A massive Iranian drone carrier, reportedly roughly the size of a World War II–era aircraft carrier, has been left engulfed in flames after a direct strike by U.S. forces, according to senior American military officials providing an update on the escalating conflict with Iran.

The dramatic strike was revealed Thursday by U.S. Central Command commander Admiral Brad Cooper, who confirmed that American forces had targeted the ship in the latest wave of attacks aimed at crippling Tehran’s military infrastructure.

“In just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it’s on fire,” Cooper announced during a briefing.

Cooper did not elaborate on which carrier was struck or where it was located.

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ix in 10 employers say they’ve already fired some of the Gen Z grads they hired fresh out of college earlier this year, according to a recent Intelligent.com survey.

Intelligent.com, a platform focused on young professionals and the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. leaders and found Gen Z’s shortcomings could shape how companies hire future graduates. One in six bosses said they’re hesitant to hire college grads again. One in seven said they may avoid hiring them altogether next year. Three-quarters of companies surveyed said some or all of their recent graduate hires were unsatisfactory in some way.

Employers’ top complaint was a lack of motivation or initiative, cited by 50% of leaders surveyed. Bosses also pointed to Gen Z being unprofessional, unorganized and having poor communication skills as top reasons for firing new hires. Leaders said they’ve struggled with practical issues as well, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing and using language appropriate for the workspace.

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and others will sign Ratepayer Protection Pledge at White House

Tech giants have backed a pledge from President Donald Trump to pay more for electricity to run resource-hungry AI data centers ahead of its signing on Wednesday.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon will join Trump at the White House to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, an agreement to ensure expenses for the infrastructure and power delivery for the data centers are not passed on to the public, according to a White House official.

The pledge also commits these companies to hiring and training a workforce from within communities where data centers are built and operated, the official said.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said the pledge will help stop the rising electricity prices that started during the Biden administration, while also “ensuring the United States wins the AI race.”

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As the U.S. Department of Transportation cracks down on schools that crank out commercial driver’s licenses and requires tests be conducted in English, states like Wyoming with long stretches of highways, are also enforcing laws to ensure big rig drivers can read and understand English.

igh-profile fatal accidents on America’s highways involving semi-truck drivers with limited proficiency in English have led to a nationwide effort to crack down on the issuing of commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) to such drivers.

Statistics that the Wyoming Highway Patrol released last week show how widespread the problem is. Out of 16,676 inspections on commercial vehicles in 2025, 676 resulted in violations where drivers failed the interview because they weren’t proficient in the English language.

This was the eighth most frequent violation Wyoming officials cited drivers for, and these are the numbers for just one state. Recently, the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office in southern Wyoming, Cowboy State Daily reported, had a three-day operation in which 82 commercial trucks were stopped, and 32 illegal immigrants were arrested.

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‘Do you know who’s killed more people than [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] this year? Trans shooters’

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Joe Rogan fired back at comedian Steve-O after he falsely stated on Wednesday that Republican politicians are trying to put trans-identifying people in internment camps.

Steve-O said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that he was heartbroken when a trans-identifying person said he could not use the bathroom at work and that politicians want to put them in camps. Rogan disputed these claims, stating that trans-identifying men cannot use the women’s restroom and that there is no movement to put trans-identifying individuals in internment camps.

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More than 650,000 plastic bottles of water are being recalled, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Wisconsin-based Valley Springs Artesian Gold LLC is recalling six of its products after they were bottled under “insanitary conditions,” according to the FDA enforcement report. The recall of 651,148 bottles of water was initiated Feb. 6.

On Feb. 26, the FDA classified it a Class II recall, which the agency describes as an instance when the “use or exposure to a product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences.”

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As of March 5, 2026, the Wicomico County Department of Public Works (WC-DPW) will be closing the bridge crossing over Horsebridge and Nassawango Creek, located on the dirt portion of Twilley Bridge Road, to vehicular and foot traffic.

The WC-DPW Roads Division is currently placing signage and physical blockade at the bridge approaches on both the east and west sides of the crossing. Twilley Bridge Road will still be passable up to these features however, the public should be aware of limited space/shoulder which may prevent vehicles from being able to turn around.

This closure will not impact access to any residences on Twilley Bridge Road. This closure is being performed in an abundance of caution for public safety, and in consideration of ongoing infrastructure assessments.

Novo Nordisk’s obesity-drug franchise has surged at a remarkable pace. In just four years, revenue from its weight-management treatments ballooned roughly tenfold – from about $1.3 billion in 2021 to approximately $12.4 billion in 2025. The growth has been fueled largely by Wegovy, the company’s blockbuster weight-loss drug built around the active ingredient semaglutide and marketed as a once-weekly injection.

