King Charles III presented President Donald Trump with the original brass conning tower bell from HMS Trump, a British World War II submarine, during a white-tie state dinner at the White House on Tuesday evening. The Admiralty-pattern bell is inscribed with the name “Trump” and the year 1944. “Tonight, Mr.…

Mark Schmitz, Gold Star father of Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, said he was ecstatic over the Pentagon’s April 22 decision to upgrade valor awards for seven Marines at Abbey Gate, but acknowledged it is just a step in the right direction. The upgrades recognize the extreme risks taken by…

John Oliver is raising new concerns about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, warning that chatbots may be entering a dangerous phase, widely used, loosely regulated and still poorly understood. During a recent segment on Last Week Tonight, Oliver argued that AI systems are operating with “the weakest guardrails” at a…

World War I has a strange place in our collective memory. It changed our collective history and the world, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. On Tuesday, Jan. 13, that “forgotten war” gets the spotlight in Midtown, not through a lecture or a timeline, but through music,…

Following last year’s launch of the Ruger RXM, the collaborative effort that resulted in Ruger partnering up with Magpul to produce a polymer-frame, striker-fired 9 mm handgun based on the third-generation Glock G19 pistol, Magpul has now launched a full-size grip module to fit this pistol. Magpul’s original contribution to…

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