The Pentagon is using military medical and personnel records to identify service members with current or past diagnoses of gender dysphoria as it moves to separate transgender troops under the Trump administration’s ban, according to a Federal News Network investigation published Monday. The effort has led commanders across the military to receive notices identifying troops in their units who may fall under the policy and directing them to begin the separation process, per the report. The outlet cited multiple service members, advocates and internal military documents. An internal Air Force email obtained by Federal News Network said the Office of…
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Timothy Gick admits he wasn’t excited about helping with Toys for Tots in 2022. The Marine reservist already had plenty to do while activated in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a trip to the toy warehouse meant more work. Once he got there, though, he began looking through the donations and wondering what he might make for kids himself. “I hadn’t been around toys in years,” Gick told Military.com. The result was Mission Match, a game product line from his company Adigeni LLC, under the brand Not A Very Good Teacher. The fitness-focused project, Mission Match: Hyperion, was tested…
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The week-long national convention of veterans and active-duty military support organization, The American Legion, came to an end on Sept. 4, with a major development. The organization adopted a resolution that backs the use of psychedelic therapies to treat veterans and other members of the military who may be suffering from mental health conditions such as PTSD, depression or a traumatic brain injury. The resolution titled “Novel Therapeutics for Mental Health Conditions and Traumatic Brain Injury” was adopted to support the Veterans Health Administration’s Novel Therapeutics Preparedness Act. It’s a bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate in March by…
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The legality of so-called assault weapons is sitting in the scales of justice with the U.S. Supreme Court. An amicus shoots through the “dangerous and unusual” defense of bans. Viramontes v. Cook County, consolidated with Grant v. Higgins, are cases challenging local and state prohibitions respectively on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms. The cases will likely put an end to categorical bans on so-called assault weapons. 46 amicus briefs have been filed in these cases. One brief submitted by the Hawaii Rifle Association takes a novel approach to language used in Heller.The 79-page brief authored by…
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Playground Games releases an extended 30-minute gameplay demo of Fable, showcasing everything from the social sim elements to the combat. Credit: Image via Playground Games Originally published by Game Rant Playground Games has delivered one of the most extensive looks at the upcoming Fable reboot, uploading a 30-minute extended demo video that dives into just about everything the fantasy RPG has to offer. Fable may have skipped its originally planned 2026 release, but in its absence, Playground Games has given fans plenty to explore as it marches toward launch. The Xbox Game Showcase for 2026 had a big Fable presence, giving…
The United States is a major hypocrite when it comes to nuclear weapons. The bone of contention in Iran is supposedly nuclear weapons; however, the US spends more money on nukes than all other countries combined. This new report comes as the US considers deploying some of its nuclear weapons to additional North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states in Europe, according to a Financial Times [behind a paywall] report last week. The outlet said US officials had discussed expanding the nuclear-sharing arrangement beyond its current participants. In 2025, the spending on nuclear weapons in the US surged by a…
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is responsible for sending NASA astronauts into space, but recently, there’s been controversy over the company’s responsibility to care for the land back on Earth. After failed rocket launches left debris and environmental damage on federal public land in Texas, the government is now allowing SpaceX to take over that land in an exchange deal. A recent lawsuit from conservation groups and a Native American tribe aims to put a stop to the transaction. The Land and What Happened Since 2014, SpaceX has housed a rocket launching facility near Boca Chica, Texas. The rocket launches…
There’s been a push this year, especially, to try and step in the way of people who want to use a 3D printer to make their own firearms. Some states have banned so-called ghost guns entirely, but others are also trying to tell printer manufacturers that they can’t sell their products in those states unless they include software in the printers that bars it from making certain shaped parts entirely. And, there’s a problem with that. Being able to make your own firearm is something Americans have been able to do since well before the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence. Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month. Trump faced intense pushback over his decision to name Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting director. The job oversees the coordination of 18 intelligence agencies. The situation has led to a standoff in Congress…
Ticks have always been one of the most annoying parts of going outside. It doesn’t take much for one to attach, and these pests can cause life-threatening illnesses. Unfortunately, things are going from bad to worse: New studies show that ticks are becoming more widespread and causing potentially more severe diseases. Distribution If you’ve been in the outdoors recently, it might feel like ticks are everywhere, and you’re not wrong. In April, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that hospital visits for tick bites in 2026 had spiked far above average. In almost every region of the U.S., weekly…
A New York congressional candidate endorsed by Moms Demand Action has come out in favor of a position that’s even more extreme than what the Bloomberg-funded anti-gun group has been willing to call for publicly. Diana Kastenbaum, who’s one of two Democrats competing for the chance to take on Rep. Claudia Tenney in the midterms this year, declared her desire to ban all semi-automatic firearms during a debate in Batavia, New York on Tuesday evening. Gun control arose twice as a topic. It developed first when Kastenbaum touted her endorsement by Moms Demand Action, a gun control…
This year’s Summer Game Fest Opening Night Live concluded with a dazzling reveal of the next Final Fantasy 7 remake project, which we now know is called Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. This next chapter will finally conclude the Final Fantasy 7 remake saga, which began back in 2020 with the inaugural Final Fantasy 7 Remake. In a recent interview with GameRant, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi shed some light on what players can expect from this finale, which is set to be even more ambitious than Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. With the FF7 remake saga coming to an…
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If the firearm industry is as massive as anti-gunners claim, then politicians should be wary about passing gun control. After all, even a little bit of it might be enough to drive the industry from your state entirely, taking jobs and other economic benefits with it. In fact, we’ve seen something of an exodus from many anti-gun states as companies decided to not just leave places hostile toward their businesses, but that are also trying to make it easier for them to be sued for the actions of third parties.Now, with Virginia’s anti-gun cabal calling…
Congressional leaders unveiled a sweeping bipartisan veterans package Thursday that combines more than 60 separate bills into a single legislative effort, potentially delivering one of the largest expansions of veterans benefits, survivor support and VA reforms in years. The newly introduced Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237) includes the Major Richard Star Act, the Love Lives On Act, expanded benefits for Gold Star families and catastrophically disabled veterans, reforms to VA health care and community care programs, and measures aimed at improving access to housing and benefits. The package includes more than 60 bipartisan bills negotiated by leaders…
