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Thanks to having a hometown builder-in-chief in the White House, New York has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an iconic landmark in the dingiest part of Midtown that would rival Rockefeller Center, Central Park or the Empire State Building. At the same time, the squalid underground rathole we call Penn Station would become an uplifting experience for the hundreds of thousands of downtrodden commuters who feel disrespected every day when they pass through. But the long-promised Penn Station redevelopment still may end up as a mediocre compromise because of the big stumbling block of Madison Square Garden, which sits right on top of everything,

This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the real and legitimate representatives of the global masses, as they pushed back against the American president, his policies, and his purported destruction of the post-World War II institutions they profess to respect and cherish. The Global Progressive Mobilization conference, which drew some 6,000 elected representatives and activists from around the world, was organized and hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief international critic over the last several weeks.

The chattering class has once again been shocked by President Trump’s out-of-the-box actions. For years, we’ve been led to believe in the oft-repeated international consensus among “experts” according to which Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and has a stranglehold on the world’s hydrocarbon-powered economy. In one fell swoop during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday Morning Futures show, the president flipped the script in declaring that the US was going to blockade Iranian oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz (implying that the US would be replacing Iran as the presumptive gatekeeper).

The Strait of Hormuz is fully open to commercial vessels and will remain open indefinitely, President Trump stated Friday. “Iran has just announced that the Strait of Iran is fully open and ready for full passage! Thank you!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the World!” Trump wrote in a subsequent post. He noted that the “naval blockade will remain in full force and effect” until a final agreement is reached with Tehran. In more good news, the president said that Iran,

Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron talked about his run for the US Senate on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream. He is running to secure the seat that is held by retiring Senator Mitch McConnell. “On May 19th, Kentucky voters will choose their top Republican contender to replace retiring Senator Mitch McConnell,” Bream said. “Joining me now is another candidate vying for the soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron,” Bream said. “Let’s work through some of the criticism of your particular race, your position,” Bream said of critics running against Cameron.

After the war in Iran started on February 28, Pope Leo XIV issued “muted appeals for peace and dialogue” for several weeks. However, his tone changed when he delivered a stern homily on March 29, Palm Sunday. He said, “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.”

The repatriation scheme is contained in a Government-backed security bill, which has already been approved by the Senate and is due to be debated in the lower house of Parliament this week. The controversial proposal has provoked a furious response from lawyers, judges and the Government’s political opponents, a month after Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, suffered a devastating defeat in a national referendum on judicial reform. … Meloni has pledged to tackle illegal immigration and has lobbied European neighbours to follow her hardline policies.

Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is addressing some post-Coachella legal concerns and will hopefully return tomorrow. A common refrain among conservatives in recent years is that we can't hate the media enough. Back in the summer of 2024, I wrote about my disdain for the "h" word — I try to never use it when speaking or writing — and the fact that the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media might get me to reintroduce it to my vocabulary. I don't want to let them to get to me, but they're certainly trying.

United States authorities continue to identify Iranian regime assets in the United States as that regime refuses to make any peace deal with the “great Satan” America. The latest arrest is an Iranian who obtained lawful residency here, even though it turns out she was trafficking arms for the murderous mullahs back home. Shamim Mafi became a lawful permanent resident of our country back in 2016, but since our immigration system has long been broken and many foreign criminals and terrorists have slipped through the cracks, it is not entirely shocking to find out she remained loyal —

There was some controversy this week about President Donald Trump being critical of Pope Leo for being weak on crime and his remarks about the U.S. military action in Iran. The pope had made prior comments about immigration and the military action against Iran that were critical of the Trump administration's actions before Trump's remarks. But then the media seemed to be trying to interpret a variety of remarks he made after Trump's criticism as an effort to attack Trump and promote controversy. As we reported earlier, Pope Leo attempted to set the record straight,

This week seems to be rife with journalistic malpractice from outlets either running with leaked and unsubstantiated material that tries and fails to put Trump administration officials in a bad light or works to erode and undermine our nation's institutional bodies of governance. The latest installment from The New York Times involves leaked memos from the United States Supreme Court, verified by more anonymous sources. Amazing how one can fail so spectacularly on this basic tenet of integrity. God help us.Nor should they. As RedState reported in February, Chief Justice Roberts took action to secure the integrity of the court's processes after the 2022 leak —

President Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. has taken custody of an Iranian ship. "Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop," he wrote on social media. "The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel.