Under this year’s influenza vaccination guidelines, the Marine Corps will continue to follow Defense Department policy, which requires flu shots for some military personnel while making them optional for most others.The Aug. 21 announcement requires vaccinations for specific groups of Marines, including new recruits, healthcare workers and those deploying or serving on hazardous response teams.The mandates mark a notable change from last year’s guidelines, which required all active-duty service members to receive a vaccination or obtain an approved exemption.In April, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, citing “medical autonomy” and religious freedom, repealed flu vaccine mandates for all branches of the military.“Our…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A South Carolina lawmaker who prosecuted Susan Smith in her infamous double-murder case says the women on Lindsay Clancy’s jury could prove to be a “strange twist,” and may be less sympathetic to her than many assume.Clancy, 36, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all younger than 6 — who were discovered strangled at the family’s home in January 2023.Her defense attorney says she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time she killed her children.LINDSAY CLANCY’S…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mike Mazzei, a former Oklahoma state senator and financial planner, won a primary election runoff on Tuesday evening with the backing of President Donald Trump to secure the GOP nomination for governor in Oklahoma.Having beaten out Gentner Drummond, the current Oklahoma attorney general, Mazzei is now the heavy favorite to become the Sooner State’s next governor. His win is also a political victory for outgoing Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has opposed Drummond for years.Stitt and Drummond have sparred over lawsuits, pointed letters and public criticisms. At one point, Stitt even described Drummond…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Dolly Parton spent decades singing about love, heartbreak, faith and working “9 to 5,” but there was one arena the country music legend repeatedly resisted entering: partisan politics.”I am not political, and I refuse to get caught up in political things,” Parton told USA Today in a 2020 interview.Parton, who died Tuesday at 80, maintained that position through the presidential elections, pointed questions about President Donald Trump, offers of the nation’s highest civilian honor and controversies involving some of her fellow entertainers.KENNY CHESNEY TELLS BILL MAHER THE KEY REASON HE REFUSES TO…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Virginia prison officials intercepted a package containing an estimated $324,000 worth of contraband, including a pound of suspected methamphetamine and more than a dozen cellphones, following an attempted drone incursion at a state prison, authorities said.The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) said corrections staff discovered the “suspicious package” at Sussex I State Prison at around 1:30 a.m. Monday.Inside, officials said they found a one-pound bag of suspected methamphetamine, 17 cellphones with charging cables and 20 sheets of paper that appeared to be saturated with an unknown liquid.FEDERAL INMATES MAY SOON GET TABLETS…

Good luck being a leader and trying something new, especially when it comes to fashion. I’ve said it before, I’m not an expert nor will I pretend to be one. That doesn’t mean there aren’t others more than willing to pretend.There are, and they’ve set their sights on Aryna Sabalenka. She dared to show up to the US Open in what haters of fashion have labeled a fishnet dress. The adults out there may refer to it, correctly, as a mesh dress.I’d like to take a moment to thank Dua Lipa for several lessons in fashion, lessons that, let the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former Missouri television news anchor has admitted to fatally stabbing her mother on Halloween last year after apparently believing she was the devil, authorities said last week.Angelynn “Angie” Mock, 48, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of her mother, 80-year-old Anita Avers, on Oct. 31, 2025, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.Under the terms of the plea, Mock faces life in prison with eligibility for parole after 25 years.FLORIDA MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING MOM AND BURNING BODY BECAUSE SHE ‘WANTED TO BE…

Within the Defense Department’s ongoing efforts to revitalize the industrial supply chain across the military branches, the U.S. Navy announced it is standing up a new defense industrial base office to “expand the domestic manufacturing ecosystem, mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrate dual-use commercial technologies to enhance the lethality of the Navy-Marine Corps team,” according to a Monday release. Andrew Magliochetti, who previously served as the director of the Navy’s Office of Small Business Programs, was tapped by Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for the defense industrial base.As…

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Three-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Nancy Hogshead is calling on the WNBA to explicitly restrict player eligibility to biological females.Hogshead recently launched a Change.org petition asking the league to clarify the meaning of “woman” in its eligibility rules. The petition has collected more than 11,000 signatures since its Aug. 14 launch.”We’re calling for the WNBA to clarify that its eligibility rules are for women only,” Hogshead told Fox News Digital. “If you wanna participate, you have to be a certain age, and you have to be a female.”CHARLES BARKLEY DECLARES WNBA IS ‘FOR WOMEN ONLY’ AFTER ONGOING TRANSGENDER ATHLETE DEBATE…

A U.S. military service member who called for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance to be impeached is facing charges under the military justice system, his lawyer and the Air Force said on Tuesday.The active-duty officer, Maj. Jason Watson, denounced Trump and Vance last month for actions ​including going to war with Iran without congressional authorization, according ​to a video of the protest event posted online.In ⁠the video, the U.S. Capitol Police can be seen detaining Watson, ​who held a protest sign calling for their impeachment, conviction ​and removal.Watson’s lawyer said in a statement that the airman would…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms highlighted her past move to cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2018 as mayor of Atlanta, prompting a strong rebuke from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday.As Bottoms gave the keynote speech at a Democratic fundraiser in Dalton, Georgia, the former Biden official, now running for governor in the Peach State, spoke about refusing to cooperate with ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term.In her speech, she recalled her musician father’s struggle with addiction, saying that her first tour around…