Prior to Friday, a woman assigned to Keesler Air Force Base — the largest military facility in Mississippi — who sought an abortion would need to drive 90 miles to New Orleans, the nearest clinic, according to a major database of abortion ...
There aren’t enough words to adequately describe how much Germans love coffee. Drinking coffee is a long-standing tradition in Germany, where they are known to spend twice as much on coffee as they do on shoes. Even in the days of the communist ...
I could feel the tension as I walked into our impromptu San Antonio command center. We were preparing to announce our intention to go public the following day. My mind raced back and forth between what needed to be done right now and memories of the ...
I fucked up. That’s what I thought as I sat in Iraq with US troops in March 2020, confined to the air base at Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan with no going in or out. My friend’s apartment with the rest of my luggage was just a ...
For the first time, a woman has graduated from an Air Force Special Warfare pipeline, qualifying as a special tactics officer, or STO, the officer equivalent of the service's secretive combat control commandos. The woman's graduation marks a major ...
Authorities are praising the quick thinking of a patient, medical professionals, and a hospital security guard for stopping what they fear could’ve been a catastrophic mass shooting by a Florida woman. Emergency dispatchers received a call at 2:16 ...
The night was cold, the jet noise was loud, and an emotional charge was in the air — like an electric current about to arc. A cargo door opened on the side of the Boeing 747, and workers raised a lift to the jumbo jet’s level. ...
Joker is going to stay inside a Chicago prison for a little bit longer. Timothy O’Donnell, 33, the Illinois man who donned the fictional archvillain's mask while helping to torch a Chicago Police Department vehicle during a May 30, 2020, anti-cop ...
Black Rifle Coffee Company was born from a desire to be free of government service. The founders of this company reached a point where we needed to replace a commander’s intent with personal drive. We needed to move away from our reliance on ...
The US is sending Ukraine another $450 million in military aid, including advanced rocket systems, artillery rounds, and armed patrol boats, the Pentagon announced Thursday, June 23. The new pledge comes barely a week after the US promised to send ...
Some might argue that the first tales of espionage ever put to print are in the Old Testament, but as a genre, spy stories — fiction and nonfiction — appeared alongside the emergence of the world’s first great powers. At the turn of the 20th century, ...
When Martin County Sheriff's Detective Cameron White stopped a 2014 BMW 528i that had been speeding and swerving erratically, something seemed really weird about its occupants. It was late on June 15, and the driver, Brandon Thomas, looked ...
“Someone always falls out. Don’t be that fucking guy.” First Sergeant’s voice shook against the front of the peach-colored company headquarters as he addressed the formation before dismissing everyone for the evening. The next day we were due to ...
Don’t let this moment go to waste / you don’t know when the feeling will happen again. I can’t keep myself from repeating the lyrics in my mind. Like most veterans, I’ve been feeling a lot lately. The emotions seem to shift and bleed into each ...
Survivalism is a popular topic these days. Come to think of it — all days, really. Countless books, magazines, manuals, movies, and reality TV shows exist that offer would-be survivors valuable knowledge should they find themselves in any type of ...
A career convict with a stolen pistol who fired at a North Carolina deputy got slapped with the max federal sentence. On Wednesday, June 22, in Raleigh, US District Judge James C. Dever ordered Rodriguez Antwon “Vito” Crudup to spend 10 years ...
Disturbing surveillance video appears to show an elderly Vietnam War veteran being slammed into a wall, choked, thrown to the ground, and kicked in the head by a Department of Veterans Affairs employee in Atlanta, Georgia. The video was obtained ...
US Customs and Border Protection Special Response Team operators Kyle Williams and Julio Garcia watched as the Toyota Corolla in front of them swerved around another motorist on US 90, near Pass Christian, Mississippi. And then it just kept going, ...
Since Jack Carr’s debut novel The Terminal List first hit shelves in 2018, the retired Navy SEAL has released a sequel to his James Reece series of military thrillers annually. His latest, In the Blood, is on sale now, and Carr is upping the action. ...
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been placed on administrative leave amid criticism of his response to the worst school shooting in Texas history. Uvalde CISD Superintendent Hal Harrell announced the ...
Soldiers who shoot, move, and communicate in their everyday jobs may soon have to run, throw and jump farther than soldiers who don’t. Congress approved rules this week that may soon require the Army to hold soldiers in combat arms positions to ...
It’s not every day that San Francisco’s firefighters are called to rescue pole dancers, but it's also not every day that the Golden State Warriors win their seventh NBA championship On Monday, June 20, thousands of fans flocked to the city’s ...
In January 1945, two infantry brigades from the Indian Army and a detachment of British commandos were dispatched to Ramree Island, the largest island off the coast of present-day Myanmar (then known as Burma). Somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 ...
An Army officer sentenced to jail time for failing to enforce safety procedures at a firing range where a young soldier was fatally shot on Fort Campbell, Kentucky, represents a “terrible case of the Army throwing a young officer into the ...
With the eyes of law enforcement focused on the May mass shootings that killed 10 shoppers at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, first responders in South Carolina ran a drill to see whether ...
The sun crested the horizon beyond South Armagh, Ireland, casting a sheet of pink and yellow light over the surrounding fields. Lying in the cold, wet grass, John Crawley rested his cheek against the buttstock of his rifle. A patrol of British ...
Floating in icy 5-foot swells, Air Force Capt. Brian Udell realized that he was probably going to die. Bloodied and broken, he managed to pull himself into a one-man inflatable raft with his one working arm before any sharks could arrive. He’d just ...
When Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Daniel Hoy arrived at the California scrapyard on June 9, the battery compartment inside the battered Tesla Model S wouldn’t stop cooking off. The fire crew told their Hazardous Material Program ...
Three Iranian speed boats buzzed within 50 yards of a pair of US Navy ships, close enough that the Americans fired warning flares at the smaller vessels. The Iranian actions, which a statement from US Naval Forces Central Command called "unsafe ...
An Army officer has been sentenced to prison for failing to enforce safety procedures at a firing range where a young soldier died on Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Capt. Christopher Peeples was convicted of dereliction of duty and sentenced to four ...
