The U.S. Navy on Friday awarded Pratt & Whitney a contract modification worth up to nearly $2.9 billion to build more engines for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.Pratt & Whitney, which is a subsidiary of RTX, will produce and deliver 141 F135 engines to go into new F-35s for the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy, as well as partner nations in the F-35 program and foreign military customers.The Navy expects Pratt to finish these engines by February 2028. Work on the engines will be spread among multiple Pratt facilities in Connecticut, Indiana, Washington, Maine and other locations.These engines will…
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After reporting that it had been struck with a cluster bomb, Israel has resumed attacks on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a terrorist group known for its opposition to the war in Gaza. The Israeli military claimed that the Houthi strike had been the first use of such bombs by the Iran-backed Houthis during the current conflict with Israel. Local media and the Associated Press reported that the strikes occurred in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. The Israeli military is also reportedly investigating why it was unable to intercept the missile carrying the munitions, which are banned by more than 100 countries. The United…
An attempted ATV theft turned violent in Shelley, Idaho, leaving a homeowner injured and the suspect dead after a shootout with law enforcement. The East Idaho Critical Incident Team is actively investigating the case, with Pocatello Police taking the lead. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE SHELLEY, ID (2-minute read) — An attempted ATV theft late Monday night in Shelley, Idaho, escalated into a violent encounter that left one man dead and a homeowner recovering from a gunshot wound. Around 11:00 p.m. on August 19, deputies from the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the area of 1100 E. and 1300…
A gun-rights organization is sounding the alarm over the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice’s strategy in its challenge to the ban on interstate handgun sales. On August 21, the Firearms Policy Coalition issued a press release detailing the DOJ’s recently filed brief in the case Elite Precision Custom v. ATF. The case is FPC’s challenge to the federal interstate handgun transfer ban. At issue in the case is whether the ban meets the Supreme Court precedent that requires the government to assess whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the text and historical understanding of the Second Amendment. According to the plaintiffs,…
Some National Guard members have started carrying their service-issued weapons around the nation’s capital.“Starting the late evening of August 24, 2025, JTF- DC (Joint Task Force – DC) service members began carrying their service-issued weapon,” the Guard said in a statement late Sunday.“Task force personnel operate under the established Rules for the Use of Force, which allow the use of force only as a last resort and solely in response to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm,” the Guard added. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo late last week authorizing National Guard troops deployed in Washington,…
This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. The DOJ has just released transcripts and audio from two days of interviews last month with Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who said that President Trump was “never inappropriate with anybody” while he and Epstein were associates, and that her father was an intelligence asset. “Did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or anybody say that President Trump had done anything inappropriate with masseuses or with anybody in your world?” asked Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in Tallahassee, Florida, last month. “Absolutely never, in any context,” Maxwell replied. “I never witnessed the President in…
A District Court judge in New York has ruled that the state’s restriction on concealed carry by nonresidents violates the Second Amendment rights of visitors to the state. On August 20, Judge Mae D’Agostino of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York weighed the standards set down in the critical 2022 case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and determined that the law doesn’t meet legal muster. Incidentally, Judge D’Agostino was appointed to the court by President Barack Obama. In his ruling in the case Higbie v. James, Judge D’Agostino wrote: “Guided by…
Hollywood loves to sell you a lie. Big explosion in the sky, blue waves rippling across the city, people falling to the ground clutching their heads as an “EMP” fries them from the inside out. Looks dramatic on screen. But here’s the truth: an electromagnetic pulse doesn’t directly cook you like a microwave. It doesn’t burn your skin or make you glow in the dark. To the human body itself, an EMP is a whisper. You might not feel a thing. But don’t mistake silence for safety. An EMP doesn’t kill you instantly. It kills everything you depend on. And…
The USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) has left port in Norfolk, Virginia, after returning days earlier to avoid Hurricane Erin.The three amphibious ships, which the Navy says are carrying more than 4,500 sailors and Marines, could be seen leaving Norfolk on Sunday in video and imagery posted on social media. An official, who spoke to Military Times last week on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deployment, said the ships had planned to enter Caribbean waters under the command of U.S. Southern Command when they initially deployed on Aug. 14, but had been delayed by the storm.The…
Folks, we’ve all been there. You nick yourself splitting wood or cleaning game, and before you know it, that small cut is looking angry. Now imagine the drugstore’s closed for good and your last tube of Neosporin is a dried-up relic. That’s basically how life was for soldiers and civilians during the Civil War. No penicillin or modern antiseptics. Just grit, whatever nature provided, and a lot of ingenuity. One of their go-to fixes was a simple pine resin salve—what some of us call “Civil War Neosporin.” It’s made from ingredients you can forage, grow, or keep in your stockpile,…