The protests that the Iranian regime believed it had suppressed through violence have returned. For the third consecutive day, students are taking to the streets at Tehran’s leading university campuses, clashing with Basij paramilitary forcesat the exact Shia mourning mark since the January massacres that claimed the lives of thousands of their peers. This timing is not a coincidence; Iranians are keenly aware of their own mourning calendar, just as the regime is, which is why the government is terrified right now. The brutal crackdown in January was meant to silence dissent permanently, but instead, it has become a countdown.…

If 2025 taught us anything, it’s that “unprecedented” has become America’s most overused word. We kept doing unprecedented things. From tariffs on penguin islands to the first American pope, this year rewrote the playbook on politics, disaster, and diplomacy. Trump’s Tariff Gamble President Trump’s April tariff announcement imposed duties on nearly every U.S. trading partner—yes, including Antarctica. Supporters argue the tariffs will revitalize American manufacturing and reduce dangerous trade imbalances. Critics call them an unnecessary tax that drives up consumer prices. The Supreme Court is still deciding if it was even legal. Meanwhile, the stock market has gyrated wildly, but…

On the first night of Hanukkah, a Jewish festival celebrating miracles, light triumphing over darkness, families gathered at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach for “Chanukah By The Sea.” Jewish children laughed and built sandcastles while parents smiled, watching grandparents hold grandchildren close. Music filled the warm evening air. A community that has survived millennia of persecution gathered together as a rabbi prepared to light the first candle of the menorah, a symbol of hope, resilience, and the miracle of light defeating darkness. Then two gunmen shattered everything, opening fire on them specifically because they were Jewish.By the time the shooting stopped,…

Government programs depend on robust oversight to function properly. When those safeguards fail, the results can be catastrophic. Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal demonstrates exactly what happens when basic accountability measures either don’t exist or aren’t enforced.The scale of the fraud is substantial. U.S. prosecutors have uncovered what they describe as “schemes stacked upon schemes” that siphoned hundreds of millions, possibly exceeding $1 billion, from programs meant to feed children, house vulnerable families, and provide autism services. More than 70 defendants have been charged, with most connected to Minnesota’s Somali community. But before anyone rushes to make this about immigration or…

Foreign policy experts predicted Trump’s second term would deliver pure isolationism and “America First” restraint. Well, someone apparently forgot to tell the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, now parked off Venezuela’s coast with 15,000 troops backing it up. Welcome to the strangest chapter yet in the Trump-Maduro saga, where the president’s pledge to avoid foreign entanglements collides head-first with his determination to stop drugs and gangs from poisoning American communities.Nicolás Maduro is Venezuela’s authoritarian president who has ruled since 2013 after succeeding his mentor Hugo Chávez. A former bus driver and union organizer, Maduro has overseen…

Foreign policy experts predicted Trump’s second term would deliver pure isolationism and “America First” restraint. Well, someone apparently forgot to tell the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, now parked off Venezuela’s coast with 15,000 troops backing it up. Welcome to the strangest chapter yet in the Trump-Maduro saga, where the president’s pledge to avoid foreign entanglements collides head-first with his determination to stop drugs and gangs from poisoning American communities.Nicolás Maduro is Venezuela’s authoritarian president who has ruled since 2013 after succeeding his mentor, Hugo Chávez. A former bus driver and union organizer, Maduro has overseen…

How Greene’s shocking resignation exposes deep fractures in the Republican Party, warns of more departures to come, and reveals the true cost of absolute loyalty in Trump’s Washington.Remember when getting elected was supposed to be the hard part? Marjorie Taylor Greene just discovered that staying in office under a Trump presidency might actually be harder than winning in Georgia’s ruby-red 14th district. In a move that shocked exactly nobody who’s been paying attention, Greene announced her resignation from Congress, citing what she diplomatically described as irreconcilable differences with the man she once championed as America’s political savior.Greene’s departure isn’t just…

When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walked into the Oval Office this week, he didn’t just bring the usual diplomatic pleasantries; he brought a checkbook that would make Elon Musk do a double-take. The Saudi leader’s commitment to invest nearly $1 trillion in the American economy is the kind of number that makes you check if you accidentally added a zero. But before we start planning what to do with all those new jobs and investment dollars, let’s pump the brakes and examine what this promise actually means for America.Here’s what happened: Trump initially mentioned Saudi Arabia’s planned $600 billion…