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Virginia mother Cheryl Minter says she is surviving “hour by hour, day by day” through prayer after her daughter, Stephanie, was stabbed to death at a Fairfax County bus stop. But through her grief, she has a blunt message for the prosecutor she believes failed to take warnings about the suspect seriously: “Do your job.””Do what you said in your vision on your web page. Get your act together,” Minter said Wednesday on “The Ingraham Angle.”PRO-POLICE GROUP ASKS DOJ TO PROBE SOROS-BACKED VIRGINIA PROSECUTOR USING BIDEN-ERA LAW ONCE AIMED AT COPSStephanie Minter was stabbed to death at a bus stop late last month in Fairfax County, Virginia. She was discovered with multiple stab wounds to her upper body, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Minter said the man accused of killing her 41-year-old daughter should never have been free to carry out the attack, noting that local authorities had previously warned about the suspect and his lengthy criminal history.VIRGINIA DEMS PUSH ANTI-ICE BILLS DAYS AFTER SPANBERGER REJECTS DETAINER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDER SUSPECTHad prosecutors taken those warnings seriously, she said, “he would have been locked up and not able to do it.”She is now calling on Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano to “help protect the people and get these people off the street any way he can,” arguing that her daughter’s death was preventable.Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, has been charged in the killing. According to DHS, Jalloh had a lengthy criminal record, including dozens of prior arrests for offenses ranging from assault to rape and malicious wounding.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer on Jalloh in 2020, and he was later issued a final order of removal allowing him to be deported to any country other than Sierra Leone. Despite that order, he was not deported.A Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the office “was aware of Jalloh’s criminal history and shared police concerns about potential future dangerousness. That is why our Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney personally handled these cases.”The spokesperson added that prosecutors “will often explore many different pathways to successful prosecution, but, at the end of the day, our decisions are constrained by what testimony is available and what is legally permissible and practicable in Fairfax courts.”Fox News’ Leo Bricento and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.

Actress Katherine Heigl fired back at critics angry over her attendance at a Mar-a-Lago dog rescue event in a statement on Wednesday.”Animals don’t vote. The only room they don’t like is the euthanasia room at a shelter,” Heigl told Page Six in a statement. “They are completely at the mercy of us, and they have no voice of their own.””This event was about animal advocacy — something that has always been deeply personal to me,” she continued. “Anyone who knows me knows that protecting animals is one of my greatest passions.”TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHES MULTI-AGENCY ‘STRIKE FORCE’ TO CRACK DOWN ON ANIMAL ABUSEHeigl attended the Wine, Women & Shoes Benefiting Big Dog Ranch Rescue fundraiser on Sunday at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, home.”As a society, we should all come together to protect the voiceless and the innocent,” she added. “This should not be a polarizing issue.”Big Dog Ranch Rescue posted on Instagram that the event raised $5.5 million.Heigl responded to several comments on Instagram taking issue with her attendance and the statement that followed.’GREY’S ANATOMY’ STAR KATHERINE HEIGL DITCHED HOLLYWOOD FOR UTAH: ‘NEEDED SOMEWHERE TO ESCAPE’One comment asked, “Who even is she?””Doesn’t matter. Do you care about animals? If so donate! Time! Money! Attention! Your voice! It doesn’t matter who I am only what I do,” Heigl responded on Instagram. “The same goes for you! Animals might not be your thing but I bet you care deeply about something that matters! Do your part! Don’t waste your time scrolling and making comments!” she added. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREHeigl revealed she ditched Hollywood for Utah in 2023, telling the “Today” show at the time she “needed somewhere to escape.””I think some people are mountain people, and I think some people are beach people,” Heigl explained. “I’m sort of a mountain person and have always been that way.””And my mom realized, because we went out to LA when I was 17 and hustled and hustled for years, right?” Heigl continued. “And I think she realized at a certain point that I needed somewhere to escape to and kind of clear my head, and that grounded me.”

