Category: World

Xi Jinping Carries Out Record-Breaking Punishments inside CCP amid Purge of Generals: Taiwan Intel

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China’s strongman leader Xi Jinping carried out a record number of disciplinary actions against Chinese Communist Party members and government officials, a Taiwanese intelligence agency assessed, as Xi conducted a massive purge of People’s Liberation Army leaders ahead of a 2027 deadline to be ready to invade Taiwan.

The Taiwan government’s National Security Bureau reportedly assessed that the CCP had punished nearly one million CCP members and People’s Republic of China officials during 2025, a new report found, which seems to dovetail with Xi’s removal of a host of high-ranking Chinese military brass as he prepares the PLA for war and increases his already iron-like grip on power in the country.

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Trump Upends China’s Lucrative Sanctioned Oil Import Scheme After Iran, Venezuela Interventions

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For years, China relied on exploiting U.S. sanctions to import steeply discounted oil from pariah states like Iran and Venezuela to fuel its economy and military buildup. Now, President Donald Trump’s interventions against both Caracas and Tehran have upended this lucrative arrangement. 

China is suddenly confronted with a very different strategic calculus ahead of a key meeting with the American president in Beijing tentatively scheduled for next month. “I think it’s really China that all of this is centered on a grand strategic calculus,” Brent Sadler of the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security told the Just the News, No Noise TV show, referring to the Iran war and intervention in Venezuela. 

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Iranian President Issues Open Letter to American People amid Iran War

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masoud pezeshkian

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday published an open letter to the American people in which he asked them to question whether the American government had their interests at heart and denounced the ongoing war against his country.

Pezeshkian argued that Iran maintained a strong military to defend itself and said that “portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts.”

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Hungary’s Orban, Trump’s Close European Ally, Faces Toughest Reelection Bid in More than a Decade

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Trump and Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, among President Donald Trump’s closest European allies, is facing his toughest reelection bid in more than a decade – putting at risk what is arguably Trump’s most reliable bulwark against what he considers the European Union’s longtime efforts to “do damage to the U.S.” 

Hungarians will go to the polls April 12, and polls show Orbán’s Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Union) party running further behind than at any other time since Orbán’s current tenure, which began in 2010. The election leader right now is the Tisza (Respect and Freedom) party, founded in 2024. 

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Iran’s Flex of Long-Range Ballistic Missiles Vindicates Trump, May Change European Calculus

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Trump Iran

With Iran’s launch of two long-range missiles on Friday, putting nearly all of Europe in striking distance, the regime showed that it possesses a capability that President Donald Trump previously cited as a key justification for the U.S. conflict with the Islamic Republic after years of denying it publicly. 

Iran fired the intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the joint U.S.-U.K. airbase on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,000 miles from Tehran, on the same day that the British government gave the United States the green light to use the facility to launch strikes on Iran. 

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Trump Looks to Sever Cuba from Sponsorship of Its Foreign Patrons, Chinese and Russian Influence

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President Donald Trump is executing the playbook he developed for Venezuela to pressure the communist Cuban regime to capitulate, thereby removing the last major bastion of foreign adversary influence in the Western Hemisphere.

And after essentially cutting off the island’s oil supply, there are signs that the regime is starting to feel the heat.  

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Steve Earle Announces World Tour

Bethany Bowman

Newly inducted Grand Ole Opry member Steve Earle announced his 2026 World Tour, Fifty-One Years of Songs and Stories. As fitting, he kicked off the tour at the Grand Ole Opry House on St. Patrick’s Day, where his performances have long been favorites of the mostly out-of-town guests.

Besides performing his mega hits, “Guitar Town” and “Copperhead Road,” which have more than a billion streams combined, he brought his beautiful “The Galway Girl,” which is basically a required track on St. Patrick’s Day.

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Netanyahu Warns ‘Ground Component’ Necessary for Regime Change in Iran

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Israel and America

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday indicated that the Islamic regime in Iran would not be overthrown without a “ground component” to the current conflict.

