An attorney from the Jeanine Pirro led DC United States Attorney office admitted in federal court that the DoJ has no evidence to support a subpoena request sought against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for possibly making false statements to the Senate Banking Committee.
UBS sent Maxwell funds a month before she purchased the property and went into hiding. Maxwell, who was convicted of trafficking children for sex, was found hiding at the property in 2020. UBS did business for Maxwell after receiving subpoena and saying it would stop banking her. DOJ files show the central role UBS played in managing Maxwell's finances, Barclays also a key bank.
Pro-Iran hackers published more than 300 emails and photos Friday from what appears to be a personal email account for FBI Director Kash Patel. In a statement, an FBI spokesman acknowledged the Iranian campaign. "The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel's personal email information, and we have taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity. The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information," the spokesman said. The hacking group, called Handala, indicated on its website that the leak was in retaliation after the FBI and Justice Department seized several of its websites last week, accusing the group of "psychological operations" and saying it was a front for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth struck the names of two Black and two female officers from a military promotions list, sparking bias concerns, according to a new report on Friday.
Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran to bolster its war effort against the US and Israel, according to a report.
Senior Iranian and Russian officials began secretly discussing the delivery of drones days after Israel and the US launched their first attack on Tehran last month, two officials briefed on the intelligence told the Financial Times.
Moscow began its deliveries in early March, and they were expected to be completed by the end of the month, Western intelligence said.
Vice President JD Vance suggested that Iran had the desire to blow up grocery stores with nuclear suicide vests. During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Vance praised the U.S. military strikes on Iran for creating options for negotiations. "What we have now that we didn't have when the president took over just a little over a year ago is the ability to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon," he explained. "Because when I say options, I think it's important the American people know, options, and it's options to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon." "You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, for what? And they blow up the vest, and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest, it's not something that can kill a couple of people but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?" he added.
STOWE, Vt. (AP) -- Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year. After working as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse, the 14-year-old freshman at Stowe High School now has his sights set on the corner office. In November, he'll be the first candidate for governor under age 18 to appear on the state's general election ballot. "I don't expect necessarily to win," he said. "What I do expect is to start the movement, and get more young people to come in behind me and say, Yeah, we also want to make change.'" Read more
The US oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country's supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts, food shortages, canceled classes, and black-market gas prices approaching $40 a gallon. It is also crippling Cuba's universal health care system, a state institution once considered a triumph for a poor nation, but is now struggling to provide basic care. Six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.
Dummkopf Trumpf is a Monster
U.S. paper currency will bear President Donald Trump's signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement that the move was appropriate for the U.S. 250th anniversary, given strong U.S. economic growth and financial stability during Trump's second term.
Anthropic earlier this month sued the Department of Defense and a number of other agencies after Trump berated the company publicly and then Hegseth labelled it a "supply chain risk" " the first time a US company has ever publicly received such a designation. The Pentagon wanted the contract to only say it could use Anthropic's tools for "any lawful use". Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei were concerned that would open the door to its tools being used for mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.
Despite the illegal and inhuman US-Israeli onslaught against the people of Iran, Tehran's oil exports have not collapsed and are fetching much higher prices than before their barbaric surprise attack. Iran has likely earned $139 million per day by selling its flagship Iran Light crude so far in March.
American Consumers Pay Heavy Price Thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu's Iranophobia
The Republican Party gave the first-ever "America First award" to President Donald Trump on March 25, an achievement that follows backlash from legislators over his receiving of these newly created honors. The award was presented to Trump at the National Republican Congressional Committee annual fundraising dinner by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said it was created with the president in mind. Read more
TV host Bill Maher will receive the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced on Thursday " just days after the White House denied that the comedian would be awarded the honor. "Thank you to the Mark Twain people: I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it's like an Emmy, except I win," Maher quipped in a statement. "I'd just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who's been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain." Read more
The US housing market was supposed to turn a corner this year, but economic uncertainty and a jump in mortgage rates fueled by the US-Israeli war in Iran are complicating affordability for American homebuyers. After years of sluggish sales, economists expected 2026 to bring lower mortgage rates and more homes for sale, breathing new life into the market after home transactions fell to 30-year lows last year. Read more
Mar 26, 2026 News Updates
Let's talk about the new book called "Trump's Ten Commandments" by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, which is due out next week.
Also, Donald Trump's signature will now appear on all U.S. paper currency, starting in a couple of months with the $100 bill. How much longer until we see his image?
his is not a partisan affair. Experts in military strategy, regional history, and current power dynamics in the Middle East"as well as American politics and geoeconomics"are struggling to make sense of the U.S."Israel war launched on February 28 and warn that its escalatory spiral is spinning out of control. But just like when the bloom was off the rose in late 2003, when the insurgencies and sectarian violence started emerging in Iraq and it was becoming clear that the Bush administration had no plan for "what's next," the cheerleaders and shills are rushing to battle stations today to do everything to maintain some sort of rationalization for the disaster unfolding right before our eyes. Read more
