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The threat of Iran or its terrorist proxies retaliating inside the United States is driving new pressure on Democrats to reopen the Department of Homeland Security after President Donald Trump’s overnight strikes.
House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) joined other Republicans on Saturday in urging Democrats to end a two-week shutdown at DHS, an agency tasked with safeguarding America against terrorist attacks. He cited the “heightened threat landscape” after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran and past attempts by Iran to target dissidents and President Donald Trump on American soil.
The U.S. is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years,” said a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman at a press conference in Beijing in remarks spread by social media accounts linked to the Chinese government. The U.S. has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The U.S. is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability,” the spokesman said.
The state-controlled China Daily wrote an editorial on Saturday saying that American and Israeli action against Iran “ignores international law” and “follows a pattern of increasing belligerence.”
We’re overjoyed to see Scouting America, long known as the Boy Scouts of America, ditch the DEI policies it adopted amid the country’s post-2020 racial fever, as well as unwinding the dubious “pro-trans” approach it also felt obliged to undertake.
Kudos to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon for prompting the review, which we hope settles the matter permanently.
The left painted a bulls-eye on the Scouts years ago, aiming to browbeat a mainstay of wholesome American traditions into culture-war submission.
As at many another institution, the folks in charge tried to compromise, betting that enough goodwill would allow the group to continue its core mission.
They did not give ground on the oath:
Russia is responsible for the largest “systematic child abduction operation” since World War II, according to European Union Ambassador to the U.S. Jovita Neliupšiene.
“This is actually a civilization erasure, when you actually try to destroy the future of your neighboring country,” Neliupšiene says.
More than 20,000 children are estimated to have been abducted from Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion four years ago, according to the ambassador. Some of the older children who were taken are now being trained to fight for the Russian army, she explains on this week’s edition of “Problematic Women.”
US Releases Epic Unclassified Video of
American Fighter Jets Bombing Iranian
Targets (Video) replies
American Fighter Jets Bombing Iranian
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Central Command on Saturday released video of American fighter jets taking off from an aircraft carrier as ‘Operation Epic Fury’ fires missiles on Iranian targets.
The US and Israel conducted military strikes on Iran on Saturday morning.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the military strikes.
The strikes also killed Iran’s defense minister and the commander of its Revolutionary Guard, the AP reported. Fox News reported that the Supreme Leader’s compound was leveled and 40 top Iranian leaders were killed.
“US official confirms to Fox that US believes Khamenei and 5-10 top Iranian leaders killed in initial Israeli strike on compound; agree with Israel’s intelligence assessment,”
President Trump's decision to launch a war against Iran without congressional signoff has splintered lawmakers, largely along party lines, and supercharged the debate over war powers authority.
While most Republicans largely rallied around Trump’s decision to carry out the massive joint attack with Israel, Democrats quickly denounced the attack as an illegal “war of choice” and demanded Congress come back to Washington to take a vote on whether to authorize another Middle East invasion.
Democratic leaders have vowed to forge ahead with their plans to force a vote on a war powers resolution next week in the House that would block Trump from carrying out additional strikes.
The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations “to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.”
Secretary-General António Guterres told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Saturday that everything must be done to prevent further escalation. “The alternative,” he warned, “is a potential wider conflict with grave consequences for civilians and regional stability.”
Guterres said the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes violated international law, including the U.N. Charter. He also condemned Iran’s retaliatory attacks for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Video shows moment missiles rained down
on Iran Supreme Leader’s compound —
as civilians laugh replies
on Iran Supreme Leader’s compound —
as civilians laugh replies
A wild video shows the moment US and Israeli missiles rained down on Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound — while a witness laughed in apparent disbelief.
The footage shows thick smoke billowing from the fortified complex, which, along with military infrastructure, was targeted in what the State Department called “Operation Epic Fury.”
Upon the realization, a woman can be heard laughing, seemingly stunned at the sight. Oh my God, they hit it. They struck it. Oh my God!” the woman says.
“They hit the Supreme Leader compound!”
At least seven missiles struck the area around Khamenei’s fortified complex in central Tehran, with additional strikes near the presidential palace.
I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: ‘See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs],” Trump told Axios in a phone interview from Mar-a-Lago.
This is the first time Trump commented on the strikes since releasing a statement early on Saturday morning.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump announced earlier that American forces are engaged in what he described as a “massive and ongoing operation” aimed at neutralizing the Iranian regime’s ability to threaten US troops, American allies, and the homeland itself.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Thursday that certain DHS staffers had allegedly installed spyware on her phone and computer, as well as on devices belonging to other political appointees.
“You wouldn’t even believe what I’ve found since I’ve been in this department,” Noem told conservative podcaster Patrick Bet-David .
Noem said she discovered the spyware last year with the assistance of former DOGE chief Elon Musk and his team.
“They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings,” Noem said.
Today marked a historic victory for not only the United States and Israel, but the Iranian people as well. The U.S. and Israel launched a massive military strike on the Islamic nation overnight Eastern time, striking at military targets and the Iranian leadership. At least 40 members of the Iranian regime leadership have been killed, including the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself, according to multiple sources. Khamenei was killed in the Israeli strikes on his compound, per multiple reports.
President Trump has released a statement on the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, following more than 12 hours of continuous strikes by the United States and Israeli military forces.
"Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead," the president This is not only Justice for the people of Iran, but for all Great Americans, and those people from many Countries throughout the World, that have been killed or mutilated by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty THUGS.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A major attack launched by Israel and the United States killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Donald Trump announced Saturday, confirming an assassination that he said gave Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back the country” but that also put the future of the Islamic Republic in doubt and raised the risk of regional instability. The strikes opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran, marking the second time in eight months that the Trump administration had attacked the country during talks over its nuclear program. The reported killing of Khameini after decades
U.S. Central Command officials have confirmed that airstrikes launched on Iran on Saturday involved the first combat use of the U.S. military’s new autonomous kamikaze drone.
The Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone, was launched as part of Operation Epic Fury, which targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and military airfields, CENTCOM officials announced.
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Built by the Arizona-based SpektreWorks, the drone, which can be launched via catapults, rocket-assisted takeoff and mobile ground systems, is a spinoff of the company’s FLM 136 target model
Delivery giant FedEX said it will return to customers any refunds it gets from President Trump's tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled them unlawful last week. (snip) "If refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the shippers and consumers who originally bore these charges," FedEx said in a statement on Thursday. (snip) In its ruling, the Supreme Court did not specify a means nor a timetable for when the Trump administration must distribute refunds to companies that incurred the costs of the tariffs.
A site in Iraq that is associated with the Iranian-backed militias has reportedly been struck amid the clashes that have broken out between the US, Israel, and Iran. Shafaq News in Iraq “reported that a security source and another in the Popular Mobilization Forces reported on Saturday that an Israeli missile strike targeted the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces in the Jurf al-Sakhr area, specifically targeting the headquarters of Kataib Hezbollah.” This apparently happened on Saturday morning in the context of US and Israeli strikes on Iran. Iran has retaliated with attacks across the region. Kataib Hezbollah is an Iraqi militia closely linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iran latest: Supreme leader Ayatollah
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Khamenei killed in US-Israeli strikes,
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, the clerical ruler who transformed Iran into one of the Middle East’s dominant powers, was killed by US-Israeli strikes on Saturday, a senior Israeli government source has told The Independent.
The source confirmed that he had been killed by the joint US-Israeli airstrikes which flattened his compound. The US launched a “major combat operation” overnight, Donald Trump said on Saturday. The Israeli military later confirmed that 200 warplanes were involved in attacking Iran.
The Iranian Supreme Leader's office accused the country's enemies of "mental warfare" following the Israeli claims.
A total of 39 people now face charges in the anti-ICE invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul last month, according to a superseding indictment that the federal district court unsealed Friday. (snip) The new indictment includes the original charges, but brings them against 30 more defendants. (snip) According to the indictment, (snip) two defendants noted "the location of parking areas, where they could 'pull up,' and that 'my thoughts are to be able to clog up this whole alleyway right here.'" Obstructing access is a key aspect of a FACE Act violation.
The death penalty is officially off the table for accused healthcare CIO killer Luigi Mangione. (snip) Mangione won't technically be charged with murder in the federal case, and will instead face a charge of "stalking" Thompson, leading to the father-of-two's death. (snip) In order to seek the death penalty, Garnett wrote, prosecutors needed to show that Mangione had killed Thompson while committing another "crime of violence." (snip) The judge acknowledged that her ruling might seem "tortured and strange" to the average person, but she stressed its the legally correct move, writing that "the law must be the court's only concern."
Some immigrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were arrested by Border Patrol have been released into the United States by the Department of Homeland Security despite the Trump administration's claim that "zero" releases have occurred over the past nine months, according to four sources aware of the releases. (snip) that some illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S. at all appears to contradict President Donald Trump's claim during the State of the Union address, as well as numerous statements by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (snip)
Americans woke up Saturday to something big. The United States and Israel launched a massive joint offensive against Iran’s regime, known as Operation Epic Fury. According to reports, targets included Iran’s supreme leader and president. Major combat operations are now underway, and the implications are global. Predictably, Democrats in Washington and even some Republicans are questioning the strikes. But let’s be honest — this moment was long overdue. Iran’s reign of terror didn’t start yesterday. In fact, this confrontation is the direct result of the Obama administration’s disastrous decision a decade ago to appease, enrich, and embolden Tehran.
Barack Obama and his administration sold the world a fantasy with
Dem governor under fire after illegal
alien allegedly stabs woman to death at
bus stop: 'Heinous' replies
alien allegedly stabs woman to death at
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Exclusive: The Department of Homeland Security is calling on Virginia's Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger to ensure local law enforcement cooperates with federal immigration officials by handing over an illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who allegedly killed a woman earlier this week at a Virginia bus stop. Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone earlier this week on charges of second-degree murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed a woman, Stephanie Minter, 41, who was found dead at a local bus stop with several wounds to the upper body.
The alleged suspect, Abdul Jalloh, 32, also has a criminal history of more than 30 arrests,
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has been one of the most consistent Republican defenders of the EB-5 investor visa program over the past several years — advocating for its reauthorization, intervening in its implementation, and signaling support for preserving it even amid President Donald Trump’s proposed “Gold Card” alternative.
During much of that same period, Cornyn’s daughter, Haley Cornyn, worked at Greenberg Traurig, a global law and lobbying firm that has structured billions of dollars in EB-5 investment deals and lobbied on matters related to the program.
The overlap between Cornyn’s legislative advocacy and the financial interests of his daughter’s employer raises questions about political optics and potential conflicts of interest
The Department of War announced that the agency will continue supporting Scouting America after the youth group agreed to scrap diversity initiatives and revise membership policies.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the decision in a video posted February 27, saying the department had been “seriously considering” ending its longstanding partnership with Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America.
“After 2012, however, the Boy Scouts lost their way, and a once-great organization became gravely wounded… DEI crept in, the name was changed to ‘Scouting America.’ Girls were accepted. The focus on God as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include