WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asserted on Wednesday that Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and insisted November’s midterm elections won’t factor in shaping his approach to the nearly three-month-old conflict that’s spurred unease across the global economy. Speaking at the start of a Cabinet meeting at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war, Trump expressed confidence that a deal is near. Over the weekend, he even declared that his administration and Tehran had “largely negotiated” a settlement, but the negotiations were still in flux. The president is looking for a settlement that will reopen the Strait…

This article originally appeared on Explorersweb. The attempt last week to break the speed record on Everest by American trail runner Tyler Andrews created confusion and debate. It may have also crossed some red lines that might invalidate the record, if not on the books, at least among the mountaineering community. At the same time — refreshingly, compared to most Everest personalities — Andrews has openly replied to our questions, even the controversial ones. His answers give a clearer picture of the gray areas in commercial high-altitude climbing. In fact, Andrews’ testimony may change how we look at other Everest-related…

It kind of feels like extraction shooters are everywhere right now, which inadvertently makes it difficult for any new one to stand out on the label alone. Deep Worlds’ Beautiful Light seems to understand that too, because its strongest hook isn’t just that players are fighting to get in and out alive. It’s that they’re doing so inside a tactical horror FPS where three-player squads enter the world to secure an artifact and then attempt to extract while other players hunt them as both armed operators and monstrous anomalies. On Steam, Beautiful Light is described as a PvPvPvE tactical first-person…

If you prioritize time on the water, you’ve surely been exposed to polarized lenses. Maybe you don’t know exactly how the optics work. But there are simple reasons you’re drawn to them, namely the instant eye comfort that results from overall glare reduction. The deeper you go with on-water vision, however, the more you’ll commit to polarized lenses. Their capabilities and benefits led Costa to exclusively manufacture polarized sunglasses. That’s not a cosmetic choice for the beloved Florida-based brand; it’s a performance-critical attribute for anglers, boaters, surfers, and paddlers exploring fresh- and saltwater wilds.  Now, Costa is upping its polarized game…

We all know that Colorado has been drinking the anti-gun Kool-Aid for a while now, and this year, they took things a step further with their ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles and standard capacity magazines. The surprising part about it was how long it took them to get it. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wouldn’t sign an outright ban, but he saw no issue with regulations that amount to mostly the same thing.Now, residents in the state are going to be faced with even greater burdens, and it might end up screwing over a lot…

The Army’s new 2026 Combat Field Test is built around one central idea: Physical fitness should reflect the real world of the job of a soldier. Unlike a traditional fitness test that isolates events and emphasizes rest between efforts, the CFT is a continuous, seven-event test performed under fatigue and scored on total time. That design makes it especially relevant to a unit’s Mission Essential Task List (METL) because soldiers in combat situations must be able to run, lift, carry, crawl and move explosively in rapid succession while still maintaining performance. The CFT is not designed to be just another…

The recently appointed commander of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Odeh, has been killed in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli authorities have claimed. Israel claimed that Odeh was eliminated less than two weeks after the assassination of his predecessor. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that Odeh was “sent to meet his partners in the depths of hell.” “We pledged to eliminate everyone who led the October 7 massacre… They are all marked for death, everywhere,” Katz wrote on X. The announcement of Odeh’s death comes just 11 days after the killing of his predecessor, Izz al-Din al-Haddad. The Israel…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a major expansion of hunting and fishing access across national wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries. The agency’s 2026-2027 station-specific hunting and sport fishing rule would open or expand opportunities at 111 field stations. That includes 107 National Wildlife Refuge System units and four National Fish Hatchery System units. The Department of the Interior describes it as the largest proposed hunting and fishing access expansion in FWS history. The agency says the proposal would add more than 1,450 hunting and fishing opportunities across 32 states. On the access side, the pitch is…

In Pennsylvania, you don’t need a permit to openly carry a firearm… unless you’re trying to do so in the City of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia’s exception, however, was the subject of an appellate court opinion issued last June that held the permitting requirement was unconstitutional as it applied to a man named Riyaadh Sumpter, who was convicted and sentenced to a year’s probation for openly carrying without a license.  A similar case is now pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, but while the litigation continues the Philadelphia Police Department is still issuing open carry permits……

Sony has patented a new AI feature that could show gamers advertisements while they’re waiting for their game to load. The patent could potentially lead to more revenue for Sony, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that gamers would like it. Ads in games have been controversial for a long time. Though they’ve changed quite a bit over the course of the video game industry’s life, players have been seeing ads and product placements in games dating back to the 1990s. These days, ads are the most prevalent in free-to-play games where game developers may rely on revenue from those advertisements…

Getting a good night’s sleep in the backcountry is paramount for recovery and performance on demanding backcountry trips. Recovery matters, and a sleeping pad plays a big role in whether you wake up ready to hunt or ready to throw your entire sleep system off a ridge. A bad sleeping pad can make for a bad night fast. For people who go in deep, a pad needs to be light, packable, warm, durable, and comfortable enough to actually sleep on. The NEMO Tensor All-Season checks a lot of those boxes. In short: Backcountry folks looking for a packable, ultralight sleeping…

There are a lot of ways to ship goods, and I think I’ve gotten something via most of them that are still in service today. Not, as I’ve had to point out to my son, the Pony Express, which was gone before I entered this glorious world. I’m not that old, though I feel like it sometimes. But up until recently, using the United States Postal Service to ship a firearm was a non-starter, at least for most of us. We’d have to turn toward a private carrier, which might be more expensive, even as…