The Brief: Prosecutors in Butts County, Georgia, dismissed murder charges against Aaron White following a fatal shooting on his wedding night in 2024. The decision came after a new prosecution team determined they could not disprove White’s claim of self-defense or meet the legal burden of proof required for a conviction. The case involved administrative challenges, including a judge disqualifying the original district attorney’s office for forensic misconduct. Despite a previous indictment, the legal saga concluded when authorities acknowledged the inability to establish White as the primary aggressor during the violent confrontation that left one man dead. BUTTS COUNTY, GA…
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U.S. House lawmakers want the Air Force to keep the A-10 Warthog flying and combat-ready through its planned 2030 retirement while testing autonomous aircraft that could eventually take over the aging jet’s close air support mission. The House Armed Services Committee approved the provisions as part of its fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which the panel passed 44-12 late Thursday after a marathon markup that stretched past midnight. The measures, offered by Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., were adopted in a tactical air and land forces en bloc package. One measure directs the Air Force to maintain enough training,…
A House panel advanced a measure to increase cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli defense technology sectors after one lawmaker’s Friday attempt to halt the proposal fell flat.The United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, part of the House’s version of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill, would codify and increase military technical cooperation between the U.S. defense industry and Israel’s, as well as create a technical liaison position within the Pentagon to support the effort. The House Armed Services Committee approved the measure as part of its National Defense Authorization Act after a marathon debate on hundreds of amendments.Rep. Ro…
A flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in Texas livestock. Canada has now banned the import of United States livestock, including horses, over the screwworm infestation. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has condemned Ottawa’s move as an “overreaction,” even though he has already declared a statewide disaster The first case of screwworm was identified in Texas on Wednesday. This marks the first detection of the parasite in the US, roughly 80km (50 miles) from the Mexican border. The outbreak began in Central America in 2023 and has been spreading steadily northward ever since. By late 2025, Mexico had reported thousands of cases…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI’m an adopted, Southern California surfer kid who grew up with an explosive and emotionally unavailable mother who has worked as a lifeguard, paramedic, firefighter, Army Ranger, Blackwater security contractor, and spent over a decade deployed (over 2000 days/five years on the ground in Iraq), eventually resulting in overseeing the guard force at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and some other high-profile jobs. And, as one might expect, after over a decade working in places like South Central L.A., Atlanta, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan—where, in one form or fashion, I’ve been attacked dozens…
If you live in a mobile home, a manufactured home, or a trailer, you already know your situation is different from the guy with a brick basement and a concrete foundation. When it comes to EMP preparedness, that difference matters a lot. The walls are thinner, the wiring layout is compressed, and there is no natural shielding baked into the structure the way there might be in an older steel-frame building. That does not mean you are out of luck. It means you have to be smarter and more deliberate about how you protect your electronics. A properly built faraday…
If you live near a tree line, you can smell what kind of summer is coming before the smoke shows up. Dry creek beds, brittle pine needles ankle-deep on the forest floor, and that crackling sound the underbrush makes when you walk through it in May, when it should still be soft from winter moisture. Here’s the thing nobody at the federal level seems willing to say out loud. This fire season was made worse by decisions made in Washington – staff cuts at the Forest Service, paperwork that sat on the wrong desk for months, and a prescribed burn…
Emergency candles have been a survival staple for generations, but carrying loose candles and matches is a sloppy solution. They roll around, get lost, and offer no wind protection when you actually need a flame. That’s where a little historical inspiration goes a long way. The Civil War era produced some remarkably clever field gear, born out of necessity and built from whatever was on hand. This candle lantern design draws directly from that tradition. It’s compact, functional, and built from common materials. It holds up to three candles and a book of matches, and it doubles as a wind…
This article was originally published by Michael Dioguardi at The Mises Institute. Previously, I have argued that sovereign credit systems are structurally biased toward expansion: crises justify new interventions, those interventions are never fully reversed, and each cycle leaves behind a higher institutional baseline than before. The Cantillon effect ensures that the gains from monetary expansion distribute unevenly, flowing first to those nearest the financial system. In another article, I examined why market discipline cannot correct this: Banking regulation assigns zero risk weights to sovereign bonds; liquidity rules mandate their ownership; central bank collateral frameworks treat them as foundational assets. The…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story first ran under the title “This Is It” in the August 1952 issue of Outdoor Life. Ordinarily a man doesn’t have any advance warning when the tight squeezes of his life are coming up. Certainly I had none that day in Alaska. Maybe the red squirrel had nothing to do with it. Maybe there was some other reason why the brown bear left the moose trail she was following on the mountain a hundred yards above me, and came…