Semaglutide itself was originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes and continues to be sold under the brand name Ozempic for that purpose. The primary difference between the two products lies in dosage. As Statista notes, Wegovy is formulated at higher semaglutide levels for weight management, while Ozempic is designed for blood-sugar control in diabetic patients. In practice, however, Ozempic has frequently been prescribed off-label for weight loss – a practice that is restricted or prohibited in several European Union countries.

Regardless of branding, the United States has emerged as Novo Nordisk’s most important market. According to the company’s 2025 annual report, the U.S. accounts for the overwhelming share of sales for both Ozempic and Wegovy. For drugs marketed specifically for weight loss, more than 60% of global revenue comes from the American market – a reflection of both the country’s large pharmaceutical sector and its high obesity rates, which have helped make the U.S. the epicenter of the global GLP-1 boom.

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I personally believe President Trump has made a major miscalculation and caved to the left wingers in the democratic party. The reason for doing this was because it was one of the major obstacles in the way of having democrats vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Now let’s see what else is sacrificed to chuck schumer, adam shift and the rest of his cronies. Kristy Noem was tough and did her job. Some of Trump’s leadership did not like her blunt statements but she would speak to them bluntly and not mince words. Gee, that’s not political is it? If they want someone to speak nice at these Senate and House committees let them put a stooge in her place that will follow their script. Now’s not the time to play nice. It’s time to get the job done. If some Republican Rinos don’t like this, tough and I’m being nice here. Republicans need to step up their game or they will get swallowed up again in the midterm election.

John Palmer, Delmar, Md.

The Olympic medals have been awarded in Milan, and the closing ceremony has ended.

But in global finance, a different competition is accelerating, and the leaderboard is now public.

And the results are not even close.

According to recent market data, the top stablecoins by market capitalization look like this:

The pattern is unmistakable.

There is no competition happening between national currencies. There are no euro stablecoins, yen stablecoins, or yuan stablecoins in the leaderboard rankings.

They are only digital dollars.

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A mother stands at a bus stop in Northern Virginia.

A stranger approaches.

Minutes later, she is dead.

That is the brutal reality behind the killing of Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in February at a bus shelter in Hybla Valley in Fairfax County. Police say the suspect is Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old man with more than 30 prior arrests who was also living in the United States illegally.

But the most disturbing part of this story is not simply the crime itself. It is what happened before it.

Because Fairfax County police saw it coming.

And they said so.

Newly released emails show Fairfax County police repeatedly warned prosecutors about Jalloh long before Stephanie Minter was murdered. As reported by ABC7 Washington, police officials warned that Jalloh’s escalating behavior meant it was “not a question of if, but when” he would seriously hurt someone.

Let that sink in.

Police warned the prosecutors. They warned them repeatedly. And the man they were warning about is now charged with murder.

This is not a policy debate anymore. This is a paper trail.

The suspect in this case was hardly unknown to law enforcement. According to reporting, Jalloh had been arrested more than 30 times, with charges ranging from assault and stabbings to rape allegations, theft, and weapons violations.

Yet many of those charges were dismissed or not pursued.

Prosecutors say they sometimes lacked cooperative witnesses, particularly among victims who were homeless or reluctant to testify.

That may explain some dropped cases. But it does not explain 30 arrests.

At some point, the system has to recognize a pattern. At some point, public safety has to come first.

There is another layer to this story that makes it even more explosive politically.

Jalloh entered the United States illegally and had been subject to an immigration detainer for years. Federal officials say Immigration and Customs Enforcement flagged him as early as 2020.

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Fox News reported on Thursday that the Justice Department’s investigation into Biden’s autopen is ongoing – NOT closed – as previously reported by The New York Times, CBS News, and NBC News.

Fox News cautioned that Joe Biden is not the target of the investigation.

On Wednesday, The New York Times and other outlets, citing sources, reported that prosecutors in Jeanine Pirro’s office dropped the criminal case into whether Joe Biden’s aides unlawfully used the autopen to issue pardons.

According to Fox News, the Biden autopen investigation is ongoing.

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Rep. Jim Jordan tore into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing, catching him in multiple lies as he attempted to deflect blame for his involvement in one of the Somali fraud schemes in Minnesota. 

Jordan pressed Walz on the Feeding Our Future fraud. This is another $250 million COVID fraud scheme, which the Department of Justice described as the largest “in the country.”

At least 79 defendants have been federally charged in the scandal, which Walz and Ellison allowed to operate in their state as they seemingly received kickbacks.

One of the conspirators has even named Walz, claiming that he and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about the scheme before the feds opened an investigation. Meanwhile, Walz claims he had no idea this was going on.

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 The MAGA movement is stronger than ever — and Tuesday night in Texas proved it.

Grassroots conservatives delivered a political shockwave as Steve Toth defeated incumbent Dan Crenshaw, sending a clear message that the America First base is firmly in control.

