During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato was feared due to its immense size and power. She was the most heavily armed battleship ever built, with nine 18.1-inch (460mm) main guns, the largest ever mounted on a warship. Each shell weighed nearly 1.5 tons and had a range in excess of 26 miles. Yamato was also the heaviest warship ever constructed and the most heavily armored, leading to a belief she might be “unsinkable.” The super-battleship Yamato carrying out sea trials in October 1941. Image: Mr. Kazutoshi Hando/U.S. Navy Still, today, she lies at the bottom of the East China Sea,…

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that hundreds of thousands of people will be barred from returning to their homes in Southern Lebanon as Israel occupies the country. The occupation will continue until the Hezbollah threat is removed. Katz’s announcement comes just one day after another cabinet member, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, called for the annexation of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. Israel began a military operation against Hezbollah in early March after the Lebanese-based militants launched waves of strikes against the Jewish state, in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Democrats rejected Republicans’ latest offer to reopen Homeland Security, despite the deal giving them much of what they asked for.Senate Republicans crafted a framework to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after meeting with President Donald Trump earlier in the week that would carve out immigration enforcement funding and include some reforms to immigration operations.It mirrors a similar proposal that Democrats tried to advance on the Senate floor twice during the shutdown, which entered its 39th day on Wednesday. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats aren’t satisfied…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Retired Gen. Jack Keane cautioned against any ceasefire with Iran, saying the U.S. must maintain military pressure to force Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.”If we go to ceasefire, that’s playing right into their hands,” the retired four-star Army general and Fox News senior strategic analyst warned Tuesday on “Hannity.””We want to keep the pressure on them to make a deal that makes some sense, and that is the path.”TRUMP’S IRAN STRATEGY IS WORKING AND TEACHING OUR FOES WHAT DETERRENCE MEANS Keane’s remarks come as President Donald Trump signals progress in negotiations…

In a sweeping change to its enlistment regulations, the Army has raised the maximum age for eligible recruits to 42, the service announced. Changes highlighted in the memo, which was distributed this week and will go into effect in April, also include the removal of previous enlistment obstacles for recruits who have a single marijuana or drug paraphernalia conviction. The announcement comes as the Army continues efforts to widen its recruiting pool after falling short of its Regular Army enlistment goals in 2022 and 2023 before rebounding in 2024. The upper limit of the Army’s previous allowable enlistment age was…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  Simulation Models Impacts of Prolonged Strait of Hormuz Closure A simulation conducted by Austrian researchers has modeled the potential global economic impact of a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint, according to a study released in March 2026. The research, which examined the flow of 10,000 tankers between 1,315 ports globally, indicates that $1.2 trillion in annual exports from five Gulf nations are at direct risk if Iran maintains control of the waterway for an extended period. The simulation found that blockages under two…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A video captured people dangling in the air for several minutes during an amusement ride malfunction at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in Texas. Attendee Akil Strawder told Storyful that he and his cousins were left suspended on the ride for about 10 minutes while his wife recorded the footage “in astonishment.” Netherlands-based KMG Rides, which sells the Tango ride shown in the video, describes it on its website as a “23-meter-high ride that rotates around 3 different axes during the ride.” “The open gondolas provide passengers with a unique ‘flying’ experience,” it adds. “There are…

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. Trump says Iran gave ‘significant’ gift to prove the country wants to ‘make a deal’2. ‘Conflicting information’ surfaces as NTSB probes fatal LaGuardia collision3. Democrats flip Trump’s home district in stunning Florida upset MAJOR HEADLINESREGIME COLLAPSE — Revolutionary Guards seize control of Iran as supreme leader becomes ‘hologram.’ Continue reading …VERDICT IS IN — Jury reaches ‘historic’ decision in state’s $2,100,000,000 case against Meta. Continue reading …LOOKING FOR…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Could the NFL’s current media rights model, which may add even more players with a new deal expected at some point this year, make its way into college sports? As both deals currently stand, the NFL has a unified structure, where it splits revenue evenly across its 32 teams. Meanwhile, college football is fragmented, with conferences such as the SEC and Big Ten seeing more lucrative deals compared to others because of its teams’ popularity and bigger budgets. There has been debate about unifying the conferences to negotiate a single TV rights deal, but…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you’re hauling freight on America’s highways, safety isn’t optional. It’s the price of admission.That principle is at the heart of Dalilah’s Law, which the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed today.Backed by President Trump during last month’s State of the Union, this legislation reinforces a fundamental principle: only properly trained and qualified professionals should be behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound truck. It strengthens safety standards, ensures drivers can understand and communicate in English, and closes loopholes that have allowed unqualified or improperly licensed individuals to slip through the cracks —…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A progressive Chicago lawmaker issued an apology Tuesday after facing backlash for suggesting a slain college student was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”Last Thursday, Sheridan Gorman, 18, of Westchester County, New York, was gunned down while taking a walk with friends around 1:30 a.m. along Chicago’s lakefront.Alderwoman Maria Hadden sparked outrage on social media after she suggested in an interview with Fox 32 Chicago that the Loyola University Chicago student was in the “wrong place at the wrong time” and that she may have “startled” the individual who shot…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Fetterman used to be known, sadly, as the guy who had the stroke.And maybe the man who always wore the hoodie.That has dramatically changed.Now the Pennsylvania senator has alienated much of his own Democratic Party with an independent streak that often finds him siding with the Trump administration.JOHN FETTERMAN SAYS TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME IS THE ‘LEADER’ OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Now he’s become Joe Manchin, who drove the Biden people crazy by resisting many of their liberal initiatives.But I’d go further than that. I think he’s become more like the late…