Explosive ordnance disposal Marines from the 1st Marine Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, tow an unmanned sea-floor-mapping and mine-detection vehicle during Baltic Operations 2021. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps (Robin Lewis).
IRGC Deputy Commander Ali Fadavi said on Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, “We have missiles that are launched from underwater, and their speed is 100 meters per second. We may use them in the coming days.” He also claimed that only Iran and Russia possess the technology for such weapons.
However, the claims have not been independently verified. Such statements are consistent with Iran’s broader pattern of using public statements to project deterrence. Tehran is attempting to scare the U.S. and Israel into disengaging.
Aside from advanced weapons that may or may not exist, the most concrete escalation is Iran’s mining of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints through which roughly one-fifth of global crude oil passes.
U.S. intelligence sources told CNN that only a few dozen mines have been deployed so far, but Iran retains more than 80 percent of its small boats and mine-laying vessels and could deploy hundreds more.
A declassified report from the Directorate of Intelligence noted that Iran views mine warfare primarily as a deterrent strategy.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which shares control of the strait with Iran’s navy, has trained personnel in mine warfare and maintains multiple methods for deploying mines.
These include small boats, helicopters, midget submarines, and other naval platforms, while shore-based rocket artillery and explosive boats could be used to threaten vessels attempting to transit the waterway. Destroying surface minelayers would not eliminate the threat.
The waterway has effectively been closed since the war began, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had previously warned that ships passing through the strait could be attacked, with officials describing the passage as extremely dangerous for shipping and no U.S. naval escorts currently guiding vessels through the area.
The disruption has stranded approximately 15 million barrels per day of crude and another 4.5 million barrels per day of refined fuels in the Persian Gulf.
Countries such as Iraq and Kuwait rely on the strait to export oil and have few alternative routes. The G7 has signaled it may release strategic reserves to offset shortages.
President Trump warned on Truth Social that any mines must be removed immediately or Iran would face consequences “at a level never before seen,” adding that their removal would be a positive step.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth subsequently announced that U.S. Central Command had begun destroying Iranian vessels associated with mine-laying operations.
CENTCOM confirmed it sank multiple Iranian naval vessels near the strait, including 16 minelayers. Trump later stated that 10 inactive minelaying ships had also been destroyed and suggested further action could follow.
Oil prices surged after the conflict began, approaching $120 per barrel before retreating, but futures remain high, above $90 per barrel.
Although Trump indicated the U.S. Navy might escort tankers through the strait, reports indicate the Navy has declined frequent requests from shipping companies due to security risks.
The possibility of the IRGC mining the strait becomes more of a threat because the U.S. Navy’s mine-clearing capability has been reduced.
Four Avenger-class minesweepers stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025, and their intended replacements, Independence-class littoral combat ships, have faced difficulties meeting operational mine countermeasure requirements.
Iran’s estimated stockpile ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines. Iran has been expanding its mine warfare capabilities by training personnel, developing minelaying techniques, and acquiring naval mines and related technology.
Intelligence assessments indicate Tehran views mine warfare as a practical response to military pressure in the Persian Gulf.
Rather than laying large numbers of mines at once, Iran would likely deploy a limited number over weeks or months to raise insurance costs and discourage shipping.
Although Iran’s minelaying capability is limited, even a few hundred contact mines could support such a campaign.
Analysts note that even limited mining, or the threat of mining, can disrupt shipping, deter vessels from entering the Persian Gulf, and function similarly to a blockade by forcing traffic into narrow channels more favorable for Iranian monitoring or attack.
Iran also operates three Kilo-class submarines, which are particularly effective at laying EM-52 rising mines, devices that sit on the ocean floor, sense a passing vessel overhead, and launch a rocket to strike it. Iran reportedly purchased the EM-52 from China.
The rugged coastlines of the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf complicate interdiction further, and the threat is not confined to the strait itself; adjacent sea lanes, anchorages, and loading terminals are also potential targets.
On January 25, 2025, Iranian state television revealed that the IRGC had used the Fajr-5 multiple launch rocket system to lay naval mines during exercises.
The Fajr-5 is a truck-mounted, medium-range system capable of firing rockets with a range of 80 to 100 kilometers and deploying mines from shore without putting vessels in the water, making interdiction significantly more difficult.
Iran has layered these delivery methods, small boats, submarines, shore-based rocket artillery, and aircraft, to complicate U.S. countermeasures, which is why CENTCOM’s destruction of minelayer vessels, while necessary, does not eliminate the threat entirely.
One strategic factor shapes Iran’s calculus: mining has historically been considered a last resort because it would also block Iran’s own shipping, cutting off petroleum exports essential to the regime’s finances.
Iran’s shadow fleet has continued exporting oil to China through the strait; mining would end that access.
The fact that Iran is proceeding despite this self-imposed cost indicates the regime has calculated that the threat from the current military campaign outweighs the economic damage to itself.
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Fresh US Intel Assessment Says Iran Regime Not Close To Collapse After 2 Weeks At War

