“WE GOT HIM!”: Trump Says As 2nd Downed Pilot Recovered In High Risk Iran Special Forces Raid After ‘Dicey’ Firefight Summary Second downed pilot recovered after US Special Forces raid and firefight inside Iran. Fire Breaks Out At Kuwait Oil Ministry Complex After Iran Drone Strike President Trump reminds Iran of deal timeline, threatens “all hell will reign down” if time runs out. Israel launched heavy strikes on […]

Ex-CIA Analyst: Trump’s Claim About Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses Was Premature Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson During his Wednesday night speech, Donald Trump made the following claim about Iran’s air defenses: “They have no anti-aircraft equipment, their radar’s 100% annihilated, we are unstoppable as a military force.” The White House followed this Friday, with a statement from a spokesperson, Anna Kelley, […]

Forget Temu’s “Bugatti” Knockoff. Texas Man 3D-Printed A Lamborghini Aventador Body Forget ordering a $30,000 “Bugatti” knockoff from Chinese e-commerce websites like Temu. A private seller in Texas is now offering what appears to be a fully 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador body on Facebook Marketplace, highlighting how 3D printing is revolutionizing custom vehicle manufacturing. “This is a fully 3D-printed Lamborghini Aventador […]

The Tyranny Of Compelled Speech Authored by George Ramsay via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While censorship is often the main focus of discussions about free speech, there’s a related phenomenon that can do just as much damage to a free society. Not by preventing people from saying things they believe in, but by forcing them to say things they do not. A scoreboard shows a message declaring an indigenous land acknowledgement […]

GOP Senator Opposes More Than 60 Days Of War On Iran Without War Declaration In what could become a key milestone in an unpopular US-Israeli war on Iran that has the world on the edge of economic catastrophe, a Republican senator from one America’s reddest states has announced his opposition to continued action against Iran beyond 60 days from the Feb 28 commencement of hostilities — unless Congress approves it.  “I support the […]

Iran Allows Iraqi Ships To Use Strait Of Hormuz As Total Weekly Transits Reach Highest Since War Began Over the past two weeks we have been chronicling the increased rate of crossing across the “blockaded” strait of Hormuz as a growing number of ships from friendly nations – whether untolled Chinese tankers or toll-paying Indian, Japanese and Korean vessels – have been making the passage. And as traffic through the Hormuz strait has […]

In Charts: US Does Not Rely On Strait Of Hormuz Oil While Asia Stands To Lose Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Strait of Hormuz has been called the jugular vein of the world’s oil supply, and as Operation Epic Fury continues, Iran continues to have a chokehold on the critical supply route. About one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas is typically shipped through the narrow waterway connecting the […]

Library Director Fired After Refusing To Remove Hundreds Of LGBT Books From Kids’ Section When are these people going to learn to just leave the kids alone? A Tennessee library board has voted 8-3 to remove its top librarian, Luanne James, after she refused to carry out an order to relocate hundreds of LGBT-themed books, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and feminist propaganda books from the children’s section of six Rutherford County […]

The Real Threat From The Iran War Hits Farmers, Not Fuel Pumps Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Prices for retail diesel and gas have each risen by over a third ($1.30+ and $1.00 per gallon, respectively) since the launch of Epic Fury. Americans learned in the 1970s that Middle East conflict means energy pain, and that lesson has been reinforced through every subsequent Gulf crisis. This time, […]

Ex-NYC Mayor de Blasio Joins China-Linked Far-Left Group At Anti-U.S. “Emergency Meeting” In Colombia The New York Post reports that former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio secretly traveled with his girlfriend and a far-left activist group, alleged to have links to the Chinese Communist Party, to attend an “emergency” meeting denouncing the U.S. It’s a 180-degree turn for the former Democratic mayor of NYC, long a symbol of […]

The Demise Of Trial By Jury Authored by Celina via American Greatness, Justice isn’t blind anymore: Multiculturalism has made impartial justice impossible “Law grows with the growth, and strengthens with the strength of the people, and finally dies away as the nation loses its nationality.” — Friedrich Carl von Savigny Photo: Wyandanch, N.Y.: As the jury foreperson read the verdict of “not guilty” in the Los Angeles […]

Tehran’s Toll Booth For Hormuz Strait Divides Countries Into 3 Categories The last several days have seen a limited number of foreign vessels successfully and safely cross the Strait of Hormuz for the first time, amid the ongoing de facto military blockage by Iran. A group of several vessels, namely French, Japanese, and Oman-linked ships were reported to have crossed the strait at the end of this week. This […]

