The House is taking up a Senate-passed budget resolution that sets nearly $1 trillion in defense spending—roughly $500 billion below the levels President Donald Trump has publicly pushed—setting up a potential battle within the Republican Party over how far to go on military funding. The framework outlines roughly $5.5 trillion in federal spending for Fiscal Year 2026, including about $934 billion in national defense budget authority and a projected $1.26 trillion deficit. It also directs committees to draft legislation that could increase defense and immigration-related spending over the next decade. The GOP-controlled Senate approved the measure in a 50-48 vote…
The Thermos brand is asking customers to stop using certain food jars and multi-use vessels that lack a pressure relief valve, after receiving several reports of lids “forcefully ejecting” if stored with contents for extended periods. Thermos is offering replacement lids with pressure relief stoppers and/or entirely new vessels, depending on the model. The recall involves three specific models and more than 8 million total vessels: about 5.8 million food jars and 2.3 million multi-purpose bottles. To date, Thermos has received 27 incident reports, some including laceration injuries, and three reports of customers suffering permanent vision loss after being struck…
The USS Gerald R. Ford is reportedly preparing to leave the Middle East after a record 309-day deployment during the ongoing conflict with Iran. The carrier is expected to return to the United States after more than 10 months at sea, according to The Washington Post on Wednesday. If true, it would far exceed the typical six- to seven-month deployment, marking one of the longest carrier deployments since the Vietnam War. Military.com reached out for comment to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Central Command regarding the reported redeployment, its operational impact and whether additional forces will…
I work on the water most days. The night before I head out, I get gear prepped and grab sunglasses with a lens that fits the particular brand of fishing I’ll be doing. But lately, I’ve been grabbing one set, every single day, no matter the conditions or fishing I’ll be doing: The Bajío Cocho with a Violet Mirror Lens. Whether I’m chasing bass on a lake, inshore fishing in Florida, or throwing flies at trout out of a driftboat, I can’t help but pick them up. All my other fishing sunglasses are starting to gather dust. So, what is…
From the time President Barack Obama tried to make the case to the American people that the guns in the hands of the cartels came from American gun stores, there’s been a push to enact federal gun control so we can help curb Mexico’s cartel problem. Never mind that much of that stems from a level of corruption that’s been well documented for decades before the cartels came into the country. No, that doesn’t matter. The issue is America and our respect for freedom. The argument today is much like it was then. If we…
U.S. Space Command Gen. Stephen Whiting said the combatant command’s first operational facility on Redstone Arsenal represents “a critical step forward” in the move of its permanent headquarters to Alabama. Whiting and other Space Command personnel cut the ribbon on the facility on Wednesday in front community leaders and officials from other agencies stationed at the Arsenal. “This is where we plant our flag for the first operational element of our headquarters, the Joint Intelligence Support Element here at Redstone Arsenal,” Whiting said. “Today is about the people and the mission behind it. By the end of this year, these…
It’s been less than a week since the latest attempt on President Donald Trump’s life. This wasn’t a couple of guys in a Waffle House talking about how they needed to take Trump out, either. This is the third active plan that’s been stopped while being committed. That’s…something. Smack in the middle of them, however, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, dead to a gunman who bought into the violent rhetoric that Charlie was a “threat” to the trans community, all because he said things they didn’t like.Trump has power, so I can see rhetoric about…
It didn’t take long. Within hours of the foiled attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association gala, calls for more gun control started circulating. And the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is pushing back hard. The target this time: Brian Stelter. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb blasted him, calling the commentary “nonsense” and accusing the CNN analyst of skipping over key facts surrounding the case. “In an analysis, CNN’s Brian Stelter insinuated that nobody will consider tougher gun laws to prevent such an incident,” Gottlieb said. “He should have looked at the facts before going…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is vowing an independent investigation of 10 current and former officials indicted in the U.S. on charges of drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons in connection with the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she wouldn’t let foreign governments meddle in her country’s affairs to serve their own political purposes. The indictment in New York on Wednesday charged a number of sitting officials in Sinaloa, including members of Sheinbaum’s progressive Morena party, with drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons. It fueled a political firestorm at a time when Sheinbaum has…
In what could be one of the most significant regulatory shifts in years for gun owners and the firearm industry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has unveiled a sweeping package of 34 rule changes, many of which directly roll back controversial Biden-era policies. The announcement came just hours after the Senate confirmed Robert Cekada as ATF Director in a bipartisan vote, marking the first time a Republican-nominated ATF director has been confirmed. ATF’s Robert Cekada Signs Off on New Firearm Policy Changes After Confirmation: pic.twitter.com/5TAOQVdaqD— CSPAN (@cspan) April 29, 2026 A Rapid Shift in Direction The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives and attempting to kill President Donald Trump agreed on Thursday to remain jailed for now while he awaits trial. Cole Thomas Allen did not enter a plea during his brief appearance in federal court days after authorities say he ran through a magnetometer at the Washington Hilton while holding a long gun and disrupted one of the highest-profile annual events in the nation’s capital. Allen was injured during Saturday night’s attack but was not shot. A Secret Service officer was…
