The Pentagon’s new testosterone screening policy requires medical providers to ask a service member who is undergoing screening about plans for children before writing a single treatment prescription. If the answer is yes to children, or hasn’t decided, the policy bars starting standard testosterone therapy and requires an alternative drug that preserves fertility instead, according to the Defense Health Agency’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Testosterone Deficiency in the Male Service Member, dated Sept. 17, 2026. That requirement, not the widely reported 300 nanogram-per-deciliter threshold that triggers screening, is what a men’s health physician who closely reviewed the policy says matters…
A Philadelphia woman is safe and sound after police say a masked man smashed his way into her apartment early Wednesday morning. The alleged intruder, on the other hand, is neither alive nor well, thanks to the fact that the woman was able to defend herself with a gun. According to Philadelphia police, the break-in occurred around 5 AM Wednesday at an apartment building in the city’s Frankford neighborhood. Investigators say a 29-year-old man wearing a ski mask shattered a second-floor window and climbed inside the apartment, where he was confronted by the woman who…
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When bullying happens to your child, you want something done about it. I tend to think an old-school butt-whooping from the victim does more good than anything, but I’ve been informed by more than one school administrator that such behavior isn’t acceptable. I’m just going to say, after the one where my kid had to be dragged off of the would-be bully, he never had a problem again. Anyway, it’s tough for a father to deal with it, because what was considered normal in our day isn’t today, and in some cases, the bullies are…
More than 21 million veterans and service members live in the U.S., but only about 6% of them bought a home using a VA home loan in the past five years. That percentage could be much higher. Eligible veterans often bypass the program for a number of reasons. First, they may not know all the advantages. Second, they may think getting a VA loan is an arduous process to be avoided. Last, some lenders don’t take the time to teach veterans about the program, or don’t know much about it themselves. The VA home loan is a program non-military home…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce Wednesday that he will cut general and admiral positions across the military by 20%, effectively doubling the reduction he ordered last year as part of a broader plan to reshape the senior ranks by Jan. 1, 2027. Hegseth is scheduled to lay out the plan during a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, according to Pentagon officials cited by several news outlets, including Fox News, which first reported it. Quantico is the same site where the secretary gathered the United States’ highest ranking generals and admirals…
If a policy that won preliminary approval in the Lexington-Richland 5 school district this week is implemented, students may be protected by armed school staff in the future. Then again, they might not, even if the district allows for the practice. That’s because the policies that the district is planning on putting in place are so burdensome that officials might not find any staffers willing to shoulder the responsibility. The newly-drafted ordinance requires staff carrying weapons to wear a district Security Department badge visible or “clothing that clearly identifies the employee as a member of the…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping left their Washington meetings last week with a list of eight “deliverables and understandings.” The list covers trade, artificial intelligence and Iran, along with diplomatic and symbolic commitments. It is not eight separately signed treaties or completed deals. A proposed military crisis agreement appears separately, and neither government has announced that it is in operation. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping participate in an arrival ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) China’s published list identifies these eight outcomes: Strategic stability: The leaders agreed…
Let’s start off by noting that yes, warning shots are stupid. I don’t feel like getting into why, generally speaking, in this piece, because it’s not about that. It’s about a California man facing charges for firing warning shots. It started with the nightmare scenario for many people: the proverbial bump in the night. Someone was inside of the home in the dark of night who shouldn’t have been there.So a man who works as a security guard decided he needed to do something, but he apparently didn’t want to hurt anyone.A security guard was…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allegedly analyzing Americans’ financial data to conduct traffic stops of drivers, some of whom were never flagged of committing any crimes. DHS is allegedly conducting operations through a U.S. Border Patrol program that feeds intelligence to local police who then pull drivers over, according to an investigation by 404 Media, a news technology outlet. The units are reportedly called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams, or PITT, revealing the program’s name for the first time. They are allegedly run by Border Patrol, part of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) within the DHS framework, according to…
