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While Americans are told to think of Iran as a distant threat, the arrest of Iranian national Shamim Mafi at Los Angeles International Airport shattered that fiction on April 18. According to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Mafi, a lawful permanent resident living in Woodland Hills, allegedly brokered more than $70.6 million in Iranian-made drones, bombs, bomb fuses, assault weapons, and millions of rounds of ammunition for Sudan.If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in federal prison. This is not just a sanctions case. It is a homeland security warning Americans cannot afford to ignore.

Images) Portrait of Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman @JarrettStepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett Democrats run on “affordability,” spend their early days in power feverishly working to make sure they can never lose again, then rule like Mao. It’s become clear that despite the deep unpopularity of the Left’s cultural and political agenda, Democrats have no intention of pivoting from peak wokeness. The activist class that the party depends on simply won’t allow it.

Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged young Africans against migrating to the West. Speaking to students and faculty at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaounde, Cameroon, the pontiff urged younger generations to stay and build their own countries rather than seeking opportunities elsewhere. “In the face of the understandable tendency to migrate, which may lead one to believe that elsewhere a better future may be more easily found, I invite you to respond with an ardent desire to serve your country and to apply the knowledge you are acquiring here to the benefit of your fellow citizens,” he said.

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a redistricting referendum that will allow the state legislature to redraw its congressional maps outside the normal cycle in a manner expected to favor Democrats. The Associated Press called the contest in favor of the yes campaign just before 9:00 p.m., with 84% of precincts reporting. As of press time, "yes" stood at just over 50% of the vote. The state currently has six Democratic members of Congress and five Republicans. The planned Democratic map is expected to produce 10 Democratic-leaning seats and one Republican-leaning seat. Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference that the 11-count indictment filed in an Alabama federal court alleged the left-wing nonprofit had in the past decade paid at least $3 million to eight members of the far-right groups. One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period. Neither that person nor others were identified in the 14-page indictment.

President Trump extended his cease-fire with Iran Tuesday afternoon — after an American negotiating team led by Vice President JD Vance delayed plans to travel to Pakistan for a second round of peace talks. “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and,

Employees at top secret government labs have suddenly disappeared without a trace across the US, leaving many questioning how and why it has happened. The circumstances in certain cases have been eerily similar, with three people who all worked in New Mexico suddenly leaving their houses on foot without taking wallets, IDs or essentials with them. A fourth person, an aerospace engineer in California, disappeared on a hiking trail, feet away from her friends. One common thread links their work — a retired US Air Force Major General who also left his home on foot on the morning of Feb. 27–

The New York Mets have lost 10 straight games since Mayor Zohran Mamdani hugged mascot Mr. Met during a Citi Field photo opp — and now fuming fans are blaming Hizzoner for squeezing the mojo out of the Amazins. The battered fan base has been left singing “Meet the Mess” as it gets late early for the team, which has limped to a 7-15 record despite a $381 million payroll, and is now in the midst of an 11-game losing streak that includes 10 straight losses since Mamdani embraced Mr. and Mrs. Met on April 9.“He gave them bad juju. Bad juju. That was bad juju, that was no good,”

Forget covering protests — some reporters think they should be the ones making the ruckus. A group of over 250 journalists implored members of the Beltway press corps to “forcefully demonstrate opposition” to President Trump at the ritzy White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Trump, 79, is set to attend the swanky dinner for the first time in his presidency. But the group of 250 reporters is demanding that the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) ensure he doesn’t feel welcome.We believe the White House Correspondents Association should take stronger action by issuing — from the podium —

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).