War Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine Hold Press Briefing as Iran War Enters Second Week, Trump Threatens to Hit Iran “TWENTY TIMES HARDER Than They Have Been Hit” – 8 AM ET

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Air Force General Dan Caine will hold a press briefing this morning as war in Iran continues.

This comes as the conflict in Iran enters its second week since the February 28 Operation Epic Fury strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior Iranian officials.

Iran has since chosen Ali Khamenei’s son, 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, to lead the country as Supreme Leader.

During a press conference on Monday, Trump did not rule out killing the new Supreme Leader of Iran, adding that he believes the younger Khamenei will “lead to just more of the same problem for the country.”

Trump also told reporters on Monday that the US has struck “over 5000 targets to date,” but is leaving “some of the most important targets for later, in case we need to do it.”

“If we hit them, it’s going to take many years for them to be rebuilt, having to do with electricity production and many other things, so we’re not looking to do that if we don’t have to,” he added. “We are waiting to see what happens before we hit them. We could take them all out in one day.” Continue…

California Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley Leaves GOP

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California Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley left the GOP and became an Independent.

Rep. Kiley will caucus with the Republicans.

The breakdown of the House:

217 Republicans

214 Democrats

1 Independent

CBS News reported: Continue…

TERROR WARNING: U.S. Intercepts Encrypted Communication on Iranian Plot to Activate “SLEEPER CELLS” in the West (Video)

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A chilling new federal alert has raised fears that the Iranian regime may be attempting to activate covert terrorist networks across the West following the dramatic escalation of the U.S.–Iran conflict.

According to an explosive federal government alert reviewed by ABC News, the U.S. has intercepted high-level encrypted communications believed to be originating from Iran.

Intelligence officials believe these transmissions are not just chatter, they are an “operational trigger” intended to activate “sleeper assets” embedded right here in the West.

As The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported, Iran has long threatened to unleash sleeper cells within the United States if provoked, a nightmare scenario made possible by the millions of unvetted illegals who poured across our southern border during the disastrous Biden years. Continue…

Greek-Operated Oil Tanker Defied Iranian Threats and Crossed the Strait of Hormuz Carrying a Million Barrels of Saudi Crude Oil

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Will other tankers try the crossing?

Today, reacting to Iran’s efforts to close the vital waterways of the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald J. Trump urged the shipping companies to ‘show some guts’ and defy the mullahs’ prohibition.

And that’s exactly what apparently happened to a Greek-operated ship holding a million barrels of Saudi crude.

Apparently, the tanker sailed through the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, as one of the first large vessels to leave the Persian Gulf.'''

FDA Vaccine and Biotech Chief Dr. Vinay Prasad LEAVES Agency for SECOND Time in Under a Year

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that Dr. Vinay Prasad is leaving the agency for the second time in less than a year.

Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), will depart at the end of April, with no successor named yet.

Prasad was appointed in 2025 to lead the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the division responsible for regulating vaccines, blood products, and gene therapies.

Prasad’s first departure came in July 2025, when he abruptly resigned after only a few months in the role following an explosive exposé led by investigative journalist Laura Loomer.

The Gateway Pundit reported last year that Loomer publicly exposed Prasad’s shocking anti-Trump rhetoric, far-left allegiances, and dangerous abuse of regulatory power.

“We have a crisis at the FDA! A wolf in sheep’s clothing is sabotaging President Trump’s bold “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda!” Loomer wrote on X.

Loomer continued, “This is no mere bureaucratic misstep. It’s a catastrophic vetting failure that threatens to derail the America First healthcare revolution. Prasad’s anti-Trump rhetoric, radical left-wing ideology, and deliberate actions to obstruct our President’s deregulatory mission prove he’s a dangerous misfit. The time to act is NOW—Prasad must be REMOVED before he destroys Trump’s vision for a healthier America!”

According to Loomer: Continue…

JUST IN: B-52 Bombers Deployed to UK as US Operations Expand Inland and Deeper into Iranian Territory, Hegseth Vows “Death and Destruction from the Sky All Day Long”(VIDEO)

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Three B-52 Stratofortress bombers, capable of carrying 70,000 lbs of munitions, landed in the UK on Monday amid the Pentagon’s plans to expand military strikes in Iran.