At the same time, Ken Paxton forced longtime Senator John Cornyn into a runoff, another sign that voters want fighters in Washington — not establishment politicians.

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Far-left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz found himself completely outmatched Wednesday during a fiery House Oversight Committee hearing, when Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) dismantled the Democrat governor with a series of basic questions including simple math he appeared unable or unwilling to answer.

The setting was the House Oversight Committee’s hearing titled “Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds in Minnesota: Part II,” and by the time Mace was finished, there wasn’t much left of Walz’s reputation as an “effective administrator.”

The Gateway Pundit reported earlier when Mace tested Walz on his grasp of basic reality.

“What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?” Mace asked point-blank.

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Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) went off on the Department of Justice after the House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday dragged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison in to testify on the theft of federal funds in Minnesota.

Like most Americans, Burchett said he’s not confident any accountability will be seen for the billions of dollars stolen from US taxpayers.

“$19 billion dollars have been stolen. They’re covering, they’re not gonna do a day in jail, everybody’s gonna wring their hands and talk real tough,” he told The Gateway Pundit. “We need to get some guts and start arresting some of these people.”

Burchett further said that Attorney General Pam Bondi and her staff at the DOJ “need to get off their ass and do something.”

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Absolutely shocking and ultra-woke comments from the liberal media darling James Talarico, a Texas State Representative, have surfaced as he tries to become the first Democrat in more than 30 years to win in Texas.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported, Talarico upset Jasmine Crockett in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary race for US Senate. Talarico had 52% of the votes, scoring a rather large single-digit win over Crockett.

Crockett predicted her loss late last night and blamed “cheating,” though she later conceded defeat and endorsed Talarico.

Following his primary victory, X accounts dug up some fairly old videos of Talarico making several statements so crazy that he makes Crockett and Beto O’Rourke look almost reasonable.

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Band can cause more than simple reputational damage to Clinton.

Yesterday night, Cristina Laila reported here on TGP about the new explosive list of people called to give testimonies on the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine investigation by the House Oversight Committee, as you can read in Comer Goes Into Overdrive, Calls on Seven More People to Appear For Transcribed Interviews on Epstein – Including Bill Gates and Former Obama WH Counsel Kathy Ruemmler.

Here’s the complete list:

The list has caused a sensation, after all, it is full of heavy hitters such as billionaires Bill Gates, Leon Black, and Ted Waitt.

There’s also ample possibility of new revelations with the testimonies of Epstein’s lieutenants, Sarah Kellen and Lesley Groff.

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James Talarico clinched the Democrat nomination for United States Senate on Tuesday night.

While the slick talking politician attempts to brand himself as a moderate candidate, he is anything but.

Talarico claimed that Jesus Christ was a radical feminist:

He declared that God is non-binary despite the fact that the Bible refers to God as the Father:

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The Justice Department’s autopen case against Joe Biden and aides closed by the DC US Attorney’s Office, according to The New York Times and CBS News.

According to CBS News, prosecutors in Jeanine Pirro’s office dropped the criminal case into whether Joe Biden’s aides unlawfully used the autopen to issue pardons.

CBS News reported:

Federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office are dropping a criminal probe into whether former President Joe Biden and his aides unlawfully used an autopen to issue pardons, a person briefed on the matter told CBS News.

Two sources confirmed the existence of the probe, with one telling CBS News that the matter has since been closed because prosecutors were never able to find a legal hook to be able to pursue the matter further. CBS News has not determined precisely when the case ended.

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Fifty-seven percent of Americans want all illegal migrants sent home, according to a Harvard Harris poll.

The 57 percent includes 54 percent of political independents and 79 percent of Republicans, but just 35 percent of Democrats, said the February 26-28 poll of 1,999 registered voters by The Harris Poll and HarrisX.

The majority support for mass deportations is notable because it remains strong amid massive resistance by pro-migration politicians, the Democrat establishment, the establishment media, and various pop-culture influencers.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more illegal aliens this week, including those with heinous criminal backgrounds like child sexual abuse and drug trafficking.

“Yesterday, ICE arrested some of the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, including pedophiles, child predators, drug traffickers, and other monsters,” the Department of Homeland Security’s Lauren Bis said.

Among those illegal aliens recently arrested are Claudio Elisco Perez-Pojoy of Guatemala, convicted of sexual battery of a victim under 13 years old in Nashville, Tennessee, and Ruben Adonay Vasquez-Oliva of Honduras, convicted of unlawful sexual activity with a minor in Ogden, Utah.

Likewise, ICE agents arrested Win Naing of Burma, who was previously convicted of sexual assault on a child and criminal child enticement in Douglas County, Nebraska.

Saul Tapia-Sanchez of Mexico and Phonesack Xaiyavong of Thailand were also arrested. Tapia-Sanchez has a prior conviction in the Western District of Texas for importation of cocaine, while Xaiyavong has been convicted of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon in Fresno, California.

