It’s the annual World Championship Squirrel Cook Off in Bentonville, Arkansas. Brent’s sitting down with Kevin Murphy, Josh Spielmaker, Lake Pickle, Dave Gardner, and Joe Wilson for a round table discussion of the event and what everyone’s been up too. Fix a plate and get comfortable. It’s time for MeatEater’s…
John Gately served in his state’s military while also working for a statewide military agency. He’s now suing his now former employer, claiming that an off-duty political post led to his termination. Texas resident John Gately filed a federal lawsuit June 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Western…
A bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers is pushing Congress to give the nation’s military service academies a dedicated source of infrastructure funding and make it easier for them to use private donations to build new facilities. Nine House members and eight senators have signed a letter asking congressional defense leaders…
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—With an eye on the Navy’s progress toward an unmanned aerial tanker, Air Force planners are asking questions about their own future tanker fleet.“Thinking beyond the current KC-46 buy and the program extension. Whatever that next tanker looks like—our advanced tanker system—it’s got to be connected. It’s got…
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Space Force modernization efforts could slow if Congress doesn’t pass a full budget at the end of the year, the service’s leaders said. “We’re on this ramp-up, right, consistent with our overall strategy and the recognition that the space domain is a critical domain, in and of itself, but…
The federal government spent nearly $10 billion placing more than 100,000 federal workers on paid administrative leave for extended periods last year, a sixfold increase from two years prior driven largely by the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program aimed at encouraging feds to quit public service.A new report from the…
The Air Force spent 45 years without warrant officers, the last one retiring in 1980 and the ranks disappearing from an Air Force that decided senior NCOs and commissioned officers could cover the same ground. That changed in February 2024, when then-Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announced that…
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Air Force Test Center is prepared to keep up with the Pentagon’s calls to buy, develop, test, and field technology quickly—but safety remains the top priority, the center’s commander said. “We always want to proceed safely forward. The work that we do, as I’ve noted, is, can be…
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The Pentagon is eager to incorporate AI “agents”—software that can autonomously execute complex tasks like customer service, scheduling, or code writing—into more of what soldiers and defense civilians do. But a growing body of research shows that agents built from well-known large language models exhibit unpredictable and dangerous behaviors even…
00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhartan. Today we’re joined by Jannis, Brody, Randall, Max, Laura Cordy and Nate. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater’s…
00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Knucomb and this is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast. Brought to you by Tokvi’s Boots. I’m a cowboy boot…
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The waterhole ambush is a tried-and-true tactic for plenty of big game animals, like elk, pronghorn, and, of course, whitetails. But it’s rarely discussed as a method for hunting America’s favorite game bird. News flash, turkeys drink water too.Turkeys need to consume about a quart of water every day. And…
A strutting turkey is one of the most remarkable spectacles you can witness while hunting. His varied, iridescent feathers fanned out as he parades around with all the pomp and circumstance of spring. Those very feathers make each turkey slightly unique. Then there are those wild variations, like smoky, jet…
One of Idaho’s seven Fish and Game Commissioners has pled not guilty to multiple hunting violations after an investigation prompted by a call to the Citizens Against Poaching hotline.Commissioner Brody Harshbarger is facing a rash of misdemeanor charges, including taking game unlawfully, hunting without a valid tag, shooting from a…
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It’s the annual World Championship Squirrel Cook Off in Bentonville, Arkansas. Brent’s sitting down with…