The war with Iran kicked off its second week on Saturday after US and Israeli forces launched attacks that took out Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior Iranian officials.

Now the US is expanding air operations.

Video recorded at Royal Air Force Station Fairford shows the B-52s landing in Gloucestershire, UK. Continue…

Putin Throws Energy Lifeline to Europe Amid Iran War — Says Russia Is Ready for Long-Term Oil and Gas Deals if Politics Are Removed

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As war in the Middle East rattles global energy markets and threatens one of the world’s most critical oil routes, Russian President Vladimir Putin is signaling that Moscow stands ready to step back into Europe’s energy market, if European leaders are willing to drop the “political pressure.”

Speaking Monday during a televised meeting with government officials and executives from Russia’s largest energy firms, including Gazprom, Rosneft, and Transneft, Putin said Russia remains prepared to resume large-scale oil and gas cooperation with European buyers under long-term agreements, according to Reuters.

The comments come as global energy markets face growing instability following U.S. and Israeli military strikes against Iran and the potential for disruptions to oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints.

Putin made it clear that Moscow has never closed the door on Europe. Instead, he suggested it was European political decisions, particularly sanctions and energy bans, that cut the continent off from Russian hydrocarbons.

According to the Kremlin, any renewed cooperation must guarantee “sustainability and stability” in trade relations, an apparent reference to the sweeping sanctions and energy restrictions imposed by the European Union after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“If European companies and European buyers suddenly decide to reorient themselves and provide us with long-term, sustainable cooperation, free from political pressures, free from political pressures, then yes, we’ve never refused it. We’re ready to work with Europeans too. But we need some signals from them that they’re ready and willing to work with us and will ensure this sustainability and stability,” Putin said.

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For the Second Time in a Week, NATO Forces Intercept Iranian Missile Entering Turkey Airspace (Videos)

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NATO is getting into the action.

As the military conflict between US-Israel and Iran progresses in an ever-more-brutal way, the Islamic regime of the mullahs continues to strike everyone around it – friend or foe.

As much as the civilian leadership apologizes for the attacks on neighboring countries, nothing has really changed.

Now, even NATO member Turkey has started to get targeted.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ‘stands ready’ to defend its members’ territory, it said, after Iranian ballistic missiles entered Turkish airspace.

Ankara said today (9) that it shot down a second missile in a week. Continue…

FRENCH CONNECTION: Court Documents Show Epstein Associate Jean-Luc Brunel’s ‘Industrial’ System of Exploitation, With Some Underage Models Trafficked to the US

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‘They built/the dark satanic Mills/that manufacture hell on earth’ – Roger Waters/Watching TV

We now have a better idea of how the tentacles of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking ring spread around the world, and from these places, new revelations are arising nonstop.

A disturbing new chapter in the Epstein saga has now emerged from France, where confidential court documents reveal the scale of abuse orchestrated by model scout (and alleged serial rapist) Jean-Luc Brunel.

Brunel was a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, and he met the same fate, found ‘suicided’ in his cell in La Santé prison, in Paris.

The newly released documents show Brunel running an ‘industrial system of exploitation’, even transforming luxury castles and apartments into sites of abuse. Continue…

HUGE NETWORK EXPOSED: Fox News’ Will Cain Reveals Paid Protest Machine Behind Anti-Trump Iran Demonstrations (Video)

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A stunning new investigation highlighted on Fox News has raised serious questions about whether the anti-Trump protests erupting across the country over the Iran conflict are truly “grassroots” or part of a coordinated, well-funded activist network backed by radical groups and foreign-linked money.

As The Gateway Pundit has relentlessly exposed in our previous reporting, these “protests” are nothing but astroturf operations – fake outrage bought and paid for by deep-pocketed leftists and foreign influencers.

During a deep dive on his program, Fox News host Will Cain pulled back the curtain on a tightly connected ecosystem of far-left activist organizations repeatedly showing up behind anti-Trump, anti-ICE, pro-Palestine, and now pro-Iran protests.

And according to Cain, the same names and the same funding sources appear again and again.