Bis said that while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, tried to read out such illegal aliens arrested and their crimes, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) shouted.

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ABC’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg wasted no time to defend former President Bill Clinton after he testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he had “no idea” about the crimes Jeffrey Epstein had committed despite his close ties to the deceased pedophile.

“You know, say what you want about the Clintons. Have any of the women or has anything in those emails pointed to them as being guilty or having anything to do other than knowing?” Goldberg said on Tuesday while her co-hosts highlighted myriad photos between Bill Clinton, Epstein, and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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President Donald Trump said that electricity prices in communities where tech companies are building data centers will not rise, and in many cases will come down, thanks to his Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

Trump hosted leaders of top tech companies — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI — in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Wednesday and stated that the Ratepayer Protection Pledge will not only shield Americans from higher costs due to data centers, but actually bring costs down in many communities.

“Under this new agreement, big tech companies are committing to fully cover the costs of increased electricity production required for AI data centers,” Trump said. “Prices for American communities will not go up, but in many cases, will actually come down, and very substantially.”

Under the agreement, the companies pledge “to build, bring, or buy new generation resources and cover the cost of all power delivery infrastructure upgrades required for data centers, ensuring such expenses are not passed to American households,” a White House official told Breitbart News earlier Wednesday.

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Democrat New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered one of New York City’s largest hospitals to resume providing sex change drugs to minors after the hospital decided to stop its transgender youth program, citing pressure from the Trump administration.

James sent a letter to NYU Langone on Feb. 25 claiming that the hospital’s decision to end its “Transgender Youth Health Program” is “jeopardizing” health care access for vulnerable people in the state, the New York Post reported on Tuesday. The letter threatened further action if the hospital does not comply.

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said that the Democratic Party has gotten “more and more anti-Israel” while “it’s okay if you have a Nazi tattoo on your chest.” And said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) characterization of Israel as akin to an apartheid state betrays “moral clarity.”

Fetterman said, “[T]hat’s another truth here about the Democratic Party, we’re [be]coming more and more anti-Israel. Gov. Newsom announced now — he just described Israel as an apartheid state. That’s a talking point of the fringe of my party. And that’s been profoundly disappointing. I was shocked, overall. He’s — he might be more liberal, but I never thought he would actually go that way and would describe our strong, special ally and the only nation in that region that lives the kind of values that they would live like in California. Hey, I’ve been in Israel, Tel Aviv is like [the] San Diego version of Israel. And now you just described that as an apartheid state? That’s a betrayal of the moral clarity.”

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The Supreme Court has unanimously decided to handcuff liberal judges who want to help the growing number of migrants who lose their asylum pleas at the Justice Department.

“The unanimous decision in Urias–Orellana v. Bondi is a win for the Trump Administration in maintaining a high burden to overturn [the Justice Department’s] immigration courts in asylum cases,” said lawyer Jonathan Turley. 

The decision means that millions of migrants will face even tougher pressure to leave the United States, especially after they are arrested by ICE.

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The toppled Harrison Hall sign is pictured last month after a winter wind storm.

You’ll be sorry. That was the warning from Iran to the U.S. on Thursday as it responded to the torpedoing of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, with a Muslim leader adding a call for “Trump’s blood.”

As Breitbart News reported, the U.S. Navy sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena Tuesday night in the Indian Ocean which Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has since decried as “an atrocity at sea.”

A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine delivered the fatal blow in international waters off Sri Lanka as part of Operation Epic Fury.

“Frigate Dena, a guest of India’s Navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning,” Abbas Araghchi wrote on social media.

“Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret (the) precedent it has set.”

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This preliminary design document shows the proposed commercial development for Route 589, located south of the entrances to the Ocean Pines community.

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It’s hard for taxpayers to stomach!

The Baltimore mayor’s office spent more than $890,000 on lavish meals and parties — including crab feasts, catered “farewell” bashes and massive tabs at Ravens football games, according to a report Wednesday.

Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration blew taxpayer cash on over-the-top perks for staffers — including $52,589 on grub in the Mayoral Suite at Ravens and Orioles games — in a gross violation of the city’s “public funds” rules, according to baltimorebrew.com.

One of the elaborate meals was served at a $3,636 farewell “office party” for Scott’s former campaign manager Marvin James, which featured a $324 balloon arch, a $217 cake and a $2,600 catered spread with crab balls and grilled salmon in March 2025, according to the outlet.

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Young woman was forced to share locker room and motel room with a man

A federal judge holding court in the far-left political enclave of Colorado has announced a decision to dismiss counts against the Mountain West Conference in a lawsuit by former San Jose State University women’s volleyball co-captain Brooke Slusser over the situation that forced her to share locker room and motel room spaces with a man.

