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~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Naval Support Facility Indian Head, MarylandNaval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division, also known as Naval Support Facility Indian Head, is a United States naval military installation in Charles County, Maryland, that is a NAVSEA Warfare Center enterprise dedicated to energetics (explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, reactive materials, and their application in propulsion systems and ordnance). NSWC IHD began as the Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head during World War I. Surrounded by the Potomac River and Mattawoman Creek, Naval Support Facility Indian Head is strategically situated less than 30 miles south of the nation’s capital....

New photos obtained by Fox News Digital show Vice President JD Vance training with U.S. Navy SEALs in California — a 90-minute workout the vice president later said left him feeling like he’d been "hit by a freight train." Images show Vance carrying logs, rowing in the ocean, running on the beach and climbing a rope obstacle course alongside a group of seals. "Just finished PT with the Navy SEALs for 90 minutes," Vance wrote in an X post Monday. "They took it easy on me and I still feel like I got hit by a freight train." Vance used...

I am in shock right now, and completely heartbroken for his family and friends. Unfortunately about an hour ago, news broke that Adam The Woo has passed away. I don't want to believe it, and it's so difficult to accept, but his father and several of his close friends have confirmed it, yet that's all the information that is available right now. I never got to meet Adam in person, but he was absolutely instrumental in my own personal youtube journey, and I always hoped one day to just have a conversation with him about the mechanics of youtube, and...

A federal judge ruled Monday to keep a temporary order in place, preventing Trump officials from re-detaining illegal Salvadoran immigrant and alleged gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said she was concerned the administration might try to take Abrego back into custody ‘in the middle of the night’ before she could take steps to ensure due process in his case, and she dressed down a Justice Department lawyer for repeated misrepresentations by the U.S. government,” The Washington Post reported. “Once again, I’m making a finding that these representations, which are misrepresentations, are in bad faith,” she...

The group of men challenging their deportations include migrants who were deported to a prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March, over allegations that they were members of Tren de Aragua. ================================================================= Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the Trump administration must allow Venezuelan men who were deported earlier this year to return to the United States to fight allegations they were part of violent gangs. The group of men challenging their deportations include migrants who were deported to a prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March,...

Police have charged a truck driver from the Hamilton area in a hit-and-run crash that killed a tow truck operator who had been stopped while helping a driver on the side of Highway 401 outside Woodstock, Ont. The arrest comes after a nearly three week-long search that saw Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigators appeal to the public for help in identifying the suspect vehicle. On Monday, police said 32-year-old Sandeep Singh of Mount Hope, Ont., has been charged with dangerous operation causing death and failure to stop after an accident causing death. Police initially reported the Dec. 3 crash had...

The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its "exit bonus" for undocumented migrants who voluntarily depart the United States through self-deportation, increasing the financial incentive from $1,000 to $3,000 for those who register with the U.S. government and depart the country by the end of the calendar year. DHS says all qualified participants who leave by Dec. 31, 2025, will also receive free airfare to their home countries and be waived of certain civil fines or penalties tied to remaining illegally in the U.S., if they voluntarily self-deport using the rebranded CBP Home app. The smartphone app is modeled off...

THIBODAUX, La. -- The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed. Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the...

It was on April 2 that President Trump appeared at the White House to unveil his “Liberation Day” tariffs. The sweeping announcement roiled markets and helped set the tone for the president’s second-term tariff push — even though many of the country-specific tariff rates he held up in a chart would soon be paused until May and then tweaked throughout the rest of the year.

House panel hears testimony on hate, violence tied to far-left Southern Poverty Law CenterExperts testified on Capitol Hill about the SPLC's role in the Biden administration's discrimination against Christian and conservative Americans.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Experts testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday about the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), including its role in the Biden administration’s discrimination against Christian and conservative Americans.The U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing, titled “Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy,” was billed as examining SPLC’s “coordinated efforts with the Biden-Harris Administration to target Christian and conservative Americans and deprive them of...

President Donald Trump challenged Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz to “go look at these pharma executives in the face” to secure better prices for Americans, Oz revealed Friday on the Alex Marlow Show.Trump announced Friday that he has struck ‘Most Favored Nation’ (MFN) deals with nine more major drug companies to radically lower prescription drug costs, bringing the total to 14 agreements since late September, Breitbart News’s Nick Gilbertson reported.Oz, calling the deal “a foundation of the President’s passion for being able to bring affordability back into health care,” enthusiastically shared more about...

