As a third aircraft carrier task force, led by the USS George HW Bush, makes its way to the Mediterranean, following the USS Gerald Ford, and USS Abraham Lincoln there’s little doubt in military observers’ minds that President Trump is going to war with Iran. Additional jet fighters, air refueling aircraft and logistics are landing at Diego Garcia and other Middle East bases in preparation for some kind of war. The administration’s talk about “progress” in talks with Iran are mostly false. Iran has consistently refused to agree to Trump’s demands that Iran totally eliminate their nuclear and missile research and production capability. This war which Trump is maneuvering military forces into position for, will amount to a serious repudiation of Trump’s peace claims about never starting a new war—although I suspect Trump and Bibi Netanyahu have planned in their recent meeting in Washington for Israel to initiate the attack in order to allow Trump to play as if he is merely coming to Israel’s aid. The fact remains that Israel alone isn’t capable of beating Iran, and Trump is all-too-willing to provide the military muscle to complete what Israel has repeatedly sought to start. I’m not defending Iran’s radical regime, but Iran is not an existential threat to America and Trump needs to stay out of it. This is a war that Israel has tried for decades to provoke, and Trump has apparently agreed to back Israel in pushing it to a conclusion that will be very costly to US war materiel and make the US far less prepared for the coming war with Russia and China. To receive a free, one-time sample of this Brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a sample on the left.
President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950 to expand domestic production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller at the center of more than 60,000 cancer lawsuits against Bayer. The move sparked outrage from MAHA activists and health advocates who said it puts corporate interests ahead of public health.
Jim O'Neill recently left the government, leaving the CDC position vacant.
Shirley, a 23-year-old Utah native, has had to hire round-the-clock security after he exposed extensive welfare fraud among the Somali community in Minnesota. ... Examples of suspected voter fraud included no voter ID and signature-only “verification” in order to vote, 125-year-old voters still active on voter rolls, dozens of voters registered at a single UPS Store/mail drop, and a voter who successfully registered her dog to vote in 2021 and 2022.
This unexpected statement of Trump's was serious enough for Zelensky to issue a response later the same day. The Ukrainian leader said in a just published interview with Axios that the Ukrainian public itself won't let him cede territory.
The White House this month has finally appeared to be ratcheting up the pressure directly on Zelensky to make some kind of serious land concession.
....He also dubiously stated that Iran could potentially retaliate on the UK and other "friendly countries" - making Diego Garcia highly strategic in a Western allied campaign against the Islamic Republic. "Prime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease," Trump wrote.
No full generals appeared at the Beijing gathering, highlighting ongoing purges and strain within the CCP’s military leadership.
The Pentagon stated that it airlifted a next-generation nuclear reactor from California to Utah on Feb. 15 to boost energy security and reduce the military’s reliance on the civilian power grid.
Testing of the river water revealed high levels of E. coli and other infectious bacteria.
Russian air defenses shot down more than 150 Ukrainian drones in the attack which included hundreds of UAVs sent in total, as officials from both sides are imminently expected meet in Switzerland for another round of peace talks. According to the ministry, 79 drones were intercepted over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, 38 over annexed Crimea, and 18 over the Krasnodar region.
Under the supervision of IRGC Commander-in-Chief Major General Mohammad Pakpour, a state media press release described the exercise further as "A rapid, decisive, and comprehensive response to maritime security threats form the core focus of the intelligence and operational components of the units deployed during the exercise."
And yet, despite historic federal layoffs, government spending went UP last year. The federal government spent $7 trillion in Fiscal Year 2025— roughly $300 billion more than the year before. Bear in mind, 2025 was the year that DOGE was supposed to take a chainsaw to the budget and cut spending. This is not a failure of DOGE. It’s a revelation about the actual problem.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating entities involved in a planned Muslim housing development in Texas because of concerns that the initiative may have engaged in discrimination based on religion and nationality, the department said in a Feb. 13 statement.
