The Homeland Security Department will have a new secretary after the Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin in a 54-45 vote to the role Monday evening, paving the way for a new chapter in the tumultuous period for the agency that has spearheaded President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Mullin, who will soon resign his seat as…
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The Air Force must upgrade its KC-135 tankers to give aircrews more battlespace awareness, say former air-mobility leaders who warn that more tragedies might follow a recent deadly crash.On March 12, two KC-135s were involved in the deadly mishap over friendly airspace that was not the result of hostile or…
Locals in a northern Minnesota community have reported more than 100 dead deer along a railway, where a cart apparently leaked corn along the tracks for miles. According to the Facebook page of Steve Porter, owner and operator of a deer farm in the area, he’s documented droves of deer…
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There’s a certain comfort in stacking ammo cans.Rows of neatly labeled cases of 9mm, 5.56, and maybe even some .22 tucked away for good measure. It feels productive. Responsible, even.But stockpiling by itself is a shallow form of readiness. It looks good on a shelf, but doesn’t necessarily hold up…
Fundamentals Series — Part 3At Valiance Firearms Training (VFT), we view two things as the primary drivers of performance with a pistol: Grip and trigger control. If a shooter can maintain a high and tight grip that keeps the gun flat and apply consistent trigger control that minimizes movement, they can progress…
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There are lines most hunters won’t cross, even without a game warden breathing down their neck. But one Washington man crossed those lines again and again, which recently landed him one of the stiffest sentences for poaching the Evergreen State has dealt in years.Ronald Livermore, 77, of Okanogan County, was…
In north-central Alaska, up to 2.1 million acres of federal land could be transferred to state ownership, opening the door for new mining and road development. On February 25, the Department of Interior announced the revocation of Public Land Orders 5150 and 5180 in Alaska’s Dalton Utility Corridor, which traces…
Two years ago, I was ready to throw hands at the next person to tell me to go mobile. I had only recently ditched ladder stands for climbing stands, which I considered mobile enough. The last thing I wanted to do was learn a new hunting system.I put up a…
Federal prosecutors have served grand jury subpoenas to top Minnesota government officials as part of a criminal investigation into alleged obstruction of federal immigration enforcement, simultaneously as state authorities are themselves conducting an independent probe into a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) agent’s shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis.The…
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Editor’s Note: This column originally was published by Lee Montana Newspapers. “As you’ll read in this powerful op-ed from our own Steven Rinella and now BHA CEO Ryan Callaghan, the spectacular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is once again at risk. But this time with national implications. This latest attempt…
A “historic” energy deal is now on the table between the United States and Venezuela, tying the arrest of former leader Nicolás Maduro to a sweeping effort to reopen the country’s oil industry to foreign investment.The Trump administration said it is facilitating talks with oil companies to rebuild Venezuela’s badly…
Back when I first got into the gun business in the mid-1990s, my gun-handling and shooting skills were, to put it charitably, extremely—well, let’s go with “mediocre.” I was enthusiastic, read everything I could on the topic and knew all manner of facts and statistics, but I just didn’t have…
When I first started tracking whitetail bucks in the big woods, things always seemed to go the same way. I’d find a buck track, and then I’d meticulously follow it through the forest all day long without ever seeing the buck that made it.It frustrated me because I thought I…
Award-winning and best-selling authors are also veterans, and there is more to look forward to in 2026. Even though no statistical datasets reliably exist that track how many veteran authors are published, veterans make up less than ten percent of the U.S. population. While veteran authors are a small subset of…
Last week, Minnesota Congressman Pete Stauber introduced a resolution that would undo a three-year-old mining moratorium on over 225,000 acres in the Rainy River watershed—upstream of the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA). The move not only threatens one of America’s most iconic wild places but has broader ramifications for…
Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged a group of Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered a substantial force of enemy soldiers and then held their position for five hours. Only three men were wounded. It was not only a stunning success in a horrific battle, it was the…
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