We have another ruling in the case involving Venezuelan nationals identified as members of Tren de Aragua and removed from the U.S. to El Salvador in March pursuant to a proclamation signed by President Trump, which invoked the Alien Enemies Act. Monday afternoon, Judge James Boasberg entered an order granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs in the case styled J.G.G. v. Trump. Boasberg also granted the plaintiffs' motion for class certification and denied the Trump administration's motion for summary judgment.

President Donald J. Trump took office on a promise to defeat inflation and bring down costs — and 11 months later, he has made substantial progress in reversing the inflation and cost-of-living disaster he inherited. Inflation has been cut by more than half, gas prices have fallen sharply, real wages are growing again, and key household expenses are finally heading in the right direction.President Trump tamed Biden’s inflation crisis — and is working to bring it down further.Democrats caused it. Under Biden, inflation averaged nearly 5% and hit 9.1% amid the worst inflation crisis in decades — fueled by the...

President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Monday that it is pausing leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects off the East Coast.“Due to national security concerns identified by @DeptofWar, @interior is PAUSING leases for 5 expensive, unreliable, heavily subsidized offshore wind farms,” DOI Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X. “ONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED.”President Trump “is bringing common sense back to energy policy and putting security first,” Burgum added.In a separate news release, the DOI stated that the pause was also connected with “national security risks” identified by...

President Donald Trump enjoys a 50 percent approval rating, with a net approval rating of plus 9 points, according to the latest polling from InsiderAdvantage.The national poll of 800 likely voters, conducted on Saturday, finds that 50 percent of respondents approve of the president’s performance 11 months into his administration. Another 41 percent disapprove of the job Trump has done, while 9 percent are undecided.The poll shows that a substantial majority of men give Trump positive marks, while most women disapprove of his performance, continuing a trend seen in polling ahead of the 2024 election.Of the men surveyed, 59 percent...

STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation expanding and strengthening entry restrictions on nationals from countries with demonstrated, persistent, and severe deficiencies in screening, vetting, and information-sharing to protect the Nation from national security and public safety threats.The Proclamation continues the full restrictions and entry limitations of nationals from the original 12 high-risk countries established under Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.It adds full restrictions and entry limitations on 5 additional countries based on recent analysis:...

“Just as President Trump told Americans last night: inflation continues to fall, wages continue to rise, and America is trending towards a historic economic boom. Today’s report shows that inflation came in far lower than market expectations — a stark comparison to the record-high 9% inflation crisis caused by Joe Biden. Core inflation is at a new multi-year low, as prices for groceries, medicine, gas, airfare, car rentals, and hotels keep falling. Americans can expect this trend of lower prices and bigger paychecks to continue into the New Year!”— White House Press Secretary Karoline LeavittThe latest inflation data shattered economists’...

In a powerful primetime address to the nation last night from the White House, President Donald J. Trump reflected on the transformative progress achieved in just 11 months — turning the tide on inflation and costs, securing the border, and honoring our military with a special Warrior Dividend — while promising even greater prosperity, tax relief, and renewed respect for America in the year ahead.Click here to watch President Trump’s address to the nationHere’s what you missed:“Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any Administration in American history.” (Watch)“For the last four years,...

..... Patrick, who has written five other books, says Masters’ 2017 book on the SAS, No Front Line, includes only a single paragraph about the storming of the Taliban-held mosque for which Roberts-Smith received the VC and only a single sentence mentioning Roberts-Smith. Yet Patrick argues this action is probably the high point of the entire war for Australia. The award of a Battle Honour Citation for the entire Special Operations Task Group Rotation 12 for “extraordinary heroism and combat excellence”, the first such award since Vietnam, suggests Patrick is correct. ..... Patrick condemns all war crimes but believes people...

President Donald Trump announced a new fleet of ships Monday, known as the "Golden Fleet," as he revealed he approved plans for two new "very large battleships." "As you know, we're desperately in need of ships. Our ships are some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete," Trump said, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump said the new ships would be "100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," in an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Renderings behind the president showed the...