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U.S. Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Friday said the United States military "needs to accelerate our modernization" in an effort to compete with China as warfare technology continues to evolve and criticized Russia over its conflict with neighboring Ukraine.  During his remarks at the National Press Club luncheon in Washington D.C., Milley accused Moscow of committing a "direct frontal assault" on the rules-based international order with its " illegal invasion " of Ukraine. "Our political leaders have said multiple times that our task is to ensure that Ukraine has the support it needs to remain free and independent and we're doing that in order to make sure that rules-based international order holds," he said.  HOUSE GOP MOVES TO SLASH PENTAGON DEI BUREAUCRATS: 'MASSIVE VICTORY FOR THE ANTI-WOKE CAUCUS' He also said that China was looking to "rewrite" those rules as it leverages its financial power to build u...

The husband of a Texas woman found dead in a lake this week has been arrested, authorities said Thursday.  Sarah Dudley, 32, was reported missing on Saturday. On Monday, her body was found in Lake Lewisville, the Plano Police said. The body was found near a camping area, Fox Dallas reported.  A police spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Dudley's husband, Karlton Dudley, 37, was arrested Wednesday for abuse of a corpse without legal authority. SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR APPEAL FROM TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE RODNEY REED He was also charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to court records. Sarah Dudley's cause of death has not yet been determined.  Karlton Dudley is being held in the Colin County jail on a $560,000 bond. His wife's death is still under investigation.  source https://www.foxnews.com/us/husband-texas-woman-found-dead-lake-arrested-police-say

An armed couple got into a gunfight with two suspected robbers, injuring one of them, at a Houston gas station Tuesday.  A woman at the gas station noticed two armed men getting out of separate vehicles around 7 p.m. at a gas station in the 8600 block Fulton Street, Fox Houston reported.  She called her husband, who was inside the store. AUSTIN HAS ITS FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER IN 138 YEARS, BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN ON RAINEY STREET DEATHS As the two suspects attempted to pull an armed robbery, the husband and wife, who were also armed, got into a firefight with them, the report said.  One of the suspects was hit by gunfire and the other fled in a Dodge Charger.  The husband and wife were not harmed.  The injured suspect was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive.  source https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-texas-couple-gets-gunfight-with-armed-robbers-gas-station-suspect-shot

A Chicago mother who was facing a murder charge for allegedly telling her 14-year-old son to shoot a man at a fast-food restaurant is suing the city a day after video that showed the man threaten and repeatedly punch her in the head prompted prosecutors to drop the charges. Carlishia Hood, 35, alleges malicious prosecution, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress in her lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court . "What happened to me was totally unnecessary," Hood said via Fox 32 Chicago . "Never in a million years would I have imagined being brutally attacked, beaten and being arrested." Hood was held on $3 million bail after she was charged last week with first-degree murder and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CHICAGO SHOOTING DEATH OF FOX NEWS ANALYST GIANNO CALDWELL'S BROTHER REACHES YEAR WITHOUT ARREST Hood, however, was released Monday from the Cook County Jail after the Cook County State's Attorney's Office...

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley outlined her foreign policy approach to counter Beijing in a hard-line speech Tuesday, criticizing both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden before deeming China the "most dangerous foreign threat we’ve faced since the Second World War." "The Communist Party’s endgame is clear. China is preparing its people for war. President Xi [Jinping] has openly said it," Haley said, addressing the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. "We should take him at his word and act accordingly. Instead, President Biden continues to dither. His action makes conflict more likely. We must act now to keep the peace and prevent war. And we need a leader who will rally our people to meet this threat – on every front." Haley argued that the U.S. must rally more nations to its side by deepening miliary ties with Japan, South Korea and Australia and by forging stronger bonds with India and the Philippines. "And ...

An Atlanta-based R&B singer was arrested last week in connection with a fight at a Georgia restaurant.   Jacquees, whose full name is Rodriquez Jacquees Broadnax, was charged with simple battery and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office, Fox Atlanta reported.  He was booked into the county jail Friday morning and released on a $3,700 bond hours later.  Broadnax was arrested in connection with his alleged role in a fight at the Local Tap at the Mall of Georgia.  PATTI LABELLE RUSHED OFF MILWAUKEE STAGE OVER APPARENT BOMB THREAT: VIDEO Authorities said was arguing with security and choked a female employee.  Both the employees and security personnel had non-life-threatening injuries. ATLANTA BUSINESS OWNER TARGETED TWICE BT THIEVES ASKS PUBLIC TO HELP IDENTIFY SUSPECTS On Saturday, the singer posted a series of images to social media. One appears to show him with a bruise under his right eye...

