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The X account known as "TrackAIPAC," the self-described "America First" group that accuses pro-Israel U.S. politicians of being "foreign agents," got its start as "California for Warren," an account dedicated to promoting left-wing Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren's (D.) failed presidential campaign, a Washington Free Beacon review found. At one point, the account described itself as part of the "Warren for President team." Years before the "AIPAC Tracker," run by Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy, began posting graphics spewing bile at Israel, which it has described as "a terrorist state, massacring innocents by the hundreds of thousands," and maligning pro-Israel Americans, it was known as California for Warren,

Federal investigators have issued subpoenas to Marxist political streamer Hasan Piker and longtime anti-war activist Medea Benjamin as part of a widening probe into whether American activists violated U.S. sanctions laws while supporting Cuba’s communist regime. The subpoenas were issued by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and seek financial, logistical and communications records connected to March trips to Cuba involving delegations tied to the “Nuestra América Convoy,” according to sources familiar with the matter. Federal officials are reportedly examining whether activists involved in the trips improperly financed, coordinated or delivered goods and services to Cuba in violation of U.S. sanctions laws, including potential contacts with Cuban government entities.

The attacks were “self-defense strikes” and included “missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines,” said U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins. The strikes were in Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, a defense official said. There was no announcement of any change in the temporary ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, which went into effect April 8. “U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,” Hawkins said.

Israel marked Memorial Day on Monday with a video message honoring fallen American troops and emphasizing the solidarity between the United States and the Jewish state. “Today, on U.S. Memorial Day, Israel stands with America,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry wrote in a post accompanying the video. “We honor the brave men and women who gave their lives defending liberty and protecting the values shared by our free nations.” The video, published across official Israeli government social media accounts, paid tribute to fallen American service members while emphasizing the close alliance between the United States and Israel.

Colombia’s presidential candidates concluded their campaigns this weekend in anticipation of the Sunday, May 31 election. Colombian voters will head to the polls to choose who will succeed Gustavo Petro, the nation’s first leftist president ever, once his term ends in August. The election has been marred by violence for years, beginning with the assassination of conservative presidential frontrunner Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay. Sen. Uribe, 39 at the time of his death, was shot in the head twice and once in the leg by a child as he held a rally in Bogotá on June 7, 2025.

Most Americans are spending time with their families this weekend for Memorial Day, remembering and honoring those who gave their lives for our country. But some were busy doing other things. For example, there were activists at the ICE detention center in Newark, N.J., over the weekend. Democratic politicians also made an appearance. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) was trying to get into the facility on Sunday. Kim was back on Monday. Gov. Mikie Sherrill also showed up. The activists were at it again on Monday. Here's one digging up large blocks to help add to their blockade of an exit from the facility.

The story made the absurd claim that “officials closed ranks” around Castro, and added nauseating details as if the outpouring was genuine in a country where free speech is as scarce as gasoline. “An avalanche of posts from state-run newspapers and high-ranking Cuban government officials showed photographs of Mr. Castro as a young soldier, greeting children, chuckling with brother Fidel, waving the Cuban flag,” the article continued.

Scrambling to repair its mail-ballot boondoggle, the Maryland State Board of Elections began reprinting ballots Thursday, with plans to have more than 500,000 ballots resent to voters by next Friday. The elections board first announced last week that an undetermined number of mail ballots for the June 23 party primary were sent to the wrong voters, which it blamed on an error. While an undetermined number of voters will be voting a second ballot, the state’s top election official assured the public that only one ballot will be counted per voter for Maryland’s June party primary.

Iran's regime has been using two tactics. It says: "We need time. We are, because of the strikes, fractured and our leadership divided." Or, as Vice President J.D. Vance naively noted on its behalf, it says it does not know what it wants. "The Iranians aren't themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go," Vance, with a straight face, told reporters at the White House; "they are also just a fractured country." That is exactly what the regime wants: that you are dumb enough to believe that. The Iranian regime knows precisely what it wants.

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Colleges are cutting tuition for MBA programs. But it’s not out of charity or because they got another taxpayer-funded subsidy to “fix” exploding higher education prices. Rather, and perhaps counterintuitively, it’s because Uncle Sam finally capped the previously unlimited federal loans for graduate students. At first blush, this sounds like it would make the problem worse. Fewer borrowing options for students seems like it would shift more of the cost of attendance to today, when students are young with relatively low incomes. But that assumes—unrealistically—that the cost of education is fixed, and that colleges don’t respond to changes in the market.

‘The exodus from California is real, troubling, and has become too large to ignore.” That was the message of “California Migrating,” the Pacific Research Institute’s report in 2021 on the mass migration of Californians to other states. The trend has not abated since. From 2020 to 2025, California lost nearly 1.7 million more people due to net domestic migration – meaning that more Americans moved out than in. And this exodus was widespread – 44 of California’s 58 counties were on the losing end. That is real, and troubling. But there is a tiny silver lining. Census data show that 14 of California’s counties—