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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., lashed out at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday, calling her leadership of the agency a “disaster.” “We’re an exceptional nation. And one of the reasons we’re exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership. And you have demonstrated anything but that,” said TIllis, who has previously called on Noem to resign. He struck out at Noem for her handling of disaster response and the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, among other things. “What we’ve seen is innocent people getting detained that turned out are American citizens,” Tillis said in a roughly 10-minute diatribe that included references...

A Democrat running for office in California has reportedly called to defund the Pentagon, but her husband works for a company that built missiles the United States is believed to have used during the recent strikes on the Islamic regime in Iran. Fatima Iqbal-Zubair is a candidate for the state’s 65th Assembly District and her husband, Fazlul Zubair, is an engineer manager for Raytheon, the New York Post reported Monday. The United States and Israel launched a joint military operation targeting Iran on Saturday in part to ensure the regime will never have the capability to threaten the world with...

During an interview with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) told the Black mayor and mostly Black audience "I'm like you. I can't read. I'm a 960 SAT guy--you know, the kind of guy who's a 'C' student on his good days. I'd be the perfect president to represent your interests. I wish I was Black so you'd believe me." Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took offense, saying "You're not like us. Black folks have built empires, created movements, outworked, out-hustled and outsmarted people like you. Stop using your mediocre academics as a way to patronize us." Newsom defended...

President Trump announced the US is going to “cut off all trade with Spain” over Madrid’s lack of support for the attack on Iran. “We were going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” he said during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump spent several minutes complaining about the NATO allies’ refusal to allow the US to use their military bases to attack Iran and argued that they don’t spend enough on defense. “Spain has been terrible,” he said. “Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases.”...

"The Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell announced he's been diagnosed with cancer and will be canceling upcoming appearances. On Monday night, Campbell took to X to share that he has a "treatable" but not "curable" type of cancer. "I apologize if that was a shock — it was for me too," he wrote. "I’m posting this, because professionally, a few things will have to change — appearances and cons and work in general need to take [a] back seat to treatment," Campbell continued. Bruce Campbell holds an axe in a shot from "The Evil Dead" "The Evil Dead" star Bruce...

In most Lancaster County school districts where students have protested against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, administrators are taking disciplinary action against the students. Only in the School District of Lancaster did a protest end in something other than detentions. More than 700 McCaskey High School students gathered peacefully outside the school for 45 minutes Friday to speak out against ICE movements. “In general, we allow students to exercise their free speech rights,” district spokesman Adam Aurand said, “as long as they gather peacefully, follow all directions for safety, and disperse when directed.” That was not the case...

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SpaceX is dropping the bomb! Ship 39 is at the test site after a spectacular rollout. But there’s a story they didn’t tell us. Starship Flight 12 is closer than you might think, and Starbase is getting ready for a giant leap! And NASA… is overthrowing its own plans while SLS is still stuck on the ground. Radical change is coming for Artemis, and it’s not at all what you’d expect! SpaceX Starship: Flight 12 Ship 39 Reveals A Secret Trick! | 21:37 What about it!? | 625K subscribers | 19.585 views | March 3, 2026

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) cited U.S. air operations in Serbia and Kosovo in the 1990s to argue that changing the regime in Iran would be difficult to pull off just through air operations without putting American soldiers on the ground and said that he doesn’t support putting troops on the ground and stated that doing so would require authorization by Congress.Davidson said, “[Y]ou already see that vision for a democratic future for Iran. And Prime Minister Netanyahu somehow thinks that that can magically happen with some air power. We couldn’t even make regime...

Trump says he's given instructions to cut off all trade with Spain, citing Madrid's announcement that US can't use its bases

Main Points Summary by Grok:The video is a live discussion on the Triggernometry podcast (hosted by Francis and Konstantin) featuring Richard Miniter (American investigative journalist) and Aimen Dean (former al-Qaeda member turned MI6 double agent, now co-host of the Conflicted podcast). Recorded amid the ongoing 2026 US-Israeli military campaign against Iran (which began February 28, 2026), it analyzes the conflict following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Israeli strikes, with US support.Key main points from the discussion:Scale and nature of the military operation — Described as one of the largest air campaigns in history, with ~2,000 combined...

A disgraced small-town mayor who was allegedly caught by her kids having sex with a drunken 16-year-old boy at a booze-fueled pool party ordered emergency contraception on DoorDash afterward. Misty Roberts, the 43-year-old former leader of tiny DeRidder, La., is now on trial for third-degree rape over the 2024 alleged tryst. After news spread of Roberts’ reputed romp with the teen in the town of 9,800, the mother of the victim — a friend of the defendant’s son — texted the then-mayor to ensure she was not pregnant, to which she replied she was on birth control, prosecutors told jurors...

This article below was originally posted last December and now is updated. But the risk of activated U.S.-based Iranian sleeper cells and of lone wolfs has increased since Saturday’s U.S.-Israeli lightening attacks on Iran. Americans definitely shouldn’t live in fear. We need to carry on our daily lives. But reasonably, our police and national security establishment now are on high alert. One of the first lone wolf attacks emerged two days ago in Austin, Texas. Here is a summary of a local news report: Ndiaga Diagne, a Senegal immigrant, open fired upon people in people in a bar in Austin,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland homeowners can now earn extra cash by renting a room out through the city’s new home share pilot program.The Portland Housing Bureau announced last week that it is offering one-time grants to homeowners who rent out their spare rooms using a qualified home share provider.In a press release, Mayor Keith Wilson said the city is exploring ways to utilize existing housing as part of its ongoing effort to address the housing crisis.“For many Portlanders, home sharing is a win-win solution, helping homeowners to supplement their incomes while providing low-income tenants with affordable housing options,” he...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Erdo was early leader in conclave before Leo elected to carry Pope Francis’ torch: new bookRobert Prevost was seen as the best qualified candidate to continue the program of Pope Francis, cardinals told an author-journalist team who were friends with the late pope. A soon-to-be-published book recounts the inside story of how in last year’s papal conclave an early lead by Cardinal Péter Erdő morphed into support for Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was expected to carry the torch of Pope Francis.“The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis,” pulls from the testimony of...

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said Tuesday that lawmakers are considering whether the Pentagon may need additional funding as questions grow over U.S. munitions supplies and the strain of ongoing U.S. strikes on Iran. The cost of the operations are likely to surface at the Trump administration’s briefing later in the day for both chambers of Congress. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine are expected to brief lawmakers amid widespread Democratic opposition. “Well, we’re talking about that, and that will undoubtedly be discussed at...

The American Library Association, a nonprofit whose stated primary mission over the last century has been advocating for libraries and librarians, is fighting a new bill in Congress that aims to cut off federal funding to schools that promote or provide sexual programming or literature to children.

The Israeli air force struck a top Iranian meeting on Tuesday where Tehran’s senior clerics had gathered to select a replacement for slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to multiple reports. The Assembly of Experts, made up of 88 top clerics, were together in the holy city of Qom when an airstrike hit their building overnight, the Times of Israel reported. The strike came just as the mullahs were counting the votes to appoint the next supreme leader, according to Fox News. It remains unclear how many members of the assembly were attending the vote when the building was hit.