Category: North America

San Antonio, TX — On Wednesday night, Carlos Molina sat in Popeye’s Chicken having dinner with his family when two of his children went to the restroom, leaving his wife and two other kids back at the table. Andrews Herrera, 19, stormed in with a gun attempting to rob the restaurant. In the confusion, the […]

Over 116,000 acres of California has gone up in flames, culminating in six raging wildfires and countless smaller ones that have burned well over 505,000 acres thus far. The largest of which is in Ventura County, where authorities found the body of 70-year-old Virginia Pesola, who died from “blunt force injuries with terminal smoke inhalation and […]

Approval ratings haven’t been around since 1776, they were developed by George Horace Gallup in the late 1930s. It is simply a regular poll that asks simple questions — not all of which are designed for the presidency. And while the Gallup Poll was the first system used to rate presidents by percentage, it was […]

Managing Editor’s note:  This is the first article in a new theme here at SOFREP.  Each week, we will present a new Guest Author.  Please enjoy!  And please welcome them to the family. Guest Author: Tyler Jones With the recent decision of the Boy Scouts of America to open its doors to girls, yet another […]

Earlier this year, SpaceX announced intentions to launch the Falcon Heavy, slated to be the most powerful operational rocket on the planet, before the close of 2017.  Even at the time, they admitted the goal was a lofty one: the rocket itself has proven incredibly difficult to produce, due in large part to the massive […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is scrapping a plan to buy 18 Boeing Co (BA.N) Super Hornet fighter jets amid a deepening dispute with the U.S. aerospace company, three sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Instead, the Liberal government will announce next week it intends to acquire a used fleet of older Australia F-18 […]

It seems as though every time I turn on the news, I hear about concealed carry permits, and it’s caused me to wonder how popular concealed carry has become. I can remember taking my permit class and only having a few choices in holsters and firearms, mainly due to the old school mentality in my city.  […]

Retired military commanders including Army Gens. Wesley Clark and Michael Hayden, Navy Admiral Eric Olson, Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip and Marine Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney have announced that they plan to send a letter to Congressional leaders. The group is part of the “veterans coalition” for gun control group founded by former U.S. […]

The U.S. agency tasked with protecting the country from missile attacks is scouting the West Coast for places to deploy new anti-missile defenses, two Congressmen said on Saturday, as North Korea’s missile tests raise concerns about how the United States would defend itself from an attack. Read the whole story from Reuters. Featured image courtesy […]

According to a report originally published in the San Diego Tribune, a punishment has been handed down to the two pilots involved in drawing a massive penis in the sky above Washington state on Nov. 15th. The incident, which became an over-night viral sensation, saw the pilot, as well as a back seat aviator, use […]

Pass. The. Popcorn: U.S. House Republicans are drafting a contempt of Congress resolution against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, claiming stonewalling in producing material related to the Russia-Trump probes and other matters. Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and other committee Republicans, after considering such action for several weeks, decided to move […]

Tampa, FL — Almost two months after the first murder in Seminole Heights, a neighborhood in the heart of Tampa, the accused murderer and potential serial killer has finally been charged with four counts of first degree murder. The police were tipped off by a McDonald’s manager when Howell Emanuel Donaldson III, 24, asked someone else […]