A majority of Americans support an increase to the U.S. military's presence around Taiwan as the democratic island faces an increased threat from China, a new poll indicates. More than half of Americans, 56%, said that they would support an increase in U.S. military presence as a way to discourage China from invading Taiwan and 30% indicated they would oppose such a move, according to the results of a Reagan Institute poll shared with Fox News on Sunday. The poll comes as tensions between China and the self-governing island of Taiwan have continued to increase over the last year, with China staging multiple military drills in the Taiwan Strait in response to meetings between Taiwanese and American officials. AMERICANS BECOME LESS INTERVENTIONIST EVEN AS THEY PREFER STRONG MILITARY, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: POLL Tension has continued to increase this month as Taiwan's air force scrambled fighter jets after a group of 10 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Str...

A Florida man and his 14-year-old stepson died in Big Bend National Park in Texas on Friday after hiking in extremely hot conditions, according to park officials. The national park’s communications center was alerted to an emergency on the Marufo Vega Trail at about 6 p.m. on Friday. Park officials said the 14-year-old stepson became ill and lost consciousness while hiking with his 31-year-old stepfather and 21-year-old brother, on a day when the temperature reached 119 degrees. The 21-year-old attempted to carry his younger sibling back to the trail head as the stepfather left the two to go back to the vehicle and find help. SWELTERING TEXAS HEAT WAVE SCORCHES SOUTHERN CITIES, BRINGING TRIPLE-DIGIT TEMPERATURES Once a team of park rangers and U.S. Border Patrol Agents reached the scene an hour and a half after the call, the 14-year-old had died. The search then turned toward the stepfather, and at about 8 p.m., his vehicle was found crashed over an embankment at the Boquillas...

The White House received backlash Saturday after it was reported that Hunter Biden was accompanying his father to Camp David amid bombshell whistleblower allegations of political corruption, along with recently pleading guilty to federal tax charges and agreeing to plea deal on a felony gun charge. The House Ways and Means Committee revealed on Thursday its interview with an IRS whistleblower last month who shared a WhatsApp message from 2017 where Hunter Biden allegedly told a Chinese business associate he and his father would ensure "you will regret not following my direction."  "I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled," Hunter Biden told Henry Zhao, the director of Harvest Fund Management, in the message provided by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley. "And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the...

A team of international researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ruled out the possibility of life on the distant exoplanet, TRAPPIST-1 c. Graduate student Sebastian Zieba who participated in the study said the research team set out to determine "if rocky planets have atmospheres or not."  "In the past, we could only really study planets with thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres," Zieba said, according to NASA. "With Webb we can finally start to search for atmospheres dominated by oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide."  TRAPPIST-1 c is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star approximately 40 light-years from Earth . Though similar in size and mass, researchers are unsure whether they have similar atmospheres. Nor is it clear whether these plants have enough water, carbon dioxide, and other elements necessary for making an atmosphere and sustaining life.  MASSIVE ASTEROID TO PASS BY EARTH THIS WEEKEND The research t...

These mug shots were taken for arrests made throughout the U.S. the week of June 18-24, 2023. source https://www.foxnews.com/us/mug-shots-week-june-18-24-2023

A U.S. judge on Friday blocked a new Florida law restricting drag performances, the third time this month federal courts have enjoined laws backed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that concern gender or LGBTQ matters. In all three cases, the issues supported by DeSantis , a Republican presidential candidate, lost on grounds the laws appear to infringe on people's constitutional rights. In Friday's decision, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell of the Middle District of Florida granted an injunction preventing the state from enforcing a law that bans minors from attending obscene live performances, calling it too broad. DESANTIS SHUTS DOWN FLORIDA SCHOOL'S ‘DRAG & DOUNUTS’ EVENT FEATURING DRAG QUEEN ‘MOMMA’ ASHLEY ROSE: REPORT The judge refused to dismiss the law entirely, meaning the underlying lawsuit challenging it will go forward. The governor's office said the judge was "dead wrong" and predicted the state would win on appeal. "Of course it...

