NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson reportedly said on Wednesday he planned to enlist the pope in his fight for reparations in the Windy City.Pope Leo XIV met with Johnson as the mayor led a Chicago delegation that included George Floyd family lawyer Antonio Romanucci on a Thursday trip to the Vatican.Johnson gifted Pope Leo with an array of apparel from Chicago, including a Chicago Cubs hat.BRANDON JOHNSON BLASTED BY FELLOW DEMOCRAT AFTER TEEN ALLEGEDLY STRIKES 5 OFFICERS DURING TAKEOVER CHAOS As Johnson launches an effort called Repair Chicago to “gather lived experiences of…

Congressional Republicans and Democrats included a short provision in proposed defense legislation on Tuesday that provides more clarification on what is needed for the construction of Trump-class battleships.Lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee announced their $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, stipulating that the new battleship built in the president’s name will not begin construction until the munitions packages onboard are sound enough to deploy.The NDAA provides a foundational sum of money for the Trump administration’s proposed $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 Defense Department budget.“The Secretary of the Navy may not enter into a contract or other…

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Despite getting to a Game 7, the 2026 Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder haven’t lived up to the Game 1 double-overtime instant classic.While the winning team has alternated over the past four games, the margin has been at least 13 points. Plus, Oklahoma City’s flopping has been the biggest storyline of the conference finals, which is a bummer for us die-hard NBA fans.However, that will be mostly forgotten if the Spurs-Thunder series finale is another thriller. DraftKings is projecting a close one: Oklahoma City is -162 on the moneyline and -3.5 favorites, and…

The U.S. Air Force cut the number of specialties eligible for reenlistment bonuses offered to active-duty airmen by 73% in fiscal year 2026.The Selective Retention Bonus list contains only 24 specialties eligible for reenlistment bonuses, compared to 89 in fiscal year 2025.Last fiscal year, the career fields included were: maintenance, aircrew, cyber, medical and special operations specialty codes. There are only two maintenance fields for B-52 and B-1 aircraft and three medical specialties eligible for fiscal 2026.“The Air Force assesses manning requirements annually, updating the SRB list to retain the critical talent needed for global missions,” an Air Force spokesperson…

When you surround yourself with college football and make it part of your livelihood, you will no doubt hear and read every narrative under the sun with regard to the world’s greatest sport.Most of them don’t even deserve a second look and are baseless conspiracy theories, but a few exist in that uncanny realm between fact and fiction.One that has caught my eye comes from the perpetrators of the “SEC is washed” crowd, more specifically those who call out the program that has ruled the conference for the first half of this decade, the Georgia Bulldogs.I can’t tell you how…

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) probe has found that the Pentagon failed to evaluate the effects of recent civilian personnel reductions, leaving a substantial gap in understanding for key areas such as “readiness, workload, and lethality.”Roughly 78,000 civilian positions were eliminated in 2025 — about 10% of a workforce that originally exceeded 793,000. At the time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth characterized the cuts as part of a broader effort to “streamline the Federal workforce and to make the Federal Government more efficient and responsive.”“Effective immediately and for the duration of this freeze, no vacant civilian position may be filled,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said she was disappointed in former first lady Jill Biden on Friday and doubted that she never saw signs of her husband, former President Joe Biden, declining.”I’m a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden. She must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it,” Hostin said. “Although she did say, ‘I’d never seen him like that, and I haven’t seen him like that since.’ I can’t imagine that the Joe — they’ve been together so long — I…

Some service members and their families have been threatened by foreign adversaries both overseas and in the United States, according to information provided to Military Times. “For folks we’ve heard from, threats began a few weeks after the U.S. strikes against Iran began,” said Sarah Streyder, the wife of a Space Force guardian stationed overseas. People have received threats through email, social media and text messages, and they appear to be coming from individuals connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Streyder said. But in some cases, she said, members of the IRGC have showed up at hotels in a…

Spyderco Product Reveal Numero 21 is here. At the blackjack table that would probably net you some cash; when it comes to Spydero Reveals it means you get special editions of well-known Spydie models as well as some brand new fixed blades. 50th Anniversary Native 5 With five decades in the biz under the belt, it’s no surprise to see Spyderco celebrating with some fancied up pieces – including this handsome version of the Native 5, with Spyder logo bolster, amber bone scales, and S90V blade steel. Yurco Ginunting Knife maker Mickey Yurco joins Spyderco for the first time this…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who has repeatedly referred to Russia as a “pariah state,” reiterated his call for the United Nations Security Council to remove Russia from the panel.”The United Nations General Assembly should vote on removing the Russians from the Security Council. Russia is a pariah state and should be treated that way,” Bacon asserted in a Friday post on X.The Russian Federation is one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.ISRAEL ACCUSES UN OF PLACING IT ON SAME SEXUAL VIOLENCE BLACKLIST AS HAMAS TERRORISTS, SEVERS TIES The…

U.S. Marshals arrested a soldier on a Missouri Army base who was wanted internationally for fraud and money-laundering resulting in over $30 million in losses, the service reported this month.Polish authorities asked the U.S. to arrest and extradite the 45-year-old Marcin Pióro, who was also subject to an international Interpol notice. He was arrested on May 19th during training at Fort Leonard Wood.The Army trains enlistees to be combat engineers, military police and chemical, biological radiological and nuclear, (CBRN) soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, which is a relatively rural and isolated base in the middle of the state. Pióro joined…