The House passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax, health care, immigration and defense spending law Thursday by a vote of 218-214, securing the first part of the Pentagon’s bank-shot defense budget this year. Among other provisions in the massive spending package, the bill contains $150 billion for the Defense Department, slated for priorities like shipbuilding, the Golden Dome homeland defense project and refilling America’s stores of precision weapons. That total includes $113 billion in mandatory funding for the military, which the Pentagon has said pushes its budget close to $1 trillion for the first time. In its long-delayed budget release…
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U.S. military strikes on Iran’s three main nuclear facilities in June likely set that program back by 1-2 years, the Pentagon’s top spokesperson said Wednesday.“We’re thinking probably closer to two years — like degraded their program by two years,” said Sean Parnell in his first standalone briefing. Parnell’s assessment comes at a moment of confusion about the effect America’s massive airstrikes had on Iran’s nuclear program. The administration has repeatedly said that the attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, a characterization Parnell himself repeated Wednesday. But an early Defense Intelligence Agency review — first reported by CNN but later confirmed by…
The U.S. Navy failed to properly log new recruiting processes that helped the service reach its enlistment goals in fiscal 2024, according to a government watchdog report.The Navy Recruiting Command, or NRC, exceeded its objective of 40,600 recruits in 2024 by streamlining the medical waiver process and modernizing the operational recruitment process.But an improper chronicling of updates to these systems threatened to derail future successes, the Defense Department Office of Inspector General said.“Without documented guidance, the NRC does not have assurance that it can consistently meet future recruitment goals,” the report said.In 2024, the commander of the Navy Recruiting Command…
The United States has suspended military aid to Ukraine. As part of the Trump Administration’s “America first” policy, Washington’s envoy to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Matthew Whitaker, has told Fox Business that weapons shipments to Kiev will cease. The U.S. now has an insufficient supply of weapons since it got involved in the war with Russia and Ukraine, and says its goal is to put the U.S. slave class first. “This is what ‘America first’ looks like. We first have to take care about the United States’ needs,” Whitaker told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Pentagon needs…
Camping season is here! Whether you’re camping at a state park or in your backyard, cooking over a campfire is fun. My kids love to cook dinner over the campfire, so we’ve found a variety of easy backyard campfire recipes.There is way more you can cook over a campfire than just hot dogs. Leave the hotdogs behind! You can cook full, delicious meals that leave everyone satisfied yet shocked that you cooked it over an open fire.Here are some backyard campfire recipes that your family will love. The most important thing about each of these is that they’re easy. We wanted…
The U.S. Navy will control a new national defense area established across 140 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.The new NDA will become an extension of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and be sited near the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. The announcement comes just days after the creation of another national defense area in Texas. In these zones, military personnel install barriers and signage, conduct patrols and stop and detain trespassers, who they transfer to the custody of law enforcement. The Barry M. Goldwater range is a remote bombing range encompassing an uninhabited…
CHICAGO — Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the Army officer, hugged it to his chest and closed his eyes.Though the person he called his aunt — born Reba Caroline Bailey — had been estranged, missing for decades and died in 2015 as an unidentified ward of the state, he felt connection and a sense of closure.“I want to let Reba know we’re part of the circle and part of the family,” he said.Mark Bailey was among dozens of attendees at an unusual funeral service with military…
U.S. pilots who carried out the mission to bomb key nuclear sites in Iran were invited to mark the Fourth of July at the White House on Friday, multiple news outlets reported.Pilots flew B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft and F-35 Lightning stealth strike fighters during the June 21 mission, in which 30,000-pound “bunker-buster” bombs were dropped on underground uranium enrichment plants. Concurrently, a Navy nuclear-powered submarine launched over two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles into Iran, striking infrastructure sites in Isfahan.Pentagon officials said the operation involved more than 125 U.S. aircraft, and 14 American B-2 bomber…
Photo: Massaro Media Group.The .45 Colt Cartridge has been going strong for more than 150 years, and it still has a variety of uses today.While picking my first handgun, I didn’t opt for a compact carry gun or one of the ever-popular .22 LR options—both target rimfire revolvers and autoloaders are a ton of fun—but instead wanted a long-barreled, rock-solid, single-action gun that I could use to hunt both deer and bear here in my native New York. I chose a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt in a stainless finish, with a 7½-inch pipe.Among the more popular revolver cartridges, the…
Let’s make one thing crystal clear: a dirty wound can kill you faster than a bullet. Not immediately, no. But give it a couple days, and suddenly you’re in a fever dream, convulsing in a ditch, wondering why you didn’t just take the extra 3 minutes to clean it properly. This isn’t a joke, and it’s not a luxury skill. If you think modern medicine will always be there to patch you up, you’re already halfway dead. In a grid-down scenario or even just a weekend hike gone wrong, knowing how to clean a wound can mean the difference between…