But the case continues against San Jose State and the California State University system. Further, it all is on hold pending a determination from the U.S. Supreme Court on what is allowed in such situations where education bureaucrats use students to promote their transgender agenda.

Judge Kato Crews, operating in the leftist environment in Colorado where the governor’s office, held by homosexual Jared Polis, both houses of the legislature and even the state Supreme Court all are controlled by the Democrats’ agenda, dismissed Slusser’s claims against the conference, leaving counts against the school and state system intact.

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‘The plan could accommodate as many as 20,000 foreign nationals’

In a clear stand for law, sovereignty and the rule of American jurisdiction, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a formal investigation into a potentially unlawful “sharia city” development in Kaufman County, warning that any attempt to establish a foreign-style enclave on Texas soil will not be tolerated.

The Feb. 9 press release from the attorney general’s office revealed that a U.S. subsidiary of the Dubai-based developer SEE Holding, in partnership with Kaufman Solar LLC, has purchased thousands of acres of land near Kaufman, Texas, prompting concerns among local residents and state leaders about the nature and intent of the proposed project.

Public reporting suggests the plan could accommodate as many as 20,000 foreign nationals, and some Texans fear that it would effectively create a community governed by principles dramatically at odds with local and state law.

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Bill Clinton testified today in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in regards to Jeffrey Epstein.  He released his opening statement on Twitter where he alleges that he had no idea what Epstein was up to and that he would have “turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals” if he had.

There is something almost breathtaking about the fact that this even has to be said out loud.

Parents matter.

Not bureaucrats.

Not school boards.

Not activist teachers.

Not the state of California.

Parents.

Yet here we are in 2026, with the United States Supreme Court having to step in and remind a massive public-school system that the people who actually raise children are still supposed to be involved in their lives.

In a divided ruling this week, the Court sided with a group of parents challenging California policies that allowed schools to conceal a child’s gender identity decisions from their own families. The justices reinstated a lower-court order that prevents schools from misleading parents and requires them to respect parental instructions regarding how their children are addressed at school.

Think about that sentence for a moment.

The highest court in the land had to tell a state government that schools cannot deceive parents about their own children.

This case arose after California adopted policies encouraging or allowing educators to hide a student’s “gender transition” at school from their parents. The 2024 California SAFETY Act even barred schools from requiring teachers to inform parents if their child adopted a different gender identity at school.

In plain English, that meant a child could be living one identity at school and another at home — and the adults entrusted with their education were expected to help keep the secret.

That’s not education.

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Shame on the Democrats.

As Operation Epic Fury enters its fifth day, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth offered an update this morning, and it’s a good one: “America is winning. Decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy,” Hegseth said in his opening remarks. Hegseth said the U.S.-Israeli-led strikes will give our respective air forces “complete control of Iranian skies” in the coming days. We’ve obliterated Iran’s senior leadership, both political and military, as well as decimated Iran’s air force and navy, including sinking 17 naval ships.

But the Democrats, who operate under opposition to President Trump no matter what he does, don’t seem to care about those wins, or the decisive military might the U.S. has shown in taking down the Iranian regime. In fact, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Operation Epic Fury will end in “failure” for the United States.

“The American people want us to focus on making their life better and making their life more affordable; not getting involved in another endless war in the Middle East that is going to end in failure. This administration somehow found the resources, has found billions of dollars for bombs but can’t find any money to actually bring down the high cost of living here in the United States of America,” Jeffries said, according to Fox News (emphasis added).

No, that’s what happens when Democrats run wars, as we saw under the Biden administration. Joe Biden presided over the abysmal withdrawal from Afghanistan that got 13 American service members killed and left billions of dollars of military equipment in the hands of the Taliban. In the half-decade since, the Taliban has regained control of the nation and instituted strict oppression of women and girls in the nation, denying them rights, education, the ability to work, and the ability to even see a doctor.

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Illinois Black Lives Matter founder and executive director Clyde McLemore was caught on video beating a female employee at the BLM Resource Center in Waukegan.

The violent incident occurred in January, but the surveillance video of the fight, obtained by Lake and McHenry County Scanner, was released on Tuesday.

Police were dispatched to the BLM center on January 12 after receiving a battery call.

Clyde McLemore told police that an employee, identified as Nyesha Hill, approached him while he was at his computer and asked him for money and cigarettes.

McLemore told officers that he informed Hill that his organization “ain’t got no money,” so he couldn’t pay her because the [grant] money is “gone.”

Per Lake and McHenry County Scanner:

The founder of Black Lives Matter Lake County was caught on video engaging in a physical fight at his Waukegan office with a female worker, who alleges that he has been mishandling money from the organization.

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Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) appears to have discovered election “irregularities” but only after losing.

