As it turns out, there’s something generational about one of the simplest roadside automotive tasks, changing a flat tire. At some point, a lifelong motorist will almost certainly encounter a pesky flat, which may often be due to an errant nail or an oversized pothole. But research suggests that people…

Ever since a Washington County, Virginia circuit court judge granted an injunction against the state’s new ban on “assault firearms”, there’s been confusion over the scope of the judge’s order. The NRA and other plaintiffs in the case have argued the injunction applies to all law enforcement throughout the…

A dog tracker doesn’t do much good once it loses signal. That’s a problem for anyone whose dog spends time outside reliable cell coverage. Rural dog owners, hikers, hunters, ranch families, and people with dogs that find weak spots in fences all know the issue. GPS tracking sounds great until…

While Ubisoft is still staying quiet about what’s coming in the next Far Cry installment, a notable dataminer has recently leaked details about what the development team is planning for Far Cry 7, and the claims suggest a major departure from the series’ formula. Far Cry fans haven’t seen a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. will give a license for its Patriot air defense systems to be made overseas for Ukraine to counter Russian missile attacks, a huge coup for Ukraine which has badly needed the technology in the war now in its…

The Trump administration hasn’t been perfect on Second Amendment issues, but I think it’s fair to say that there’s a night-and-day difference between it and the Biden administration when it comes to firearms, gun owners, and “gun violence.”  Under Donald Trump, the DOJ is going…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C., has ballooned during the celebrations of the country’s 250th anniversary of independence, bolstered in part by contingents from Democratic-led states. That participation has sparked anger among some in the nation’s capital who argue the troops are not just there to…

So, on top of everything else we’d known about Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, it also turns out he’s an alleged rapist. It wasn’t enough to fantasize about raping a home invader–totally “not in a gay way,” mind you–but now it’s alleged he invaded someone’s home and raped…

Recent military reforms have changed how sexual assault cases move through the justice system, but survivors still face cultural and legal barriers that discourage many from reporting abuse, according to sexual abuse attorney Kayla Onder of Onder Law, who represents survivors in military-related cases across the country. A Survivor’s Perspective…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran targeted American military sites in the Gulf on Wednesday after the U.S. launched strikes on several places in Iran and reinstated sanctions on its oil sales. Washington said it was responding to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The crossfire…

An Israeli citizen who worked as a senior manager for an Arizona semiconductor technology company was sentenced to time served after admitting he conspired to steal company trade secrets, a case that shows how small pieces of industrial technology can become part of the broader fight over chip supply chains.…

For military families, permanent change of station moves are an expected part of life. The average military child attends six to nine different schools before graduation, building new friendships, adjusting to new teachers and adapting to different graduation requirements with nearly every move. Those challenges become especially significant during high…

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Every summer, thousands of service members leave the military and begin the next chapter of their lives. June is one of the busiest retirement periods of the year, but the reason has less to do with preference and convenience than with military pay. “It is really more of an administrative…

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The death of a young sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has been ruled a suicide, nearly three weeks after his body was found in the water near the piers at Naval Station Norfolk. Engineman Fireman Apprentice Isaac Benjamin Morris, 22, died from drowning, according to…

Sony recently announced that the online storefronts for the PS3 and PS Vita will be shutting down over the course of the next year. As a result, PlayStation users will be losing digital access to a variety of classic PS1 games that are very expensive to purchase physically. In anticipation…

Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, has been identified by the U.S. Navy as the sailor who went missing following a helicopter’s emergency landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1. The Navy made the announcement Tuesday evening, two days after announcing that the…

I’ve developed a healthy distrust of our digital world, and for a number of reasons, but none of them involve a distrust of technology as a whole. I absolutely love technology. I’m still delighted that I get to live with modern medicine and air conditioning, for example, and I…

It’s spring in Alaska, and I’m on a multihour run in the temperate rainforest. Moss clings to the branches of old-growth forests, and waterfalls cascade from the precipitous mountainsides above. The rain is ceaseless. Combined with an ambient air temperature of around 35 degrees, these are the type of conditions…

Some of us really love bacon, but unfortunately, it has a shelf-life. A common storage option is to freeze it, and that works fine… for about a month. That’s the tough thing about storing bacon. You can only keep it in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and the…

Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps none captured the American public’s imagination as vividly as the agency’s “heart attack gun.” During the Cold War, there was almost nothing the CIA wouldn’t do to get a leg…