SIPRI informs: "Global military spending climbed to nearly $2.9 trillion in 2025, marking an 11th straight year of growth; the US, China, and Russia accounted for $1.48 trillion, over half the total. "
2026 is the Year of Mars and More Death, Destruction, and Misery Coming
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is being sued for failing to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files as required by law. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C, on Monday by lawyer and political commentator Katie Phang, who slammed Blanche and demanded that the Justice Department release all documents, along with an explanation for any redactions. She is also calling for the courts to appoint an expert to ensure that Blanche complies with the law. "This case is about Defendant Todd Blanche's brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act," the 15-page lawsuit reads.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed a new map for US House districts that appears to show Republicans gaining an advantage in four seats now held by Democrats.
His proposal, released one day before the Florida Legislature opens a special session, targets Democratic-held seats in the southeast corner of the state along with a district in the Tampa area held by Rep. Kathy Castor.
It's the latest salvo in a coast-to-coast redistricting fight that President Donald Trump kicked off last year when Texas drew new lines at his behest.
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It has been a strange month for American Christians whose religious identity is not bound up with the adoration of President Trump. We watched a president who postures as a defender of the faith pollute the holiest days of the Christian calendar by invoking God while making profane threats to commit war crimes and annihilate an entire civilization. Read more
A growing group of Senate Republicans are losing confidence in Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's leadership of the Defense Department, and some GOP lawmakers would like to see him "move on," though they say it's President Trump's call. Senate Republicans who spoke to The Hill on the condition of anonymity say Hegseth wouldn't be confirmed to head the Pentagon if he were renominated by Trump today, and they say senior staff turmoil at the Defense Department under Hegseth's leadership is a major concern. Republican defense hawks in the Senate aren't happy about media reports that Hegseth pushed popular Army chief of staff Randy George to resign in early April, and they were surprised and disappointed to hear that Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan this past week.
As Congress prepares for a House floor vote on the Farm Bill next week, lawmakers are issuing dire warnings about what might happen to American farmers if an aid package doesn't pass. The past year was tough for American farmers, a downturn that the Farm Bureau has called a "generational rather than a temporary slowdown." Farm bankruptcies increased 46% in 2025 and are at their highest level since 2020, though fewer farms are going bankrupt than in the 2010s. The combined costs of seed, fertilizer, equipment and other necessary materials have been rising steadily since 2021; retaliatory tariffs from China hurt American farmers' business last year; and the cost of gas and fertilizer is soaring as a consequence of the U.S. war with Iran.
On February 28, the United States Armed Forces launched Operation Epic Fury with a set of clear objectives: to "[d]estroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy [Iran's] navy and other security infrastructure," and, finally, ensure that Iran "will never have nuclear weapons." Epic Fury is only the latest round of an ongoing international armed conflict with Iran. As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the U.N. Security Council, including most recently on March 10, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States' own inherent right of self-defense.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has made its name battling extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. It is now facing federal charges of fraud, accused of funneling millions into some of those very same hate groups. Jan Crawford has more
FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel FBI lingered aimlessly after a man exchanged gunfire with USSS agents at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday. Patel was seen standing agape and dumbfounded outside the Washington Hilton hotel like a random attendee or bystander, not like a man in charge of America's premier law-enforcement agency after an alleged assassination attempt on the President of the United States.
This man walks in the footsteps of J. Edgar Hoover, William Webster, and Robert Mueller
Fox News Reporter Peter Doocy: "Why does this keep happening to you?"
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A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats' new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. Read more
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Newsmax on Sunday that political rhetoric from Democrats is contributing to threats against President Donald Trump, pointing to the security scare at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner as part of a broader pattern. Appearing on "Sunday Agenda," the former Democrat governor reacted to the incident Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, where a suspected gunman was detained before reaching the ballroom where Trump and other officials were gathered. Blagojevich, who served three terms in Congress and two as governor, said the situation reflects what he described as escalating political hostility.
AI's increasing ability to sift through data and track Americans' locations has some lawmakers reconsidering parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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Federal judges have received more than 800 threats since Trump's rhetoric intensified " and retired members of the judiciary are now speaking out. "According to the U.S. Marshals Service, there were 564 threats against federal judges in 2025 and there have been 275 already this year," wrote USA Today's Rex Huppke on Sunday. "The Marshals Service asked Congress for an additional $34 million in April, noting that the threat environment' is unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future.'" In February, America's top association for lawyers similarly spoke out against Trump's attacks on judges. "The recent remarks by the president of the United States, leveling personal criticisms against members of the U.S. Supreme Court, are not acceptable and cross a dangerous line that threatens the safety of the judiciary and our judicial process," American Bar Association (ABA) President Michelle A. Behnke said in a statement.
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.
