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Iran’s military threatened on Thursday to launch crushing and destructive attacks on the US after President Trump declared Operation Epic Fury an “overwhelming” victory in an address to the nation.
Tehran issued its fiery response after President Trump reiterated his intentions to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, branding the Islamic Republic “fanatical” and the “most violent and thuggish regime on Earth.”
“With trust in almighty God, this war will continue until your humiliation, disgrace, permanent and certain regret,and surrender,” Khatam Al-Anbiya, the military’s operational command, said in a statement aired on state TV.
“Await our more crushing, broader and more destructive actions.”
NATO members are not legally required to join any member’s military operations that are not formally sanctioned by the alliance or not aimed at protecting the homelands of the membership.
But they often do just that.
Some NATO members joined the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq on the theory that, in the post-9/11 environment, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were dangers to all Western security. They followed the precedent set by America’s 1999 intervention in the distant Balkans, leading a three-month NATO campaign to dismantle Slobodan Milošević’s often bloody ambitions of a Greater Serbia. The U.S. also joined the 2011 U.N.-approved, and French- and British-inspired,
President Donald Trump on Wednesday night delivered an address to the nation that achieved the legacy media headlines he needed to be displayed for the American people and made an unequivocal America-first declaration that the issues surrounding the Strait of Hormuz are not America's problem.
"We produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined," Trump said in a prime-time White House address. "And we're in great shape for the future. The U.S. imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won't be taking any in the future. We don't need it."
Déjà vu: Hunter Biden whistleblower
documentary ads ‘suppressed’ by Big
Tech, lawyers suggest replies
documentary ads ‘suppressed’ by Big
Tech, lawyers suggest replies
The makers of a documentary about the IRS whistleblowers who shined a light on the DOJ’s slow-walking of its Hunter Biden investigation say the ads to fund their film may be being “suppressed” by social media companies in a saga reminiscent of Big Tech’s censoring of stories about Joe Biden’s son in October 2020.
Tristan Leavitt, the president of Empower Oversight, which represented IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler in their efforts to share the truth about the deeply flawed federal inquiry into Hunter Biden. Leavitt told key Republican lawmakers on Wednesday that the documentary featuring Shapley,
NEW YORK (AP) — “Project Hail Mary” stayed aloft in its second weekend, holding strongly with $54.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, and adding to the long-term prospects of the year’s biggest hit thus far.
The Phil Lord and Chris Miller sci-fi adventure, starring Ryan Gosling, dipped only 32% after notching the best non-franchise opening weekend since 2023’s “Oppenheimer.” Amazon MGM’s yet, “Project Hail Mary” has grossed $300.8 million worldwide in two weeks.
“Project Hail Mary,” which cost nearly $200 million to produce, didn’t face any significant new competition and kept premium format screens largely to itself.
President Trump is calling on U.S. allies to secure the Strait of Hormuz, saying countries that depend on oil shipped through the Strait “must take care of that passage” and “cherish it” now that the U.S. has completed the “hard part.”
Trump’s comments came during an address to the nation from the White House Wednesday evening, marking one month of war in Iran, in which he spoke about the U.S. military’s ongoing operations and predicted that the campaign will wind down soon.
“We’ve beaten and completely decimated Iran,” Trump said. “They are decimated, both militarily and economically, and every other way. And the countries
A federal judge has revoked the naturalized American citizenship of a Chinese couple who initially arrived in the United States on H-1B visas, after they were convicted of stealing medical trade secrets for China.
This week, Judge James E. Simmons Jr. entered an order revoking the naturalized American citizenship of Li Chen and Yu Zhou, who each pleaded guilty in 2020 to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
“Gaining citizenship after committing serious crimes against the American people is an unacceptable abuse of our immigration system,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
On Monday, the design for Donald Trump's future presidential library was unveiled. It's a stunning tower near the water in Miami, and the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation plans to raise nearly $1 billion to fund the project through the end of 2027. Some of the funding has already come from the massive settlements he's collected from fake news media outlets that have defamed him.
Well, it looks like he may have just found another donor.
