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A majority of Americans see Iran as a serious threat to the Mideast and are deeply concerned about its nuclear ambitions, but also don’t trust Iran’s ruling Islamist regime to abide by any nuclear agreements it might sign, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
As the U.S.-Iran conflict continues to unfold amid ongoing talks and threats of further possible military action, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,589 voters several questions about Iran. The survey, taken from May 26 to May 28, has a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points.
The first question: “How much of a threat do you believe Iran poses to stability in the
TERRA CEIA, Fla.—Lifelong citrus farmer Sidney Tillett cut a path through a grove that has endured in his family for four generations, stopping his SUV between two rows of trees. On one side was a long plot of lush green saplings, covered with protective mesh bags tied to stakes in the ground.
Directly on the other side, a row of petite orange trees with withering leaves were all battling a bacterial infection, caused by an invasive insect that has decimated the state’s orange industry in just two decades.
“It’s a story of survival,”
This is the Democrat Party’s idea of “secure” elections in their one-party utopia.
Investigative reporter Nick Shirley — the same journalist whose explosive February 2026 video we reported on here at The Gateway Pundit — knocking on doors and exposing the rotting corpse of the state’s Democrat-controlled election system, and the latest clip is pure fire.
Meet Doris. She lives in California. According to the California Secretary of State’s own voter rolls, she is 126 years old and has cast ballots in 51 elections. There’s just one small problem. Doris is not 126 years old. She was born in 1940. That makes her roughly 86 years old. She’s
A tear in the social contract
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Governed peoples, in the post-Enlightenment era, adhere to the fiction of having a social contract with the state. Part of that agreement allows the state to retain a monopoly on violence. The governed cede their right to retaliate against parties that have injured them provided that the state intercede on their behalf to deliver justice and retribution. The exercise of vigilante justice by individuals or groups is prohibited.
I say it is a fiction because there never was a party called the governed that sat down with rulers to cede their rights in exchange for protection and justice. It was an idea promulgated by rulers alone who understood that violence
When the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's tariffs last February, the president lashed out against two Supreme Court Justices he nominated calling them fools and lapdogs. The president has frequently railed against judges when they rule against him. What often happens next is a barrage of violent threats from his followers against those judges. As we first reported in March, we spoke with 26 federal judges – nine Democratic appointees, 17 Republican, both sitting and retired. The sitting judges told us they feel under siege. Most would not appear on camera, fearful for their safety.
The fraud in the H1-B visa program is even worse than we thought. We are getting people with fake degrees for these allegedly “high-skilled” labor jobs. The program is almost completely fraudulent.
Since 2015, over 70% of H-1B visas have been issued to India, and nearly 12% to China. And if you look at this map, you can see where most are being hired. The dark red spots indicate a high concentration of H-1B visa holders, and now we’re learning more about fraud within the program. One former official tells Newsweek that up to 90% of applications, 90% from India, contain fraudulent documents or involve unqualified applicants.
Psssstttt…I think The Hill is subtly trying to suggest something, don’t you think?
Just kidding. I believe we all know what The Hill wants to say and for us to believe. So, let’s articulate it aloud, in unison, people: “The GOP is DOOMED in 2026!”
Now that we've got that out of our system, let’s look at the updated facts regarding the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives, shall we?
The RCP job approval for the president is indeed low. President Trump’s job approval is at 40.4 percent, with his disapproval number at 57 percent.
Suppose you were a university professor and a liberal -- but I repeat myself. And suppose you were ambitious. What better way to blaze across the sky like a meteor than to write a book about how all those far-right armed insurrectionists were fans of a guy with a semi-Nazi mustache?
I first learned about Friedrich von Hayek, born in Vienna, economist of the Austrian school and political philosopher, back in the 1970s when Bob Bartley set the world ablaze at the WSJ editorial page. In 1931, Hayek left Vienna. He joined the London School of Economics, became F.A. Hayek, and hit the big time with his critique of socialism and
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day and delivered a pointed message. While honoring the sacrifices of those who stormed the beaches in 1944, he drew a connection to the threats Europe faces today. Some criticized the remarks as political. They were instead a sober reflection on what those graves represent: the high cost of securing liberty and the need to defend it in every generation.Normandy was chosen for the Allied invasion because it offered a feasible path to breach Hitler’s Fortress Europe. The Germans expected the main assault to be farther north near Calais.
With only days left before World Cup matches begin in Los Angeles, the story is no longer just about soccer. The Los Angeles County sheriff has said that civil immigration enforcement by ICE is not expected at World Cup matches and events, even as federal forces will be present for security. More than 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium have voted to authorize a strike, with ICE’s presence around the games among the union’s concerns. Meanwhile, Los Angeles taxpayers still do not have a clear picture of how much this global spectacle will ultimately cost them.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has overtaken former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt for the second spot in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff, according to updated vote totals released Sunday by the LA County Registrar-Recorder.
Raman, a progressive Democrat representing the city’s 4th Council District, now holds 27.12% of the counted ballots. Pratt, a registered Republican who ran on a law-and-order platform, sits at 26.69%. The gap stands at 3,113 votes.
Decision Desk HQ projected Sunday that Raman had secured the second of two spots in the nonpartisan primary, which advances the top two finishers to the November 3 general election
A week ago, former 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley arrived for a meeting with his new boss, Nick Bilton, on the CBS News show at which they both work. Pelley took this as an opportunity to lecture and browbeat Bilton. In the meeting, which was recorded and leaked to the press, Pelley publicly accused those whom he works for as lacking credentials as journalists. Singling Bilton out, Pelley said that he had "slender qualifications" for the job of producing 60 Minutes. Necessarily, CBS fired Pelley the next day.