Cain pointed to several organizations whose logos and organizing infrastructure repeatedly appear on protest posters and social-media calls to action.

Among the most prominent:

ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)

National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

The People’s Forum

Code Pink

These organizations have frequently organized demonstrations opposing U.S. foreign policy, immigration enforcement, and Israeli military operations. Continue…

Boeing Slides After Wiring Flaw Discovery Set To Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries

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Boeing shares fell a little more than 3% in late-morning trading in New York after a new report from The Wall Street Journal stated that deliveries of some narrow-body 737 MAX jets would be delayed following the discovery of scratched wiring on newly built aircraft.

Boeing told the WSJ that each affected jet can be fixed within days and that the wiring flaw will not derail its target of delivering about 500 737 MAX jets this year, though March deliveries could be slowed.

The wiring issue is yet another manufacturing setback as Boeing tries to demonstrate to FAA regulators that it has improved quality control following the January 2024 midair door-plug blowout, the two 737 MAX crashes, and other quality-related issues related to the narrow-body jet. Continue…

Archer Accuses Flying Taxi Rival Joby Of Depending On Chinese Suppliers

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Flying taxi maker Archer Aviation has alleged that its rival Joby Aviation has been misleading regulators and investors for years by hiding its connections to China.

In a March 9 filing in federal court in California, Archer accused Joby of running a manufacturing unit in Shenzhen, China, for more than a decade that received government grants intended to spur technological development and of carrying out fraudulent business practices that gave it an improper competitive edge.

“Joby has falsely presented itself as a domestically rooted, American-made, fully vertically integrated aviation company while covertly relying on its Chinese manufacturing subsidiary,” Archer alleged in the filing.

The lawsuit alleges that the company later hid aerospace components shipped from that facility by falsely labeling thousands of pounds of imported components as mundane consumer goods such as hair clips, napkins, socks, and similar products.

This approach, the suit alleges, allowed Joby to “evade U.S. tariffs, distort competition, improperly secure government contracts and strategic partnerships, and circumvent national-security oversight.”

Archer’s counterclaim, filed in a lawsuit initiated by Joby, further argues that Joby secured at least $131 million in U.S. Air Force contracts while marketing its aircraft as committed to American innovation, raising national security concerns in areas in which Chinese supply chain dependencies were not fully disclosed.

Alex Spiro, an attorney for Joby, said in a statement to The Epoch Times that the company “doesn’t respond to nonsense.”

“Archer’s constant legal issues and flailing business operations have left it no choice but to resort to invented nonsensical theories,” Spiro said in a statement. “We will see them in court.” Continue…

89 Arrested In Florida Human Trafficking Operation, Sheriff's Office Says

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A sheriff’s office in Florida announced this week that an undercover operation led to 89 human and sex trafficking-related arrests, resulting in more than 1,200 separate felony charges.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which includes the Tampa metropolitan area, said that the operation was carried out over several weeks and targeted individuals “seeking to sexually exploit children and purchase sex.”

The suspects arrested allegedly believed they were communicating with underage victims and showed up at agreed upon locations but were instead met by undercover sheriff’s detectives, according to a news release issued by the department.

They also located a missing 17-year-old girl who was being exploited, the news release said, adding that she was rescued, and her trafficker, identified by officials as 23-year-old Armani Hopkins, was arrested and charged in connection with the incident. It’s not clear if Hopkins has legal representation.

Authorities gave more details about other suspects who were arrested by sheriff’s officials. Continue…

UK Govt Plots Another X Shutdown Over Grok's "Offensive" Roasts

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The UK government under Keir Starmer is once again eyeing a total ban on X, this time claiming Grok’s ability to spit out “insults” and “offensive language” poses a dire threat. But as users on the platform point out, this is just another excuse to silence dissent against the regime.

Fresh reports reveal Starmer’s administration is probing ways to penalize X for “spreading offence online,” including a potential shutdown. Sky News reported on Grok being prompted to generate vulgar responses targeting Hinduism, Islam, and even historic football disasters.

Watch:

🚨BREAKING: KEIR STARMER IS CONSIDERING MOVE TO SHUT DOWN X AGAIN Continue…