The Daily Beast published one of the most deliberately deceptive headlines I’ve ever seen. And Trump’s lawyers should be all over this.
The headline reads, “New Evidence Corroborates Claims of Trump Sex Accuser, 13."
On Monday night, Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, dropped a stunning new rendering of President Donald Trump’s future presidential library. And let’s just say: Subtle it is not.
The video, which he shared on X, shows a gleaming skyscraper rising over downtown Miami. It’s bold, beautiful, unmistakable, and very Trump. The building features his name in massive letters, evoking the signature style that defined his pre-presidential real estate empire. A spire at the top is light red, white, and blue, and an American flag hangs on the side.
It is a gorgeous building.
The Kansas Legislature has just handed the pro-life community in the state a huge victory by overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto and signing into law a new bill that will protect pro-life pregnancy centers from state mandates (Snip) Before diving deeper into the story, I think it's critical to ask why radical leftists would want to limit available health care options for pregnant women, seemingly encouraging them to murder their pre-born children in the womb. Why is it a bad thing to have alternatives available for those who find themselves scared and pregnant but don't want to kill their baby? Something about that just feels pure evil.
There was a time not so long ago when the Democrats were formidable and — I'm not kidding here — occasionally enjoyable political foes. During the Tea Party years, we would often encounter Dem activists and hang out with them for a while. Sometimes we would even socialize. (Snip) Which is why they are up in arms about the building of a ballroom. This is from Sarah:
President Donald Trump has been having a great time building the new White House Ballroom in recent months, but anytime the president is having a good time doing something, a judge comes in and stops him.
Top Iranian officials denied President Trump’s claim that the regime begged for a cease-fire deal on Wednesday, insisting that Tehran is committed to winning the war.
A spokesperson for the office of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected Trump’s post on Truth Social claiming that Tehran had reached out to Washington for a peace deal.
“The stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the defense of the homeland against the onslaught of the forces of evil and the conditions for ending the imposed war has undergone no change, and there is no regard whatsoever for the delusions and lies of the criminal aggressors,” Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei wrote on X.
In December of 2025, the FBI identified the alleged pipe bomber and conducted a search on his home, and arrested Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, after a “fresh review” of old evidence. The FBI claimed they found evidence during the search that suggested Cole Jr. was the person responsible for placing the inert devices at the RNC and DNC Headquarters on the evening of January 5, 2021. Following his arrest, Cole, who is said to be autistic, sought bail in January 2026, but was denied by U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Sharbaugh after Cole admitted to planting the bombs after hours of intense interrogation; however,
NASA successfully launched its Artemis II lunar mission Wednesday night, signaling the first moon mission since the space agency ended its Apollo missions over 50 years ago.
The mission marks the first time NASA astronauts have left Earth’s orbit since 1972 to embark on the roughly 685,000-mile journey aboard the Orion capsule and slingshot back for the return home.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told the Artemis crew that “the hopes and dreams of a new generation," are with them as they aim to reach a greater distance from Earth than anyone has before.
“On this historic mission, you take with you the heart of the Artemis team,
The Rutherford County Library Board in Tennessee fired its top librarian for refusing to move LBGTQ books out of the children’s section.
The board voted 8-3 Monday to fire library system director Luanne James after she said she would not move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children to the adult’s section, The Associated Press reported. The board voted earlier this month to move the books, saying they cause “gender confusion” for young children, especially those going through puberty.
“Follow the law,” a Rutherford County school board member said when speaking in favor of moving the books “Protect the children. Hold the line.”
It would seem pretty obvious that if you were going to threaten to assassinate the President of the United States, you probably shouldn't advertise your intent on Facebook. But that's just what a Great Barrington, Massachusetts man did, and now he's in the hoosegow, facing a list of federal charges.
Andrew D. Emerald, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications. Emerald was arrested this morning and will appear in federal court in Springfield, Mass., at 2:30 p.m. today.
According to the indictment, from May 2025 to July 2025, Emerald intentionally made eight separate Facebook posts
During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her case for why the children of foreign tourists ought to qualify for birthright American citizenship if they are born in the United States while their parents are on vacation.
