NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rex Culpepper, a former Syracuse Orange quarterback, died this past weekend due to injuries suffered in a dirt bike accident in Georgia. He was 28. “Our Orange family mourns the loss of Rex Culpepper, who passed away this weekend at the age of 28,” the Syracuse football program said in a statement on X. “Rex lived his life with endless passion, having overcome cancer at the age of 20 while playing for the Orange. “Appearing in 30 games, Rex played football as fierce as he lived life. Our hearts are with the Culpepper family & all those who loved him.” Culpepper’s fiancée, Savanna Morgan, confirmed his death in an emotional, heartbreaking Instagram post with photos and videos of them together. Culpepper had just proposed to Morgan less than one month ago. “No one expects to meet the love of your life and lose them in only 6 short years after meeting,” Morgan began the caption of her post. “Rex didn’t always believe in soulmates but towards the end he told me that he didn’t realize what having a soulmate felt like until we felt like extensions of each other. DEION SANDERS DELIVERS HEARTBREAKING EULOGY FOR COLORADO PLAYER…

HOUSTON — An Afghan immigrant whose family said he had been evacuated from his home country after working for years with U.S. forces died at a Texas hospital after immigration authorities detained him, according to authorities.Federal immigration officials called Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal a “criminal” who had been arrested for alleged fraudulent use of food stamps and for theft. Officials also said Paktyawal had not provided any record of his military service.#AfghanEvac, a San Diego-based group that helps resettle Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the two-decade war, pushed back against the federal government’s claims about Paktyawal, one of several people who have died in recent months after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.“Calling a man a criminal without a conviction while claiming there is ‘no record’ of service without checking interagency systems looks less like fact-finding and more like damage control,” said Shawn VanDiver, president of #AfghanEvac. “The government should be explaining how a 41-year-old father of six died less than 24 hours after entering ICE custody.”A cause of death is still pending from the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office. But Paktyawal’s family said he was not ill.“We still cannot understand how this happened. He was…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities searching for missing retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland are investigating a new development after hiking boots believed to belong to the missing general were discovered at his vacation home, officials said Monday.Investigators said they are still working to determine whether the boots are connected to McCasland’s disappearance, which has now stretched into a third week.During a Monday news conference, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office said there have still been no confirmed sightings of the 68-year-old aerospace engineer, and the Silver Alert issued for him remains in effect.McCasland was last seen leaving his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home on foot around 11 a.m. on Feb. 27, authorities said.MISSING RETIRED AIR FORCE GENERAL CONSULTED ON UFOS FOR BLINK-182’S TOM DELONGE Investigators noted he left behind his phone, glasses and wearable devices at the house. However, several personal items remain missing, including his wallet, a revolver and a holster for the gun. Investigators also said Monday that a red backpack is unaccounted for.Earlier that morning, McCasland was seen speaking with a repairman at his home around 9 to 10 a.m., according to authorities.The repairman described McCasland as being in a “mental fog,”…

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) — The number of U.S. troops wounded in the war against Iran has risen to about 200, the U.S. military said on Monday, as the conflict entered its third week.The U.S. military’s Central Command said the vast majority of those wounded had suffered minor injuries and 180 troops had already returned to duty. Ten of the injuries are serious, it said.Troops had been injured in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, and Israel, Central Command added.Thirteen U.S. troops have been killed since Iran launched strikes against U.S. military bases following ⁠the start of the conflict on Feb. 28. Iranian attacks have also struck diplomatic missions, hotels and airports, and damaged energy infrastructure in Arab Gulf states.Last week, Reuters reported that as many as 150 U.S. troops had been wounded in the conflict, highlighting the danger from Iranian strikes.The United States, meanwhile, has carried out strikes against more than 7,000 targets in Iran.About a dozen MQ-9 drones have been destroyed in the war, said a U.S. official on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle can loiter at altitudes of around 50,000 feet for more than 27 hours,…

