NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump teased who he may like to see as a long-term replacement for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as a special election to lock in a candidate for the seat fast approaches.Private and public jockeying is already underway to snag Trump’s coveted endorsement in the special election, which is slated for Aug. 11, with two lawmakers already expressing interest in launching a campaign.And as members of the South Carolina GOP congressional delegation and beyond line up for the race, the president hinted that he may already have a favorite:…

The U.S. Army is relocating the 116th Military Intelligence Brigade, the service’s only fixed-wing aerial intelligence brigade, to Texas as part of a modernization effort centered on the forthcoming High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System, or HADES, the Army announced on Monday. The restructuring will also create the Army’s first operational unmanned aircraft system, or UAS, battalion at Fort Hood, where new hangars will support the larger HADES jet aircraft. The move will begin in Fiscal Year 2027, when the brigade headquarters and two battalions relocate to the installation, followed by the remaining battalion and companies the following fiscal year.…

In 1896, Fritz Mann opened for business in Suhlerneundorf, Thüringen, as the Fritz Mann Feinmaschinen — Waffen — und Werkzeugfabrik. This translates to Machinery — Weapons — and Tools factory. Fritz also produced small engines, ski accessories, helmets, and auto parts. The Fritz Mann 1921 vest pocket pistol shown with a 3 mark silver coin and a small pocketknife for scale. Image: Author In 1918, at the end of World War I and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm, Fritz Mann ventured into the firearms trade to dominate the vest-pocket pistol market. At the time, small concealable pistols were all the rage,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he will respond to Ukraine’s recent strikes. As Ukraine continues to suffer setbacks on the battlefield, it has stepped up drone strikes on civilian targets and infrastructure, to which Putin says retaliation will be “several times” more powerful. Ukraine has recently intensified drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure using Western aid and resources. It has also attacked residential areas in recent months, amid launching several hundred unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) a day on average. First-person view, or FPV, drones, including artificial intelligence-assisted models, have increasingly targeted passenger buses and private vehicles. Putin made the…

College Football 27, EA Sports’ latest edition of the popular pigskin video game series, was released last week to both massive fanfare and scathing critiques.The big sticking point for a number of college football and gaming fans was the introduction of microtransactions, a practice involving paying real money to unlock features in the game.Microtransactions have become increasingly prevalent in modern video games, but the idea of putting them into the latest College Football game seemed absurd even a year ago.YOUTUBER BORDEAUX GOES IN DEPTH ON EA SPORTS COLLEGE FOOTBALL 27’S ‘MICRO TRANSACTIONS’ Many fans pushed back on the concept of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Like most Americans, I took part in the festivities over America’s 250th birthday. I found it quite remarkable to reflect on that number. On one hand, America is 250 years old, with so much history. On the other hand, America is still a baby compared to many other countries. I found myself having to pause and think about what was nagging me about that number. Two hundred and fifty years.Then the answer came to me. Two hundred and fifty years also marks how long race has played a role in this nation…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The pro wrestling landscape is filled with many talents looking to break through and make a name for themselves. BK Westbrook is one of those wrestlers chasing that crazy dream.The road hasn’t been easy. Westbrook started to train at a wrestling school in North Carolina in 2018 before it eventually closed down. He started having his first matches at Carolina Wrestling Federation (CWF) Mid-Atlantic before the promotion came to an abrupt end in 2019.COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON FOX NEWS DIGITAL He then suffered another setback – the COVID-19 pandemic. But overcoming…

The U.S. military can tell commanders how many troops are deployable, how many aircraft are mission-capable and how quickly units can mobilize for combat.As military leaders prepare for wars shaped by drones, artificial intelligence and rapidly shifting battlefield conditions, however, defense experts say the Pentagon still struggles to answer a more difficult question: How do you know whether a force can adapt when the unexpected happens?Future conflicts are widely expected to unfold faster and with greater uncertainty than the wars the United States has fought in recent decades. Communications may be disrupted, battlefield conditions may shift rapidly and long-held assumptions…

This article was originally published by George Ford Smith at The Mises Institute.  If you read enough commentary, you’ll find various versions of the idea that our ruination is the result of powerful private interests driving government decisions that benefit them at our expense. Simply put, rich guys can buy votes that favor them, and only them. In some cases, they augment their bribes with blackmail. Does the problem lie with the billionaires or the government? One way a person can become a billionaire is by providing people with a product or service they want. As various economists have pointed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sam Neill, the 78-year-old New Zealand actor best known for his role in Jurassic Park, died on Monday after contracting pneumonia, a co-star said.Rima Te Wiata, a Kiwi actor who appeared with Neill in the 2016 comedy “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” told The New Zealand Herald that he was “a very steady, peaceful, grounded man.”In an interview with the outlet, Te Wiata recounted times when Neill told the press that he wasn’t afraid of death but that he’d be “annoyed” by it.Neill’s death came after he said he was cancer-free in April,…

Paige Bueckers once again advocated for Black women in women’s basketball. The Dallas Wings superstar made viral comments at a postgame press conference on Sunday after defeating the Chicago Sky, when she was asked about the number of Black female coaches in the WNBA.There are currently no Black female head coaches in the league.CAITLIN CLARK VS PAIGE BUECKERS: HOW TWO WHITE WNBA STARS WOUND UP WITH VASTLY DIFFERENT CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS “I’m for equal opportunity, no discrimination based on what you look like, who you like and anything of that nature. I grew up with a lot of prominent Black women…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In 2015, Sen. Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a “jackass” and warned Republicans that nominating him would be a disaster. Trump responded by reading Graham’s personal cellphone number aloud during a campaign rally, encouraging supporters to call the South Carolina senator.Few political rivalries seemed less likely to evolve into one of Washington’s most consequential foreign policy partnerships.Trump rose to power promising to end America’s “endless wars” and challenging decades of Republican foreign policy orthodoxy. Graham, by contrast, remained throughout his three decades in public service an unabashed advocate of projecting American power…