The case, known as Trump v. Barbara, will decide whether or not President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and foreign tourists, often referred to as “anchor babies,” is constitutional.
During an exchange with the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang, who is arguing that the order is unconstitutional, Jackson seemingly made a case for why birthright citizenship should extend to foreigners
What is going on in Fairfax County, Virginia? This is the third murder allegedly committed by an illegal alien in recent weeks.
In early March, 41-year-old Stephanie Minter was knifed to death at a bus stop by an illegal from Sierra Leone, and earlier Wednesday, I reported on the Guatemalan “undocumented person” who stabbed a man to death on Sunday.
Now, a man described as a “Virginia Father” who allegedly caused the blunt-force trauma death of his three-month-old baby is also revealed to be an illegal alien from Guatemala. All this is happening as VA Gov. Abigail Spanberger has rescinded deals to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,
A local television news anchor in Alabama sparked outrage online for signing off a recent newscast by quoting the founder of an Islamic fundamentalist group blamed for inspiring some of the world’s most lethal terrorist organizations.
Ashonti Ford, 38, was wrapping up her 6 p.m. broadcast this past Thursday on Birmingham’s ABC 33/40 WBMA-LD when she cited a quote attributed to the late Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Before we go, a quote from the founder of the Islamic Brotherhood: ‘The quieter you become, the more you’re able to hear,’” she said as she closed the March 26 newscast on the Sinclair-owned station.
How many times have you been told that fact-checkers are neutral arbiters of truth, selfless guardians of an informed democracy, heroic watchdogs standing between you and dangerous misinformation? It’s the tallest of tales that we’re just supposed to take for granted.
And then they give us every reason not to believe it.
PJ Media readers have long known that mainstream fact-checkers are anything but neutral. During COVID, biased fact-checkers were deployed like weapons to silence dissenting voices on vaccines, lockdowns, and lab leak theories. After the 2020 election, conservative outlets — including this one — had to walk on eggshells with every piece we published, constantly watching for anything
European authorities are no closer to catching the thieves who swiped 12 tons of KitKat bars after stealing the truck that was transporting them from a Nestlé factory in central Italy to Poland last week.
The shipment consisted of special-edition Formula One-themed KitKats shaped like race cars, as part of the company’s relationship with the motorsport league. The heist has raised plenty of eyebrows around the world, with people questioning how such a bizarre theft could have happened. But it has also prompted something else: Jokes on social media.
Ryanair appeared to confess to the theft with an image of one of its planes chowing down on gigantic KitKat bars.
WASHINGTON — The record-breaking 46-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could end soon.
House Republicans appear to have caved and backed the Senate plan to fund all of DHS except parts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as US Customs and Border Protection.
“We are going forward to fund our incredible ICE Agents and Border Patrol through a process that doesn’t need Radical Left Democrat votes, and bypasses the Senate Filibuster (which should be repealed, IMMEDIATELY!),” President Trump announced on Truth Social.
California gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., took at least six trips to Doha backed by Qatar-linked sponsors from 2020 through 2024, extending a pattern of foreign-funded travel that previously drew criticism, according to House filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. The disclosures show Swalwell returned to Qatar repeatedly over multiple years, even after he was slammed for taking an $84,000 trip with a few other lawmakers to the Gulf emirate in 2021 sponsored by the U.S.-Qatar Business Council. In addition to that trip, filings from the House of Representatives clerk show Swalwell also went to Doha in 2020, twice in 2022, once in 2023 and once in 2024,
Newly resurfaced videos reveal Republican Louisiana Rep. Julia Letlow promised to create a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office at the university where she worked and ensure more “women of color” were hired into leadership roles.
Letlow publicly claims to oppose “woke ideology,” and has been endorsed by President Donald Trump in her primary Senate race against incumbent Bill Cassidy. However, a 2020 video shows Letlow participating in a panel interview as a semifinalist for the University of Louisiana, Monroe’s presidential search, where she detailed plans to lead diversity measures and ensure more women, especially ‘women of color,’ would be hired for senior leadership roles.
“One of the first things