Throughout his career, Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant has interjected himself into NBA-related conversations, especially those on social media. On Friday, the 13-time NBA All-Star could not resist the urge to jump into a Twitter Spaces discussion, "Kevin Durant is not top 5." After joining the audio-only platform, Durant voiced his displeasure about the way some fans "consume" basketball games. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "I just think how y’all even look at the game is whack as f---," Durant said in a clip recorded from the session. "You factor in team success when you talking about players. I just think how y’all consume the game is trash, like are you good or not?" KEVIN DURANT CLAPS BACK AFTER LATEST CRITIQUE FROM CHARLES BARKLEY: 'I DON’T NEED NO CREDIT FROM Y’ALL' Durant appeared to enter the chat about 40 minutes after it began. Durant added that, from his point view, NBA player rankings are mean...

New York City spent approximately $50,000 in a one-year period to resettle dozens of migrants in different parts of the U.S. — including Florida and Texas — as well as other countries, including South American nations and even China. The city spent $50,000 between April 2022 and April 2023 to rehouse 114 migrant households to states across the country, according to data obtained by Politico. The top three states were Florida (28 households), Texas (14) and North Carolina (6). The outlet also reported that five households were sent to other countries, including Peru, China, Ecuador and Venezuela. The existence of transportation programs out of the city for migrants are neither new nor hidden. The city in September announced the formation of Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers, which provide services to migrants including "settlement options" via family connections both in and outside of the Big Apple. NYC MAYOR ERIC ADAMS SUES 30 NEW YORK COUNTIES FOR REFUSI...

A bank account linked to President Biden's son Hunter Biden received more than $5 million in August 2017, shortly after his threatening messages — in which he said he was "sitting here" with his father — to a Chinese associate revealed this week by an IRS whistleblower, according to documents released by congressional investigators. On Aug. 4, 2017, Chinese firm CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s law firm Owasco, according to a 2020 report published by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Then, days later on Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment sent $5 million to Hudson West III, a firm Hunter Biden opened with Chinese associates. The two transactions totaling $5.1 million came within 10 days of messages uncovered Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee. In the messages — shared to the panel via IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley Jr., who oversaw the agency's probe into Hunter Biden — Hunter Biden...

EXCLUSIVE – President Biden quipped on Tuesday that Second Amendment supporters would "need an F-16" to take on the federal government, a comment that was blasted by some Capitol Hill lawmakers.  "I’m a Second Amendment guy," Biden said at a campaign event at a private California residence. "I taught it for four years, six years in law school. And guess what? It doesn’t say that you can own any weapon you want. It says there are certain weapons that you just can’t own. Even during when it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon. You can’t own a machine gun. "So what’s the deal with the idea that it’s an absolute — you know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Well, if you want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15." BIDEN MOCKS SECOND AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS, SAYS YOU ‘NEED AN F-16’ TO TAKE ON...

An IRS whistleblower says the FBI's FD-1023 document that alleges a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son, Hunter , and a foreign national was never delivered to investigators, even though it was sent to the Delaware U.S. attorney for further investigation. On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee released of portion of whistleblower testimony related to the IRS and Justice Department probe into Hunter Biden's "tax affairs." The federal probe began in 2018, amid the discovery of suspicious activity reports regarding funds from "China and other foreign nations." That investigation originated out of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware under U.S. Attorney David Weiss. One whistleblower who spoke to House Republicans, Gary Shapley Jr., testified that decisions in the case seemed to be " influenced by politics ." BILL BARR SAYS HUNTER’S PLEA UPS ANTE ON DOJ TO RELEASE DOC ALLEGING BIDEN BRIBERY SCHEME: ‘CRITICAL’ A se...

A Kansas man is facing federal charges of making threats on social media to build bombs and carry out a mass shooting at a Nashville Pride festival. According to U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis' office, the indictment unsealed Tuesday against a 25-year-old from Hoisington, Kansas charges him with two counts of transmitting an interstate threat about the Nashville Pride Festival and Parade. The event is scheduled for June 24 to 25. An indictment says the man on April 26 commented on a sponsored Nashville Pride post on Facebook, threatening to "make shrapnel pressure cooker bombs for this event." TRANS TIKTOKER'S EERIE VIRAL COMMENT RAISES CONCERN ON SOCIAL MEDIA: 'THREATENING WOMEN'S SAFETY' On the same day, he posted another comment in which he threatened to commit a mass shooting and used a homophobic slur, the indictment said. FBI agents arrested the man Thursday at his home in Kansas and he appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge. A detention hear...