On Tuesday night, as the results in Dallas County began to look grim for the firebrand Democrat, Crockett didn’t just concede gracefully. Instead, she took a page out of the very book she’s spent years condemning.

Despite her previous claims that voter fraud was nothing more than a “conspiracy theory,” Crockett is now blaming “cheating” and “Republican tactics” for the mass confusion at the polls.

The reason for the chaos? A simple rule change that required voters to cast ballots at their assigned precincts rather than just wandering into any polling location they happened to see.

I have one special gift from God. I’m willing to ask questions others are either too afraid to ask, or only willing to whisper in private with their friends and family.

All over the world Muslims are mourning the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. That’s a very frightening fact.

So, these questions need to be asked…

We all know Iran is the most religious fanatical, mass murdering, terrorist nation in the world. We also know Iran has sponsored terrorist attacks all over the world- resulting in the deaths of American citizens, US military heroes, Christians, Jews, women and children.

Guess who ran Iran while all this terrorism and mass murdering was going on?

Ayatollah Khamenei.

Guess who gave the orders for terrorist attacks?

Ayatollah Khamenei.

Guess who gave the orders on October 7th, 2023 for the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust?

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New York is about to get the Oz treatment.

Medicaid czar Dr. Mehmet Oz is turning up the heat on Gov. Kathy Hochul, launching an investigation into the state’s massive $124 billion Medicaid program — which he has claimed is rife with waste, fraud and abuse, The Post has learned.

In a letter sent to Hochul Tuesday, Oz, who heads the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posed 50 questions scrutinizing what she and her team are doing to control costs and identify and prevent fraud.

“I am formally requesting detailed information regarding program integrity and provider screening and enrollment oversight within New York’s Medicaid program. This request is necessary to ensure public confidence and protect beneficiaries in your state’s Medicaid program,” said Oz.

Medicaid is the public health insurance program for those in need, with costs split among the federal, state and local governments.

“The data is clear. New York far outspends other states on its Medicaid program on a statewide and per beneficiary basis,” Oz said in the letter, also sent to state Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald, state Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri and acting Medicaid Inspector General Frank Walsh Jr.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s newly announced 15% global tariff will take effect this week, as the administration moves to restore duties after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a key part of the president’s trade agenda.

Speaking on CNBC’s morning show “Squawk Box,” Bessent said the administration expects tariff rates to return to earlier levels within months.

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“Current electric bus technology is not fully capable of meeting all of our transportation demands, particularly for longer routes, field trips and midday services that exceed charging capacities,” Montgomery County school district spokesperson Liliana López said

A Maryland school district that bought hundreds of electric buses is now ordering more than 100 diesel buses due to the electric ones not meeting requirements for use.

Montgomery County Public Schools is seeking proposals for companies to purchase 140 diesel buses, 45 of which must have wheelchair capabilities, the Washington Post reported Monday. A school board vote on a contract is expected in April.

The change comes as some electric buses are experiencing extended periods of service interruptions because of “charging challenges” and parts issues, district spokesperson Liliana López said. She added that the maintenance problems are exacerbated by cold weather. Also, other buses aren’t meeting the district’s needs to transport students with special needs.

“Our primary focus is ensuring safe, timely and reliable transportation for the more than 103,000 students we serve daily,” López said. “Current electric bus technology is not fully capable of meeting all of our transportation demands, particularly for longer routes, field trips and midday services that exceed charging capacities.”

Montgomery County  is the largest Maryland school district, with more than 1,300 buses that travel an estimated 112,000 miles per day.

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Virginia set the government as the default gatekeeper of how long children can read, watch, and talk online, and a federal judge found that unconstitutional before the law ever took effect.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has called for seven high-profile individuals to appear before his panel for transcribed interviews related to their connections with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Among those summoned are Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Gateway, Inc. founder Ted Waitt, and private equity investor Leon Black, with proposed testimony dates scheduled between April and May. The remaining four called to appear are Kathryn Ruemmler, Lesley Groff, Sarah Kellen, and Doug Band.

The move came on the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick agreed to testify before the committee regarding his own ties to Epstein, after admitting he had lunch with the convicted sex offender in 2012. Chairman Comer has made clear that the Oversight Committee is committed to seeking the full truth — both for Epstein’s survivors and for the American public.

The probe represents a broader congressional push to map the extent of Epstein’s powerful network and bring some measure of accountability to those connected to his crimes.

However, as JD discusses on the latest episode of America First Report, it is deeply frustrating that meaningful consequences for those involved remain unlikely. Yet as he reminds listeners, even when earthly justice falls short, we can rest assured that a higher judgment awaits — and no one ultimately escapes accountability before God.

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President Donald Trump delivered a clear message to critics within conservative media circles Monday, asserting that ‘true’ MAGA supporters back his moves to neutralize the Iranian threat and prevent nuclear proliferation that endangers the U.S. and its allies.

