Longtime Stars and Stripes Leaders Suing Hegseth, Pentagon to Challenge their Firings from Military Newspaper

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Three staff members from the Stars and Stripes military news outlet are suing to challenge their recent firings by the Pentagon, accusing the Trump administration of violating their First Amendment free speech rights to speak out against government interference in their work.

Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte are named as plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, D.C.

The Pentagon, which partially funds the news outlet, fired them last week. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment on the suit’s allegations.

Slavin says he was dismissed for insubordination after giving an interview to CBS News in which he objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military.

Korte participated in the same interview. Their lawsuit says they were punished in retaliation for publishing a report on deteriorating conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. (Read more from “Longtime Stars and Stripes Leaders Suing Hegseth, Pentagon to Challenge their Firings from Military Newspaper” HERE)

The Lindsay Clancy Case Exposes Big Pro-Life’s Woke ‘Second Victim’ Lie

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Three children are dead at Lindsay Clancy’s hand, yet a rotten culture has rallied to make her the central victim. That reflex exposes a deep connection between Big Pro-Life, feminism, and wokeness. We cannot establish justice until we confront it.

Big Pro-Life insists that a mother who intentionally kills her preborn child is abortion’s “second victim,” not a morally responsible agent. The response to Lindsay Clancy carries that same presumption outside the womb: The mother is centered as victim, and accountability is recast as cruelty.

Hundreds of women have rallied in pink to support her. More than 31,000 donors have given more than $1 million to offset her parents’ costs of standing beside her. Three children are dead at their mother’s hand, yet she has become the central object of public sympathy, solidarity, and financial support.

Whether Clancy lacked criminal responsibility because of genuine mental incapacity must be judged according to evidence and due process. The scandal is that the culture answered that question in her favor before the jury could, directing its emotional energy toward her rather than her three dead children.

Big Pro-Life cannot wash its hands of this spectacle. For decades, it has preached the same moral grammar now displayed outside that courtroom: When a mother murders her child, center her suffering, relocate agency onto doctors, drugs, systems, or circumstances, and treat accountability as another act of cruelty against her. (Read more from “The Lindsay Clancy Case Exposes Big Pro-Life’s Woke ‘Second Victim’ Lie” HERE)

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Iran-Oman Deal on Strait of Hormuz ‘Doesn’t Matter’ as Trump Controls Blockade, US Official Says

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A purported deal between Iran and Oman to control the Strait of Hormuz and share revenue from fees is “not even close to done” and would be meaningless so long as President Trump’s blockade of Iran remains in effect, a US official told The Post.

A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed Wednesday that the two nations had agreed to terms to control the shipping bottleneck — but The Post’s source said that ill-defined terms are still believed to lack full approval from Iran’s leadership.

“The deals don’t mean anything unless we approve it. It doesn’t matter what the two of them — Iran and Oman — do. There is no deal without Trump pulling the blockade,” the official said.

A deal is “not even close to done [and] we know for a fact that this is still subject to approval within Iran,” he added.

“The last time we heard something was subject to approval… we all know what happened to it. It died.” (Read more from “Iran-Oman Deal on Strait of Hormuz ‘Doesn’t Matter’ as Trump Controls Blockade, US Official Says” HERE)

‘True Tomb’ of Jesus Christ Found after 2,000 Years — and it Matches the Biblical Telling

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. . .After years of searching, Italian archaeologists have discovered an ancient site that matches a Bible description of where Jesus Christ was buried, per a preliminary study in the Jerusalem archaeological journal Liber Annuus.

“We have found evidence of a funerary landscape,” lead archaeologist Francesca Romana Stasolla, of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, told the Daily Mail as part of an exclusive article.

The researchers had been excavating Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a fourth century Roman Church that was built over a holy site where many Christians believe Christ was crucified, buried and then resurrected on Easter Sunday.

As a result, it’s become a mecca for religious pilgrims from across the world, attracting around four million visitors per year.

During the final phases of the excavations in 2025 — they began three years prior during a floor restoration — the team found a peculiar landscape that suggests they might’ve been onto something.