Boots of the ground are a sensitive issue in the United States, with polling showing the public overwhelmingly opposed to such a move in Iran. The prospect of an Iranian Kurdish uprising spearheaded by militants from Iraqi Kurdistan briefly entered the news cycle, but such an effort has not materialized.

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Commentary: Our New Ungracious Immigrants

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Immigrants Protest

by Victor Davis Hanson   Not that long ago, Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia. The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts. An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere. He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California — arguably the most successful one in recent…

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Report: U.S. Responsible for Strike on Iranian School That Killed Nearly 200

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A preliminary military investigation found the U.S. is responsible for the deadly bombing of an Iranian elementary school, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

A Tomahawk cruise missile killed at least 175 people, including children, on Feb. 28 when it hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school. The bombing was reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base, sources familiar with the report’s contents told The New York Times.

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Trump to CBS: Iran Op Is ‘Very Complete’

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President Donald Trump on Monday said that the Iran is “very complete” based on the extent of the American military impact on their armed capabilities.

“I think the ​war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve ​got no Air Force,” he told CBS News ‌White ⁠House correspondent Weijia Jiang. He further stated that he believed the operation was ahead of schedule and that he “has no message” for the newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

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Poll: Over 75 Percent of Americans Support Military Action Against Iran, Provided the Conflict Only Lasts Days or Weeks

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Operation Epic Fury

The way the public views the war with Iran is complex and rapidly evolving, but a March 3 CBS News-YouGov poll shows a full 76 percent of Americans support military action against Iran if the conflict lasts days or weeks, a huge boost of support for President Donald Trump’s choice to launch a preemptive attack.

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President Trump, Rubio Warn Iran ‘Hardest Hits Are Yet to Come’

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President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued stark warnings to Iran Monday that the “hardest hits” in its new conflict in the region is still to come if it does not agree to end its nuclear program.

The United States and Israel launched missiles at Iran over the weekend, which resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini. Iran has since retaliated by targeting Israel and U.S. bases in several Middle Eastern countries.

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Trump Hints at ‘Friendly Takeover’ of Cuba

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President Donald Trump on Friday suggested that the United States could assume control of Cuba in a non-hostile action, amid ongoing diplomatic discussions with Havana.

“We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba,” Trump told reporters on Friday. “I have been hearing about Cuba since I was a little boy, but they’re in big trouble and we could very well — I think something very positive.”

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Drugs, Drones, and Bombs: Mexico’s Most Powerful Cartel at the Center of Violent Rampage

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Claudia Sheinbaum

By all reports, it was a usual Sunday morning in the wealthy Pacific port city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico when gunshots began to ring out and sirens began to blare. Mexican cartel bandits scattered across the city, lighting vehicles on fire and ambushing Mexican police and national guard. Scenes more reminiscent of a Middle East insurgency than a Mexican resort town began to circulate online. 

The culprits were members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful and well-equipped cartel that has carried out several attacks against Mexican government forces in the past. The attacks followed the death of the cartel’s leader, Ruben Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” in a Mexican military operation last weekend. 

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United States Wins Men’s Hockey Gold in Overtime Thriller Against Canada at 2026 Winter Olympics

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US Men's Hockey Gold in 2026

The United States men’s ice hockey team captured its first Olympic gold medal in 46 years on Sunday, defeating archrival Canada 2-1 in overtime on the final day of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal just 1:41min. into the extra period, sealing the victory and sparking wild celebrations on the ice at the PalaItalia arena.

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Commentary: EU’s New Immigration Deal Shows It Doesn’t Care About Western Civilization

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Ursula von der Leyen

Western civilization took 3,000 years to create, but only one day to murder. On January 27, 2026, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a new trade deal. This includes an India-EU Comprehensive Framework of Cooperation on Mobility. This mobility agreement “will ease movement” from India to European Union (EU) members for highly skilled workers, students, researchers, and seasonal workers. It also contains the first EU Legal Gateway Office in India to add rocket fuel to the population movement from India to the EU.

While it has not received much attention in America, it should. The EU just murdered the West.

