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…
Public lands advocates got some much-needed good news this week: Money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) will start rolling out to communities looking to expand outdoor recreation and access to nature. On Monday, the Interior Department announced the release of $461 million from the fund, which has supported parks and conservation projects since its creation in 1964. The news marked a major turnaround from last summer, when the White House attempted to divert some of the LWCF’s funding to other federal agencies. Moreover, this batch of funding is the first time that smaller communities can access grant money…
Canada’s sweeping gun ban and “buyback” has been an abject failure, with the Liberal government collecting only about half of the firearms it planned for. Many gun owners are holding onto their firearms with no plans to participate in the “buyback” at all, while others are holding out in the hopes of receiving fair market value of their now-banned guns. Several provinces have declined to participate in the federal compensated confiscation scheme, as have many local and provincial police forces. The Canadian Supreme Court has also agreed to hear a challenge to the ban, and…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched airstrikes early Wednesday against Iran, and U.S. President Donald Trump said more were on the way, as Tehran fired back at countries in the region. The escalating attacks threatened to derail efforts to end the war, with Trump warning that Tehran would “pay the price” for stalled peace negotiations. Trump’s warning came hours after Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan — all of which host U.S. troops — came under Iranian fire. It was the second time this week that back-and-forth strikes have tested a two-month ceasefire. On Monday, Iran and Israel…
United States President Donald Trump has ordered “self-defense” strikes on Iranian targets in response to the downing of an AH-64 Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian broadcaster Press TV reported that several projectiles struck the strategic island of Qeshm near the narrowest part of the Strait of Hormuz. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) described Trump’s order to attack as “self-defense strikes… in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost immediately retaliated, hitting US military targets in Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait. The IRGC has published footage of missile launches…
A Naval Support Activity (NSA) Panama City employee was last described by authorities as being in “critical condition” following a shark attack on Monday morning. The attack occurred at approximately 11:45 a.m. June 8 at the NSAPC MWR (Morale, Welfare and Recreation) Marina. The victim, described in local reports as a male in his late 20’s who has been with the Navy base for four years, was taking a swim during his lunch break. It remains unknown what breed of shark was involved. Post-attack, he was tended to by NSA Panama City Fire and Emergency Services that responded to the…
This article was originally published by Frank Shostak at The Mises Institute. There is a high likelihood that, due to the past large decline in the yearly growth rate of the money supply, the US economy is heading towards an economic bust. Note that the yearly growth rate of money supply fell from 79 percent in February 2021 to minus 7 percent by May 2023. The sharp decline in the yearly momentum of money supply is starting to hurt various activities that emerged on the back of the huge increases in the money supply between August 2019 and February 2021,…
A hearing on a request for an injunction blocking the implementation of Virginia’s “assault firearm” and “large capacity” magazine ban that was scheduled for Friday has now been put on ice after judge in Lancaster County, Virginia abruptly issued an order staying all proceedings in the lawsuit. Judge John S. Martin pointed to a recent move by the Virginia Supreme Court as the reason for cancelling the hearing. The court has appointed a three-judge panel to determine whether the multiple cases filed in four different counties should be consolidated and transferred to one jurisdiction, as…
Sometimes criminals pick the wrong target. According to reporting by Fox 5 Washington, a group of four teenagers allegedly tried to carjack a former Marine at gunpoint in Oxon Hill, Maryland, only to find themselves disarmed, restrained, and waiting for police instead. The incident happened last Wednesday afternoon near Oxon Hill High School. Surveillance footage shows Marine veteran Jacob Bordeaux working on his pickup truck when four teens approached him. According to Bordeaux, the suspects demanded his truck keys, phone, and other valuables. Video reviewed by Fox 5 shows one teen pulling a handgun and pointing it directly at Bordeaux’s…
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has introduced new legislation that would crack down on biological smuggling following recent events in which U.S. researchers have been accused of bringing infectious diseases like monkeypox into the country. Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced federal charges against Vincent Munster and Claude Kwe, both National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Mont., for allegedly lying to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents about pathogens linked with their research. They are accused of attempting to smuggle 17 vials of deactivated monkeypox virus, as well as one…
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Somewhere along the way, a new gun owner is typically going to get two pieces of advice. One is to get some training. The other is to have some way to lock their guns up when not in use. They might get that last one while undergoing some training, but they’re likely to get it. And, in truth, it’s sound advice. Keeping a firearm locked up when you’re not using it helps to keep unauthorized hands from messing with it when you’re not around. Doing so is common sense.But, for Texas Democratic Senate nominee James…
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