Underneath the church was an abandoned quarry, cultivated plots of land, rock-cut tombs and an ancient garden. Coincidentally, the Book of John describes: “At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” (Read more from “‘True Tomb’ of Jesus Christ Found after 2,000 Years — and it Matches the Biblical Telling” HERE)

Gov’t Study Finds Link Between Belief In Gender Ideology And Support For Political Violence

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Proponents of “radical gender ideology” are more likely to “hold left-wing authoritarian beliefs and believe political violence is justified,” according to a Department of Health and Human Services study out Wednesday.

The HHS-commissioned study also claims that individuals who held left-wing authoritarian beliefs “were more likely to justify political violence as well than non-left-wing participants.”

“This study raises important questions about what happens when ideology is given the authority of medicine,” HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine said in a statement. “The association between sex-rejecting clinical beliefs, authoritarian attitudes, and the justification of political violence warrant serious scientific scrutiny. HHS will continue to pursue rigorous research that examines these relationships and gives the American people the evidence they deserve.”

The preregistered survey of 1,208 U.S. adults found that stronger endorsement of so-called “gender-affirming” clinical positions was significantly associated with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism, even after controlling for political identity and age. Both measures were also linked to greater acceptance of political violence across six different scenarios, per the news release.

However, the study “does not determine whether belief in radical gender ideology contributes to authoritarian attitudes or vice versa, nor whether an outside factor may contribute to both predispositions,” per the news release. The study also notes that “experimental research is needed to determine causality.”

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CDC Restores Study Acknowledging Self-Defense Gun Use Buried During Biden Era

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) restored information regarding studies of the use of firearms for self-defense on its website, reversing a move made during the Biden administration.

CDC took down information about the studies during the Biden administration after a lobbying campaign by anti-Second Amendment groups backed by Democratic Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, according to emails obtained by The Reload. The restoration of the studies to the CDC site prompted criticism from anti-Second Amendment advocates.

“It is the politically motivated laundering of disinformation that has become a hallmark of the Trump administration’s approach to all scientific inquiry, and gun violence is no exception,” Devin Hughes of GVPedia told The Trace, an outlet supported by anti-Second Amendment billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Estimates of defensive gun use vary depending on the questions asked, populations studied, timeframe, and other factors related to study design,” the CDC said on its website, while linking to a report summarizing surveys regarding defensive gun use. “The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.” (Read more from “CDC Restores Study Acknowledging Self-Defense Gun Use Buried During Biden Era” HERE)

DOJ: Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Breached Senate, Federal Reserve, Multiple Agencies

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The DOJ said Wednesday it had seized internet domains tied to two hacking platforms that Chinese state-sponsored operatives used to break into the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, NASA and several other federal agencies.

CNBC reports that the DOJ said the platforms, known as QScan and QTRouter, were built and run by a Chinese state-sponsored group it calls QTFY. Court documents unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California identify QTFY as operating out of Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co., a China-based firm. The DOJ said QTFY’s paying customers included the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army.

Beyond the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and NASA, the DOJ named the Department of Justice itself, the Energy Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health as victims of the intrusion campaign. A court filing describing additional targets stated: “Other targeted networks include those operated by hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors.”

Both pieces of malware had the seized domains hard-coded into them, and officials said removing the domains rendered QScan and QTRouter inoperable. The department said the platforms were “used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks.” It did not disclose the extent of any damage caused by the intrusions at the agencies or other targets.

Attorney General Todd Blanche framed the seizure as part of a broader campaign against Chinese hacking operations. “State-sponsored malicious hackers preying on America’s critical infrastructure will be stopped and prosecuted. We are here to ensure security for the American people and will use every tool we have to keep that promise,” Blanche said in a statement issued Wednesday. He added that “Federal law enforcement investigated and disabled the PRC’s malicious software, the latest in a series of technical operations to dismantle indiscriminate hacking activities sponsored by the People’s Republic of China.” (Read more from “DOJ: Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Breached Senate, Federal Reserve, Multiple Agencies” HERE)

Nepal/Tibet Landslides: Over 1,000 Missing, Entire Villages Buried as Rescuers Fear More Flooding

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Rescuers in Nepal and occupied Tibet estimated on Thursday that over 1,000 people remain missing, including nationals from dozens of countries, after heavy rains caused massive landslides and rapidly rising floods to consume entire towns of people.