Several 2024 presidential contenders took aim at the "corrupt" and "partisan" Justice Department on Tuesday after it was revealed that Hunter Biden had secured a tentative federal plea deal following an investigation that resulted in a felony gun charge and two tax misdemeanors. "Looks like Hunter received a sweetheart deal and is not facing any charges on the massive corruption allegations. If Hunter was not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote in a tweet shortly after the plea deal was made public. DeSantis' tweet was accompanied by a video of him at a campaign event highlighting the "two different sets of rules" for Americans based on whether they're in "good standing with elite society or not." HUNTER BIDEN AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY IN FEDERAL TAX, GUN CASE Former President Donald Trump slammed the plea deal, saying it amounts to a "traffic ...

The international rights group Amnesty International called on Pakistan’s government Tuesday to stop what it described as random arrests of Afghan refugees, including those with Pakistani visas. Millions of Afghans fled to Pakistan during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation of their country, creating one of the world’s largest refugee populations. More than 100,000 Afghans crossed the border to avoid persecution at home after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. The Taliban have announced a pardon and urged Afghans not to leave the country. The majority of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan say they are facing delays in their visa processing and relocation to the United States and other countries. PAKISTAN'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN SAYS POLICE ARE SURROUNDING HIS HOME A group of people who worked with the European Union on elections in Afghanistan from 2018 to 2020 called for visas to be granted to Afghans who worked on the project. In an open letter to EU member st...

After parting ways with Spotify, Meghan Markle is allegedly seeking a deal made fit for a duchess — and she may have her eyes set on one couture house. An unnamed Beverly Hills socialite alleged to The Mail on Sunday that the Duchess of Sussex is in the process of penning a deal with Dior to "re-invent" her image. The source insisted that the possible bid from her talent agency, William Morris Endeavor, is "all anyone is talking about." A spokesperson for the 41-year-old, WME and Dior didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. "Meghan and Dior would seem like a logical fit," Christopher Andersen, author of "The King," told Fox News Digital. "It's a very tentative first step into the endorsement world and a very upscale one at that." "Appearing in glossy ads for a haute couture house like Dior isn't likely to shake things up the way the Duchess of York did when she started doing commercials f...

An Ecuadorian woman who surprised guests at her wake by knocking on her coffin earlier this month, died on Friday after a week of intensive care. Doctors declared 76-year-old Bella Montoya, a retired nurse, dead after she suffered a possible stroke and cardiopulmonary arrest. Ecuador’s health ministry said Montoya did not respond to resuscitation efforts. Her family had previously gathered for a wake at a funeral home on June 9, just hours after Montoya was declared dead by doctors the first time. But everything came to a stop when they heard a sound coming from inside the coffin. Montoya’s son, Gilberto Barbera, told The Associated Press the sound gave everyone a "fright." He also said his mother’s condition remained dire, and she was returned to the hospital immediately. WOMAN STARTS KNOCKING INSIDE COFFIN DURING HER WAKE: ‘GAVE US ALL A FRIGHT’ On Saturday morning, Barbera told the publication that doctors at the hospital where she was rushed after the wake confirm...

Like it or not, mosquitoes have arrived for the summer — and beyond their annoying, itchy bites, they also bring the risk of disease, most notably the West Nile virus (WNV). Since the West Nile virus first entered the U.S. in 1999, it has become the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Reports of the year’s first cases are starting to trickle in from across the U.S., with 13 infections and counting as of June 13, per the CDC's most recent data posted on its website as of Sunday, June 18. WEST NILE VIRUS CASES, POSITIVE SAMPLES DETECTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY Here’s what you need to know to stay safe. In most cases, the West Nile virus — a flavivirus in the same family as yellow fever, dengue fever , Japanese encephalitis and the Zika virus — is spread when Culex mosquitoes bite infected birds and then bite people and other animals, per the CDC’s website. The virus is not transmitted through ea...