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A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Pentagon’s new press policy restricting press credential of reporters is unconstitutional. In October, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges after they refused to sign Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s new security rule. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that reporters agree by 5 p.m. Tuesday to a new policy, under which they would need to pledge to not obtain or use any unauthorized material, even if the information is unclassified — or hand over their press badges in the next 24 hours,”[snip]By that afternoon, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges.
The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war — a more silent one — raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war — one waged both by some influential outside voices on the Right and, more dangerously, by their subversive allies within Trump's very own government. If this campaign is not confronted and decisively defeated, the result will be calamitous: a second Trump term that drifts into lame-duck status not due to a voter backlash but because of an insurrection from within.
Iran launched an attack on the Diego Garcia, US-UK joint military base in the Indian Ocean, but did not hit it, as per a report from The Wall Street Journal. As per WSJ's Friday report, one of the missiles failed in flight when a US warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other, though it was not determined if the interceptor had succeeded. The report did not specify when Iran fired the missiles. However, it is the distance of the Diego Garcia base from Iran that has sparked discussions about the striking capabilities of Iranian missiles.
“4,118 km from Iran to Diego Garcia. Far beyond any previously known Iranian ballistic missile
USPS already lost $1.3 billion this year
— and cash shortages might halt mail
delivery in 2027 replies
— and cash shortages might halt mail
delivery in 2027 replies
The mail may soon stop — and not because it’s lost in transit.
The cash-strapped United States Postal Service is barreling toward a financial cliff, with Postmaster General David Steiner warning lawmakers the agency could run dry by October — and potentially halt mail delivery altogether by 2027 if Congress doesn’t step in.
“At our current rate, we’ll be out of cash in less than 12 months,” Steiner told the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations on March 17.
“So in about a year from now, the Postal Service would be unable to deliver the mail.”
Translation: no stamps, no service.
The grim forecast comes as the USPS continues its long-running losing streak.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter to 43 million Americans with student loans -- about 9 million of whom are in default -- to notify them that the Treasury Department is taking over debt collection, the Post has learned. (snip) There's currently $1.7 trillion in outstanding student debt -- roughly 25% of which, or $425 billion, was believed to be in default as of last year. (snip) The Treasury Department includes the IRS, which has the power to garnish up to 15% of a delinquent borrower's paycheck.
Iran makes chilling threat to target tourist
sites worldwide — as spring break kicks
off in US replies
sites worldwide — as spring break kicks
off in US replies
Iran threatened Friday to start targeting tourist sites worldwide — just as spring break kicked off across the United States.
Iranian military spokesman Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi blasted out the chilling warning on state TV as he vowed that popular tourism havens would no longer be safe for Tehran’s enemies.
“From now on, based on the information we have about you, even parks, recreational areas, and tourist destinations anywhere in the world will no longer be safe for you,” the military official said.
On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul finally started tiptoeing toward reality on New York’s climate law.
In a lengthy opinion column, she laid out her proposal to postpone by a decade the state’s stringent greenhouse-gas emissions rules, set by law to hit in 2030 — pointing fingers at everything from COVID-19 to upstate NIMBYism to President Donald Trump to justify waving the white flag.
But Albany legislators should never have imposed these draconian CO₂ emissions targets to begin with.
Even in 2019, when the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act was passed,
Russian President Vladimir Putin this week reportedly offered to stop sharing targeting intelligence with Iran if the United States agreed to do the same in Ukraine.
Reports of Russian targeting support for Iranian operations against U.S. targets surfaced early in the war. The U.S. has long provided Ukraine with intelligence throughout the war.
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev reportedly made the offer to Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who rejected the plan, according to Politico, which cited "two people familiar" with the negotiations.
The offer comes as Iran continues to target U.S. facilities and critical infrastructure in the Persian Gulf.
A Kent, Washington, woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 17 months in prison for her long-lasting fraud scheme that stole more than $1 million in benefits from the Veterans Administration, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd. Kelly M. Lee-Carroll, 58, recruited her sister and her son to the scheme to defraud Veterans Administration. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge James L. Robart said, “Ms. Lee-Carroll broke the trust she had with her fellow veterans. It was intentional and it went on for an extended period of time.”
