President Donald Trump has ordered the release of 172 MILLION barrels of oil from the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat record-high energy prices triggered by the ongoing war with Iran.

The release, one of the largest in American history, will begin next week and will take approximately 120 days to complete, according to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright.

This coordinated move comes after 32 member nations of the International Energy Agency (IEA) unanimously backed President Trump’s request for a massive 400 million barrel global release to stabilize markets and protect American drivers and families.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright released the following powerful statement, underscoring Trump’s ironclad commitment to American energy security:

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Former First Lady Jill Biden is releasing a new book about her time in the White House because of course she is. What else are she and Joe going to do for money other than write books and go on book tours?

In a video she released on social media, she claims that it was Joe who made the unprecedented decision to not seek reelection in 2024. That seems like a bit of historical revisionism.

Actor George Clooney wrote an op-ed for the NY Times demanding that Joe Drop out of the race and many people suspect that Obama played a role in the writing of the piece. Joe only dropped out of the race when Democrat donors made it clear that they would not donate another dime as long as Biden was the nominee. Chuck Schumer had private meetings with Biden and so did Nancy Pelosi.

But it was Joe Biden’s decision to drop out? OK.

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Former Dolton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard has switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican to run for a seat in Georgia after a career full of scandals and questionable behavior.

Henyard is running for Fulton County Board of Commissioners in District five according to election filings. She will be competing against four Democratic candidates for the seat. The former mayor has not made any public statements about her campaign yet.

However, given her history, it won’t be easy for her to win this seat once voters are made aware of the string of scandals she was involved in during her tenure as Dolton mayor.

Henyard served as mayor from 2021 to 2025 and referred to herself as a “super mayor.” In reality, she was probably the most corrupt mayor in the nation.

For starters, she is alleged to have spent taxpayer funds for her personal expenses and mismanaged the city’s finances. In fact, she was so mired in corruption that the city hired former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to investigate her. The probe found that the village’s general fund balance dropped from $5.61 million in April 2022 to a deficit of $3.65 million by May 2024, according to Fox News.

Henyard allegedly used the village credit card to shop at stores like Amazon, Target, Walgreens, and Wayfair. In fact, she ran up about $779,000 worth of purchases on the credit card in 2023 with no receipts to explain the purchases, Fox 32 Chicago reported.

Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla recently tore into liberal journalist Katie Couric for her interview of California Governor Gavin Newsom in which she made a point to talk about how handsome he is. It was the type of fawning coverage that became commonplace in the Obama era.

Adam took this a step further though, and made an excellent point about liberal bias in the media.

He pointed out that when these journalists finally leave an outlet like CNN, ABC News or whatever other network, they always reveal themselves to be on the far left. Have you noticed this? Adam is absolutely right.

They all do this after spending years claiming that they are some sort of centrist and playing it down the middle, when we all know this isn’t true.

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Muhammad Casim refused calls from top Democrats to drop out of Prince William County supervisor race

A Virginia Democrat who refused calls from prominent party leaders to drop out of the Prince William County supervisor race over racist social media posts was projected to lose his bid, handing Republicans a pickup in the Washington exurbs.

The defeat followed public rebukes from several top state and local Democrats, who said Muhammad “Sef” Casim had disqualified himself and urged him to step aside. Casim remained in the race, however, saying the stakes were too high to withdraw.

Republican Realtor Jeanne LaCroix was poised to win the Woodbridge District seat, marking a Republican gain in a county that has trended Democratic in recent years.

Prince William County, once a conservative stronghold during the Obama era, became known nationally for hardline immigration policies before shifting left alongside Northern Virginia’s suburban growth.

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The radical left’s desperate, decade-long smear campaign against President Donald Trump has just been obliterated once and for all.

Richard Kahn, a co-executor of Epstein’s estate and the financier’s longtime accountant, appeared before the House Oversight Committee where he answered questions about Epstein’s complex financial empire and the powerful figures connected to it.

According to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), Kahn’s testimony delivered a key revelation: he saw no financial transactions involving President Donald Trump or any member of Trump’s family.

Kahn has now become the FIFTH high-profile witness to testify under oath that Trump and his family had ZERO involvement with the convicted pedophile’s financial dealings.

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A seven-year-old boy was viciously mauled to death after an animal shelter gave his mother a ‘monster’ pit bull who had a ‘troubled history.’

Leelan Lokie was attacked inside his home in Gunnison, Colorado, on February 4 by the 86-pound beast named Boaz.

According to a police report uncovered by KDVR, officers arrived at the family home to find the animal locked onto the youngster’s neck.

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Maryland watermen say 240M gallon spill has ‘devastated’ their market even as officials say water safe

A massive sewage spill that sent more than 200 million gallons of raw wastewater into the Potomac River is still rippling through the region’s seafood industry, even as officials say water quality is improving — and just as the region heads into peak oyster season.

The Potomac Interceptor pipe in Montgomery County, Maryland, collapsed Jan. 19, spewing an estimated 240 million gallons of sewage into the Potomac, a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.

“It has devastated our market,” Robert T. Brown, president of the Maryland Watermen’s Association, told WTOP News. “The people who shuck the oysters and stuff and ship them to different states don’t want [any] oysters coming out of the Potomac because they [are] afraid of what it may be.”

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Days after it was revealed that California Highway Patrol officers have been providing security for former Vice President Kamala Harris on her book tour, even outside the state, Harris has canceled three events in California.

On Tuesday, events promoting her “107 Days” book tour in Sacramento, Anaheim, and San Diego appeared on Ticketmaster as canceled, according to KCRA-TV.

Ticketmaster said “a scheduling conflict” led to the cancellation of the events, titled “A Conversation with Kamala Harris.” Those who bought tickets will get a refund, Ticketmaster said.

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If there’s one issue American voters have been crystal clear about over the past few years, it’s election integrity. Ironically, it’s about the only thing we can all agree on.

Republican voters have been pounding the table for it. These fed-up voters show up at town halls, call their senators, send emails by the thousands, and call out elected officials online… Americans want fair elections. And speaking of that, when election season rolls around, these same people get out and vote like their country depends on it.

Because to them, it does. But apparently the GOP Senate doesn’t feel the same way.

And that’s why the SAVE Act has become such a fiery hot debate. If the American people didn’t detest Congress before, they sure as heck do now, because the bill is stuck in the Senate, with nowhere to go, and GOP leadership refuses to end the Filibuster to push it through. The idea behind the bill is simple. Secure the vote and make sure only American citizens are casting ballots in American elections.

That’s it. Logical, right?

Well, not according to the GOP leadership.

But public support for it is through the roof. Poll after poll shows overwhelming backing for the concept. One recent Harvard poll found 71 percent of Americans support it. Among Republicans, the support is even higher.

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The Canadian government has begun ramping up the nation’s disturbing “assisted suicide” program after official data revealed that thousands of citizens have been euthanized with state-sanctioned lethal injections within 24 hours.

Canada’s taxpayer-funded euthanasia program is drawing renewed scrutiny after a new report found that the government has already been quietly performing thousands of same-day “assisted suicides.”

The revelations come as Canada continues expanding its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) system, a program critics warn is rapidly transforming the country’s approach to healthcare, disability, and end-of-life care.

Thousands of Same-Day Assisted Deaths Reported

A new report found that the MAiD program has already carried out thousands of same-day euthanasia procedures.

In Ontario alone, more than 200 people were euthanized within 24 hours of being approved in 2023, according to a 2024 provincial report cited by the Free Press.

Of the 219 deaths recorded in the review, roughly 30 percent occurred on the same day approval was granted.

Nationwide, approximately 16,500 Canadians died through the MAiD program in 2024.

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A San Diego bishop who led one of California’s most prominent Chaldean Catholic parishes is now at the center of a sprawling felony case involving allegations of embezzlement, money laundering, secret visits to a Tijuana brothel, and a months-long pattern of financial misconduct that investigators say left hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted for.

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta of Saint Peter’s Chaldean Catholic Church in San Diego was taken into custody on March 5, 2026, at San Diego International Airport as he was allegedly attempting to board a flight to Germany, according to a statement from the San Diego Sheriff’s Office. He was carrying more than $9,000 in cash at the time of his arrest.

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Fani Willis, the disgraced Fulton County, Georgia DA who couldn’t keep her clam in her pants while prosecuting Donald Trump, was just dealt a serious blow this week after a judge denied her attempt to intervene in litigation over the reimbursement of legal fees stemming from her now-dismissed Georgia election case against Trump and several co-defendants.

The ruling by Scott McAfee allows efforts to recover nearly $17 million in attorney fees and costs to proceed after the high-profile prosecution collapsed late last year.

In August 2023, Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County for allegedly conspiring to overturn then-President Joe Biden’s narrow election victory in Georgia. The case was dismissed in November, prompting Trump and several co-defendants to seek reimbursement for legal expenses incurred during the prosecution.

Willis’ office attempted to intervene in the fee litigation in an effort to block the claims. But McAfee ruled this week that the district attorney’s office had no legal basis to participate in the case after Willis had already been disqualified from it.

The judge noted that the state was already represented by a temporary district attorney appointed after Willis’ removal, meaning the office’s interests were already represented in the proceedings.

However, McAfee granted Fulton County itself permission to intervene in the case. The county funds most of the district attorney’s office and could ultimately be responsible for paying any reimbursement ordered by the court.

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The Trump administration has withdrawn $120,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) tied to projects focused on LGBTQ-themed comics and multiethnic studies. The move affects grants originally approved under the former Biden regime.

One of the canceled grants was a $60,000 award to Margaret Alice Galvan, an English professor at the University of Florida. Her research project, “Comics in Movement,” aimed to examine “LGBTQ+” cartoonists in the 1980s and 1990s.

Another $60,000 grant had been awarded to Maite Urcaregui, an assistant professor at San José State University. Her book project, “Seeing Citizenship,” was intended to explore the relationship between race, citizenship, and political belonging within multiethnic graphic literature.

Although both grants still appear on the NEH website, the agency said they were terminated in April 2025 as part of staffing reductions and funding cuts tied to broader federal cost-cutting measures. The NEH said it is also taking steps to ensure future awards are merit-based and aligned with projects that promote an understanding of America’s founding principles.

“Both grants were awarded at the end of 2024, under the Biden administration, and terminated in April 2025,” the agency said.

The funding cuts are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to scale back federal support for woke diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Federal officials have pushed agencies and institutions to review or eliminate DEI-related programming tied to taxpayer funding.

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The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released undercover video of a Chenega & Cherokee federal executive admitting that “Native-owned” firms cheat US government contracts and outsource the work while they collect millions.

Ricky Longhurst, Senior Account Executive at Cherokee Federal, told the undercover OMG journalist that companies are claiming ‘Native’ ownership to “cheat” the government.

Mike Montgomery, a Chenega Architecture and Design President, disclosed the revenue split: “We give 37% back to the tribe for infrastructure… 63% goes back to the business.”

“So, how do you do that because you don’t look Native?” the OMG journalist asked Mike Montgomery.

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We all watched as the Biden regime used federal law enforcement as a political weapon against American citizens. But nobody was targeted and harassed more than President Trump, both while he was a private citizen and the President of the United States. The bizarre and creepy investigations into his campaign and his allies went way, way beyond any normal oversight and crossed into North Korean territory.

Just The News dug deep and uncovered this dastardly plot.

President Donald Trump and his supporters were targeted by four consecutive FBI code-named counterintelligence investigations over the last decade that secretly subjected hundreds of innocent Americans to privacy-invading tactics and essentially treated the man twice elected president as a national security threat for most of the first nine years of his political career, according to interviews and documents reviewed by Just the News.

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The older you get, the more you try to prepare for the eventuality that one day, you won’t be here anymore. You get your final papers in order, preplan for services, etc., with the mindset being that you want to make sure family members are taken care of, and that they won’t have to worry about paying for any final expenses.

For some folks, consideration of such a situation can inevitably lead to thoughts of “what if I’m the last one to go? Who will be around to speak on my behalf? Will there even be a service? Will anyone attend to pay their respects?”

I don’t know what U.S. Navy veteran Lonnie Dee Wayman, 74, was thinking in his final days, but on February 21, 2026, he passed away after receiving hospice care, with no friends or family to claim his remains.

On Monday, one day before Mr. Wayman was laid to rest, a call was put out to the citizens of Nashville, inviting them to attend his service to pay their respects.

“Join us in paying respect to Lonnie D. Wayman, a U.S. Navy Veteran, who will be laid to rest with full military honors,” read a post on the Tennessee Department of Veterans Services’ Facebook page. “He was an unclaimed Veteran with no known family, and we invite the public to attend his service and show gratitude for his service to our country.”

As videos and photos show, the outpouring of support was incredible:

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women kicked off its 70th session on Monday in New York, drawing delegates from around the globe. This annual meeting aims to hammer out agreed conclusions — global policy recommendations — on this year’s priority of ensuring justice for women and girls. Yet controversy erupted right away. For the first time in decades, the document wasn’t adopted by consensus but passed by a rare recorded vote: 37 in favor, one against (the United States), and six abstentions.

What made the U.S. stand alone? Trump administration officials saw the document as anything but pro-woman, slamming it for pushing DEI frameworks, gender ideology that blurs biological sex, vague references to sexual and so-called “reproductive health,” and crucially, refusing to define “woman” or “gender.” This omission reflects the broader cultural battles raging over gender identity, where progressive ideologies have increasingly sought to blur the lines between biological sex and LGBT-related agendas.

In recent years, these debates have intensified, pitting biological views of binary sex against a radical push to redefine reality based on subjective feelings. Critics argue that this shift undermines women’s rights, safety, and achievements by allowing biological males to encroach on female-only spaces, from prisons and shelters to locker rooms and awards ceremonies.

According to Bethany Kozma, director of Global Affairs (OGA) at the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.N.’s document exemplifies this trend. She expressed disappointment in the document, saying how there was “no mention of motherhood or unique female experiences … and it failed to define what a woman is.” As she went on to state, “The UN Commission on Women is supposed to be for women, yet for years, it’s been co-opted to include men pretending to be women. Many countries claim to support and empower women, yet some of them cannot even answer the simple question: ‘What is a woman?’”

Yet rather than throwing in the towel, the U.S. opted to propose some amendments — the foremost being the suggestion that the document include a legitimate and clear definition of man and woman. Under the Trump administration, this move aligns with a broader effort to restore clarity on biological reality, reversing years of confusion sown by previous administrations. Kozma explained how the amendments “were just very common sense.” The Commission, however, appeared to see it differently. “Minutes before midnight on Sunday night,” The Daily Wire reported, “the council sent the final draft to the United States without acknowledging any of the American red lines that Kozma’s team had outlined.”

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Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says fraud tied to the Affordable Care Act has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, describing it as a serious abuse of the federal health insurance exchange system. The issue involves brokers and agents who allegedly manipulated enrollment records to collect government subsidies and commissions tied to Obamacare plans. The activity allowed some agents to sign individuals up for coverage without their knowledge or switch their plans without consent. Those actions triggered federal subsidy payments that should never have been issued.

In an interview with NBC News, Oz said some people on ACA plans should not be enrolled and expects the enrollment rate will continue to fall to around 19 million.

“In fact, the fact that we have 23 million makes me think we have too many participants in the ACA,” Oz told the outlet. “It’s too high a number.”

Oz said he believes some sign-ups are the result of fraud or mistakes.

“Either their income would not qualify them, they made too much or made too little, or they didn’t file the forms, maybe on purpose, or they were duplicately enrolled in Medicaid or more likely other states’ ACAs,” he added. “These are major concerns for us.”

Oz now oversees the agency responsible for administering federal health programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace. During remarks on the problem, Oz stated that fraudulent enrollments and unauthorized changes to insurance policies resulted in significant financial losses for the federal government. Oz also warned that the system’s structure made it easier for dishonest brokers to exploit weaknesses in the enrollment process. Federal officials have begun tightening verification requirements to prevent additional abuse.

Obamacare became law in 2010 under President Barack Obama and created online marketplaces where Americans could purchase insurance plans and receive federal income-based subsidies. Federal agencies distributed billions of dollars in premium tax credits to help eligible participants offset costs. Oversight challenges have persisted since the program’s launch. Fraud investigations have targeted both insurance agents and organized schemes attempting to collect federal payments tied to false enrollments.

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The most overrepresented, overhyped, and overexposed political bloc in today’s mainstream media is… any guesses?

I’ll give you a hint: They’re in the Republican Party (more or less). And the amount of media attention they’re receiving is nothing short of extraordinary. In all their years, they’ve never received better press!

And in a weird, inexplicable coincidence, their business model directly depends on being noticed.

Not liked or loved. Not supported, trusted, or believed. And certainly not “winning hearts and minds” — because so far, they’ve failed to influence almost anyone.

Even though they call themselves “influencers.”

But it’s a simple financial formula:

1. Notice them.
2. Click on them.
3. Ca-ching!

I’m speaking of those MAGA-adjacent podcasters, “influencers,” and politicos — Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Steve Bannon, and Thomas Massie — who’ve sided with the Democrats to oppose the Iran War, along with the MAGA members they represent.

After all, on the Democratic side of the aisle, the Iran War is clearly unpopular: 89% are against it; just 7% support it. They hate the war nearly as much as they hate President Donald Trump (3%).

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Pennsylvania‘s Democrat governor is being sued by his neighbors who say he is trespassing and unlawfully occupying a piece of land that they refused to sell to him.

Governor Josh Shapiro and his wife Lori own an $830,500 home in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

The couple’s property shares a common boundary with land owned by Jeremy and Simone Mock, whose home is worth just shy of $1 million.

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“THIS IS A HISTORIC $300 BILLION DOLLAR DEAL,” President Trump said

President Trump announced on Tuesday that the first U.S. oil refinery in 50 years will open in Brownsville, Texas.

“America is returning to REAL ENERGY DOMINANCE! Today I am proud to announce that America First Refining is opening the FIRST new U.S. Oil Refinery in 50 YEARS in Brownsville, Texas,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “THIS IS A HISTORIC $300 BILLION DOLLAR DEAL — THE BIGGEST IN U.S. HISTORY, A MASSIVE WIN for American Workers, Energy, and the GREAT People of South Texas!

“Thank you to our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment. It is because of our America First Agenda, streamlining Permits, and lowering Taxes, that have attracted Billions of Dollars in Deals coming back to our Nation,” he continued.

“A new Refinery at the Port of Brownsville, will fuel U.S. Markets, strengthen our National Security, boost American Energy production, deliver Billions of Dollars in Economic impact, and will be THE CLEANEST REFINERY IN THE WORLD. It will power Global Exports, and bring THOUSANDS of long overdue Jobs and Growth to a Region that deserves it. This is what AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE looks like. AMERICA FIRST, ALWAYS!”

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Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis just got humiliated by a judge ­— again.

Remember, if you will: After former President Joe Biden “won” the 2020 presidential election, the knives came out for Donald Trump, and it seemed just about everybody with a law degree tried to ruin him.

You had the crusading former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice launching multiple investigations, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg trying get to get his by using a “novel” legal theory to charge him with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, the TDS-riddled AG of New York, Letitia James, filing a civil suit against him for allegedly overvaluing his real estate holdings, and you had columnist E. Jean Carroll suing with her preposterous story of a department store sexual assault decades ago.

All along the way, we saw judges like NY’s Arthur Engoron and New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Manuel Merchan routinely ruling against Trump and bending the law to fit the preferred outcome (which of course was always, destroy Orange Man).

Most of the cases have been dropped or are in various stages of appeal.

And then there was Willis, who in 2023 thought she could nail the then-former president on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charges alleging interference in the 2020 election. She forgot a basic rule, however: You probably shouldn’t have an affair with your lead counsel while prosecuting a case; it’s a bad look. The Georgia Court of Appeals eventually tossed her off the case for “appearance of impropriety.”

Trump and the other defendants want their legal fees reimbursed by the DA’s office — nearly $17 million worth — and Fani wants her say in the matter.

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President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth flatly denied that U.S. forces targeted civilians after a missile strike destroyed a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Trump said the information he reviewed suggested Iran may have caused the explosion itself, while Hegseth repeated that U.S. forces don’t deliberately attack civilians and confirmed the Pentagon is reviewing the incident.

That didn’t stop Western media outlets from rushing to repeat Tehran’s accusations.

This may be a shock to you, but Iranian state media quickly blamed the United States and Israel for the February 28 explosion at Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, which killed 168 people, injuring dozens more.

The claim rapidly spread through Western coverage, even though it came from the same government currently fighting the United States.

In other words, the source behind the accusation wasn’t a neutral investigator, a verified battlefield report, or an independent intelligence agency.

It was the Iranian regime.

Reports describing a preliminary U.S. intelligence review added more fuel to the story; an assessment suggested American forces were “likely” responsible for the strike while targeting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval facility located nearby.

The same early review also stated the school may have been struck accidentally after outdated targeting data misidentified the structure as part of the military compound.

Even with those caveats, many outlets ran headlines that treated Tehran’s accusation as a fact rather than an allegation from an adversarial government.

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More than 400 criminal illegal aliens charged with or convicted of child sex crimes have been arrested in Houston, Texas, and an official stated parents can “sleep a little better” knowing those individuals are no longer a threat to their families.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston arrested 414 of the illegals during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office.

Officials said the number almost doubled that of predators arrested during the final year of former President Joe Biden’s (D) administration.

“As a group, the arrested criminal illegal aliens accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525 other criminal offenses ranging from homicide to robbery,” the announcement said.

ICE then listed some of the arrestees, who came from countries such as Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, and the United Kingdom.

Breitbart News has extensively covered crimes illegal aliens have been accused or convicted of committing against children in the United States. The outlet reported in January that an illegal alien was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl with autism in the sanctuary state of California. The following month, an illegal alien fugitive was charged with possession of child sexual abuse material, commonly known as child pornography.

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On March 10, 2026, a Raccoon, from the area of Esham Road in Parsonsburg, MD, tested positive for rabies after contact with a dog.  The Wicomico County Health Department is advising all residents to be aware of their surroundings and avoid contact with all wild or stray animals.

Rabies is a preventable viral disease that exists in the saliva of mammals and is transmitted from animal to animal or from animal to human by biting and/or scratching. The virus can also be spread by licking, when infected saliva makes contact with open cuts or wounds, and with the mouth, eyes, and nose. If left untreated in humans and animals, rabies is fatal.

Please keep the following tips in mind to protect your family and your pets: 

·         Keep pets confined

·         Avoid all contact with wild or stray animals

·         Teach children to leave unfamiliar animals alone

·         Vaccinate pets-Maryland law requires that all dogs, cats, and ferrets, 4 months of age and older have a current rabies vaccination.

·         Avoid feeding or watering pets outside

·         Secure outside garbage lids

To report human or animal contact, such as bites or scratches, call the Wicomico County Health Department at (410) 546-4446. For more information on rabies or rabies vaccination clinics, visit our website at www.wicomicohealth.org, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram (WicomicoHealth).

The official narrative that billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell has been a fragile lie from the beginning, a convenient story for the elite predators he served. Now, newly unearthed Department of Justice records shred that fiction, exposing a chilling premeditated cover-up by prison guards and pointing directly to a calculated murder. This was not a suicide; it was a silencing. As whistleblowers like Barry Young continue to risk everything to expose corruption, the Epstein case stands as a grim warning of the lengths the criminal cabal will go to protect its secrets: they will kill, they will lie, and they will corrupt every institution meant to stop them.

