Congressional votes on a controversial veterans bill that would increase benefits for medically retired disabled vets and survivors have been delayed amid push back over elections legislation that is a top priority for President Donald Trump.The Take Care of America’s Veterans bill, a Republican-backed proposal that contains 62 measures aimed at increasing benefits for veterans and survivors has stalled as the House wrestles with the president’s demands to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, legislation that would require voter identification and reduce mail-in ballots.The House was expected to take up the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday issued a temporary, statewide restriction on fireworks for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, citing “historic” and “extraordinary” wildfire conditions across the state.Cox, a Republican, signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency, temporarily suspending state law to allow the state forester to ban the discharge of fireworks within municipal boundaries between July 2 and July 5.As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, 94% of Utah is facing severe or extreme drought. RESIDENTS WAKE UP SCREAMING AS COPS RACE TO RESCUE THEM FROM LATE-NIGHT APARTMENT BLAZE: VIDEOThe…

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A dry winter, ravenous hunger and accessible trash have drawn bears to Fort Carson, Colorado, where officials have received 23 reported bear sightings just this year.The real number, they believe, is likely much higher. Capt. Robert Look Jr., chief of conservation law enforcement for Fort Carson, said low snowpack, a condition called seasonal hyperphagia — where an animal’s insatiable urge to eat overrides a natural fear of humans — and loose garbage have made conditions tempting for bears to head towards the Army post. “Recent mild winters and low snowpack have depleted natural food sources — berries, acorns and plants…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  A rescued U.S. Air Force pilot reported seeing a highly coordinated formation of Iranian drones shortly before his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran in April, according to sources familiar with his post-rescue debriefing. The account has sparked debate within the U.S. intelligence community over whether Iran possesses more advanced drone networking capabilities than previously assessed and whether the drone formation played a role in the shootdown during Operation Epic Fury, as reported by CNN and cited in an Antiwar.com article [1]. The pilot described multiple drones moving together as a single…

Celebrities getting into motorsports ownership is nothing new, with Michael Jordan co-owning 23XI Racing in NASCAR, David Letterman having a piece of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in IndyCar, and many, many more.But there’s a new celebrity motorsports owner on the block, and his name is Guy Fieri, the Mayor of Flavortown.On Thursday, Fieri was announced as a new “strategic owner” of Cup Series team Legacy Motor Club.ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! “Motorsports and race cars have always had that raw energy I love — the people, the passion, the culture,…

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian firm behind many of the long-range drone strikes that now regularly hit Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles inside its borders is moving into missile defense, signing a major deal this month to build a low-cost ballistic missile interceptor with foreign partners — a turn that positions the company as a key provider at both ends of the deep-strike war.Fire Point makes the munitions bolstering much of Ukraine’s campaign against targets deep inside Russia, including the FP-1 deep-strike drone, the shorter-range FP-2 and the FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile.Last week, the firm announced plans to build…

A hefty number of limited editions are arriving from We Knife Co. right now, including both returning pieces and brand new models. Today’s subject, the Hull, falls into the latter category, and turns in big knife performance with a cool retro military aesthetic. The Hull is an interesting mix of design elements. First, there are the military and tactical characteristics. Its drop point blade is 3.89 inches long – a hefty piece of super steel to be sure, allowing it to land in the center of the large EDC-tactical knife-hard use work knife Venn diagram. The tapering handle looks like…

Welcome to the latest edition of True Romance. We’ve caught World Cup fever, sort of. What we’ve actually caught is the “a soccer president is allegedly caught up in an affair scandal” fever.It’s a slightly different fever, and I’d argue a more entertaining one. I don’t think there’s any debate about that. There’s no running around all afternoon without any scoring with steamy affair allegations.What we have is a married president of a soccer organization accused of using funds to allegedly fly his mistress to New York before he traveled to Mexico City and met up with his wife before…

The research infrastructure that underpins America’s prowess in defense technology is “deteriorating,” according to a Department of Defense report released Wednesday.One reason is that research funds are being diverted to operations.The Pentagon’s “research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) infrastructure is deteriorating and weakening the Department’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability,” warned the report by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. “Authorized major military construction (MILCON) projects for modernization of critical joint-mission RDT&E infrastructure continually slip due to the services’ reprioritizing of scarce MILCON funds toward other operationally relevant priorities.”The study examined…

While we are being told the war is all but over because the United States and Iran have agreed to a memorandum of understanding to end it, other news surfaces that makes it appear that it isn’t quite done. U.S. President Donald Trump recently asked Congress for $88 billion to continue the war against Iran. The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion, mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the US started and lost a war against Iran. This proposal comes as btoh democrats and republicans rejct further military action. The administration said it is requesting $67 billion for the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The WNBA reviewed the Caitlin Clark-Alyssa Thomas incident from Wednesday night.The league apparently didn’t like what it saw.Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas received a Flagrant Foul 2 penalty and a one-game suspension after the league reviewed her contact with Clark during the Mercury’s 111-109 win over the Indiana Fever at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The WNBA announced Thursday that Thomas was punished for “recklessly making contact with her fist to the throat area” of Clark.CAITLIN CLARK EXITS EARLY WITH BACK ISSUE AS FEVER FALL TO MERCURYThe play occurred with 6:52 remaining in the second…