Dismissing pushback from Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly as out of step with America First priorities, Trump emphasized that securing the homeland against rogue regimes like Iran is non-negotiable—no matter the noise from sidelined commentators.

Tucker Carlson has publicly blamed Israel for pulling the U.S. into conflict with Iran, framing the strikes as unnecessary foreign entanglement rather than a direct defense of American interests.

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The past is coming back to haunt Democrats as a video of then-House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) resurfaces while the left continues to hammer President Donald Trump for carrying out a joint strike with Israel on Iran, claiming he doesn’t have the authority to do so without getting permission from Congress. This is what happens when you don’t practice the principle of consistency. Then again, does the left practice any principles at all?

After then-President Barack Obama launched a strike on Libya in 2011 and took serious heat for it, Pelosi defended his actions and said he did not, in fact, need authorization from Congress before launching the attack. As Michael Scott so brilliantly stated, my how the turn tables.

“Madam Speaker — Madam Leader, you’re saying that the president did not need authorization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress on Libya?” a reporter asked Pelosi. She responded simply and articulately with a single word: “Yes.”

And just like that, Pelosi’s past statement undercuts the whining and complaining of Democrats today who are throwing a hissy-fit over the president eliminating a threat to our nation’s well-being and setting free the oppressed people of Iran. What’s really happening is a mass manifestation of Trump Derangement Syndrome, not a sincere desire to uphold the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

So either Pelosi has forgotten her previous statements on this issue—which isn’t beyond the realm of possibility, seeing as she’s now officially older than dirt—or she has changed her mind since Obama’s strike, because she now says the exact opposite about Trump’s Operation Epic Fury.

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In a major victory for conservative voters in Texas, Rep. Dan Crenshaw has been defeated by State Rep. Steve Toth in the Republican primary for Texas’s 2nd Congressional District.

With 58 percent of votes reported as of late Tuesday night, Toth was leading decisively with 57.6 percent to Crenshaw’s 39.2 percent.

President Donald Trump endorsed every other Texas House Republican incumbent running for re-election ahead of the March 3 primary, but deliberately left Crenshaw out.

This made Crenshaw the only Texas GOP House member without Trump’s backing in a competitive race.

Toth is leading in both Harris and Montgomery counties that make up the district.

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It turns out that running your yap mouth to your heart’s content even as your brain lags far behind — if it even bothers getting its shoes on at all — isn’t a recipe for electoral success, even on the Democratic side.

Alas, Rep. Jasmine Crockett is finding that out too late. The soon-to-be-former U.S. representative is apparently also going to add soon-to-be-former U.S. Senate candidate to her résumé after early returns in the Democratic Texas primary Tuesday night tanked her odds on betting markets.

Both Polymarket and Kalshi had Crockett at 1 percent chance of winning as of 8 p.m. Central, after most polls had closed in Texas, with state Rep. James Talarico at 99 percent. While KDFW-TV reported that judges were allowing Dallas County to keep polls open until 9 p.m. — two hours after polls closed in most of the state — after some voters were turned away or directed to the incorrect polling place, this hasn’t moved her odds in a favorable direction.

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When it comes to suggesting the United States take over various countries, President Trump really can’t help himself. First the POTUS set his sights on Greenland, and now he is considering the idea of a “friendly takeover” of Cuba.

This comes on the heels of a Cuban attack on an American speedboat which killed four. The Cubans claim the Americans fired at their troops, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn’t taking their word for it, and says the U.S. has “every reason to want our own information.” When it comes to communist nations, I tend to agree that we need to take their stories with a very large grain of salt.

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Video from former President Bill Clinton’s deposition before the House Oversight Committee last week was released on Monday, and it shows a brutal scene for Democrats who were trying to goad him into tying Trump to Epstein. 

Bill and Hillary previously refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee, leading to an attempt to hold the two in contempt of Congress, and they finally agreed to sit for interviews.

During Bill Clinton’s deposition, the Democratic House Members were ready for him to trash Trump and implicate him with Jeffrey Epstein, but they were clearly disappointed when he actually exonerated Trump and only had good things to say about the President.

One Congressman kicked off the Trump line of questioning by asking if Trump should be dragged in to testify before the House Oversight Committee, and Clinton responded, “That’s for you to decide.”

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A viral video over the weekend yielded fruit once corporate bosses took notice. Smoothie King and the franchise owners in Michigan fired the two employees who refused to serve someone because he wore a MAGA sweatshirt.

There was a lack of understanding on both sides when it came to discrimination. The employees thought they could serve or not serve someone based on their beliefs while the customers thought they could call the police over discrimination.

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President Trump on Wednesday afternoon went off on Democrat Reps Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for screaming at him during his State of the Union Address.

Trump said they should be institutionalized and deported.

