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
Donald Trump is set to become the first sitting US president to have his signature on US banknotes, the Treasury Department has announced. Trump's signature will appear alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, an unprecedented move that the department said was being made to mark America's 250th anniversary. 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
The Ocala area continued to lead the nation in population growth, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
The data shows a 3.4% growth rate for the Ocala Metro in the bureau's Vintage 2025 population estimates between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025. The bureau estimated the metro's at 442,660 people.
The population increased by more than 14,600 people compared to the previous year and by more than 66,700 since the 2020 Census. Read more
"We don't think Hitler is, like, the worst person ever," Alec Beaton, a 23-year-old former Trump campaign staffer, told the Washington Post at a national young conservatives conference. Beaton added that he praises Adolf Hitler to "mess with people." Fuentes, a 27-year-old white nationalist with a Rumble platform of more than 600k, said during a recent stream that women "just lie and they're whores. Not all of them ... but it is a serious problem."
James Talarico, the Texas Democratic state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, has said he forgives Pete Hegseth's pastor for praying for his death.
On Tuesday, Texas's popular Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat pushed back against comments from Brooks Potteiger, the defense secretary's closest spiritual adviser, who said: "We want him crucified with Christ."
Talarico said on X: "Jesus loves. Christian Nationalism kills. You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you. I love you more than you could ever hate me."
"There are basically two ways to know you have a future. One, you have some vocational training.
Or two, you're neurodivergent," he said. Alex used the term "neurodivergent" broadly (including conditions like ADHD, autism and dyslexia), and discussed how those with said diagnoses are more likely to take unconventional career paths. Read more
France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down.
Controversial comedian Druski has triggered fresh outrage over his latest mega-viral skit in which he dressed up as Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika " with many calling him "disgusting" and "completely disrespectful" to a grieving widow. The black comic painted his skin and sported a white suit, blue contact lenses and blond locks as he mocked the Turning Point USA CEO in his "How Conservative Women in America Act" sketch, which has racked up more than 40 million views on social media. Read more
US President Donald Trump has claimed that the people of Iran want to make him their supreme leader, but according to him, he is not interested in taking the position. Speaking at a Republican fundraiser event in Washington, Trump also doubled down on his claim that Iran wants to end the nearly month-long war, insisting the officials in Tehran are negotiating with Washington but are afraid to admit it over fears of mutiny at home. Trump claimed that the idea of him becoming Iran's next Supreme Leader was informally floated by leadership in Tehran after the US-Israeli military campaign killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but he turned them down.
