The Pentagon spent $2.85 million assembling tents at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that were never used to house detained noncitizens, according to the Government Accountability Office.The government watchdog found that the Defense Department reported obligating approximately $68 million for immigration detention from Oct. 1, 2024, through May 31, 2026. The Guantanamo operation was one of six new detention-expansion initiatives U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pursued without first developing a comprehensive strategic plan. By July 2026, ICE had scaled back four of the six initiatives, resulting in wasted or potentially wasted resources, the GAO said in a Sept. 24 report.A January 2025…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An immigration judge ruled Wednesday that federal authorities can deport the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque on national security grounds.Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked federal immigration law in June 2025 to determine that Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, could be deported because his presence in the United States could have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences. Government lawyers cited Sarsour’s decades-old convictions in Israel, including for throwing rocks at Israeli military personnel and attempting to procure weapons, in arguing that he posed a national security threat.Government…

Two California-based startups took the top spots in the latest phase of the Drone Dominance competition, a Pentagon effort to find companies that can produce high-quality, low-cost commercial drones at scale.According to the competition’s leaderboard, Neros Technologies scored highest in the confined-environment testing category. Perennial Autonomy claimed the top spot in “deep-strike” testing, in which operators launched attacks beyond the range of enemy defenses.The Pentagon uses the companies’ rankings to determine how many drones to buy, meaning higher-scoring companies receive larger orders. In total, the department ordered 14,000 drones from Neros — which also ranked third in deep-strike testing —…

Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. You can see this mini-magazine itself, which starts on page 89, within Winter 2026 issue by clicking here.I’ve been a “gun nut” as long as I can remember. As a young teenager in the 1980’s, I subscribed to all the gun magazines and would voraciously read them from cover to cover. While…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly ended talks and ordered the Iranian delegation to leave the U.S. after negotiations stalled, yet again, with no clear sign of a breakthrough more than seven months into the conflict.And now, President Donald Trump is directly warning Iran it’s “possible” he will go harder with strikes in the Middle East after the midterm elections in November and revealed the U.S. military has significantly rebuilt its arsenal in recent months.The latest messaging from the White House and State Department signals an increasingly strained diplomatic track, after days…

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told a forum in late September he was seeking “resilience through unity” with a new alliance that would let world officials and non-governmental groups prepare together in case of disaster.For Taiwan, that could mean an attack or blockade by the militarily more powerful China.Lai’s pitch to 500 experts and guests augured an international expansion of a roughly five-year-old domestic, military-civilian, whole-of-society awareness campaign similar to that seen overseas when larger countries bear down on smaller rivals.Taiwan’s “efforts promoting whole-of-society defense resilience have progressed toward closer international connections and cooperation,” Lai said.The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Brianna Coppage may have lost her teaching career, but she certainly didn’t take a pay cut.The “Double Lives of Suburban Wives” star told Fox News Digital that her adult-content business has transformed her family’s finances, revealing that her most successful month brought in a staggering $550,000.”Oh, my best month was 550,000,” Brianna told Fox News Digital.‘DOUBLE LIVES’ STAR REVEALS STAGGERING $550K MONTH AFTER LEAVING TEACHING CAREERThe figure marks a dramatic departure from her former life as an English teacher at St. Clair High School in Franklin County, Missouri. In 2023, Coppage was…

Command Sgt. Maj. Nema Mobarakzadeh recalls an occasion at a prior command in which a battalion sergeant major approached him, outraged that his soldiers hadn’t had running water in their barracks for a week.Mobarakzadeh asked the sergeant major for the number of the work order he’d put in to address the problem, but got only confusion in response.“Not one person in the formation put a request in,” Monarakzadeh, now command sergeant major of U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command, said during a call with reporters on Monday. “And so I chewed him out a little bit and let him know that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the “Ruthless Podcast” that 2,210 terrorists have been apprehended under the Trump administration’s aggressive approach to solving illegal immigration.”Underneath President Trump, we’ve arrested, so far as my numbers walking into here, 2,210 terrorists in this country,” Mullin said in an exclusive interview released Thursday morning. “Most of them came over and claimed asylum, gave a fake name. Some of them we caught, but a lot of them came in and … the Biden administration was just cutting them loose.”Mullin said that under the Biden administration, 97%…

The three-star commander of U.S. Army Recruiting Command confirmed this week that the service had reached its Reserve and Special Forces recruiting goals for the first time in 10 years or more.The Army announced earlier this year that it had met its active-duty recruiting target four months early for a second year in a row, bringing in more than 61,500 soldiers and cementing a dramatic turnaround from two years of missed recruiting missions in 2022 and 2023. Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on X that the Army had met its Special Forces recruiting mission for the first time…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Good morning and welcome to Fox News’ morning newsletter, Fox News First. And here’s what you need to know to start your day …TOP 31. Netanyahu praises heroic bystander for preventing ‘another 9/11’2. Iran leaders ‘overstayed their welcome’ in US after talks stalled3. GOP senator joins push for AI liability  MAJOR HEADLINESEXECUTION CHAOS — Tennessee inmate Christa Pike still alive after two lethal injections, lawyer says. Continue reading …DOUBLING DOWN — Lindsay Clancy lawyer pushes back on claims he shifted strategy after mistrial in new interview. Continue reading …VICTORY LAP — Right erupts in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group has released a new report calling on the Trump administration to take action against mail-order abortion drugs, arguing that it can enforce a 19th-century federal law to crack down on abortion pill shipments.In the report obtained by Fox News Digital, the Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) said Democrat-led states’ shield laws — adopted to protect providers in blue states from being prosecuted by GOP state governments — allow providers to ship, or are being used by providers to ship, the abortion pill mifepristone into red states “with no…