Less Than Half Of Health Care Workers Received An Updated COVID-19 Vaccine: CDC Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A minority of health care workers received an updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly reported survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Just 40.2 percent of health care personnel who responded to the survey said they received a COVID-19 shot between the fall of 2024 and early […]

How Social Media Verdicts Could Upend Tech Industry Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Two major court verdicts last week finding social media giants Meta and YouTube liable for harm to users could send shock waves through the tech industry. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a jury in Los Angeles on March 25 found both companies liable for making their platforms addictive and deleterious to the mental health of young […]

US Arrests & Boots Soleimani’s Fashion Designer Niece From The Country The Trump administration is rounding up family members of notable Iranian government figures, accusing them of spreading ‘pro-Tehran propaganda’. And apparently this is even if the Iranian officials in question are deceased. The State Department confirmed an unexpected development on Saturday, announcing that the niece of the late Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem […]

Dems’ Ballroom Hate Is the Saddest Proof Yet of Their State of TDS Mental Unwellness Authored by Stephen Kruiser via PJMedia.com, 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. The Democrats of recent […]

Iran Scrambling To Restore Bombed Missile Bunkers Within Hours After Being Struck Iran’s resilience after more than a month of very heavy US-Israeli bombing has become obvious. The country’s somewhat ancient air force and navy have been largely obliterated, and yet all the while the Iranian military has kept up intense ballistic missile and drone strikes on Israel and Gulf states. Tehran’s missile arsenal is what is understood to […]

DHS Rescinds Policy Requiring Secretary Review Of Contracts Above $100,000 Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded a policy on March 31 that required the department secretary to personally approve every contract and grant exceeding $100,000. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Feb. 17, 2026. […]

Artemis II Now Closer To Moon Than Earth Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Artemis II’s four moon-bound astronauts are officially closer to the Moon than the Earth. Mission Control confirmed the milestone to the crew at 10:59 p.m. CT on April 3, three days into their historic flight around the moon. As of 11 p.m., NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut […]

Gen Z Women Are Ditching The ‘Girlboss’ Lie For Tradwife Life, Putting Family First Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Gen Z women are rejecting the decades-long feminist push that told them family comes second to careers or ‘fame’ and ‘independence’ at all costs. Fox News host Lara Trump breaks down the new reality playing out among young women. The clip highlights a fresh EduBirdie study showing young […]

Major US Shale Producer To Boost Output, And It Suggests One Thing Last month, roughly three weeks into the U.S.-Iran conflict, UBS chief economist Arend Kapteyn told clients that one reason this Middle East energy shock is “not like the 2011-2014 shale boom” is the lack of a comparable response from the U.S. shale patch. In other words, the oil shock was viewed as temporary by major shale players and not worth adding new drilling […]

FBI Arrests Eight Suspects In $60 Million LA County Over Hospice Fraud Authored by Madeline Shannon via The Center Square, The FBI made multiple arrests Thursday in Los Angeles County in connection with allegations over a total of $60 million in hospice-related Medicaid fraud. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrests for Operation Never Say Die during a news conference. “Federal agents from […]

Downed U.S. Drone Appears On TikTok Live As Iraqi Children Try To Sell It As the U.S.-Iran conflict enters its second month, America’s Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS, is becoming increasingly visible across the Middle East theater, a sign that the Department of War has learned one critical lesson from both the Iranian drone playbook and the Ukraine-Russia war: cheap drones are the future of warfare. The latest […]

How Will AI-Driven Automation Actually Affect Jobs? Authored by Alex Imas and Soumitra Shukla via Ghosts of Electricity, One of the most widely cited findings in AI policy comes from a 2023 paper by Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, and Rock titled “GPTs are GPTs.” The title is a nice double meaning: the paper studies how general-purpose technologies (GPTs) powered by large language models (also GPTs) may reshape the labor market. […]

Netanyahu Boasts 70% Of Iran’s Steel Production Capacity Destroyed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in Friday remarks that Israeli airstrikes have wiped out roughly 70% of Iran’s steel production capacity, dealing a major blow to its ability to manufacture weapons – from missiles and drones to ships. “Together with our American friends, we continue to crush the terror regime in Iran. We are eliminating commanders, […]