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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent highlighted the stark difference he sees emerging between Texas and California as well as the ‘tale of two states’ cropping up between red and blue jurisdictions.”In California, I saw firsthand what years of failed governance looks like: a tax system that is hostile to ambition. A regulatory state that smothers enterprise. An economic climate indifferent to consequence,” he said during a closed-door meeting at the Petroleum Club of Houston on Friday in remarks shared exclusively with Fox News Digital.California has seen a number of…

As the U.S. Army races to modernize for warfare that is increasingly defined by autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, it is recruiting some of the country’s most influential technology leaders into uniform. The Army this week added three more technology executives into the Executive Innovation Corps, more commonly known as Detachment 201, a newly created unit intended to bridge the gap between the commercial sector and the military.Dane Knecht, the chief technology officer of Cloudflare; Sam Pallara, the managing director and chief technology officer of Sutter Hill Ventures; and Serkan Piantino, the co-founder of Facebook AI Research and former vice…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At least one person is dead and others were injured in an active shooting situation while the suspect has barricaded themselves inside a building in downtown Midland, Texas, Midland Mayor Lori Blong said in a Friday press conference. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Read the full article here

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The body of a missing child who was swept into the ocean in California on Tuesday was found on Thursday, according to the City of Laguna Beach.”During an early-morning aerial survey of the coastline on June 11, 2026, the Laguna Beach Police Department identified a possible match to the adolescent female who was swept into the ocean near Treasure Island Beach on June 9, 2026,” a press release noted.”The sighting occurred 250 to 300 yards offshore of Christmas Cove, which is located approximately one-quarter mile north of the area where the victim…

KYIV — Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up decisions on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian official said.Ukraine, in the fifth year of fighting a full-scale Russian invasion, is already using AI for a plethora of battlefield functions, from flying drones at targets to helping plan combat operations and crunching data on Russian missile attacks.“AI will form a new paradigm of warfare. It’s already actively doing so,” Danylo Tsvok, the head of the defense ministry’s AI center, told Reuters.He predicted AI systems would…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jessie James Decker is sharing the one piece of advice she actually listened to when it comes to making a marriage work.During an interview with Fox News Digital at a pre-CMA Fest party she hosted at her store, Kittenish, in Nashville, Tennessee, the 38-year-old country singer shared the piece of marriage advice she took into consideration.”The best piece of advice that I’ve learned that actually works in real life is to keep flirting,” she said. “You have to keep things playful. You’ve gotta keep that young love spirit, and we just naturally…

The United States plans to significantly reduce the aircraft and warships it makes available for NATO operations in Europe, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two senior European officials. The decision would limit NATO’s ability to launch long-range strikes and conduct surveillance, the report said.The U.S. plan includes cutting the number of F-16 and F-15E fighter jets from roughly 150 to 100, reducing maritime reconnaissance aircraft from 26 to 15, and removing all eight aerial refueling tanker jets it previously made available to Europe, the report said.The U.S. also aims to redeploy a missile-launching submarine and an aircraft…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For the first time in 32 years, the United States men’s soccer team will be playing a World Cup game on home soil Friday night.The popularity of the sport in the U.S. changed dramatically following the 1994 World Cup, due largely to the Stars and Stripes making it to the knockout round for the first time since 1934. It could be déjà vu this year (the New York Knicks were in the NBA Finals the last time the U.S. hosted), as this year’s team is probably the best in recent memory.Now, team…

This article was originally published by Jeremy E. Powell at The Mises Institute.  It needs no special introduction to argue that, after years of repeated lockdowns, restrictions, and vaccination pressures that violate both choice and conscience, the ongoing panic from global media and potentiality for lockdowns will undoubtedly land poorly in today’s polarized environment. It isn’t complicated to understand why. Those three years of lockdowns, restrictions, and vaccination pressures weren’t about abstract data or ideals. For many people, they represented isolation, business closures, loss of jobs and years, and a time where walking out of the house could have gotten you arrested…