Senate Moves To End Politicians’ Special
Treatment At Airports Because No One Was
There To Vote replies
Treatment At Airports Because No One Was
There To Vote replies
The Senate passed a bill to end lawmakers’ special privileges to bypass airport security lines late Thursday night while security personnel continue to manage hours-long lines while working without pay through a partial government shutdown.
The End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act was introduced by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and approved by unanimous consent because no senators were present on the floor to object to the legislation. The bill passed as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) shutdown prepared to enter its 35th day — tied for the second-longest in American history — with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers struggling to manage a surge in spring break travelers.
It's got to be weird to be Dolores Huerta right now.
The truth came out about the Jim Jones-like cult style of her partner and co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union, Cesar Chavez, who, according to the New York Times, was a molestor of young girls, and up until then had been hailed as a kind of civil rights god.
With Chavez now being swiftly cancelled -- in record time, no less (where is Tom Wolfe when we need him?) -- now all the public holidays, street names, parks, libraries, schools, scholarships, naval ships, and biographies, have got to be changed, too. And they have to be changed to something,
Islands in the Pacific Ocean have turned from a tropical paradise into something of a maternity ward as pregnant Chinese women have traveled to the territory to have their babies automatically become US citizens when born.
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a US territory, has been flooded with “birthing tourists” since 2009, when former President Barack Obama allowed for a visa-waiver program for Chinese nationals. There are about 1,000 companies that offer birth tourism in the islands, other US territories, and on the US mainland, per the New York Post. There are around 1.5 million American babies being raised in China by Chinese parents who traveled to
Barron Trump Set to Enter 'Next Phase'
of Life as He Celebrates 'Turning Point'
Birthday: Report replies
of Life as He Celebrates 'Turning Point'
Birthday: Report replies
First son Barron Trump turned 20 on Friday, and he reportedly is already following in his father’s footsteps, making his way in the business world.
Trump, who is a sophomore at New York University’s Stern School of Business, transferred this year from the Manhattan campus to its location in Washington, D.C., to be close to his family, according to People.
“Barron has inherited his father’s interest in making money and a name for himself, and is well on the way to becoming an entrepreneur,” a social source told the news outlet. “He is smart, focused and resourceful. He is always looking for areas that interest him and is quite ambitious
The U.S. Justice Department participated in a court-authorized law enforcement operation today to disrupt Command and Control (C2) infrastructure used by Aisuru, KimWolf, Mossad Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. The operation was conducted simultaneously to law enforcement actions conducted in Canada and Germany (snip.) the four botnets (snip) infected millions of devices worldwide. (snip) The operators (snip) used a "cybercrime as a service" model to sell access to the infected devices (snip.) The operators and their customers forced the victim devices to participate in hundreds of thousands of DDOS attacks (snip) throughout the world. the number of infected devices hijacked worldwide (snip) exceeded three million (snip.)
Armed with battering rams and search warrants, federal agents stormed homes and warehouses across the country, seizing millions in cash, piles of illegal drugs and a deadly arsenal, signaling an aggressive escalation in America’s war on drugs.
The multi-agency crackdown, highlighted by the DEA’s Operation Fentanyl Free America, comes as the United States faces a shifting landscape in the opioid crisis. Although overdose deaths have declined from record highs, fentanyl and other synthetic drugs remain a deadly threat, fueling action by law enforcement and policymakers.
In the second phase of Operation Fentanyl Free America, the DEA seized more than 4.7 million fentanyl pills and nearly 2,400 pounds of fentanyl powder between
On March 11, the California Attorney General, along with 16 additional Democrat states, filed a complaint in federal court against President Trump’s requirement that state universities collect and make public data on student admissions for race, GPA, and SAT scores. On Friday, March 13, federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor gave schools extra time to comply—by March 25 instead of March 18.
