NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The View” co-host Joy Behar got some pushback from fellow co-hosts after she said the media isn’t covering President Donald Trump’s health like they did former President Joe Biden’s health, with Sara Haines noting Behar sounds the alarm daily.”The media does not cover Trump the way they covered Joe Biden,” Behar said.Behar’s claim followed the co-hosts’ discussion about Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his return to Congress for a vote this week after several months away due to a fall he had in June.MCCONNELL WAS FOUND ‘UNCONSCIOUS’ IN HOME LAST MONTH AS CONDITION REMAINS UNKNOWN Haines said there was a contrast for Biden and argued, “Trump has always sounded like this.””He moves all over to the point where you don’t remember what the original question was,” Haines said of the president.She also said that Biden “once sounded normal,” and that there was a noticeable contrast for the former president.”No, no, no, no,” Ana Navarro jumped in.”He falls asleep in basketball games, he falls asleep behind the Oval Office. His ankles are the size of cacti. His hands are purple,” Navarro said.Haines said she wasn’t defending Trump, and added, “The greater the contrast,…

The U.S. Coast Guard is taking steps to address sexual assault in the ranks but continues to fall short in implementing its plans and reporting to Congress — shortcomings that hamper the “long-term cultural and procedural changes” needed to address the problem, a federal watchdog has warned.The Government Accountability Office released a two-page brief Friday criticizing the service for failing to provide timely updates to Congress on sexual assaults as well as some information that is required by law.The watchdog also said the service has not developed a performance plan to assess its progress in addressing sexual misconduct, an oversight GAO analysts noted they pointed out two years ago.“Addressing sexual misconduct in the Coast Guard requires a cultural transformation,” the analysts wrote. “But gaps in leadership, monitoring, and employee engagement have hindered progress.”The GAO released its report the day after the Coast Guard announced its Sexual Assault Prevention, Response and Recovery Action Plan to prevent and address sexual assault in the service.The action plan outlines 17 steps the service will take to implement a strategic plan it released in March.“Leaders at every level, myself included, are responsible and accountable for combating sexual assault,” Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday wrote in the…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Department of Justice lawyers have asked U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema to dismiss a case connected to the Trump administration’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” arguing that Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal recission order in August and has affirmed many times, including under oath before Congress, that the fund is dead.However, Brinkema seemed skeptical on Friday.”The issues that underly this case are still alive and kicking in my view,” Brinkema said.”The real concern that lurks… is the concept of taxpayer money being used to promote particular political views,” Brinkema said, pointing to pro-life activists convicted of violating the FACE Act and others who attempted an “insurrection” on January 6th “to overthrow the legitimate election.”CLINTON JUDGE INDEFINITELY BLOCKS TRUMP’S $1.776B ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND “That entity is gone,” said Brinkema, referring to the Anti-Weaponization Fund and agreeing that Blanche has said under oath at his confirmation hearings that the fund is dead. “But is there a functional equivalent?” Brinkema said, referring to the DOJ’s ordinary Judgment Fund authority.The Judgment Fund is a permanent U.S. Treasury account managed by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service that pays court judgments and DOJ…

The system designed to assist sailors’ mental health aboard deployed U.S. Navy aircraft carriers is unable to meet the demand of prolonged combat deployments, according to current and former military personnel.Sailors and U.S. Navy mental health professionals told Military Times that long wait times to see a provider, along with an insurmountable caseload for therapists and misguided treatment, stressed a system that was never built to handle the mental toll of extended military operations in contested environments.Navy therapists are trained to provide consistent care, but that approach is often unattainable on a ship with so many sailors in need of assistance. “The practice does not really match the [needs] of the ship that needs quick response, quick triage and longer sessions,” said one Navy mental health professional who was aboard an aircraft carrier during an extended deployment.Several individuals who spoke to Military Times were granted anonymity for fear of reprisal from the U.S. military.Service members can sometimes wait weeks for an appointment, a timeline that does not align with at-sea environments that require quick crisis management, according to the mental health professional.The Navy also deploys a limited number of personnel who assist thousands of sailors onboard a ship, a ratio…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin’s family foundation became a major financial backer of a network of left-wing activist organizations over more than two decades, providing nearly $3.2 million to CodePink while also bankrolling protest groups, legal advocacy organizations and progressive nonprofits, a Fox News Digital investigation found.The foundation, Arc of Justice, is a $54.6 million private foundation formerly known as The Benjamin Fund. A review of its complete IRS filing history found it made nearly 1,500 grants totaling about $24.6 million to organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and campaigns involving immigration enforcement, China, Cuba and the Israel-Hamas war.Among its largest recipients were CodePink, Global Exchange, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Grassroots International and Social Good Fund, alongside grants to dozens of other organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and progressive media.Arc of Justice provided CodePink more than twice the approximately $1.33 million the group received from the funding network linked to Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. A previous five-part Fox News Digital investigation found Singham’s network directed at least $278 million into organizations that promoted pro-China messaging.LAWMAKERS THROW OUT ‘TROJAN HORSE’ ACTIVISTS THEY SAY…

An F-16 jet crashed Thursday afternoon during a routine training mission in northern Michigan, causing some emergency responders and community members to be treated for a toxic chemical exposure.A Texas Air National Guard F-16 assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing, housed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, crashed in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, during a routine training mission from the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, according to a wing release shared with Military Times.The pilot successfully ejected from the Falcon, the statement says. The Michigan State Police directed all businesses and residences to evacuate around 4:30 p.m. local time within a one-mile radius of the crash site due to a “hazardous chemical spill” related to the crash, according to a social media post.“Continue to avoid the area while first responders work to keep the community safe,” the post reads.The evacuation order was lifted around 9:45 p.m., and residents were able to return to their homes near the crash site. However, as authorities continued to work in the area, some residents were not able to drive home, instead being told to park along a roadway.Following the crash, several first responders were among the 30 people evaluated at a local hospital for possible…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Texas’ flagship public university is ending new enrollment in three majors focused on gender, sexuality and race in a move that is being hailed by many conservatives as a major victory.Students applying to the University of Texas at Austin can no longer select Women’s and Gender Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies or African and African Diaspora Studies as majors, the institution has confirmed. The move follows a slew of other universities dropping similar majors and heated internal deliberations at UT Austin about whether to keep theirs.”In recognition of the changing degree offerings in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, the University is no longer enrolling new students in three majors: Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, and Women’s & Gender Studies,” a university spokesman told Inside Higher Ed.”So, as you might expect, those majors have been removed from the University’s admissions applications to avoid new students enrolling in majors that are changing. Students currently enrolled in those majors will be able to complete their degree,” the statement continued. LIBERAL FACULTY STILL HUGELY OUTNUMBER CONSERVATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: REPORT “I don’t know the particulars of UT Austin’s programs.…

As the Army faces queries for standing down its experimental drone battalion, service officials say the future of drone warfare is at every level of Army formations — not condensed into one designated unit. At a Thursday media roundtable, Army leaders told reporters that the service was working to distribute the technology across the force — down to the squad level — while maintaining that the trial unit, formed less than a year prior, was always meant to be temporary. The Army confirmed last month that it was shuttering the “Unmanned Assault Battalion,” a 600-member unit charged with learning from Ukraine’s fight against Russia and applying those lessons to the U.S. military. The announcement of its closure drew concern from lawmakers, who have pressed the Army for answers about how the U.S. will continue to draw on lessons from Ukraine. “In Ukraine and Russia you’ve seen those armies create brigades and entire unmanned systems forces, whereas the U.S. Army’s approach has been to decentralize; to accelerate learning across all units,” Maj. Gen. Christopher Norrie, the acting Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, said during the briefing. He later added that unit leadership was rotated through the Army’s “training…