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Perhaps for the first time in 2026, Alex Vesia felt some normalcy on Friday night.The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher made his return to the pitcher's mound in his first Major League outing since his infant daughter died just five days after she was born.Before the World Series, the left-hander left the team to deal with a "deeply personal matter" and did not pitch in the Fall Classic. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Days after the Dodgers won the World Series, he and his wife announced their infant daughter had died.Vesia returned to the team during spring training and then

NASA is racing to establish a permanent human presence on the moon as the U.S. looks to beat China's ambitions on the lunar surface amid intensifying competition in space.The Trump administration’s push for a roughly $20 billion moon base marks a major shift in NASA’s strategy, moving away from plans for a lunar-orbiting space station and toward building infrastructure directly on the moon as a long-term foothold for deep space exploration."This time, the goal is not flags and footprints," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said as he outlined the plan. "This time, the goal is to stay." BEIJING LEVERAGES UN TROOPS, FUNDING

Iran’s military is not designed to win a conventional war against the United States or Israel. It is designed to survive one, absorb damage and continue fighting over time, experts say.That strategy is reflected both in how the force is built and how it is performing now, after weeks of sustained U.S. and Israeli strikes.The scale of the campaign has been significant. More than 9,000 targets have been struck since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, according to a March 23, 2026, fact sheet from U.S. Central Command, alongside more than 9,000 combat flights, hitting missile sites, air defenses, Islamic

While Republican senators, like Texas' Ted Cruz and Florida's Rick Scott, were quick to condemn the policies that kept the illegal immigrant killer of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman from being deported, Democratic senators dodged questions on whether Gorman's killer should have previously been deported prior to this month's murder.Gorman, who was a student at Loyola University of Chicago at the time of her death, was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, Jose Medina, 25. Medina was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, but was subsequently released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to Trump's

House Republicans passed a short-term funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the fierce objections of Democratic lawmakers late Friday evening.But the 42-day shutdown that has snarled air travel and left tens of thousands of federal employees without pay is far from over.House lawmakers voted 213-203 largely along party lines to approve a two-month funding extension for the beleaguered department, which has been operating without full-year appropriations since the funding lapse began on Feb. 14. Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C., Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, crossed party lines to support the measure. More than a dozen

Tiger Woods' mugshot was released Friday night, hours after he was arrested on a DUI charge following a car crash in Florida.Woods' eyes appeared bloodshot, as he donned a blue polo inside the Martin County Jail in Florida.Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek confirmed in a press conference that Woods was traveling at "a high rate of speed" when his vehicle collided with another car, resulting in his vehicle rolling over onto the driver's side. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Authorities said Woods "exemplified signs of impairment." He blew "triple-zeroes" for alcohol but refused a urine test."DUI investigators came to

A Florida fisherman changed his luck recently in a big way.Captain Jose Rodriguez Jr. of Cudjoe Key, Florida, takes clients out four to five times a week on a Florida Keys fishing charter to reel in trophy fish. But he'd never come close to catching a monster 500-pound swordfish.On Feb. 18, Rodriguez, along with a Pennsylvania family, landed a giant 480-pound swordfish, one of the largest of its kind caught in the Keys in recent years.OLDER TRAVELERS WHO SKIP KEY STEP BEFORE POPULAR VACATION ACTIVITY COULD BE RISKING THEIR HEALTH"It was definitely a fight and a struggle," Rodriguez, who helps

House Republicans' gambit to end the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown survived a critical hurdle on Friday evening, teeing up a chamber-wide vote that will put the chamber on a collision course with the Senate. The House Rules Committee advanced a two-month DHS stopgap measure after House GOP leadership vigorously rejected a Senate-passed deal earlier on Friday with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., dubbing the funding bill a "joke." President Donald Trump also criticized the Senate bill in an interview with Fox News.The Senate deal provided full-year appropriations for DHS minus funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), halting roughly