Vague operational planning and a lack of transparency during U.S. actions in Iran have exacerbated the U.S. Navy’s longstanding logistics, maintenance and manpower issues — and sailors are feeling the effects, congressional leaders, retired military officials and deployed sailors have told Military Times.Following revelations from families about some U.S. service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln struggling with mental health after 250 days without a port visit, sailors, retirees and lawmakers told Military Times that troops were absorbing consequences of longtime flaws within the sea service that have been worsened by the current conflict.The Navy has struggled for years to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is slated to speak at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual convention over Labor Day weekend, joining a speaker roster that includes Muslim religious leaders with histories of controversial remarks.Among the most controversial figures attending the ISNA convention is cleric Baqir Berry, who prayed for “mujahideen” in Palestine and Lebanon, using a term commonly associated with Islamist fighters, and asked God to grant them “a mighty victory.” Islamic Institute of America head Hassan Qazwini is also attending after appealing to God to “grant victory…

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The Ketel Marte saga just keeps getting stranger.Marte, one of the best players in baseball and a key part of the Arizona Diamondbacks lineup since the 2017 season, traveled with his team to Boston ahead of their very important series with the Red Sox at Fenway Park. And then just never showed up to the stadium.Not only did he not show up, he didn’t tell the team front office, his manager, or his teammates that he wouldn’t be there. Arizona waited until 20 minutes before first pitch to put him on the restricted list, and when asked about it after…

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.Inside an office building in West Los Angeles, retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. stood tall and strong in his signature spit-shined black cowboy boots. Under the shadow of a red Force Recon Association hat and tinted glasses, Capers’ eyes wore a hardened look that made no effort to hide the darkness and despair that gripped him at that moment. It was the fall of 2009, and Capers had come in search of a new mission.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An experimental skin cancer vaccine significantly reduced the risk of melanoma returning or spreading in a late-stage clinical trial from Merck and Moderna.The results mark the first positive phase 3 trial of an mRNA-based personalized cancer therapy, according to the companies.Known as INTerpath-001, the study evaluated 1,137 patients globally who had surgery to remove high-risk (Stage IIB through Stage IV) melanoma. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either KEYTRUDA plus the personalized vaccine or KEYTRUDA plus placebo.’TANMAXXING’ TREND COULD COME AT A DANGEROUS COST, SKIN CANCER EXPERTS WARNPatients who received the combination…

The U.S. Navy is leading a multinational effort to develop a new version of the Evolved SeaSparrow air defense missile.The goal is to create a variant of the SeaSparrow that can be used by the 12 nations in the NATO SeaSparrow Project Office consortium, or NSPO, according to the Navy Sources Sought notice. The deadline is Oct. 19.The NSPO is looking for a weapon that can be employed against a wide variety of threats. The NSV SeaSparrow “should have capability against current and future threat classes spanning a variety of threat characteristics including velocity (low-speed to high-speed), altitude (sea skimming…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE – DETROIT, MI – Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has a message for Democrats who are far from happy with their party’s nominee in battleground Michigan: “You have a home with us.”Rogers, a former congressman and former FBI agent who is running a second straight time for the Senate after losing by a slim margin two years ago, on Thursday stood alongside a group of voters as he unveiled his “Democrats for Mike Rogers” coalition during a campaign event at a residence in a western Detroit neighborhood.After a combustible and divisive Democratic…

A U.S. Air Force flight enroute to Antarctica turned around to New Zealand after being notified of “potentially hazardous” space activity this week.New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority was aware the flight from Christchurch pivoted following the agency’s issue of a Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, to the aircraft, a CAA spokesperson told Military Times.The Russian Air Traffic Management Corporation notified the CAA of the space activity, the spokesperson said, causing the authority to issue the NOTAM to the U.S. Air Force flight.In a follow-up statement, the spokesperson said that the CAA was made aware by the Russian air traffic agency…

For many, the idea of digging a well seems out of reach. Some decide to dig their own well to gain some independence from city and government oversight. Others decide to dig their own well out of necessity (the lack of resources in the area they are in). Whatever the reasoning behind the desire to dig a well, it is important to know everything you can about the process. Our goal is to help educate everyone on the process of digging a well in full detail. We will provide a full-scope overview of the process, provide some videos to further…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Jared Moskowitz hit back Thursday after Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., claimed the Florida Democrat is “scared to death” of his party’s socialist wing and would take marching orders from far-left streamer Hasan Piker if re-elected.”Rick doesn’t know what he’s talking about there,” Moskowitz said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.””Nobody in my district believes that I’m a Hasan Piker guy. Hasan would want nothing to do with me. I want nothing to do with Hasan, so, at the end of the day, Rick just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”PIKER DEMANDS DEMOCRATS…

Kevin Warsh Might SurpriseThe World Next Week Long-term interest rates are exploding across the global landscape, touching 19-year highs. The 30-year Treasury yield recently surged past 5.3%—levels unseen since 2007—while 10-year yields hold highs above 4.7%! The financial headlines are screaming panic: the U.S. government is facing a multi-trillion-dollar debt-service squeeze, mortgage rates are choking housing, and global liquidity is hitting a brick wall. Don’t FALL for this – like I said, markets will SUFFER a major correction, but after the midterms, the stock market will SOAR to one of its best ever years! If you look beneath the surface,…