The camera panned over to Ilhan Omar as President Trump called out Somali pirates and fraud rings in Minnesota.

Omar was on the verge of tears as President Trump called out Somalia for its corruption.

“If you agree with this statement, stand up to show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump said.

Republicans stood up and cheered while many Democrats remained seated.

President Trump lambasted the Democrats for refusing to stand for protecting American citizens.

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Ari Rabin-Havt, the deputy campaign manager for Sanders in 2020, said that if Ocasio-Cortez “does run, she obviously becomes the biggest star and sucks up the oxygen in that lane.”

As the 2028 presidential election grows closer, far-left Democrats are reportedly escalating their push for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for the role, with no other clear alternative being seen.

Allies shared the pitch for Ocasio-Cortez to run with Axios, saying that she would enter the race polling among the top five potential candidates within the party, with the New York rep being described as “the liberal heir” to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Allies also said that she would be able to raise $100 million just online due to her high-profile status, without having an in-person fundraiser.

Allies also said that there was a window of opportunity to seize amid recent socialist wins across the country, and that “her candidacy would force Democrats to debate issues she and Sanders care about, such as Medicare for All and Gaza.” Additionally, if she fails, she would run for Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat, the allies said.

One strategist told the outlet, “I think she’ll plan to run for both and end up a senator.”

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People are praising President Trump for ending the evil regime of the terrorist regime in Iran.

In Washington, D.C. a huge crowd waving US and Iranian flags is participating in “USA, USA, USA” cheers.

A Shia mosque in Northern Virginia is honoring the legacy of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Manassas Mosque hosted a remembrance service on Sunday for the Iranian supreme leader was killed in joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Tehran.

Located about 30 miles outside Washington, D.C., the mosque held a Ramadan iftar that sent “condolences and glad tidings on the martyrdom of His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.”

An Instagram post invited followers to attend as the community considered its “responsibilities” in the wake of his death.

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The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Epstein depositions.

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify before the Oversight Committee after Chairman James Comer moved forward with holding them in criminal contempt of Congress.

During the deposition in Chappaqua, New York, last week, Clinton was asked about the salacious photo of him in a hot tub with an alleged Epstein trafficking victim.

The Justice Department in December released a new batch of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking cases.

The trove of documents was released after a federal judge in New York recently ordered the release of Jeffrey Epstein documents related to a 2019 sex trafficking case.

President Trump recently signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law to release all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

The new trove of documents included never-before-seen photos of Bill Clinton in a hot tub, swimming with a mystery woman.

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Virginia’s new governor, Abigail Spanberger, ran on a campaign focused on affordability, so did other Virginia Democrats.

It is now becoming increasingly apparent that this was a lie.

These people have been in office for just a matter of weeks and they are already trying to triple their own pay. Things will certainly be more affordable for them if they get away with this.

FOX News reports:

Virginia Democrats talk affordability — and vote to nearly triple their own pay

The Virginia State Senate and its Democratic majority may have voted to nearly triple their pay if a provision inserted into their final budget survives the House reconciliation process and reaches Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk.

The development comes as Spanberger has centered her campaign on “affordability,” with Richmond Democrats echoing that they are working to improve their constituents’ personal finances.

Virginia’s legislature itself was founded as a part-time, gentleman’s chamber, where lawmakers would return to their day jobs when Richmond wasn’t holding session.

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A majority of voters say immunity for pharmaceutical firms should be removed in cases where the companies’ vaccines cause injuries, according to a new poll.

Sixty percent of voters responding to the poll agreed that vaccine manufacturers should be stripped of immunity in such cases, including 33 percent who strongly backed withdrawing the immunity.

Majorities across all age groups, genders, and races also supported the immunity abolishment.

Just 27.5 percent of respondents did not think the immunity should end, while 12.6 percent of respondents said they were not sure.

The survey was carried out by Big Data Poll for the 1776 Law Center.

“Few single issues enjoy more support across every group of Americans than ending all immunity for Big Pharma,” Robert Barnes, the civil rights and criminal defense attorney who heads the law center, said in a statement.

“That includes their vaccines when those vaccines cause injury.”

“As we have seen with food and financial freedoms, the proposals are supported most vigorously among the voters the administration badly needs to win back over,” Big Data Poll Director Rich Baris added.

“That includes voters below 65 years old and minorities that previously voted for the president in 2024.”

The poll was conducted from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18 among 2,012 registered voters. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.1 percent.

The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act granted immunity to vaccine companies for vaccine injuries “if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

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The House Oversight Committee on Monday released video of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Epstein depositions.

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify before the Oversight Committee after Chairman James Comer moved forward with holding them in criminal contempt of Congress.

Hillary testified at an office in Chappaqua, New York, last week.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert snapped a photo of Hillary Clinton and leaked it to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.

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