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By Ward Clark Could California get any more ridiculous? Wait, wait - I take that back. I don't want the people now running the once-Golden State to take that as a challenge. Instead, let me qualify that remark: When I say "California" in this case, I mean "California Democrats." Yes, they have a supermajority in the state assembly, and yes, the impeccably coiffed Democrat Gavin Newsom remains in place as governor while he spends his spare time polishing up his presidential credentials. There are a lot of solid conservatives in California, some of whom are colleagues and friends of mine, and they are fighting the good fight against the nitwit ideas of California Democrats. The latest piece of nitwittery out of Sacramento comes in the form of a bill that would force California taxpayers to foot the legal bills for illegal aliens in California who are facing deportation. Yes, you read that right; they want to force taxpayers to hire  lawyers for people in the c...

By Ben Smith The Justice Department and FBI said Tuesday they carried out a court-authorized operation to shut down a Russian military intelligence network that had been using compromised internet routers inside the United States as a platform to intercept  sensitive  data. Officials tied the activity to GRU Unit 26165, also known as APT28, which exploited known vulnerabilities in widely used routers and altered their settings to redirect internet traffic through infrastructure it  controlled . That access did not depend on hacking individual computers. By taking over the router, operators placed themselves in the path of the data and monitored traffic moving across the network to decide what to  extract . For selected targets, the network returned fraudulent DNS records that  mimicked  legitimate login services, including Microsoft Outlook Web Access, to capture passwords, authentication tokens, and email data. FBI officials said the scale forced a dir...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell The Trump-endorsed candidate Clay Fuller (R) has pulled out a win in the Georgia District 14 runoff election. Fuller will complete the congressional term of former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor  Greene . Decision Desk HQ projects Clayton Fuller wins the Georgia US House 14 Special Election Runoff #DecisionMade : 8:03 PM EDT Follow live results here: https://t.co/1BTkCpIZxj pic.twitter.com/FbrM0R7SSY — Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) April 8, 2026 Georgia Republican Clay Fuller has defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special U.S. House runoff election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Associated Press and NBC have projected. With more than half of all the votes counted in the 14th Congressional District race, the heavily-favored Fuller, a former prosecutor, captured 55% to 45.8% for Harris, a retired brigadier Army general, in the closely-watched contest that has captivated the nation. While voter turnout seemed to be larger th...

By M. D. Kittle The Russia collusion hoaxer congressman and Dem candidate for California governor is accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with interns. The office of  Rep. Eric Swalwell , D-Calif., offers  internships  “for college students to gain valuable work experience … [and] absorb the many functions of a Congressional office.” If the growing harassment allegations against the leftist lawmaker and leading Democrat candidate for California governor are true, Congress may want to put the kibosh on Swalwell’s tutelage program for young women.  It seems the accomplice media has been too busy  falling all over  themselves in their absurd attempt to make Swalwell a martyr of President Donald Trump’s  “weaponization of law enforcement”  to pay much attention to the women coming forward accusing the swamp rat of inappropriate sexual conduct.  Swalwell’s flacks are furiously trying to explain away why the smarmy Democrat’s campaign spent ...

By Tex In what has to be the most hilariously pathetic chapter yet in the Islamic Republic’s long-running farce, Iran’s brand-new Supreme Leader—Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, age 56, son of the late terrorist-in-chief—is reportedly lying unconscious in a hospital bed in the holy city of Qom. According to a diplomatic memo circulating among U.S., Israeli, and Gulf allies (and broken by The Times of London), the man installed just last month as the third Supreme Leader of the regime is in “severe condition” and “unable to be involved in any decision making.” That’s right: the guy whose job description is to issue fatwas, bless proxy wars, and glare menacingly at the West can’t even sign his own name without a teleprompter, a body double, and probably a team of IRGC doctors playing “pin the IV on the ayatollah.” Let’s recap this clown show for anyone who missed the previous episodes. On February 28, President Trump green-lit Operation Epic Fury. One well-placed airstrike later,...

By Tex WASHINGTON, D.C. — A fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran is now in effect following decisive pressure from President Trump, but renewed missile attacks on Israel are already raising serious concerns about Tehran’s reliability. The agreement came after rising tensions in the region, with Iran threatening to disrupt global oil shipments by closing the critical strait. In response, Trump issued a firm warning and set the stage for potential military action, making clear that the United States would not tolerate interference with international trade routes. Within hours of a looming deadline, Iran backed down and agreed to reopen the strait and enter into a temporary ceasefire. The move was widely seen as a direct result of strong U.S. leadership and a willingness to project force, a hallmark of Trump’s foreign policy approach. The ceasefire, brokered with the help of international mediators, was intended to create space for broader negotiations ...

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This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and concluding with the recovery of the Orion Integrity spacecraft after splashdown. Live coverage of Artemis II's launch and lunar flyby, as well as daily mission briefings, will also stream on this feed. These events will additionally be carried as standalone streams on NASA's YouTube channel and elsewhere. Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew: - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander - NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot - NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist - Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist After launching into space atop SLS, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft on an approx...

By Nick Arama We've been tracking that United Nations Security Council resolution that Bahrain had been trying to get passed.  Originally, the wording called to authorize opening the Strait by all means necessary. "[A]uthorizes member States, acting nationally or through voluntary multinational naval partnerships, with advance notifications to the Security Council,” to use all necessary means “to secure transit passage and to deter attempts to close, obstruct or otherwise interfere with international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.” That would have allowed the use of force. Gee, maybe when a terrorist regime is trying to hold up the economy of a lot of the world to get its way, that might be a good idea?  As we reported at the end of last week, three nations — Russia, China, and our "ally" France — blocked the resolution.  So then they  watered down  the resolution significantly, in an attempt to get Russia and China to abstain rather than veto it....

By Shawn Fleetwood The far-left group Demand Justice is developing plans to derail future Republican Supreme Court nominees for when a vacancy arises. The U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of so-called “ birthright citizenship ” last week has rightly drawn many eyeballs to a high-profile subject involving the rule of law and judiciary. And while the issue is certainly important, there’s another newsworthy story related to the high court that isn’t receiving the attention it deserves. The New York Times published a seemingly under-the-radar  piece  on Friday titled, “Liberal Group Warns That Trump Could Have Two More Supreme Court Picks.” Authored by Times reporter Reid Epstein, the article disclosed plans by a far-left organization to disrupt potential Supreme Court nominations should they arise during President Trump’s second term. While speaking with the left-wing outlet, Demand Justice President Josh Orton revealed that his group is “preparing a multimillion-dollar ef...