The old adage goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” and nowhere is that perhaps more true than with one Georgia teacher’s invention: the “fart corner.”That’s not a euphemism. It is indeed a corner one goes into to release a little gas.But, like many pioneering inventions and technological breakthroughs, it is dividing — and at times clearing — the proverbial room.’SPIDER-MAN’ SHOWING WAS REPORTEDLY EVACUATED DUE TO SOMEONE’S UNCONTROLLED GAS RELEASE According to NBC San Diego, second-grade teacher Candy Sydney-Browning had about enough of her students’ inability to control their gas.”I have a very weak stomach, so I cannot take…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Busy Philipps is sharing how she was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor.During a recent interview with People magazine, the 47-year-old “Cougar Town” actress shared the terrifying moment her doctor told her she had a brain tumor, the day after her “Dawson’s Creek” co-star, James Van Der Beek, died following a battle with colorectal cancer.”Dr. Devinsky says to me, ‘I’m just going to say this to you the way I would want someone to say it to me,'” she recalled. “And that was when the wind like sort of knocked out of…

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It’s one of baseball’s oldest, and often most misunderstood, traditions: stealing signs from the opposition.Despite popular misconceptions, sign stealing in baseball is perfectly legal. If, say, a runner at second base is able to pick up signs from the catcher to the pitcher, he’s within his rights to relay them to the hitter. It’s up to the pitcher and catcher to come up with their own elaborate system to keep the other team guessing.The Houston Astros in 2017 and into 2018 are the most obvious and prominent example of how sign stealing could be abused, particularly in the pre-pitchcom era.…

The Navy’s top admiral says the service is changing how it does pre-deployment stocking and resupply and looking at different places to make port calls, including on the African continent, after the carrier Lincoln’s punishing 270-day deployment.Speaking to reporters in Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle acknowledged that the carrier faced problems with resupply during its 250 days without a port visit, though he didn’t fully confirm individual accounts and photographs showing mostly-empty trays of food in the mess decks.“This is typically not about whether or not there’s protein and whether or not there’s the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jed York, the owner of the San Francisco 49ers, donated thousands of dollars to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) before authorities arrested him on Monday in a trailer park for attempting to solicit prostitution.York was arrested on one charge of “engaging in prostitution” and another for “possessing criminal tools,” according to court documents.York reportedly tried to solicit prostitution for $140.49ERS OWNER JED YORK ARRESTED FOR ‘ENGAGING IN PROSTITUTION’ IN OHIO, PLEADS NO CONTEST TO LESSER CHARGES The engaging in prostitution charge was later downgraded to a “disorderly conduct” charge, according to…

The Army is investing billions of dollars to bring nuclear power to military bases, selecting five companies to build nuclear microreactors at installations across the U.S., the service announced Wednesday in collaboration with the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit. Antares Nuclear will develop a microreactor — or microreactors — at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; BWXT Advanced Technologies at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; General Atomics Electronagnetic Systems at Fort Hood, Texas; Radiant Industries at Fort Benning, Georgia; and Westinghouse Government Services at Fort Drum, New York. The service said it expects to field more than 20 microreactors across Department of Defense installations.The agreements,…

Alexis Rowan, 27, is just a week removed from having survived a fight for her life – the stitches only now out and a healing scar to last forever like the nightmare she will never forget – but she is now more resolved than ever to live as an example of strength for her children she begged to be able to come home to see.It was the fight over flight she learned from her mother, Tricia Rowan, a self-described descendant of boxing legacy.”Get your daughter in MMA,” Tricia Rowan, told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday. “That’s what I’m…

The Army is looking for a weapon that is similar to the existing Hellfire and Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, according to the Army’s Sources Sought notice. The deadline is Sept. 15.The missile should be “capable of integrating with joint manned and unmanned air, ground and waterborne platforms using a M299 launcher or equivalent,” the Army said.The specifications for the missile mirror that of the Hellfire, with a minimum range of 1,640 feet (500 meters) and a maximum range of 2,6246 feet (8,000 meters) or greater. Potential targets include “heavy/light armor track vehicles, command and control nodes, air defense artillery radars, Counter-Unmanned…

Russia is a Shadow of Itself and When China Dumps it, GAME OVER! Personal Note to you: *** I personally FEAR the desperation felt by Xi and Putin – both Russia is losing and China is slowing down hard and these two dictator nutjobs might get desperate and lose their minds. *** Russia’s Economic Collapse Is Sparking the Next Global Commodity Supercycle – Putin is now, in my view, DONE. Listen closely, because while mainstream talking heads focus on static territorial lines, the real war is already over. Russia has lost on the battlefield because its underlying economic engine has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Delaware Sen. Chris Coons is facing backlash after declaring that the United States is “no longer” the leader of the free world and pointing instead to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the national leader putting his country “on the line for freedom.””I would say we are no longer the leaders of the free world. In fact, if anything Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the primary national leader who is putting his country’s men and women on the line for freedom,” said Coons during the town hall earlier this month.”We need to earn our place…

American flags at home and abroad will be lowered to half-staff for a week in honor of Dolly Parton, the legendary country singer who died Tuesday at 80 years old.President Donald Trump ordered the lowering of the flags on the day of her passing as a “mark of respect” for her memory, directing all flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House, public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations and naval vessels throughout the U.S. and its territories and possessions until sunset on Sept. 1.Alongside those locations, Trump decreed that American flags would be flown at…