A fresh report in Reuters says what should already be quite obvious to all: US intelligence has assessed that Iran’s leadership and government are largely in tact and the system does not risk collapse, after two weeks of heavy sustained US-Israeli bombardment and ‘decapitation’ strikes which have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and over forty top military leaders.

One of the intel sources was cited as saying that “multitude” of intelligence reports provide “consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger” of collapsing and “retains control of the Iranian public”.
West Asia News Agency via Reuters

The source in the Wednesday-issued Reuters report indicated the most recent US intelligence was only completed within a few days prior. This week President Trump has also been busy declaring that the war could end “soon” and that “we won”.

And yet, the intelligence assessments indicates Iran’s clerical leadership has remained cohesive, now rallying around the late supreme leader’s successor – his son Mojtaba Khamenei, who is said to be more hardline. Other sources suggest that it is the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) effectively running the country and executing the war. Indeed Israel and Gulf states continue to get pummeled in retaliatory missile and drone waves. Of course, Tehran itself is enduring heavy destruction, also as the US-Israeli strikes go after civic infrastructure.

Reuters adds: “Israeli officials in closed discussions also ​have acknowledged there is no certainty the war will lead to the clerical government’s collapse” – based also on the perspective of a senior Israeli official.

We might point out that any serious analyst would have assessed this before the strikes had even started, and indeed there’s some evidence that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sstaff tried to warn just this before Trump ordered the operation.

As one pundit has pointed out: “Endurance regimes do not need clean victory to change the game. They only need to survive the shock while making the old equilibrium too costly for their adversaries to restore.” So ‘winning’ for Iran looks much different, compared to US objectives.

Journalist Jeremy Scahill, who starting over two decades ago covered the lead-up to the Iraq war from on the ground in Baghdad, has reiterated that “In asymmetric warfare, the less powerful side does not need to militarily defeat an adversary, but rather force it to a point where it determines the costs of continuing the war is too high.”

“When past presidents balked at the possibility of war with Iran, they weren’t just dodging a hard choice; they were deterred by all the obvious reasons a conflict could perilously spiral. Nobody should be shocked that the expected is now coming to pass” https://t.co/diHQNCGKvB
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 11, 2026
Concerning Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, there does appear to be a concerted effort to collapse the system, though pretty much all war analysts are in agreement that doing this in a purely air campaign is next to impossible.

Striking directly at the banking system could be part of these efforts, as a Wednesday regional report indicates:

The data center of Iran’s state-run Bank Sepah was hit by a strike in Tehran on Wednesday, The Jerusalem Post learned.
The disruption at the bank, which is largely responsible for paying the salaries of Iran’s military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is expected to prevent it from paying salaries for a period, forcing it to find alternative solutions.