Introduction: A War of Hubris and Unavoidable Consequences I’ve spent decades analyzing the intersections of geopolitics, energy, and the arrogance of centralized power. What’s unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz is not merely a regional conflict; it is the final, convulsive gasp of an American military and economic model that has long been bankrupt. President Donald Trump, sworn into office in January 2025, chose this war. In my view, this decision was not born of strategic necessity but of desperate, flailing hubris — a last attempt to assert dominance in a world that has already moved beyond it. We are now witnessing the irreversible consequences. The Strait of Hormuz, through which approximately 20% of the world’s oil flows, is the epicenter. As Willow Tohi reported in NaturalNews.com, escalating tensions here pose a “significant risk to global energy security” [1]. The U.S., under Trump, has initiated a conflict it cannot win, against an adversary that has spent decades preparing for this exact scenario. The humiliating retreat of assets like the USS Abraham Lincoln is not an anomaly; it is a symbol. American military dominance, built on the illusion of invincible carriers and limitless firepower, is over. The Unthinkable Has Happened: American Military Dominance…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bert Kreischer counted his blessings after narrowly avoiding disaster.The comedian was grateful to be safe Sunday after his bus caught on fire the night before while he was on tour in the Midwest.Kreischer, 53, admitted his team was safe despite the blaze and noted on social media that “God works in mysterious ways.” BERT KREISCHER SAYS ROB LOWE’S STRIPPER SCENE CAME FROM $25K GIG WHERE HIS WIFE JOKED HE WAS ‘LIKE A WHORE’ “Alright, here’s everything you need to know about the bus,” Kreischer told his fans on Monday while sharing a carousel of images featuring the burnt remains of the bus. HARDY DETAILS TERRIFYING MOMENT HE THOUGHT HE WAS ‘DEAD’ IN DEVASTATING TOUR BUS CRASHAbout one hour after departing from a tour stop in Fargo, North Dakota, the front right tire blew and was “totally ripped” off the rim. “God works in mysterious ways.”  — Bert Kreischer “Both bus drivers said they’d never seen anything like it in their 35 years,” he said. “We waited for a couple of hours, and then we ditched the bus and got on the crew buses and drove into Cedar Rapids. That morning, our bus caught on fire…

The U.S. military possesses several capabilities that it could wield to combat naval mine warfare in the Strait of Hormuz.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy views the maritime weapon as a key pillar of its military strategy, according to a 2017 Office of Naval Intelligence report, and reportedly began laying mines in the sea passage last week.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a Pentagon briefing Friday, however, that there was “no clear evidence” of mines in the strait. RELATEDAdm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said Monday that U.S. forces destroyed storage bunkers for naval mines during a U.S. strike on military targets on Iran’s oil export hub, Kharg Island, on Friday. U.S. forces also destroyed 16 Iranian minelayers last week, according to CENTCOM. Iran is estimated to possess roughly 6,000 mines, according to a congressional report published Wednesday. The stockpile may include limpet mines, which are typically attached to a ship manually by a diver; moored mines, which float below the water’s surface and are tethered to the seabed; bottom mines that rest on the seabed; and drifting mines, which float above the water’s surface and detonate upon contact.Here’s a look at the U.S. Navy’s arsenal of minesweepers,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kristin Cabot is pushing back against the narrative behind the viral “Coldplay Kiss Cam” moment that derailed her career.The former Astronomer HR executive claimed that her relationship with then-CEO Andy Byron was a byproduct of a high-intensity professional culture where sharing desks and social drinks were standard practice during an upcoming appearance on “The Oprah Podcast.”Despite the global speculation about an illicit affair, Cabot maintained that she was already separated from her husband at the time and that he was aware of her “very close” working relationship with Byron. Cabot explained that her daughter alerted her to the fact that her estranged husband was attending the same Coldplay concert she was at with Byron on that fateful night.”My daughter’s like, ‘This is so fun! Great!’ … and in my mind I thought, ‘Well, that’s… is this going to be weird if he sees me with Andy? Like, if I run into him,'” she told Oprah.COLDPLAY KISS-CAM’S KRISTIN CABOT HITS MIAMI BEACH IN BIKINI BEFORE CRISIS CONFERENCE KEYNOTE Cabot’s momentary worry didn’t linger for long.”But then I was like, I’m at Gillette Stadium, there’s 55,000 people here. I’m probably not going to run…

CAIRO — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but his appeals have brought no commitments as oil prices soar during the Iran war.The president declined to name the countries heavily reliant on Middle East crude that the administration is negotiating with to join a coalition to police the waterway where about one-fifth of the world’s traded oil normally flows.“I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their own territory,” Trump said about the strait, claiming the shipping channel is not something the United States needs because of its own access to oil. Trump spoke while answering reporters’ questions as he flew back to Washington from Florida aboard Air Force One.Trump said China gets about 90% of its oil from the strait, while the U.S. gets a minimal amount. He declined to discuss whether China will join the coalition.“It would be nice to have other countries police that with us, and we’ll help. We’ll work with them,” Trump said. Previously, he has appealed to China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain.Protesters in Seoul, South Korea, shout slogans March 16…