Some in the pro-gun rights community continue to be hopeful that the Trump Administration will finally back away from enforcing the Biden Administration’s Final Rule on what constitutes a “firearm.” Others, however, remain somewhat hopeful but continue to pursue the demise of the so-called “Frame & Receiver” rule in the courtroom. As we reported a couple of weeks ago, on April 8, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would “maintain the current definition of ‘firearm’ and ‘receiver.’” However, after heavy pushback from gun-rights groups, the DOJ, less than a week later, informed plaintiffs’ counsel in cases challenging…
While United States President Donald Trump prepares to blockade Iranian ports for many more “months”, the price of oil spikes to its highest since 2022. The price of Brent crude oil rose to $126 on Thursday. As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday This news comes as US-Iran talks stalled and reports that Trump may extend the blockade of Iranian ports. On Wednesday, according to several media reports, including one from RT, citing White House officials, Trump ordered a plan to prolong the blockade of Iranian ports “for months” in a bid to pressure Tehran…
While most pro-gun control groups have responded to the sweeping reforms outlined by the DOJ and ATF on Thursday with vague complaints about “weakening gun laws” and “aiding violent criminals”, the Center for American Progress has actually identified one proposed rule change to bitch about. To be sure, the group’s press release also contains the same fuzzy objections that we’ve seen from the likes of Brady and Everytown. CAP claims, for instance, that DOJ and ATF “unveiled 34 proposed rules to weaken gun safety regulations that have proved effective in preventing illegal gun trafficking while…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader said Thursday that the Islamic Republic will protect its “nuclear and missile capabilities” as a national asset, likely seeking to draw a hard line as U.S. President Donald Trump presses for a wider deal to cement the war’s shaky three-week ceasefire. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei maintained his defiant tone since taking over following the killing of his father in the war’s opening airstrikes. In a written statement read by a state television anchor, Khamenei — who has not been seen in public since becoming supreme leader — said the only place Americans…
Wednesday’s announcement of nearly three dozen proposed changes to ATF rules and regulations is big news, and not just in 2A (or gun control) circles. Rather than straight reporting on the rule changes and what they mean for individual gun owners and firearm industry members, though, CNN bizarrely decided to tie in the news from the ATF with another big story this week. “Justice Department seeks to roll back gun control measures days after Trump assassination attempt,” is the framing CNN decided to go with. Days after a gunman charged security at the White House Correspondent’s…
MUNSTER, Germany (AP) — President Donald Trump has again threatened that the United States could reduce its military presence in Germany, a key NATO ally and the European Union’s largest economy. Europeans have heard this before. Trump’s social media post on Wednesday followed comments by Chancellor Friedrich Merz that the U.S. was being “ humiliated ” by Tehran as it slow-walks its diplomacy over the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. Trump has mused for years about reducing America’s military presence in Germany, and has recently repeatedly railed against NATO for the its refusal to assist the U.S. in its two-month-old war.…
This article was originally published by Wanjiru Njoya at the Mises Institute. Supreme Court rulings are significant not only for their decision on who wins, but also for their reasoning. A victory for common sense may sometimes be pyrrhic if it benefits the party that wins the dispute but relies on reasoning that erodes individual liberty in the longer term. In that context, while the outcome in the recent case of Chiles v. Salazar, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (decided March 31, 2026), was welcomed, the emphasis it placed on “viewpoint discrimination” is unfortunate. It is one…
If there is a name from recent history that is synonymous in most people’s minds with “evil,” it’s probably Jeffrey Epstein. What we know, definitively, that the man did was bad enough, but the allegations beyond those accounts are even more heinous. Literally nothing about the man seems to suggest even one redeeming characteristic. He still didn’t kill himself, though. Just putting that out there.Anyway, despite having died as a convicted felon already, there was something Epstein wanted, and he had the money to make it happen. It’s the kind of thing we’re told can’t…
In an exclusive interview with Military.com, VA Secretary Doug Collins said some critics are “invested in a broken system” as he pushes sweeping reforms that have cut the department’s claims backlog by more than half and aim to fundamentally reshape how the VA serves veterans. The remarks come as the Department of Veterans Affairs reports significant gains: the claims backlog has dropped from more than 260,000 to under 100,000, while the VA processed over 3 million claims last year and cut average processing times roughly in half. For millions of veterans, those numbers are more than metrics; they represent months,…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the U.S-Israel war against Iran. Trump made the threat after Merz earlier this week said that the U.S. was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack of strategy in the war. Trump has also repeatedly railed against NATO for the alliance’s refusal to assist the U.S. in its two-month-old war. “The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops…