• Newly disclosed DOJ records show guard Tova Noel searched for “latest on Epstein in jail” minutes before his body was found.
• Records indicate Noel and fellow officer Michael Thomas falsified logs, failed to conduct mandatory checks, and were shopping and sleeping on duty.
• A suspicious series of cash deposits, totaling thousands, were made to Noel’s account in the months leading to Epstein’s death.
• An inmate witness reported hearing guards shout “Breathe!” and one state, “Dudes, you killed that dude,” followed by a discussion of creating an alibi.
• The evidence strongly contradicts the official suicide ruling, suggesting a coordinated murder and cover-up to prevent Epstein from testifying against his powerful associates.

A web of lies and suspicious profits

The recently released documents, reported by the New York Post, paint a picture of profound dereliction and deceit. Correctional Officer Tova Noel, assigned to guard the unit housing the most high-profile inmate in America, was allegedly browsing the internet and shopping online instead of performing mandated checks every 30 minutes. Crucially, she conducted two internet searches for “latest on Epstein in jail” just before his body was discovered. This is not the behavior of a guard performing routine duties; it is the behavior of someone monitoring a situation.

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Endorsement Signals Law Enforcement’s Call for New Leadership

Wicomico County, Maryland — The Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #111 (FOP) has officially endorsed Scott Hamilton in his campaign for Sheriff, underscoring strong support from rank-and-file law enforcement officers and signaling a clear call for new leadership within the Sheriff’s Office.

The endorsement from the Fraternal Order of Police — the nation’s largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers — reflects growing confidence in Hamilton’s vision for strengthening public safety, improving morale, and restoring trust within the department and the community it serves.

“Scott Hamilton understands the challenges facing today’s law enforcement professionals,” said a representative of the Fraternal Order of Police. “He has demonstrated the leadership, integrity, and forward-thinking approach necessary to support deputies, enhance community partnerships, and move the Sheriff’s Office in a positive new direction.”

Hamilton expressed gratitude for the endorsement and emphasized his commitment to working alongside deputies and staff to build a stronger, more effective agency.

“I am honored to have the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police,” said Hamilton. “The men and women who serve on the front lines every day deserve leadership that listens, supports them, equips them to succeed, and is present. This endorsement shows that law enforcement is ready for new leadership — leadership that prioritizes service, professionalism, accountability, and public safety.”

The FOP endorsement highlights a shared commitment to modernizing operations, investing in training and resources, and fostering a culture of transparency and respect both inside the department and throughout the community.

Scott Hamilton’s campaign for Sheriff continues to gain momentum as community leaders, public safety advocates, and now the Fraternal Order of Police unite behind a vision for progress and renewed leadership.

It’s just crazy how difficult it has been to get Congress to care about secure, legitimate elections in the United States.  For the record, elections in America are conducive to mass fraud.  Although Democrats and Establishment Republicans say stupid and fundamentally dishonest things, such as “America’s elections have never been more secure,” American citizens know they are lying.

Although voters in national elections must be U.S. citizens, there’s no requirement to provide documentary proof.  Just this week, the FBI arrested an illegal alien from Mauritania living in Pennsylvania (a traditional battleground state) who has voted in the last five presidential elections.  A deportation order was issued against the Mauritanian back in 2000.

Infuriatingly, the foreign national ignored his removal order for a quarter of a century and fraudulently claimed to be a U.S. citizen when voting in Pennsylvania elections.  The man has been illegally voting in a battleground state since before the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks.  This is how easy it is for foreigners to vote in American elections.  They do so with relative impunity.  They do so despite standing deportation orders.  That’s how little they fear actually being held accountable for illegally voting in the United States.

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A federal judge has sentenced four individuals to more than 14 years in federal prison for running a $12.7 Million “Minnesota-Somali-style fraud” scheme in North Carolina that paid more than $1 Million in kickbacks to drug addicted patients.

The fraudsters, Brandon Eugene Sims, 40; Kimberly Mable Sims, 39; Francine Sims Super, 64; and Keke Komeko Johnson, 53, operated Life Touch, LLC, a now permanently shut down fake substance abuse facility and 1st Choice Healthcare Services, a urine drug screening company.

Between 2018 and 2023,  Johnson and Super reportedly oversaw more than $1 million in illegal kickback payments to drug using Medicaid patients.

The kickbacks were meant “to lure patients to show up for costly substance abuse and lab services that Johnson billed to Medicaid on behalf of Life Touch and 1st Choice,” the Eastern North Carolina U.S. Attorney’s Office stated in a press release.

Inmate Sims, Inmate Super’s daughter, owned 1st Choice Healthcare, and paid Medicaid kickbacks to Inmates Super and Johnson for fake lab services ordered by Life Touch, LLC. Meanwhile, Inmate Brandon Sims, who owned Life Touch and resided in Texas, received Millions in illegal proceeds from the Life Touch operation, but failed to file or pay taxes on that money. The gift card kickback scheme resulted in more than $12.7 Million fake billings to the Medicaid program.

The feds seized $6 million in assets from them in 2023, including cash, cars and homes. After becoming aware of the criminal investigation, Brandon Sims “withdrew more than $1 Million in cash from a bank account, hiding it in a safe at his Texas home.”

Agents executed a search warrant and seized $1.3 million in cash, a 2021 Rolls Royce Cullinan, a 2021 Chevrolet Corvette, and a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado.

Agents seized millions more in other real property, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

“This is shocking Minnesota-Somali-style fraud right here in North Carolina,” said U.S. Attorney Ellis Boyle in a statement. “For too long, government has allowed grifters to steal taxpayer dollars with impunity. Here, these vultures exploited particularly susceptible drug abusers trying to recover their lives and dignity. Shameful abuse, no remorse. They better learn, and everyone should get the message. Cheaters. Never. Win.”

The Judge sentenced Johnson, the company’s “Compliance Director,” to six years in federal prison and to pay $15,286,912.91 in restitution to North Carolina Medicaid and $331,851.00 to the IRS.

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As President Donald Trump and Congress look to hold illegal immigrant truckers accountable, a future United States Supreme Court decision could modify a federal law that could allow victims of commercial vehicle crashes to hold those responsible for hiring the driver behind the crash accountable.

The ruling, which is expected before June, could overturn a 2019 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and allow for the modification of Section 14501(c)(1) of the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994.

“The statute being argued is severely outdated and does nothing to help the innocent families of the victims to unprovoked accidents,” Marcus Coleman, the father of Dalilah Coleman, who was struck by an illegal immigrant truck driver when she was 5, told The Daily Signal.

“If you are a broker and hire a company with issues, and continue operating with that company, you should be held liable. That is gross negligence.”

While the Colemans did not bring this lawsuit, the Coleman family has been pushing for a ban on illegal immigrants obtaining commercial driver’s licenses and has been closely monitoring the case.

The plaintiff, Shawn Montgomery, filed the case after Yosniel Varela-Mojena, a commercial truck driver for Caribe Transport II LLC, crashed into him in 2017. Varela-Mojena’s tractor-trailer veered off the road and crashed into Montgomery’s tractor-trailer, which was stopped on the side of an Illinois highway. Montgomery suffered major injuries, which resulted in the loss of one of his limbs.

Coleman told The Daily Signal that if the court were to side with Montgomery, it could allow the victims and families of these major crashes to sue the brokers responsible for hiring the driver who caused the crash.

Dalilah, now 7 years old, was hit by an 18-wheeler with an illegal immigrant driver behind the wheel in California.

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Woman throws herself through window and gunman is shot dead by SWAT during hostage situation near Baltimore synagogue

A woman threw herself through a window and a gunman was shot dead during a hostage situation at a residence near an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Baltimore.

Police responded to a burglary call at a home in the quiet Glen neighborhood, situated just feet away from the Agudath Israel of Baltimore synagogue.

