The Pentagon ordered 30 U.S. academic institutions to audit their research and financial ties to certain foreign entities or risk losing eligibility for future federal research funding, it announced Monday. The institutions must review partnerships with international entities identified under federal law, as well as organizations associated with rebranded Confucius Institutes, and evaluate whether they may have revealed sensitive or export-controlled information. Institutions have until Aug. 31 to report their conclusions and any mitigation efforts, including discontinuing collaborations deemed troublesome, to the Defense Department. The department did not name the 30 institutions publicly.“The Department of War has zero tolerance for…

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College football fans have been waiting on this day for months. With the preseason AP Top-25 now released, every fan has a reason to either complain or rejoice, as the 2026 season is just two weeks away.It’s a tradition unlike any other.Voters from across the country — some of whom have no clue about teams in other regions, no matter how much research they do — release their rankings for the college football world to argue about for the next few weeks leading up to Labor Day weekend.This is also the time of year when local sports talk radio shows…

The military retail customer has changed during Tom Shull’s 14-year tenure leading the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, primarily because of the COVID-19 pandemic.“We went suddenly from business attire to very casual, and that happened overnight, so we had to adjust very quickly to that shift,” he said during a recent interview with Military Times. Even now, customers haven’t returned completely to previous norms, he said. There have been some significant shifts in tastes, and fashion needs have focused more on beauty products and footwear. “We’re meeting the needs of the customer, as customers transition to a different focus,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man in Texas was arrested after allegedly murdering his estranged wife while their kids were home, according to police.Jake Bigoni, 37, was taken into custody Wednesday after officers performing a welfare check for his estranged wife, Eliana Bigoni, discovered her dead inside his Plano, Texas, apartment. He was initially booked on a felony abuse of corpse charge before authorities later added a murder charge, police said in a news release.Authorities initiated the welfare check after one of Eliana’s friends reported that she had not appeared for a scheduled breakfast at 8:30…

The top leader for U.S. Central Command visited the crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday after reports emerged of deteriorating mental health and declining morale aboard the ship.Adm. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines after Military Times learned that two service members attempted to jump overboard during the Lincoln’s extended deployment of more than 260 days.“Of the U.S. Navy’s 11 active aircraft carriers, the Lincoln currently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health,” Cooper said in a social media statement.Cooper conceded that not everything was perfect aboard the ship and…

Few firearms have had as colorful a history as that of the iconic “Tommy Gun.” It was developed for the trenches of the First World War. But, as it arrived too late, the Thompson submachine gun was marketed to civilians, and later was carried by Allied soldiers in World War II. It could be argued that two other equally iconic firearms — the AR-15 and AK-47 — wouldn’t even have been developed had it not been for John Taliaferro Thompson, the inventor of the submachine gun that bears his name. Boston police officers examine a Thompson submachine gun during preparations…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A friend of a California crime victim who was allegedly fatally stabbed by an illegal immigrant on his front lawn lashed out on Monday, accusing the Golden State’s justice system of failing the family while calling for change.”California state law, the judge, judicial system really failed Todd [Stewart] and his family and the community,” Victoria, whose last name was withheld, told “Fox & Friends.”Victoria’s outrage stemmed from a string of developments leading up to the Aug. 6 murder, including the suspect’s prior release.DEADLY HOSPITAL STABBING PUTS NEWSOM UNDER PRESSURE OVER ICE DETAINER…

The U.S. military, scrambling to rebuild depleted stocks of high-tech weaponry, on Monday said it had awarded RTX unit Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to dramatically boost the output of Tomahawk missiles.The U.S. ‌has supplied large amounts of arms to allies while also using munitions in the Iran conflict, raising concerns about inventories of air defense and precision-guided weapons.“We called on industry to rapidly scale up munitions output, and RTX is delivering,” Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said in an X post. “This landmark Tomahawk contract ensures our warfighters continue to have the lethal firepower they need.” In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of War announced Monday that the U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a $22.9 billion contract to accelerate production of Tomahawk missiles, as the Pentagon moves to expand the nation’s munitions capacity and replenish critical long-range strike weapons.The news came after President Donald Trump pushed back on concerns over the strain the Iran conflict might be placing on U.S. weapons stockpiles.”What we’ve used is peanuts,” Trump told Fox News’ Trey Yingst in an exclusive phone interview earlier Monday. “We have a lot of mid-level weapons.”PENTAGON RACES TO BUY…

As she marked the 14th anniversary of the abduction of her son, Austin Tice, during a 2012 reporting trip to Syria, Debra Tice remained in recovery following her own multi-month health scare.Last October, CNN interviewed a former advisor to ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad who told the outlet that Tice, a veteran Marine Corps captain and freelance reporter, had died in 2013. Debra Tice describes the event as a “crash” that sent her health into a tailspin. She became unable to eat, losing weight and becoming so weak she couldn’t leave the house, she said. Gastroenterologists and other physicians, she…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Almost one year after the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, Fox Nation is taking a look back at how the harrowing event impacted a Christian private high school in Louisiana.Pastor and Evangel Christian Academy head football coach Denny Duron guides his team through Kirk’s killing in season 3 of the hit reality television series, “God. Family. Football.” While dealing with the pressures and challenges of competing during the 2025 season, Duron pays tribute to the killed Turning Point USA leader, as shown in episode two. “That young man was a young man I…