Experts laud $2.7 billion outlay to rebuild nation’s capacity to enrich uranium but warn it may take a decade for domestic production to meet burgeoning need.
Gerasimov described Moscow's forces are advancing toward Sloviansk, the industrial city that has been center of fighting between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow forces going all the way back to 2014. According to Gerasimov, Russian troops are now roughly 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the city.
L ast year, billionaire technologist Eric Schmidt quietly founded a secretive military drone company, White Stork. Now, the stealth startup has begun testing its artificial intelligence-guided aircraft, both at the Menlo Park headquarters of Schmidt’s family office Hillspire and on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine, where the former Google CEO has continually touted himself as the country’s preeminent defense tech guru.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins became the latest to support the SAVE Act.
In a dramatic Friday night development in a case that's garnered enormous public interest, three people were detained as a SWAT team executed search warrants connected to the abduction of the mother of NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie -- and a neighbor claims another person shot himself in the head. Action unfolded at two locations -- both of them only about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's Tucson residence. As this is written, police have yet to reveal details.
Bush revealed the ordeal in a recent interview, explaining how she was pressured months after her win to accept new language in the contract. The rules now define eligible “women” as including those who’ve completed “Sex Reassignment Surgery via Vaginoplasty (from male to female).” Bush refused, stating flatly that she couldn’t agree to the idea that “a little boy could mutilate his body and become a woman.”
We've reported before that the turning point came in March, when Washington temporarily halted battlefield intelligence sharing with Ukraine - a move that forced allies to confront the prospect that Washington may no longer serve as a dependable security guarantor, also as ratcheting Trump rhetoric increasingly highlights Europe needing to shoulder its own defense burden.
By early afternoon, every major outlet was doing verbal Pilates to avoid saying the one thing the adults in the room had already figured out: the “female in a dress” was a biological male transvestite. Reporters tiptoed around the truth like it was a sleeping dragon.
Soon on the heels of Netanyahu's meeting with President Trump at the White House this week, the US has quietly ordered its USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, to depart the Caribbean Sea and head to the Middle East, at a moment the White House is weighing possible military action against Iran, NY Times and others are reporting. The redeployment will give Washington two carrier strike groups in the region
‘The reason gold is going up is because of what’s happening in China,’ says Michael Howell, founder of CrossBorder Capital.
So after over a decade-long proxy war, the bearded 'ISIS-lite' jihadists of Jolani/Sharaa's army were just handed an American base overnight. Perhaps that was the plan all along.
Trump threatened legal action over unfavorable polling that he denounced as fake. In January, Trump said he would expand his existing defamation lawsuit against The New York Times after the newspaper, in partnership with Siena College, published a poll finding that just 34 percent of independent voters approved of his job performance about one year into his second term—a result he said did not reflect reality and was fabricated to damage him.
The president is likely to veto the measure if it succeeds in the Senate.
The SAVE America Act passed the House on Feb. 11. Led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the legislation would require Americans to prove their citizenship when registering to vote. Under the bill, Americans would also have to furnish photo identification when casting ballots, including mail-in ballots.
Former CCP leader Mao Zedong referred to United Front work as the Party’s “magic weapon,” according to the report. Under Deng Xiaoping’s rule, the department also focused on targeting well-to-do Chinese people overseas with the purpose of “attracting trade and luring capital,” the report said. Later, this included “attracting talent and luring knowledge” as the regime sought a foothold as a technological power.
Initial reports by local police and the Canadian media described the shooter as female. However, the authorities reluctance to release the identity of the suspect was an immediate red flag. Their reports only indicated that the shooter was a female in a dress. Independent journalists now say they have the identity of the alleged shooter, corroborated by family members: Jesse Strang, a 17-year-old biological male who started identifying as a "woman" in 2023, is reportedly the culprit behind the school massacre which left 10 dead and 25 wounded.
“They thought they were untouchable. They were wrong. Over 134 acres of land and property, taken from the westside Gulf Cartel, a terrorist organization operating near Rio Grande City, Texas,” according to the video.