A woman was held at gunpoint by a gunman inside the residence on Park Heights Avenue just after 12.30pm Tuesday, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said.

The Route 346 Emporium 32883 Old Ocean City Rd. Parsonsburg MD 21849 will open our doors at 10 AM today. We now have over 30,000 incredible ROCK -N- ROLL albums as well as Blues, Jazz and Country. 

This week we purchased an additional 4,000 albums and I have to say each time we scanned through the boxes we were truly blown away at the selection. The albums are in perfect shape and are first come, first served.

So spread the word and let your album friends know we likely have the largest record collection on the entire shore. 10 to 4 Thursday Friday and Saturday and 12 to 3 on Sunday. 

New York City planned to shell out roughly $400 million total to renovate more than two dozen “ghost” preschool buildings that have been mysteriously sitting empty with no update from officials, The Post has learned.

Records show the city has already spent millions of taxpayer dollars on the 25-plus vacant sites, once designated to be built as pre-K or 3-K centers — though officials refused to reveal exactly how much has been poured into them so far.

The massive overall sum was earmarked to build out the 27 facilities, which were set to be completed between August 2020 and September 2025 as part of an expansion of the city’s free “3K for All” program under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

New York City planned to shell out roughly $400 million total to renovate more than two dozen “ghost” preschool buildings that have been mysteriously sitting empty with no update from officials, The Post has learned.

Records show the city has already spent millions of taxpayer dollars on the 25-plus vacant sites, once designated to be built as pre-K or 3-K centers — though officials refused to reveal exactly how much has been poured into them so far.

The massive overall sum was earmarked to build out the 27 facilities, which were set to be completed between August 2020 and September 2025 as part of an expansion of the city’s free “3K for All” program under former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has confirmed that spineless RINOs joined forces with radical Democrats to torpedo her bold subpoena effort targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) shady immigration records.

Mace, who has been leading the charge to uncover the blatant immigration fraud involving Omar and her alleged “brother-husband,” didn’t mince words in a recent interview, declaring, “That’s Congress for you, nothing will happen!”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Mace made waves back in January during a House Oversight Committee hearing on massive Somali-linked fraud schemes draining Minnesota taxpayers under the disastrous watch of Gov. Tim Walz.

She officially moved to subpoena Omar’s immigration documents, including those of Ahmed Elmi, whom Omar is accused of marrying in a fraudulent scheme to game the U.S. immigration system.

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There was a time in America when a big night out for a good steak dinner meant hitting up Sizzler.

But that time seems long ago now, and the once-popular chain has seen its numbers dwindle in recent years. Founded in 1958, Sizzler once had more than 700 locations across the country. It now has just 74.

And the road from 770-plus to 74 has not been pretty. Two bankruptcies — the first in 1996 and the second in 2000 — have taken place on that journey, but Sizzler has somehow survived.

And now there is a plan for a comeback.

QSR Magazine’s Danny Klein recently spoke with Sizzler’s Chief Growth Officer Robert Clark about the chain’s plan for a rebirth. Clark has been with Sizzler 41 years and has seen previous plans to revitalize the chain fail.

“Our current leadership is much more focused on hey, let’s take the best of Sizzler and let’s make it even better,” Clark told QSR.

So, what’s the plan to make Sizzler a big-time player in the steak game again?

Well, per the QSR story, the chain focused on remodeling its stores and has seen positive results from that. That includes sales increases of around 47% in the remodeled locations. The chain is looking to continue making the updates.

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The Pentagon spent an historic $93 billion on grants and contracts just in September in 2025, according to a new report obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

According to the report, produced by government watchdog Open The Books (OTB), the Department of War (DoW) has not seen a level of spending at the end of a fiscal year so high since at least 2008. The Department spent over $50 billion on grants and contracts in the last five business days of September alone—spending that Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst chalks up to “binge-buying bureaucrats.”

Every September, Pentagon officials look for ways to spend the remainder of the military’s budget in order to avoid forfeiting unused money and facing reduced funding in the future under federal “use-it-or-lose-it” rules. OTB, which has tracked the Pentagon’s annual spending for nearly a decade, sent a letter asking War Secretary Pete Hegseth to reorient the department “around its central warfighting and lethality mission.” Despite this, the group says “there has never been anything” like September 2025.

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The United Arab Emirates is striking Iranian targets. Qatar is expelling Hamas. Arab countries are flying strikes in concert with US and Israeli fighter pilots in the same airspace.

The Middle East is being reshaped, and not in the way that the transnational elite, Russia, China, Iran, and many others either hoped or anticipated.

Russia’s Lavrov meets with Arab ambassadors in Moscow who request that he pressure Iran to de-escalate.

Lavrov rejects their requests and points out that they have not condemned the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran, and that Bahrain reportedly is seeking to introduce a resolution at the UNSC that condemns Iran’s retaliation, but not Israel and the US for initiating the war.

Whether that is accurate or not, Lavrov’s response seems to suggest that 9 days into the war, Moscow’s position is moving closer to that of Tehran.

The United Kingdom and Canada have both mused about building strategic relationships with China, and in almost no  time at all, the Chinese and Russians are losing power and prestige, both because their closest allies are dropping like flies and their weapons have been shown to be impotent.

The elite is big mad.

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Newly released files tied to Jeffrey Epstein are raising fresh questions about former Prince Andrew after disturbing images surfaced in a massive document dump authorized under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Among roughly 180,000 newly released images are photographs showing the disgraced royal, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, with two of Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking victims inside the convicted pedophile’s New York mansion.

The victims’ faces have been redacted in the files to protect their identities.

However, one of the individuals appearing in the images appears to be a minor.

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Canada is in crisis mode, and thanks to their Supreme Court, it’s about to get a helluva lot worse.

First, here are just a couple of major issues Canada’s dealing with:

Housing prices have exploded. Their home prices are soaring, while their wages are dropping.

HOUSING INSANITY: Canada now ranks #2 in the WORLD for worst home price-to-income ratio‼️

📊 According to Statista, the average Canadian home costs over 9x the average household income — worse than the US, UK, Australia, Germany, and Japan.

💥 This is unsustainable.

Waiting times for medical care stretch months, sometimes longer. And if you have an emergency, you could still be waiting 15 hours or more, like this poor woman with an appendix about to burst.

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Iran is believed to have sent a message to possible sleeper cells in other countries as the regime faces continued bombardment from the United States and Israel.

This development comes amid increasing concerns that the regime might use proxies to carry out retaliatory attacks in the U.S. and other Western nations as the war continues.

From ABC News:

The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.

The alert, reviewed by ABC News, cites “preliminary signals analysis” of a transmission “likely of Iranian origin” that was relayed across multiple countries shortly after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28.

The intercepted transmission was encoded and appeared to be destined for “clandestine recipients” who possess the encryption key, the kind of message intended to impart instructions to “covert operatives or sleeper assets” without the use of the internet or cellular networks.

It’s possible the transmissions could “be intended to activate or provide instructions to prepositioned sleeper assets operating outside the originating country,” the alert said.

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Back in February, the U.K. said dogs were an obstacle to its latest diversity scheme, namely turning the “too white” English countryside into a more “diverse” (read: Islamic) place to live. Not long after, a Muslim in New York said she was glad the city was “coming to Islam” when it came to dogs.

Islam believes dogs are filthy and they’re haram in many places, of course. But people in the West love their dogs, and the pet industry in the U.K. makes over £10 billion. In the U.S., that figure is $157 billion for 2025. Most of that is driven by dog ownership, so of course the politicians can’t come and outright ban all dogs.

The backlash would be swift and severe. Instead, they’re going to find backdoor ways to ban dogs, and the U.K. seems to have found one of them.

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Sixty-seven dog breeds could be banned in Britain if new breeding guidelines set by parliament become mandatory, campaigners have warned.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for animal welfare has launched a new tool to determine if a dog is healthy.

The cross-party committee has developed a 10-point checklist of extreme physical characteristics which can make for a poorly pooch.

They include mottled colouration, excessive skin folds, bulging outward-turning eyes, drooping eyelids, under or overbite and a muzzle that interrupts breathing.

The assessment – which is currently voluntary but expected to become law within five years – aims to drive out breeds with these sorts of exaggerated attributes.

It comes after studies have shown animals of these varieties can sometimes suffer pain, discomfort and frustration from birth.

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“We haven’t made any decision on that. We’re nowhere near it,” the president told the New York Post, adding that he is “not happy with” Iran’s replacement for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was chosen for the position.

When asked about his plans for dealing with the new Ayatollah, he replied: “Not going to tell you. I’m not happy with him.”

This comes as U.S. and Israeli forces continue battering Iranian capabilities, nearly destroying the country’s navy, eliminating more than 50 senior officials, including Ayatollah Khamenei, and targeting missile systems used to strike more than a dozen countries across the region, some hosting American bases. Many of those attacks hit civilian infrastructure, drawing official responses from countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Michigan state Rep. Rachelle Smit discussed concerns about voter registration system errors during a legislative exchange, citing her previous experience as a township clerk and describing instances where deceased individuals appeared on voter rolls.

Smit’s remarks came during a discussion about election safeguards and potential inaccuracies in voter registration systems.

During the exchange, a witness acknowledged that errors can occur within complex administrative systems while emphasizing that safeguards exist to address them.

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The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Monday it is banning foreign nationals and non-citizens from acquiring any SBA small business loans.

The policy change — which pertains to the SBA’s surety bond and microloan programs — comes after the agency enacted a separate policy on March 1 which made any U.S. small business owned partly or wholly by a foreign national ineligible for its 504 and 7(a) loan programs, according to a news release. Small business owners seeking to obtain any SBA loans are now required to be American citizens or U.S. nationals whose principal place of residence is in the United States.

“The Trump SBA is committed to driving economic growth and job creation for American citizens,” SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in a statement. “Last month, we made it clear that SBA would not allow foreign nationals to access our core small business loan programs – and today, we are expanding that policy to include all SBA-guaranteed loans.”

“With our lending authority capped annually by Congress and amid record demand for access to capital, our responsibility is clear: the limited resource of SBA financing must prioritize American citizens who are building businesses and creating jobs here at home,” Loeffler continued.

The SBA referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to its press release when reached for comment.

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The 2026 Maryland Guide to Fishing and Crabbing is now available online and in print. The guide includes everything you need to know about fishing and crabbing in Maryland in 2026, including rules, license information, tips, free fishing opportunities, and more. Physical guides are available at your local tackle shop and up-to-date regulations and information are live online: View the rules on the eRegulations website Download a PDF version of the guide

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La Guía de Maryland para la pesca de peces y cangrejos también está disponible en línea en español.

Fishing Licenses Do you have a fishing license? Purchase or renew your license online for 365 days of Maryland fishing. Fishing licenses, as well as tackle, boat, and marine fuel purchases, fund DNR’s fish conservation work and programs that promote recreational fishing opportunities.

What’s New for 2026

• Effective December 22, 2025, anglers and charter captains in Maryland possessing Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) permits from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will be required to report recreationally landed bluefin tuna and dead discards, plus non-tournament landings of billfishes and swordfish electronically, using either the HMS Catch Reporting smartphone app, HMS permits website, or through alternate reporting programs specified below. HMS catch reports must be submitted to NMFS within 24 hours of completing the fishing trip. See Highly Migratory Species for more details.
• Recreational shark reporting was eliminated.
• The yellow perch catch limit in all tidal waters and nontidal rivers and streams has been decreased to 5 per person per day.
• Hook rules when livelining have changed — see Saltwater Fishing Regulations for more details
• Striped Bass regulations have not been finalized at the time of printing and will be available online when confirmed.

Donald Trump is furious after Israel targeted Iran‘s oil depots in a blitz that shocked the White House amid soaring oil prices.

A planned summit between the US and Israel was scrapped on Monday in the first open disagreement between the allies since the war broke out.

Thirty Iranian fuel depots were obliterated over the weekend, with apocalyptic images showing fires leaping into the sky, vast columns of smoke and black oily rain.

White House officials were stunned by the scale of Israel’s bombardment and concerned that images of burning oil would anger Americans facing increased gas prices – up to $3.4 per gallon on average compared to $2.9 before the war started.

‘The president doesn’t like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn’t want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,’ a Trump adviser said to Axios.

An Israeli official said the message from the US was stark: ‘What the f***’.

The pressure campaign against Iranian oil reserves continued as the US Navy attacked three regime ships in the Persian Gulf on Monday, with G7 leaders discussing the release of emergency fuel reserves to quell market fears.

Trump’s two-week war with Iran led to oil prices spiking near $120 per barrel before falling back on Monday morning to $103. The Wall Street Journal noted that the war is on the verge of sparking one worst global energy crisis since the 1970s.

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The housing market, for much of the 20th century, was the bedrock of the American Dream. Home ownership, and the financial stability it represents, was a sure path to middle-class prosperity.

That dream turned to a nightmare for many American families during the epic real estate bubble and subsequent bust in 2008-09. What’s more, in the near two decades that followed, federal monetary policies coupled with restrictive local development standards have huffed and puffed an even more perilous bubble than the last one.

Now the crumbling façade of American real estate and the associated economic squeeze has become too great to ignore. To understand why the real estate market is falling apart, you must look at who’s expected to buy the houses. The arithmetic simply doesn’t work.

We’ve reached the point where discretionary income, the money left over after you’ve paid for basic needs, has effectively vanished for much of the population. When 67 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, saving for a down payment is impossible.

Currently, about 72 percent of Americans are struggling to pay their monthly bills. We aren’t talking about luxury vacations or even unexpected medical expenses. We’re talking about keeping the lights on and the fridge full. When the buffer is gone, the entire economic engine stalls.

The lack of affordable housing has created a generational rift. Young workers find themselves trapped in a permanent renter class. They’re unable to build the equity that once anchored the nation’s middle class.

Right now, more than 75 percent of homes across the country are unaffordable for the typical household. Most Americans are effectively priced out of the housing market. And this number is climbing.

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The Democratic Party has a lower net favorability rating than its Republican rivals, President Trump and even the much-maligned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a stunning new poll of registered voters.

The NBC News survey found that 30% of respondents had “very positive” or “somewhat positive” views of Democrats, while 52% had “very negative” or “somewhat negative” views of Democrats, for an overall net rating of -22.

The alarmingly low score still represents a recovery for the party from its low point of a -28 net rating in March 2025 (27% positive, 55% negative).

The Democratic Party has a lower net favorability rating than its Republican rivals, President Trump and even the much-maligned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a stunning new poll of registered voters.

The NBC News survey found that 30% of respondents had “very positive” or “somewhat positive” views of Democrats, while 52% had “very negative” or “somewhat negative” views of Democrats, for an overall net rating of -22.

The alarmingly low score still represents a recovery for the party from its low point of a -28 net rating in March 2025 (27% positive, 55% negative).

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I feel like this is the 7654^th story that’s been debunked. Since 2016, one of the many deranged liberal narratives has been that Trump’s America is racist. That election exposed the cruel underbelly of America, but it’s liberals who are making it that way, and they’re the ones guilty of committing these racial hoaxes to manufacture a narrative that doesn’t exist. It’s a sick irony—delusional, really.

Earlier this month, a Virginia Tech professor alleged that a group of white kids committed a hate crime against him by blasting rap music and dumping snow near his property. If you think that sounds weak, it’s because it is: police conducted an investigation that debunked this discount Jussie Smollett tale (via NY Post):

Dr. Onwubiko Agozino, a sociology professor at the Virginia university, claimed in a Feb. 10 police report that eight white minors racially targeted him when they rolled up to his Christiansburg home blaring offensive music, throwing ice blocks, and hurling a flurry of racist jabs, including the N-word.