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Spain’s Socialist Government Expedites Mass Amnesty for Illegals

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Spain’s socialist government announced Tuesday it will provide amnesty to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without authorization.

Spain’s Council of Ministers announced that it will use an expedited decree to amend existing immigration laws, providing illegal migrants with one-year residency permits and the right to work legally. Estimates suggest the measure could benefit roughly 500,000 people, though some studies place the number closer to 800,000, according to the AP.

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Trump Announces ‘Framework’ of Greenland Deal After Meeting with NATO Chief

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he had created the framework of an agreement to acquire Greenland after speaking with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

“Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”

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Trump Talks Greenland with NATO Chief, Agrees to Meeting in Switzerland with Roiled European Allies

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President Donald Trump said early Tuesday he had agreed with the head of NATO to meet with America’s allies in Switzerland as he doubled down on his gambit to acquire the island of Greenland in a move that has roiled Europe.

“There can be no going back — On that, everyone agrees!” Trump wrote in one of several early morning statements on his Truth Social platform where he also posted a mockup photo of him planting an American flag in Greenland.

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China’s Birth Rate Drops to Lowest Level Since Mao Zedong’s Communist Revolution

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China’s birth rate dropped to its lowest level since 1949, the first year of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule over the mainland under Chairman Mao Zedong. 

The new data from the country’s National Bureau of Statistics also show that China’s total population declined for the fourth consecutive year, dropping from 1.408 billion in 2024 to 1.405 billion at the end of 2025, according to multiple outlets that reported the figures. 

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Trump Suggests U.S. Is Owed Greenland, Cites Nobel Snub in Private Warning to Europe

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President Donald Trump warned European leaders that he no longer feels bound to prioritize peace, linking his frustration over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize to his campaign to bring Greenland under U.S. control.

The remarks, delivered in a private text message sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, come as tensions between Washington and Europe have skyrocketed over Trump’s renewed push for the semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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U.S. General Plotted with CCP-Tied Mogul to Seize Strategic Islands for China, Tell-All Claims

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Russel Honoré

A Chinese intelligence official’s autobiography details decades of efforts to cultivate ties with American officials, culminating in an alleged plot with a three-star U.S. general to annex strategic territory for Beijing, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Chinese-American businessman Eugene Ji, who owns two golf courses flanking Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base, developed a years-long professional and personal relationship with retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, which allegedly  included expensive gifts and meetings with high-ranking Chinese government officials, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements and Ji’s 2014 Chinese language autobiography “New Circle.” Among other concerning episodes, the autobiography claims the pair organized an event to bring Chinese military officers to a U.S. nuclear base and also repeatedly propositioned Chinese political insiders with a half a billion dollar plan to seize Japan’s Senkaku Islands for China through weaponized migration, which the general denies.

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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert Movie Coming Soon

Bethany Bowman
Elvis

During the week of Elvis’ birthday this year, I was fortunate to tour Graceland and attend the US premiere of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. This is what is learned.

The upcoming EPiC Movie: Elvis Presley in Concert was created by Baz Luhrmann, featuring long-lost footage from Presley’s legendary Vegas residency in the 1970s, woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour and treasured 8mm film from the Graceland archive, along with rediscovered recordings of Elvis telling “his side of the story.”

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CIA Chief Meets New Venezuelan Leader, Warns Country to Stop Consorting with Cartels and U.S. Enemies

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday made a surprise visit to meet Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, opening a new era of relations while bluntly warning the Latin American country it can no longer consort with drug cartels or America’s adversaries.

Just the News obtained three CIA photos of Ratcliffe’s visit with Rodriguez, including one of the U.S. spy chief shaking hands with the Venezuelan leader dressed in a bright lime-colored pant suit and sneakers. The two shook with their left hands.

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Trump Admin Launches Phase Two of Gaza Peace Plan with Warning to Hamas

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Middle East

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced the launch of the second phase of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, seeking to shore up the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said the new phase transitions Gaza from a temporary truce toward demilitarization, technocratic governance, and long-term reconstruction. A central component of the second stage is the establishment of a transitional Palestinian governing body in Gaza, called the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).

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