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By Stephen Green "Early this morning, SpaceX launched the final GPS III satellite in our constellation, the most advanced GPS satellites ever built," Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman announced on Tuesday. It's the finishing touch, as Chronos Intelligence explained, in a "constellation that every smartphone, every ship, every aircraft and every missile guidance system on Earth depends on." SpaceX might just call it "Tuesday."  Elon Musk's launch company is about to raise tens of billions in the biggest-ever IPO on its way to easily top a $1 trillion valuation — and no wonder. This morning's Space Force mission was its 48th Falcon 9 launch of the year (with a 100% success rate) and on track to roughly match last year's record-breaking launch cadence. Meanwhile, the company is making final preparations for the next flight test of the massive Starship rocket that will not only make the Falcon 9 obsolete, but every other rocket in the world....

By Streiff With the current ceasefire agreement coming to an end in the next few hours, neither the U.S. nor the Iranian negotiating teams have departed for Islamabad. As we reported on Sunday, even though the U.S. had responded affirmatively to a second round of negotiations, the odds of the Iranians being there seemed fairly small; see  US Negotiators Head Back to Islamabad, but the Iranians May Not Be There – RedState .  The public position of the Iranian side was that, "Iran will not send a negotiating team to Islamabad while the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports continues and no negotiations will take place." President Trump, acting through U.S. Central Command, made it abundantly clear that the blockade was not up for negotiations; see  VIDEO: USS Spruance Lights Up Iranian Blockade Runner in a Formidable Demonstration of FAFO – RedState  and  US Seizes Tanker Carrying Iranian Oil in Bay of Bengal, Turns Back Dozens of Ships in Strait of Hormuz – RedState...

By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) has tendered her resignation effective Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. ET.  🚨 @CongresswomanSC has resigned effective 1:30p today. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 21, 2026 As RedState reported on March 27, the House Ethics Commission found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on 25 of 27 ethics violations, including violating campaign finance laws after she accepted more than $5 million in FEMA funds for a family business, and then spent the bulk of that money to fund her 2022 congressional campaign. As is the stance of many a politician of late, Cherfilus-McCormick expressed outrage, cried racism, and claimed it was a witch hunt to distract from the Epstein Files. However, after the ethics verdict came out, Cherfilus-McCormick had a "come to Jesus" meeting with her Democrat caucus to get an idea of whether she had the votes to avoid being expelled.  The fact that Republican Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (FL-13) w...

By Bob Hoge Los Angeles voters did a rare good thing in November of 2024 , jettisoning criminal-loving LA County District Attorney  George Gascón  and replacing  him with the much more sane Nathan Hochman. That being said, I have no idea how to explain this one. In November 2022, 25-year-old Nicholas Gutierrez was driving on the wrong side of the street in Whittier, California, and plowed into a group of 25 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s recruits who were on a training run. One was killed, and five were severely injured. Investigators determined that Gutierrez had fallen asleep. On Monday, he pled guilty to 10 felony charges — and yet he’s going to walk away with no time served. Justice, California style. This is absolutely unreal. The guy that plowed his car into dozens of Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits, killing one and gravely injuring several others, just took a sweetheart plea AND WILL SERVE ZERO TIME IN PRISON. Nicholas Gutierrez pleaded guilty to vehicular…...

By Sister Toldjah As is the case with domestic policy, there are going to be criticisms of foreign policy where the person may have a fair point. But in the case of Democrats on the issue of Operation Epic Fury, what we're getting daily is  TDS  on steroids, topped with complete 180s from some of these folks on holding the Iranian regime accountable for its  nuclear ambitions . As we reported, there was, for instance, former Vice President Kamala Harris proclaiming Trump "is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a 'whole civilization' — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it," while adding that "We must all stand against this and oppose funding this illegal war of choice." Left out, of course, were Harris' previous statements on Iran,  which included  telling Jewish voters in October 2024 that "all options are on the table" to prevent Iran from obtaining a nucl...

By Matt Margolis John Fetterman just handed his own party another brutal dose of reality — and you can bet Democrats won’t be happy about it. Fetterman was on SiriusXM’s  The Michael Smerconish Program  on Monday and did something almost no one in his party can do anymore: He told the truth. Fetterman has been the lone Senate Democrat supporting Operation Epic Fury, the military campaign targeting Iran's nuclear capabilities, and he made clear he has no intention of backing down — even as his colleagues line up to condemn it. When Smerconish asked what it's been like standing alone in the Democratic caucus, Fetterman didn't sugarcoat it. "Well, I know you and I are on the right side of history on this," he said. "We both know that it's the right thing to do. It used to be the common view held about Democrats." That's the damning part. Supporting military action to prevent a terrorist-sponsoring theocracy from acquiring nuclear weapons  used  ...

By Mollie Hemingway Alito embodies the quiet courage that has delivered some of the most important victories for constitutional liberty in generations. Justice Samuel Alito marks his 20th year on the Supreme Court, a milestone that coincides with the release of my new book this month,  Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution .  The timing feels right. America needs reminding of what a real judge looks like in an era when the court faces relentless attacks from those who prefer activist robes to actual jurisprudence. Alito embodies the quiet courage that has delivered some of the most important victories for constitutional liberty in generations. Since one of Alito’s colleagues was nearly assassinated by a deranged gunman who turned up at his house, life hasn’t been easy for conservative Supreme Court justices. But back when conservative justices could still be seen in public without being attacked by left-wing activists, Alito ...

By Jerry Dunleavy The trial against an alleged ISIS-K plotter involved in the deadly Abbey Gate attack began on Monday with jury selection and opening arguments, with the Justice Department saying Mohammed Sharifullah confessed to his role while  the defense team insisted  the DOJ had the wrong guy. Mohammad Sharifullah, also known as “Jafar," has been  charged with  a single count of providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization — ISIS-K — which resulted in death. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge, and the trial against him in a Northern Virginia federal courthouse started this week. Trump thanked Pakistan for “helping arrest this monster” Sharifullah's capture — in a joint effort between Pakistani intelligence and U.S. spy agencies — was announced by President Donald Trump at a joint session of Congress in March of last year. Trump has  thanked Pakistan  for “helping arrest this...