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The real ‘Terminator:’ Robots compete in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge

While “Terminator Genysis” brings back a fictional world ruled by robots to movie screens later this month, thanks to the U.S. military, the prospect of military robot military warfare became closer to reality thanks to the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge.…

Connecticut’s strict gun licensing law linked to steep drop in homicides? Not really

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the state of Connecticut’s 1995 gun licensing law has reduced firearm homicide rates by 40 percent. But this just released study gives academics a bad name. Not surprisingly,…

Friday News Roundup: June 12, 2015

FILE – In this June 10, 2015 file photo, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, left, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo listen during a news conference in front of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., where David Sweat and Richard…

Decorated Green Beret threatened with court martial for blowing whistle on ‘dysfunctional’ hostage recovery effort

Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, a decorated Green Beret who was among the first on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11, is now under investigation by the U.S. Army and was threatened with court martial for sharing information with lawmakers about…

Facebook purges pages offering priceless ISIS plunder for sale

These items, believed to have been stolen by ISIS, were offered for sale on Facebook. Facebook struck back at ISIS this week, taking down pages the terrorist army’s middlemen were using to try to sell plundered treasure and artifacts from…

Bomb dogs know best: New tech aims to make canine heroes safer

File photo. Two police officers guide bomb-sniffing dogs past exhibits during the second press day of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. (REUTERS/Mark Blinch) Bomb dogs regularly risk their lives to save our troops…

Turkey’s election results were a big surprise. What’s next?

Make no mistake: Turkey’s 76 million people, 86 percent of whom cast votes in the national parliamentary election Sunday, delivered a stunning rebuke to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist who has dominated Turkish politics as prime minister and now…

US raid uncovers trove of intelligence on how ISIS operates

A raid last month by American commandos on the home of an ISIS leader in Syria turned up a trove of valuable information, reportedly including the role played by the leaders’ wives, who sometimes acted as couriers in delivering information.…

Sources: Administration tried to recruit Taliban 5 members as informants, effort was ‘total failure’

The U.S. government tried to recruit members of the Taliban Five as assets, so they could gather intelligence and the U.S. could influence their future actions, Fox News has learned. The effort to “flip” the five Taliban leaders into becoming…

Fox News Poll: Voters want stronger measures against ISIS

Two-thirds of American voters favor doing “whatever it takes” to defeat ISIS. ; They also think the White House doesn’t have a clear plan to get the job done. A new Fox News poll finds that 66 percent support “doing…