In his posture against Bilton, Pelley portrayed himself as possessing the journalistic credibility his new boss lacked. This is a little like
Redpelleyed, the himbo
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Scott Pelley is the pompous windbag of 60 Minutes. Ted Knight played a character like Pelley for laughs in days of old on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Pelley amped up the character and drained it of humor. He is beyond satire. An insufferable fool, he plays himself seriously.
But he’s worse than that. Jonthan Leaf explains why in the Washington Free Beacon column “Scott Pelley isn’t a serious journalist.” Leaf focuses on one fraudulent story retailed by Pelley on which Leaf himself has become an expert based on his own work. It takes a little patience with the details. On my point, however, Leaf puts it this way:
What is treason?
The basic definition is easy enough: giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
But what does that really mean, in practice?
It can mean a government employee or a friend of a government employee, spying on our government officials and reporting back to his foreign masters, as so many people have been caught doing in recent years, such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) driver, Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) girlfriend, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) deputy chief diversity officer.
Such stories make the news, more often than one would expect, but there’s an even bigger kind of treason out there, and this one takes place through normal-looking
The Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists
Conservatives, and How More of Them Are
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Conservatives, and How More of Them Are
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More nonprofits are urging the software company Benevity—which hundreds of companies use to allow employees to donate their time and money to charities—to stop systematically blacklisting conservative nonprofits.
Twelve organizations first sent a letter to Benevity in October following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The new letter, sent Monday and exclusively provided first to the Daily Signal, will feature three new signatories: Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family.
“Charitable giving programs should empower generosity, not enforce political conformity,” Douglas Napier, B
President Donald Trump has enjoyed considerable success in the courts during his second term. Federal judges and the Supreme Court have allowed key parts of his immigration agenda to proceed, upheld major personnel actions across the executive branch and endorsed an expansive view of presidential authority in several high-profile disputes.
But over the past two weeks, the administration suffered two notable legal setbacks: one involving the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and another concerning a controversial compensation fund created through a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service.
(The Center Square) - An auction Friday of oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, long at the center of political disputes over energy development, drew bids on five tracts covering about 71,000 acres out of 58 tracts spanning nearly 690,000 acres.
This auction was the first of four required lease sales under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump in July 2025. The bill mandates at least four auctions in the wildlife refuge by 2035.
The previous lease sale in the refuge was held in January 2025, when no bids were submitted and no revenue was generated. Oil industry representatives and Alaska state officials—
State auditors across the country were unable to verify billions of dollars in unemployment spending, Medicaid payments, and pension obligations in federally-funded programs, according to a new report by a government watchdog group.
The findings in the 2026 Financial Transparency Score report, released by the government watchdog Truth in Accounting, found that 13 states failed to earn clean audit opinions. The report comes as the Trump administration is cracking down on how states are spending federal dollars.
The organization used data from annual comprehensive financial reports, or ACFRs, produced by each state as a requirement for getting federal funding.
Israel strikes back at Iran military targets
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Israel struck several military targets in Iran on Sunday, hours after the Islamic Republic launched a barrage of missiles at the Jewish State.
The Israeli Defense Forces said its air force struck targets “belonging to the Iranian terror regime” in western and central Iran in a statement on X Sunday evening.
Iran state media separately reported that explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan after Israel fired “air-launched ballistic missiles,” citing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Israeli military hit Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites and non-energy infrastructure, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said.
Nearly two hours later,
LONDON — For the second time in a week, a top Trump administration official has publicly criticized Europe over migration levels, the latest in a series of attacks aimed at political leaders on the continent. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a speech marking the anniversary of D-Day in France on Saturday, commemorating 82 years since the 1944 push to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, to lambast what he described as another “invasion” of Europe’s shores.
“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” Hegseth said at the event in Normandy.
“Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria.
Last Thursday, even as California’s chaotic primaries demonstrated the need for a nationwide election integrity law, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted to kill the SAVE America Act. This would be understandable if the bill were unpopular with the electorate. But its requirement that voters in every state must provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote and produce a photo ID when casting a ballot are wildly popular among Republicans and Democrats. Yet, because its passage is one of President Trump’s top priorities, TDS forced them to ignore his agenda.
To earn of the last minutes of Henry Nowak’s life would be shocking and distressing under any circumstances. The stabbed teenager begged officers for help, as they handcuffed him before realising their mistake. To watch those final moments, on the police body-cam footage released this week, is all the more immediate, and unbearable. The outrage is widely shared. But the way it has been weaponised is alarming. His family’s wish is for his legacy to be a renewed effort to reduce knife crime, not increased antagonism along racial and religious lines. Instead, the unscrupulous are using the power of the footage and the speed of social media to spread myths
Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, was arrested Friday on federal terrorism charges. Neighbors and a former classmate identified him as a former U.S. Navy sailor. Prosecutors allege he proposed using drones to target U.S. Special Forces and helped fund a scheme involving rocket-propelled grenades and UAVs intended for attacks on American servicemembers overseas.
The FBI arrested Dzayee along with Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas, and Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California. The three are charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS after allegedly spending more than a year discussing attacks, raising money, and expressing support for the terrorist organization.
Israel conducted strikes on military targets in western and central Iran early Monday local time, the Israeli military announced, escalating a conflict that had already broken through the ceasefire just hours earlier when Iran fired multiple waves of missiles at Israel on Sunday.
The strikes came despite a direct phone call from President Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him not to retaliate immediately for the Iranian missile attack. A senior U.S. official told the Associated Press, on condition of anonymity to describe a private call, that Trump believed he had convinced Netanyahu to wait.
Israel struck anyway.