The Trump requirement is the administration’s effort to implement the Supreme Court’s 2023 Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) opinion, which found racial preferences in university admissions unlawful, including for diversity or “DEI” rationales.
Trump’s efforts deserve support:
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered a temporary change to grand jury procedure in Washington, D.C., requiring notification when juries decline to issue indictments, a move that stands out for how rarely judges require formal reporting at this stage. Grand juries are designed to operate independently. They decide whether charges move forward, often behind closed doors and with limited visibility, even to the courts themselves. Judges oversee the process broadly, but they do not typically require formal reporting when a case ends without charges.
Boasberg’s order changes that dynamic.
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared that his government does not recognize the legitimacy of the communist regime in Cuba.
During a press conference in Peñas Blancas, on the northern border with Nicaragua, Chaves ordered the definitive closure of the Costa Rican embassy in Havana and demanded the immediate withdrawal of Cuban diplomatic personnel in San José, limiting relations to the consular sphere starting April 1.
“The Government of Costa Rica does not recognize the legitimacy of the communist regime in Cuba in view of the mistreatment, repression, and undignified conditions endured by the inhabitants of that beautiful island,” Chaves stated firmly.
Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson just put Operation Epic Fury into historic perspective during an appearance on FOX News and compared Trump to Winston Churchill in the process.
Hanson makes the point that when Churchill was trying to warn the world about Germany, he was largely ignored by other leaders and suggests that a similar thing is happening with Trump and Iran.
He also points out that all of Trump’s recent predecessors have said that they wished they had dealt with the problem of Iran while they were in office. The difference is that Trump is actually doing it.
Recent news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was spying on the Trump campaign again in 2024 wasn't lost on me, but it clearly got lost in the mainstream media. It wasn't exactly news to me because I was also spied upon by the FBI while I worked on the 2024 Trump effort. In fact, the Bureau started surveilling me soon after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021. (snip) days after Donald J. Trump beat the socks off Kamala Harris, the FBI served a secret warrant on Google/Gmail, my bank, my cellphone company, and more for all my data (snip.)
The Secret Service agent who was in charge of developing and executing the failed security plan for the 2024 rally where President Trump was nearly killed has been suspended and is under internal agency investigation for allegedly improperly reporting her relationship with and eventual marriage to a foreign national, several sources told RealClearPolitics.
This suspension is the third one in a year and a half for the agent, Myosoty “Miyo” Perez, who served as the “site agent” for the Butler campaign rally where a would-be assassin shot Trump’s ear, killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore, and seriously injured two others in the crowd.
A site agent is in charge of planning and executing
In the next few days, much more about the overall investigative review underway in Florida will begin to surface. The review has been led by USAO Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida.
As with all investigations containing multiple players and actors, the first investigative information is extracted from testimony by those furthest away from the principals, yet closest to the granular details of the events being reviewed. The questioning then goes upstream, using information collected to assembly more specific questions as the principal players are approached.*snip)FLORIDA – Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed
Democrat donors are flooding cash into former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein’s bid to oust Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.
Gallrein is running in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District and has been endorsed by President Donald Trump. But despite previously criticizing the political makeup of Massie’s donors, Gallrein has received a number of high-value donations from people who have previously given to Democrat candidates.
85% of donors who contributed the maximum amount allowable to Gallrein’s campaign have a history of donating to Democratic candidates, a Daily Caller review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records found.
Of the 141 donors identified in the fourth quarter who contributed the $3,500 primary maximum or more to Gallrein,
Most discussion of the SAVE America ACT has focused on how it would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo ID to cast ballots in federal elections. Lying Democrats claim that citizenship-confirming birth certificates are beyond the reach of mere mortals. Never mind that private and government websites help Americans order them online for home delivery.
Also, racist Democrats argue that black and brown voters are too dense to acquire photo ID, even though tens of millions of them have drivers licenses and present photo ID daily—to rent cars, cash checks, and enter Democrat-run government buildings and campaign events.
Yet another SAVE benefit has received far less attention: