NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Norway for the king’s state funeral was “almost hit” by a drone as it prepared to take off from Moldova on Tuesday, according to Reuters.Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told public broadcaster NRK about the incident on Wednesday, the outlet said, after Zelenskyy’s aircraft arrived safely in Oslo on Tuesday evening.”His plane was almost hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova. That is the reality he is facing,” Støre said, without specifying how close the drone came…

Former Tennessee Titans scout Blaise Taylor, who spent four years in the organization’s scouting department from 2019 to 2023, is going to prison for the rest of his life after getting two consecutive life sentences for the cocaine poisoning of his pregnant girlfriend, Jade Benning, and their unborn daughter. A Davidson County judge made sure Taylor will never smell freedom again, slapping him with back-to-back life terms after a jury saw right through his bogus allergic reaction story.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEOn Feb. 25, 2023, Taylor was at Benning’s Nashville apartment when he put a fatal dose of…

Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.At least one seafarer aboard a tanker was reported killed and another listed as missing. The attacks sent the price of oil surging, with the international Brent crude benchmark breaching $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Iran also said it had fired ballistic missiles at a base used by U.S. forces in Jordan. Attacks by both…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! headlinesA Manhattan prostitute who killed three johns when she fed them fentanyl-laced drugs to rob them pleaded guilty Tuesday.Tabitha Bundrick, 39, admitted to giving her customers the powerful synthetic opioid between April 2023 and February 2024 and then taking their personal belongings—including their cell phones, sneakers, money, and watches, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.”The defendant knowingly killed three people by providing them fentanyl-laced drugs,” said District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “As they lay unconscious, she robbed her victims and left them to die. In several instances, the victims’ bodies were found by…

The U.S. Air Force launched an initiative to increase the number of mission-capable B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer aircraft by accelerating parts delivery, engineering support and depot maintenance.The movement, dubbed the North Star Readiness Campaign, responds to the push to maintain the readiness and availability of the U.S. bomber force for global operations, according to a Tuesday release.Air Force Global Strike Command launched the campaign alongside Air Force Materiel Command and the Defense Logistics Agency to bring together operators, acquisition and sustainment experts and logistics partners.“The North Star Readiness Campaign is our commitment to ensuring the warfighter has the nation’s…

Cosmic clays just got even cooler thanks to Federal Cosmic 12-gauge shotshells!If you’ve never had the chance to do cosmic clays, you’re missing out. It combines clay shooting with the blacklights of cosmic bowling to make for a very groovy night at the range. The glowing clays are already covered, but Federal just made the concept even cooler with the introduction of its new Cosmic 12-gauge shotshells.Federal Cosmic shells are loaded with a UV-fluorescent Podium wad that will glow under blacklight as it tracks the payload in flight. The shotshells even feature the cool Cosmic alien logo in UV-fluorescent printing,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two Chinese nationals were arrested in China after allegedly supplying synthetic drugs that prosecutors say were imported into the United States and later distributed to inmates at federal and state prisons nationwide.Lisa Xing, 36, and Zhanwen Song, 38, were charged in a superseding federal indictment in the Eastern District of Texas with drug trafficking and money laundering offenses tied to an alleged scheme that supplied synthetic opioids, cannabinoids and other drugs from China for distribution in U.S. correctional facilities.FBI Director Kash Patel touted the case in a post on X, writing that…

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.If not for what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, Valeria Casillas probably would not have joined the military. But in the surge of patriotism following deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and outside Washington, D.C., she saw service as a chance to give back to the country where her father — a truck driver and naturalized citizen from Mexico — had carved his own path.“My dad loves this country so much. … He came to…

Don’t believe all the hype you’ve heard about the strength of chimpanzees. It’s nonsense, according to MMA fighter Cole Johnson, who plans on proving it by fighting one and beating it.The 24-year-old, who goes by Wavy MMA on social media and fights out of City Kickboxing in New Zealand, has one professional fight under his belt. He won that fight and that was enough for him to believe he could take on a chimp. Johnson made the announcement in a video last week, where he confidently stated, “I 100% wholeheartedly believe that I could beat a chimpanzee in a fight.”THE…

Editor’s note: This report contains discussion of suicide. Troops, veterans and family members experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 and dial 1, text 838255 or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net.House lawmakers released key findings Tuesday from an investigation into the Navy’s response to aviators dealing with flight-related brain injuries.The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said the Navy has not done enough to research and mitigate potential neurological damage for Navy pilots despite being aware of documented mental health concerns and suicides within the F/A-18 community.“The result is a system that is well-equipped to treat…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ affirmative action stance on Wednesday as he faced questioning from the co-hosts of “The View” about his new book.”Clarence Thomas, he stated that affirmative action diminishes achievements because it allowed people to believe he had not earned his place at Yale and I think we can all agree that affirmative action was put in place to provide opportunities to qualified Black students, like Thomas, because those institutions historically would not give them the opportunities to go,” co-host Sunny Hostin said during the…