He told authorities the “profane” music included “racial slurs,” with local woke activists, New River Valley Indivisible, labeling the incident as a “calculated effort to terrorize and intimidate” Agozino and his family.

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But the so-called racist assault was quickly debunked after local police launched an investigation.

Cops discovered the teens were attending a house party nearby and were merely clearing snow and ice from their truck bed, according to the Christiansburg Police Department.

“There have been incorrect reports that this may have been a targeted incident toward a specific residence or person based on racial bias,” the department posted on Facebook Feb. 12.

“Our investigation has found no evidence of criminal intent or racial bias. At no time did any juveniles yell obscenities, or direct attention to any homes in the area while clearing the snow and ice.”

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A respected travel guru was gunned down on a quiet Houston street while on her way to visit a friend who is battling cancer.

Marietta Allison, 61, an Austin-based co-founder of a travel company and known among friends for her generosity, was fatally shot after parking along in the Heights neighborhood late on Friday, authorities said. 

She had just dropped off a close friend and luggage after a long day at a hospital and was circling for parking when a masked carjacker confronted her.

Police responding around midnight found Allison lying on a northwest Houston sidewalk with an apparent gunshot wound. She was rushed to a hospital, where she died.

Prosecutors allege the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Darius DeWayne Hall, attempted to snatch Allison’s purse.

When she fought back, he pulled a gun and shot her once in the neck, according to statements made in court by prosecutor Katie Rogers. 

Hall then fled in the vehicle belonging to Allison’s friend.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) needs to work on his pandering skills – after telling a crowd of black people that he’s just like them because he can’t read and got a low SAT score.

“I’m not trying to impress you, I’m just trying to impress upon you, ‘I’m like you. I’m not better than you.’ I’m a 960 SAT guy,” Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickins during a Sunday night event promoting his new book.

“And I’m not trying to offend anyone,” the potential 2028 Democratic contender continued. “I’m not trying to act all there if you got 940 … You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.”

Of note, the average SAT score for blacks is a 907 out of a possible 1600, according to 2024 College Board data, while white SAT takers received an average of 1083.

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Newsom, 58, graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. He received a letter of recommendation from former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to serve as a state appellate judge.

But the governor has insisted the only reason he was admitted was a partial baseball scholarship.

“I don’t think it’s relevant at all,” Newsom told the New York Times earlier this month about the Brown letter. “The ticket to Santa Clara came through the baseball, not anything else. And that was the point I was making in the book.”

Newsom, 58, graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. He received a letter of recommendation from former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to serve as a state appellate judge.

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An NBC News poll released on Sunday showed the GOP outperforming Democrats on crime and immigration, and found that voters view Immigration and Customs Enforcement more positively than the Democratic Party.

The poll sampled 1,000 registered voters, with 620 interviewed via cell phone and 309 interviewed through an online survey sent via text message.

The polling was conducted from Feb. 27 to March 3, 2026, with a +/- 3.10 percent margin of error.

“Just 30% of registered voters in the new NBC News poll view the Democratic Party positively, compared to 52% who view it negatively,” an NBC News article about the poll read. “By comparison, 37% of registered voters view the Republican Party positively while 51% view it negatively.”

ICE had a “total positive” rating of 38 percent, beating out the Democrats by eight points.

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BALTIMORE, Md. – An illegal alien, who is a citizen of Romania and Ireland, received a federal prison term today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin sentenced Fabritio Sardaru, 22, to two years in prison for his role in a Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud conspiracy.

Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Special Agent in Charge Charmeka Parker, U.S. Department of Agriculture – Office of Inspector General (USDA-OIG) Northeast Region; Chief Marc R. Yamada, Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD); and Chief Gregory Der, Howard County Police Department (HCPD).

According to his plea agreement, Sardaru participated in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and multiple recipients of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) benefits. In 2022, Sardaru and his co-conspirators obtained EBT information from victims throughout the U.S., including in Maryland, California, Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, and other states. They used skimming devices and other means to carry out the conspiracy.

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The Trump administration can’t immediately comply with a court order to issue tariff refunds, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official.

Processing the “unprecedented volume of refunds” would require work that steers personnel away from “responsibilities that serve to mitigate imminent threats to national security and economic security,” Trade Programs Directorate Executive Director Brandon Lord told the court in an affidavit filed Friday morning.

The Court of International Trade directed the administration on Wednesday to start issuing refunds for tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The Supreme Court held Feb. 20 that President Donald Trump did not have authority under the statute to issue tariffs.

The government has collected approximately $166 billion in IEEPA duties and estimated duty deposits as of Wednesday, according to the affidavit. Existing procedures and technology “are not well suited to a task of this scale,” Lord wrote, noting processing all of the “53,173,939 entries with IEEPA duties will require 4,431,161 man hours for CBP to complete.”

Some companies that attempted to reclaim duties have already been denied refunds, the Financial Times reported Friday.

“CBP has never been ordered to, nor has it attempted to, process a volume of refunds anywhere near the volume of total entries and Entry Summary lines on which IEEPA duties have been deposited,” Lord wrote. “However, where CBP’s predecessor, the U.S. Customs Service, was previously ordered to refund to exporters the Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) that was held to have been unconstitutionally imposed as applied to exports by the Supreme Court in United States Shoe Corporation v. United States (1998), the process took several years to complete and required an updated regulatory procedure.”

The agency is “confident” it will be able to develop a new process that will “streamline and consolidate refunds and interest payments on an importer basis, rather than issuing 53,173,939 separate entry-specific refunds with multiple payments going to the same importer.” It hopes to have the new process ready within 45 days.

“The process will be simpler and more efficient than the existing functionalities, and CBP will provide guidance on how to file to refund declarations in the new system,” the affidavit states.

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One of the prison guards at the facility where Jeffrey Epstein died Googled his name minutes before his body was found and made a mysterious $5,000 deposit days before.

New documents released by the Department of Justice add further weight to doubts about the official account of the disgraced financier’s death.

Tova Noel was one of two guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center who was accused of falsifying records to say they had checked on Epstein before his death on 10 August 2019.

Both were fired but criminal charges were dropped.

The New York Post reports, “Noel googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.

“Earlier that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and snoozed on the job instead of making the mandated checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas perused motorcycles, prosecutors said.

“The FBI highlighted the eerie internet search in its 66-page forensic examination of the Bureau of Prisons desktop computers of Noel and Thomas. It was the only search highlighted.”

During questioning, Noel denied making the online search.

She also claimed that she was not alone in falsifying records to claim patrols had been carried out.

“I’ve never worked in the Special Housing Unit and actually done rounds every 30 minutes,” she told investigators.

Chase Bank also flagged cash deposits in her bank account to the FBI for suspicious activity.

A total of 12 deposits were flagged beginning in 2018, with the largest deposit, for $5,000, taking place ten days before Epstein’s death.

An internal FBI briefing shows agents believed Noel to be the strange orange shape moving towards Epstein’s cell in recently released security camera footage from the night of his death.

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An OpEd titled “Neutrality Is Dangerous in the Face of Medical Misinformation” posted at MedPage Today this week states that medical professionals who dared push back against the vaccine narrative during the Covid era were not properly punished.

The jaw-dropping, historically ignorant claim from the far-left activist site posing as a medical information publication should be a warning that there has not been a proper reckoning for the damage done during this period.

“…[T]he only real consequence for spreading vaccine misinformation was that some people had their social media accounts deactivated,” lament authors Katie Suleta (she/her) and Aimee Pugh Bernard (who is “passionate about pro-science advocacy” and “strives to serve as a positive influence on …increased acceptance of immunization within the community”).

The byline of the piece is “[P]rofessional accountability can ensure expertise is used for public good”.