Authorities warned that rain is expected to persist this week, creating the potential for more devastation in areas already severely affected, whether buried in mud or completely isolated from sources of food and medicine as the landslides tore through major roads and bridges. Tibet’s colonial overlord, the Chinese Communist Party, is reportedly monitoring rapidly rising waters in a lake in the region that could soon overflow and cause even more devastation, potentially harming search and rescue teams working as rapidly as possible to find survivors in the mud.

Dramatic footage surfaced on Wednesday from the region showing people fleeing massive rushes of mud and water. The landslides appeared to consume entire neighborhoods and make bridges and roads instantly disappear. Many of the affected areas were heavily populated by travelers from all over the world participating in Hindu pilgrimages in the region.

In Nepal, authorities placed the death toll at 359 as of Thursday morning local time and estimated that over 1,000 people remained missing. Reports differed on whether the missing ranged between 1,300 and 1,400 people, and most suggested that number would rapidly rise as rescue teams made contact with now-isolated villages and towns. The Chinese Communist Party placed the death toll in Tibet at press time at just three people.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which observes weather and seismic patterns around the world, attributed the landslides to a glacial collapse related to the heavy rainfall, which then pushed icy mud down the steep Himalayan terrain into populated areas. The USGS noted that it had documented what appeared to be a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, but later revised that observation, indicating that the “earthquake” was the result of the vast amounts of moving icy mud, rather than the earthquake causing the landslides. (Read more from “Nepal/Tibet Landslides: Over 1,000 Missing, Entire Villages Buried as Rescuers Fear More Flooding” HERE)

Trump Criticism Leads to Rare Criminal Charges for Air Force Officer who Called for Impeachment

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A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the US Capitol while calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was officially criminally charged Monday for his comments, according to a charging document his attorney shared with CNN.

Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the document: three violations of Article 88 for alleged “contemptuous” remarks about Trump, five violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders and two violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer. . .

“Maj. Watson will continue to be held in pre-trial confinement,” [an Air Force spokesperson confirmed]. “Airmen are afforded the right to due process, and considered innocent until proven guilty, in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”

The rare Article 88 charges are connected to the Air Force officer’s June interview with the Defenders of our Republic Substack newsletter, his July 1 protest in uniform at the US Capitol, and an August 17 CNN interview. . .

Mutimer, Watson’s attorney, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” that he spoke with his client Monday and “he is basically in solitary confinement for his safety.” (Read more from “Trump Criticism Leads to Rare Criminal Charges for Air Force Officer who Called for Impeachment” HERE)

ICE Seeks to Remove Crazed Mom who Poured Hot Wax on Her Kids, Started Fire at Home Blaming Biden’s ‘Reckless Open-Border’

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The crazed mom busted for pouring hot wax on her two daughters and lighting a fire in her kitchen is an illegal Cuban migrant who came to the US under former President Biden, according to ICE officials who are seeking to remove her.

Wannabe-influencer Meliza Campos-Sanchez is bing held in a Miami jail on multiple charges of child neglect, child abuse and arson over a series of disturbing clips she posted online.

ICE has since lodged a detainer, claiming that the mom entered the US illegally via Florida in May 2022.

“This Cuban illegal alien is charged with child abuse and arson after she poured hot wax onto one of her own children and then lit a fire in her home,” a Homeland Security spokesperson said.

“If it weren’t for the Biden Administration’s reckless open-border policies, criminals like this woman would have never been able to enter our country. ICE has lodged a detainer asking Miami officials to not release this criminal from jail.

“We will work with our partners in Florida to make sure she is removed from our country after she faces justice.” (Read more from “ICE Seeks to Remove Crazed Mom who Poured Hot Wax on Her Kids, Started Fire at Home Blaming Biden’s ‘Reckless Open-Border’” HERE)