Reports suggest that a vital data center crucial in carrying out payments to some up to 190,000 IRGC members was impacted, though we might also presume there’s redundancy to the data and other systems capable of carrying this out. But the thinking might be that if the troops can’t get paid, and their families can’t survive, this would immediately weaken the country’s ability to defend itself.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/12/2026 – 09:20

The message was read out on Iranian state TV, according to reports.

The rivals meet again.

A stunning new federal review of voter registration lists has uncovered tens of thousands of noncitizens, hundreds of thousands of dead registrants, and widespread duplicate registrations, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The bombshell findings were disclosed by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon during an interview with Just the News.
This is the LARGEST federal check of voter rolls in American history, and it comes straight from the Trump DOJ’s aggressive push for real election integrity.
The investigation, which currently covers 16 states that voluntarily provided voter registration data, is already revealing serious problems in the nation’s election infrastructure.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dead voters still active. TENS OF THOUSANDS of noncitizens — some illegal — sitting on the rolls ready to vote. And that’s only from 16 states so far.

“We’re finding tens of thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls, hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and duplicate registrations between states,” Dhillon said during an interview on Just the News, No Noise.

Federal investigators say dozens of noncitizens have already been proven to have cast ballots in federal elections.
The Justice Department is now pursuing 29 additional states through lawsuits to obtain their voter registration records and determine whether they are complying with federal law.
As The Gateway Pundit has reported for years on dirty voter rolls and stolen elections, this is exactly the systemic rot we’ve been screaming about while Democrats and weak-kneed Republicans pretended everything was fine.
On Steve Bannon’s War Room, John Solomon connected every dot and made it crystal clear why every U.S. Senator needs this information right now ahead of the scheduled vote on the wildly popular Save America Act:

“Last night, we had Harmeet Dhillon… She has obtained 16 State’s voter rolls. She is fighting to get 29 more… This is the largest federal check of voting rolls in the history of America… In the first 16 states, she has found tens of thousands, tens of thousands of non-citizens, some of them illegal aliens, who have made it in a position to vote… Then she said, They have proven already, dozens of illegal aliens and non-citizens have actually cast ballots in federal elections… hundreds of thousands of dead people that they were able to find on the voter rolls who were still active on these states. That’s just the first 16 states.”

Solomon hammered home that this isn’t speculation, it’s proven fact that must reach every senator before they vote on the Save America Act next week:

“That should be an informational point every senator should have on their front plate… We should know by state the number of non-citizens that got on the rolls, the number of dead people that were on the rolls… There’s a false sense of security that has wavered over this debate, and it’s time to give people the data points.”

He also called out the big blue-state obstruction: California and New York are leading the resistance while the patterns of fraud are already forming even in states that claim to have “pretty good” rolls.
WATCH:

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NONCITIZENS ON VOTER ROLLS PROVEN, DOZENS ILLEGALLY VOTED@JSolomonReports: @HarmeetKDhillon…has obtained 16 states voter rolls, LARGEST federal check of voter rolls in America. That should be an informational point every Senator has. pic.twitter.com/YmiWfqC1Qn
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) March 11, 2026

The numbers are backed up by actual arrests. This week, ICE and the FBI nabbed Mahady Sacko, an illegal alien from Mauritania, for voter fraud in Philadelphia. Sacko illegally voted in seven consecutive presidential elections since 2008, despite a 2002 removal order he ignored for over two decades.
“United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Mahady Sacko, 50, of Philadelphia was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with fraudulent voting in the 2024 federal election by an illegal alien,” the DOJ said.
“Sacko is an illegal alien who was ordered deported in 2000. Despite being an illegal alien, Sacko allegedly unlawfully voted in person in the 2024 general election for federal office,” the Justice Department said.
“Sacko falsely represented that he was a U.S. citizen in order to vote and register to vote,” the DOJ said.
Sacko is facing five years in prison.
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