The authors continue:

“Unfortunately, in most cases health misinformation has been allowed to stand with very few, if any, professional consequences. Some prominent examples of individuals who have spread misinformation without repercussions include:

-Columbia University did not reprimand celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, for years of allegedly promoting “quack treatments.” (The university did eventually cut ties years later.)
-Yale University did not reprimand Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, for pushing treatments without evidence and speculating about vaccines and “turbo cancer.”
-The University of Florida has not reprimanded Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, for distorting data and using anti-vaccine rhetoric.
-Louisiana State University recently added Robert Malone, MD, to their faculty despite his anti-vaccine advocacy and rhetoric.
-Simone Gold, MD, JD, the physician founder of a COVID misinformation group, hasn’t had her medical license revoked.

Many academic institutions failed to protect their institutional integrity, while state boards failed to protect the public’s safety. The lack of real consequences — especially for providers who deal in misinformation — is at best negligent and at worst reckless. It’s difficult to discipline, but lines must be drawn. Professional licensure is a privilege contingent on a standard of care, not an unchecked pass to peddle opinions not based in science.”

The aggressive, bullying medical establishment and their many enablers have never atoned for the extensive damage done during that period. The narrative, which changed frequently during Covid, was imposed on everyone despite having zero scientific evidence.

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Jesse Jackson’s funeral was held Friday at the House of Hope on Chicago’s South Side. Every major Democrat who still matters showed up: Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

That’s right: sitting with a bunch of other couples, Barack Obama once again went stag. The Obamas themselves issued a joint statement about Jackson’s death that made Michelle’s absence on Friday all the more glaring. “Michelle got her first glimpse of political organizing at the Jacksons’ kitchen table when she was a teenager,” the statement read. “And in his two historic runs for president, he laid the foundation for my own campaign to the highest office of the land.” If there was ever a funeral Michelle had a personal, deeply rooted reason to attend, this was it.

So what’s the excuse this time?

Her absence at Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Dec. 2024 was bizarre enough. Her excuse was that she was “on vacation” in Hawaii. She skipped Trump’s second inauguration in Jan. 2025. Why? Her excuse was that she had nothing to wear. I’m not even joking.

I could see her refusing to go to the Trump inauguration in protest, but skipping Carter’s funeral? Well, I know she’s not a big fan of white people, so maybe that’s it. But skipping Jesse Jackson’s funeral raises huge red flags. It may be the most telling sign yet that the Obamas are married in name only.

The Obamas have been the subject of divorce rumors for a while now, and to say they’ve not handled them well is an understatement. They appeared on a podcast together, which looked painfully scripted, and of course, there’s the obligatory birthday, anniversary, Father’s Day, and Mother’s Day posts on social media. The choreographed podcast appearances and coordinated anniversary posts on social media prove nothing. Bill and Hillary Clinton have been photographed holding hands, too; no one believes they have a happy marriage.

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Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said Iranian regime officials issued instructions to assassinate President Donald Trump and warned that those responsible would remain a threat if they are not removed from power.

During the discussion, Lonsdale claimed that intelligence obtained from within the Iranian regime revealed instructions to target Trump.

“Listen, I think these guys sent someone to assassinate Donald Trump,” Lonsdale said.

He said the instructions allegedly came from inside the regime and included guidance on how to proceed if the attempt failed.

“We know this within the regime condom, they were told if they missed that, he’d probably lose the election,” Lonsdale said.

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The Trump administration’s actions over the past few weeks have eliminated two of China’s primary sources of cheap oil, Venezuela and Iran. The administration has also effectively cut off oil to China’s friend, Cuba.

The Trump administration began pressuring Panama in 2025 to reduce Chinese influence around the canal, and in early 2026 Panama’s Supreme Court ruled that the concession held by a Hong Kong company to operate ports at either end of the Panama Canal was unconstitutional, leading the government to take control of the facilities.

With these moves, the administration has dealt more economic damage to China than any previous president. At the same time, China’s lack of response underscores how much more powerful the United States is diplomatically, militarily, and economically.

China’s refusal to aid Iran or take any significant stand for Venezuela or Cuba has proven that its only interest in its so-called “friends” is to make lopsided trade and investment agreements with them. The notion that China will support or protect the countries in its axis has been proven false.

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When a commentator with millions of listeners claims that a global Jewish religious movement is quietly pushing the world toward war in order to rebuild a temple in Jerusalem, that claim deserves scrutiny. Unfortunately for Tucker Carlson, the facts collapse his narrative almost immediately.

Tucker Carlson’s latest commentary about Chabad should not be dismissed as a minor theological misunderstanding.

In a clip now circulating widely, Carlson suggests that the Orthodox Jewish movement, Chabad, has been quietly pushing for the rebuilding of the Third Temple in Jerusalem and implies that this religious goal somehow connects to war policy and even military symbolism.

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The shift towards socialism similarly mirrors the Democratic party’s leftward shift, but a deeper look reveals that those favoring “socialism” have no understanding of what it actually means.

indings from a Fox News poll released Friday indicate that a historic high of 38% of registered voters now consider it positive for the country to shift from capitalism toward socialism, marking an increase from 32% in 2022 and 18% in 2010.

The shifting sentiment towards socialism may not necessarily reflect fuzzy feelings for its ideals, but rather a lack of understanding of what those ideals are, according to professor of political science, Nicholas Giordano. “Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation. People are gravitating toward socialism because they’ve never really been taught what socialism is,” Giordano told Just The News.

“Ask any student today to define capitalism or socialism, and you would be hard-pressed to get a coherent, straightforward response,” Giordano added.

Anti-Trump sentiment disguised

Another contributor to the recent uptick in socialism’s favorability could be that it’s near-inverse, capitalism, is, to some, synonymous with President Donald Trump. Those who disdain Trump generally prefer socialism and vice versa.

Trump, a lifelong real estate developer and businessman who built a brand synonymous with wealth and deal-making, governed as a staunch advocate for capitalism in his first term by slashing corporate tax rates from 35% to 21% through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, unleashing a surge in business investment and stock market gains.

Additionally, his deregulatory agenda throughout both terms—rolling back thousands of pages of federal rules in energy, finance, and environmental sectors—mirrored the instincts of a CEO who flexed speed, adaptability, and reduced government interference over bureaucratic red tape.

Trump has championed his “America First” trade policies, renegotiating deals like NAFTA into the USMCA (Unites States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), and confronting China on intellectual property theft and unfair subsidies. Trump has consistently sought to protect and empower American businesses, entrepreneurs and workers in a way that reflected his decades of experience negotiating high-stakes business contracts.

Despite this rise in the poll, a clear majority of 61% still regard such a move as unfavorable. The idea appeals most strongly to very liberal individuals, younger Democrats, Black voters, and those under 30, while Republicans, conservatives, older men, and seniors express the firmest resistance.

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In a press conference at the shuttered Indian Point site, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) urged the immediate rebuilding and reopening of the Indian Point nuclear plant, framing it as a practical fix for New York’s self-inflicted energy woes.

“Nuclear power is the cleanest source of energy,” Wright stated. “The Democrats want to talk about net-zero carbon emissions — this is it. 
And they have a responsibility. If they are serious about bringing down costs, costs that they drove up, they have a responsibility to work with the administration, work with the local government to bring this back online.”

Rep. Lawler was more direct, “Hudson Valley families are being suffocated with rising energy costs because of Governor Hochul’s failed and disastrous energy policies. It is time to reverse course.”

The plant’s two reactors were once delivering over 2,000 megawatts of reliable, carbon-free baseload power, supplying about 25% of New York City’s electricity and roughly 10% of the state’s total needs before closing. That output equated to enough electricity for approximately two million homes. Closed in phases (Unit 2 in 2020, Unit 3 in 2021) under a deal cut with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo over baseless safety and environmental concerns, Indian Point’s departure forced greater reliance on natural-gas plants.

The politically-motivated stunt has driven NYC electricity bills nearly 60% above the national average, spiked carbon emissions, and contributed reliability shortfalls amid surging demand from data centers and electrification.

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