The rollout comes as Ukraine positions its wartime data trove as leverage in peace negotiations — and as a touchpoint for deeper integration with allies.“We will create a system that allows them to develop their software solutions utilizing our data,” Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told reporters days before launching Mission Control, per Reuters.…

Does the sweet spot between compact speed and full-size confidence actually exist? Pro shooter Julie Golob puts the Springfield Armory 4.0FC pistol through its paces to see how this hybrid Echelon rethinks balance, recoil and real-world performance. Springfield provided the loaner handgun for this review. Julie Golob puts the Springfield Echelon 4.0FC through its paces in this comprehensive review. The pistol bridges the gap between compact carry guns and full-size duty pistols, offering shooters the best of both worlds. Opening up the black box and unzipping the case, at first glance, I wondered if maybe I had made a mistake and grabbed the wrong pistol. For some reason, I expected Springfield Armory’s newest Echelon 9mm to look decidedly different from my full-size 4.5F. I even placed the two pistols side-by-side to make sure. Pictured above is the Echelon 4.0FC (top) and a 4.5F (bottom). What may seem like a minor difference in slide length can be significant when it comes to how well a pistol carries on the belt. Sure enough, a close comparison revealed the dimensions were different. This pistol uniquely bridges the gap between compact and full-size duty-grade pistols. [Note: Be sure to read Massad Ayoob’s review of the full-size Echelon…

Troops from the United Kingdom have crossed Russia’s red line, by being deployed on the ground in Ukraine. Russia stated that the UK has given it every opportunity to view it as a party to the coflict, at this point. Moscow’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, has said that Russia will now be declaring the UK “a de facto party to the conflict.” British involvement is deep and reflects a strategy of containing Russia, Kelin told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Monday, as reported by RT.  Russia Mocks Canada Over Promise To Send Troops To Ukraine Previously, France had said it was also considering sendint troops to Ukraine to fight Russia. Russia Accuses France Of Getting Ready To Deploy Troops To Ukraine “Britain provides Kiev with political direction, supports it financially and with materiel, shares intelligence, arms, trains, and fights alongside the Ukrainian armed forces and other militarized structures,” Kelin stated. “We have every right to consider London as a de facto party to the conflict.” Kelin said British military planners are stationed at the embassy in Kiev. The UK helps Ukrainian special services plan operations against Russia, and have extended the Interflex training program for Ukrainian troops…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Providence Police Department on Monday released body camera footage showing officers’ response to the Dec. 13 mass shooting at Brown University, along with audio recordings from emergency calls and radio traffic from the incident.Police said portions of the materials were redacted following public records requests to protect the privacy and dignity of victims and witnesses, remove graphic or highly sensitive content, and comply with exemptions under the Access to Public Records Act.Audio recordings included in the release show that Brown University Police began communicating with Providence emergency dispatch shortly after 4 p.m., as reports of the shooting first emerged.At approximately 4:11 p.m., a caller said that officers had a suspect description of an individual wearing all black and a ski mask, with an unknown direction of travel.BROWN UNIVERSITY WAS ‘SOFT TARGET’ FOR SHOOTER WHO REMAINS AT LARGE, CRIMINAL PROFILER SAYS Body camera footage later captures the officer in charge formally advising dispatch at 4:16 p.m., “Be advised, it’s an active shooter situation.”Police then conducted a methodical, floor-by-floor search of the Barus & Holley building in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, directing responding units to look for the suspect and any…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., needled President Donald Trump on Sunday over comments he made about American Olympian Hunter Hess.Hess faced the wrath of the president after he said he had “mixed emotions” about representing the U.S. at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Trump responded by calling the skier a “real loser.” “Trump called American Olympian Hunter Hess a ‘real loser’ for criticizing what’s happening in our country under Trump,” Sanders wrote on X. “Mr. President, this is not a monarchy. This is the United States and no one is required to bow down to you.”Hess is not a loser. He’s a proud American.”Hess’ comments came as the Trump administration faced backlash over the use of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in immigration enforcement operations. An incident with ICE agents in January left Renee Good dead in Minnesota. Border Patrol agents also had a deadly encounter with Alex Pretti.Those incidents were apparently used as the catalyst for the comments from Hess and his teammate Chris Lillis. Hess said he had “mixed emotions” about representing the U.S.AUSTRIAN SNOWBOARDER STRIPS DOWN IN COLD TEMPERATURES DURING WILD CELEBRATION AFTER WINNING OLYMPIC GOLD “It brings up…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Georgia has ordered the unsealing of documents tied to an FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County facility, potentially shedding new light on the bureau’s investigation.Judge J.P. Boulee, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2019, gave the government until Tuesday to file the documents, including the search warrant affidavit with redactions.”Although Petitioners originally filed this case under seal, both parties have now indicated to the Court that they do not oppose unsealing the docket or the motions filed by Petitioners,” Boulee wrote in the order. “Moreover, Respondent has stated that it does not oppose the unsealing of the search warrant affidavit and any other papers associated with the warrant subject to the redaction of the names of nongovernmental witnesses,” the order continued.GEORGIA’S FULTON COUNTY FILES MOTION SEEKING RETURN OF 2020 ELECTION MATERIALS SEIZED BY FBI The FBI raid took place Jan. 28 at Fulton County’s main election facility in Union City, near Atlanta, and focused on records connected to the 2020 general election. A warrant cover sheet provided to the county listed items agents sought, including ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images and voter…

This article was originally published by Michael Matulef at The Mises Institute.  “The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”—Frédéric Bastiat Bastiat’s insight grows more prophetic by the day. Watch what happens in any crisis. The reaction is predictable: people fracture into warring tribes, each certain it’s fighting for survival. Neighbors become informants, families split over ideology, and communities turn against themselves. While citizens exhaust one another in moral crusades, something else advances quietly—the concentration of power. Bureaucracies expand, authority tightens, and the machinery of control grows ever more intricate. This is no accident. A system built on coercion needs division like oxygen. It must invent internal enemies to justify its dominance, to keep people dependent on its “protection.” When citizens are busy fighting one another—over politics, culture, race, or faith—they are not asking the fundamental question: why should anyone rule them at all? Every orchestrated “emergency,” every financial panic, or culture war, serves the same purpose: to make the expansion of centralized power appear both natural and necessary. Randolph Bourne was right—war is the health of the state—but in our time, war takes subtler forms: propaganda, inflation, surveillance, and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The War Department announced on Monday morning that the U.S. military boarded a vessel overnight “without incident.”The department’s post on X noted that the U.S. had “hunted” the ship “from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean.””When the @DeptofWar says quarantine, we mean it. Nothing will stop DoW from defending our Homeland — even in oceans halfway around the world. Overnight, U.S. military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility,” the post explained. “The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed. The Department of War tracked and hunted this vessel from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. No other nation on planet Earth has the capability to enforce its will through any domain. By land, air, or sea, our Armed Forces will find you and deliver justice. You will run out of fuel long before you will outrun us,” the post continued.”The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies the ability to defy American power in the global maritime domain.”This is a…