People living in the United Kingdom will be spending fewer years in good health as “healthy life expectancy” plummets. The UK is going backward compared to most other “wealthy” countries. Healthy life expectancy (HLE) in the UK has fallen by about 2 years, to just over 60 years for both men and women, making Britain one of only five wealthy nations where people live fewer years in good health, according to a new analysis by the Health Foundation charity. This means that the amount of life a person spends in good health has decreased. The findings, based on data from…
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Operation Epic Fury in Iran has cost American taxpayers roughly $25 billion so far, the Pentagon’s chief financial officer revealed on Wednesday. Acting comptroller Jules Hurst III, testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, said that the bulk of the figure has been devoted to ordnance.“Approximately, at this day, we are spending about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury, most of that is in munitions,” Hurst told lawmakers, adding that some of the costs also included operations, maintenance and equipment replacement.“We will formulate a supplemental [bill] through the White House that will come to Congress once we have a full…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. South Africa’s community of wildlife advocates and conservationists are mourning the loss of a key fighter, Schoeman Van Jaarsveld, who died Thursday while on patrol as an anti-poaching ranger. He was 58. Van Jaarslveld’s death is especially poignant as he was killed by a black rhino, the same animal he spent his career protecting. “His loss has been deeply felt among the anti-poaching community,” a friend of Van Jaarsveld told reporters over the weekend. “It is even more tragic that his…
At the time of writing, the Springfield Lipsey’s Exclusive 10-8 Performance Master Class has fired just over one thousand rounds. A Return to the Platform I have been carrying the 10-8 Master Class full-time since my first impressions, shooting it almost daily. I like to use the first thousand rounds as a “get to know you” stage to really figure a gun out. Coming from a 12 oz J-frame, I’ve been spending a bit more time dry-firing the 10-8 to adjust to the platform. I have been a “1911 guy” for as long as I’ve been a “gun guy,” but…
The U.S. Navy named 14 ships it intends to remove from the fleet during the current fiscal year, according to a Navy administrative message released Sunday.The service released an inactivation schedule for fiscal 2026 that will see vessels either recycled, dismantled, deemed logistics support assets or transferred to the U.S. Maritime Administration, a government agency that oversees the disposal of naval vessels.Los Angeles-class submarines USS Newport News and USS Alexandria, along with Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia, are slated to be recycled.The service is currently phasing out Los Angeles-class submarines — some of which have served for 40 years —…
The United States ruling class claims that it cannot defend against Russian or Chinese hypersonic missiles and is seeking funding to rectify the issue. Senior Pentagon officials called on lawmakers for funding for the proposed Golden Dome missile defense program. The Golden Dome system is expected to cost around $175 billion over the next decade, according to initial estimates by the Trump administration, although Pentagon projections have since risen to roughly $185 billion, and some analysts warn the final price could be substantially higher, according to a report by RT. The ruling class has been asking questions about Washington’s missile…
As the U.S. Marine Corps faces congressionally mandated deadlines to evaluate the brain injury impacts of weapons blasts on the force and start implementing mitigation measures, changes are already being made to limit blast exposure in training.Brig. Gen. Sean Hoewing, head of the Corps’ newly established Risk Management Directorate, told an audience at the Modern Day Marine exposition in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that, while the impacts of blast exposure and overpressure across time are still being studied, training supervisors have been instructed to take steps to limit prospective damage.“If you’re an instructor on the range today, and you’re observing…
Billionaire hedge fund boss Ray Dalio has said that the United States has slid into stagflation for the first time since the early 1980s. Dalio, who founded the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund and is famed for correctly predicting the 2008 financial crisis. Stagflation is a toxic combination of stagnant economic growth, high inflation, and high unemployment. It last gripped the US in the 1970s and early 1980s, when an OPEC oil embargo sent energy prices spiraling. It took the US Federal Reserve a series of brutal rate hikes – pushing borrowing costs above 20% – to finally break the cycle,…
Aero Precision isn’t bankrupt. But something is clearly wrong. Inventory has vanished. Orders are delayed for months. Lawsuits are piling up. And the company hasn’t said a word—until now. (see below). If you’ve spent any time on AR15.com, Sniper’s Hide, Ruger Forum, or gun-Reddit in the last few months, you’ve seen the question over and over: Is Aero Precision dying? Builder sets are gone. Lowers are unobtainium. Dealers say wholesale orders take months. Forum posts claim insurance got yanked from employees. So what’s actually going on at the Tacoma-based AR-15 giant? We pulled together public records, court filings, the company’s…
PALAWAN, Philippines — The peace of the idyllic cove, where palm trees fringed a golden beach, was suddenly shattered by the launch of rockets from an American HIMARS. The battle was soon joined by a cacophony of blasts and booms from bombs delivered by fighter jets, 105mm towed howitzers, 81mm mortars, and Javelin and TOW missiles.The tropical location was the west coast of Palawan, an elongated Philippine island on the edge of the South China Sea.As a notional enemy amphibious force edged closer to the beach, Australian, Kiwi, Philippine and American troops hiding in foxholes camouflaged by palm fronds unleashed…