For 43 years, The Sewing Box in Pensacola, Fla., made the Blue Angels’ distinctive blue and yellow flight suits. That relationship is now over. On May 14, the U.S. Navy awarded a new approximate $1.69 million contract to Aquila International LLC of Dulles, Va., according to contract details publicly posted…
There are more than 400,000 national veterans diagnosed with alcohol use disorder (AUD). A new federal clinical trial is examining whether mainstream GLP-1s can help reverse the trend. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on July 30 announced a new trial to evaluate the efficacy of semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor…
Being a good angler means finding and catching fish in a variety of conditions. From high and murky to muddy and weedy to icy and freezing cold, we find pride in adapting and overcoming what the water throws at us. No matter how good of an angler you are, there’s…
South Dakota has renamed one of its bridges after a fallen service member who died in the line of duty. The latest honor was the renaming of the US HWY 12 bridge, west of the city of Mobridge, as the “PVT George Patrick Thares Memorial Bridge.” It’s dedicated to U.S.…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Who gets to be a native resident of any place is always up for debate, But for the past half century, two movements, bioregionalism and rewilding have offered a new possibility. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West becoming natives of place in the American…
CAIRO (AP) — A British maritime monitoring agency said a cargo ship reported being hit by a projectile overnight off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, while the United States and Iran made opposing claims about whether they were holding talks. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday…
A legal fight is preliminarily over between Federal Express Corp., the world’s largest express transportation company, and two of its employees over short-term military leave. A federal court filing in Georgia shows FedEx has agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company failed to pay…
Percy Spencer was working near a magnetron in 1945 when he noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. The Raytheon engineer had been helping develop radar equipment, one of the technologies that allowed Allied forces to detect enemy aircraft and ships during World War II. The unexpected puddle…
The National Guard members patrolling Washington, D.C., this summer operate under a specific set of limitations. They can detain people; they cannot arrest them. That line, and where it falls, is now the subject of a $3 million legal claim filed by a decorated Army combat veteran who says Idaho…
Published Aug 3, 2026, 12:50 PM EDT The president made appointments to multiple services as efforts to boost the military remain a priority. President Donald Trump announced key military appointments in multiple military services, including the Army, Air Force and the Space Force. The routine appointments and promotions make personnel changes…
Air Mobility Command’s space-available travel sign-up process has run on the same basic model for years: Fill out a form, email it to whichever passenger terminal you’re departing from, and hope someone on the other end enters it correctly before your window opens. As of March 26, 2026, that changed.…
The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced two framework agreements to expand the production capacity of missile-interceptor components. The agreements, with defense companies Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, intend to triple the production of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) components, and quadruple the production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)…
The United States Coast Guard turns 236 years old this Aug. 4 — older than the Navy’s current organizational form, older than the Marine Corps as a permanent standing force and older than the country’s income tax by more than a century. It’s also, by a wide margin, the least…
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Complexity is the enemy of affordability, and cars have an affordability problem. An automobile has always been a big investment, but now, more than ever, the problems come once the car leaves the dealer’s lot. While an out-of-warranty repair or a minor collision was once somewhat affordable to fix, even…
Ask most Americans what the Coast Guard does, and the answer stops at helicopter rescues. That’s real, and it’s the most visible part of the job, but it’s a fraction of what the smallest of the six armed services is actually responsible for on any given day. By law, the…
The 2000s was a critical time for the gaming industry. The monstrously successful PlayStation 2 arrived in 2000, with Microsoft’s first Xbox system and Nintendo’s iconic GameCube launching in North America the following year. This set the stage for a console generation marked by a fascinating three-way competition, and of…
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