Most Navy ships carry the name of a state or city as a matter of tradition. The USS New York carries something more literal in its hull. The amphibious transport dock ship’s bow stem, the structural spine that cuts through the water at the leading edge of the vessel, contains 7.5 tons of steel recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center, melted down and recast to build the ship, according to its shipbuilder, Northrop Grumman. A Governor’s Request The ship’s origin traces to a letter New York Gov. George Pataki sent to then-Secretary of the Navy Gordon England…
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, citing it for failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at undeclared sites. Western officials suspect that the traces could provide evidence that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program until 2003. Iran says that it’s not pursuing nuclear weapons, and that its program is entirely peaceful. Reporting Iran to the Security Council opens the country to possible sanctions and asset freezes, though such punitive measures are unlikely because Iran’s…
A woman has been indicted in connection with the deadly shooting of a veteran. Bonita Yvette Brown, 64, of Birminghan, Ala., was accused last year of murdering 64-year-old Thomas Williams. She was indicted Aug. 28 by a grand jury, according to court records cited by AL.com. The two were reportedly dating and Brown allegedly told police at the time of her arrest that she had been meeting him in a park to engage in sex. She alleged that Williams, who previously served in the U.S. Army, ended their relationship after they copulated. She then shot him three times. Jefferson County…
A St. Louis, Missouri man says he was evicted from his government-run apartment complex after using a legally owned firearm in self-defense in the apartment’s lobby. Torrey Holliday says CCTV footage from the lobby of the Euclid Plaza Apartments shows that he was not the aggressor in the incident, and according to Fox 2 in St. Louis, MO, Holliday wasn’t charged with any kind of criminal offense in connection with the incident. So why was he booted from his home?The lease termination letter says Holliday was captured on front lobby video shooting someone. “They charged…
The Navy has failed to protect pilots from brain injuries aviators may have suffered from on fighter jets, a new congressional report has found. The report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee claims that the Navy has not studied pilots to determine if the military branch has issues with brain injuries, which aviators can get from G-force turns and jumps from aircraft carriers. Naval aviators experience severe physical stress from rapid catapult launches and aggressive landing decelerations that can cause cumulative neurological damage over time. Failing to track these repeated deceleration forces creates a critical oversight gap that leaves…
It’s been four years since the Supreme Court struck down “may issue” concealed carry licensing regimes, but some states are still using subjective standards of “suitability” to block some applicants from legally keeping or bearing arms. One of those states is New Jersey, where a lawsuit challenging a permit denial could soon be taken up by the state Supreme Court. The applicant, known in the lawsuit as A.A.R., possesses carry permits issued by ten other states, but was denied his New Jersey Firearms Purchaser ID Card because licensing authorities maintain that granting him one “would not…
Berlin — US defence contractor Covenant plans to set up a production facility for long-range cruise missiles in the German state of Saxony, the company said on Wednesday. “We will be producing roughly 1,000 in our first year and then scaling to 5,000,” Covenant chief Abigail Denburg said, outlining the company’s “target for annual production.” Covenant also operates a production facility in Texas to supply the US armed forces, as well as a location in Israel. “Covenant’s facility in northern Israel supports engineering and manufacturing, and the company draws heavily on Israeli defence tech talent,” the Jerusalem Post reported. According…
The cases of Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins are, in essence, one and the same. They challenge assault weapon bans in Illinois and Connecticut, respectively, and they’re perhaps set to be one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of our lifetimes. Yes, bigger than Bruen, Heller, or McDonald. I don’t say that lightly.But they matter. They matter so much that pro-gun groups are dropping their amicus briefs. We’ve noted a few already, but I’ve got two more for you today. First, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.From…
When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon’s western face Sept. 11, 2001, killing 184 people, it also produced dozens of severe burn survivors whose treatment began not in a hospital but inside the burning building, where military doctors and medics who happened to be nearby. One of the most seriously injured among them, Lt. Col. Brian Birdwell, has spent the last 25 years turning that treatment into a public story of survival and, more recently, into a return to the Pentagon in an official capacity. 15 Yards From the Impact Birdwell was working in the Pentagon’s outer E-Ring between…
When I interviewed then-DOJ Pardon Attorney Ed Martin on Bearing Arms Cam & Company a few weeks ago, I was struck by how passionate he was when talking about the millions of Americans who can no longer exercise their Second Amendment rights because of a non-violent conviction. Martin, who stepped down from his role at DOJ shortly after our conversation, is putting that passion to work with a new project: an organization called Firearm Rights for Americans. The group’s mission, as detailed on its website, is to “give millions of Americans living under federal or state…
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