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Data centers worldwide rely on affordable energy and community support to function, but all too often, sources of affordable energy also drive community opposition.
The United States is home to 1,958 active data centers, with another 714 under construction and nearly 3,200 more in planning stages. National leader Virginia and second-place Texas are both planning to overdouble their data center square footage by 2030, whereas data center expansion in California has come to a near standstill.
Across Europe, Germany leads the way with 529 data centers (4.4 percent of the global total), followed by the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. Overall, there are about 3,400 data centers across 45 European nations, but power constraints are forcing operators to look toward Nordic countries that are blessed with hydropower and naturally cold waters.
European data center power demand is expected to grow from 96 terawatt-hours in 2024 to 168 TWh by 2030. As in the U.S., data center expansion adds stress to both electric generation capacity and cooling waters — along with other environmental concerns.
This rapid growth has, however, led to localized opposition on both continents. In the U.S., $64 billion in data center projects were blocked or delayed by bipartisan local opposition in just the last 2 years. Republican opponents tend to focus on tax incentives and energy grid strain, while Democrats address environmental impacts and resource consumption.
In Pennsylvania, while Governor Josh Shapiro was welcoming a $20 billion investment in data centers by Amazon, the advocacy group Lancaster Stands Up complained that data centers will cause “dirty electricity sources … to stay online” to meet increased power needs. In San Marcos, Texas, opponents blocked a $1.5 billion data center on the grounds that it would further stress already insufficient water sources.
Local opposition is increasingly effective in Europe as well. Just last month, the city parliament of Groß-Gerau (just outside Frankfurt, Germany) stopped construction of a planned 174-MW, €2.5 billion project by Vantage Data Centers over fears of rising costs, diminished water and environmental resources, ugly aesthetics, and skepticism over job creation. Local opposition is also thwarting data center construction in Hanau and Maintal.
As the Russia-Ukraine war drags on and Middle Eastern data centers are casualties of another war, data-hungry European customers today are looking north to the hydropower capital of the world and to Norway-based Viking Digital.
Viking is building out a large-scale, neutral digital infrastructure platform in a massive effort to provide 1.8 gigawatts of electricity from clean hydropower and biomass to power data centers across the continent. The electricity is cheap enough to reduce normalized customer costs per GPU-hour by 20 percent from global benchmarks. The Viking facilities also employ advanced natural cooling using cold coastal/fjord waters, not local groundwater.
Across the pond, President Trump has mandated that large data centers find their own energy sources.
Those are two reasons why Viking’s facilities are welcomed in their communities as job and revenue providers in sync with the local environment. This local support, together with strong grid reliability and high-voltage infrastructure access, and robust fiber routing, enables Viking to support low-latency connectivity into key European hubs.
Viking has been thinking — and acting — big, with four facilities in Norway, one in Finland, and plans for additional generation capacity across all three Nordic nations — all to support new hyperscale, AI, and cloud data centers and enable them to operate without draining local water and energy resources.
Already, Viking Digital’s campus portfolio includes five sites totaling over a million square meters of land with a combined planned capacity exceeding 1.8 GW. First delivery from the planned 300 MW VDC1 campus is targeted by year-end 2027; it is supported by new 132-kilovolt infrastructure and uses naturally cold fjord water for cooling.
The flagship VDC2, which will offer over 950 MW of electricity to customers, is anchored by direct access to a 420-kV transmission corridor, enabling phased hyperscale deployment. It is due to come online later this year.
A third, industrial-grade coastal campus is starting small but plans to support 300 MW over the long term. Viking also has a construction-ready data-center-zoned site with an 80 MW application in place that can be upgraded to 100 MW. It has ongoing conduit installation for fiber and power, and is in immediate proximity to major grid infrastructure for accelerated delivery.
Viking’s first campus outside Norway (in Finland) is fully zoned and development-ready, with 50 MW secured and a pathway to 200 MW from biomass (sawdust from pulp and paper operations) by early 2028. It, too, is supported by efficient natural cooling from adjacent coastal waters.
Viking’s business model also envisions additional cold-water campuses using hydropower and naturally cold water that keep both economic and environmental costs low — major advantages in this emerging industry. Another major advantage is the proximity of Viking’s campuses to key submarine cable routes that link Norway to major hubs in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and continental Europe with low-latency, high-speed connectivity and minimal transmission loss.
Viking’s founder and strategic lead, Tor Langøy, says, “What we are doing at Viking is revolutionary — Nordic countries becoming major exporters of tokens and data to Europe.” The timing is right, too, what with Iran blowing up data centers in the Middle East. “We are proud,” he added, “to be enablers of the true power of AI. We are in the business of making sure we are optimizing AI clusters.”
Langøy cites Norway’s two-trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund — built on revenues from its North Sea oil and gas profits — as an additional advantage for building data and AI supporting infrastructure in Nordic lands. These and other advantages, he believes, will make Viking Digital the most efficient player exporting tokens worldwide.
While the location, location, location advantages are huge, Viking Digital’s real strength is embedded in its business model. Its integrated tech stack platform enables commercializing high-density accelerated computing as a managed capability rather than as a commodity infrastructure product. The integrated operating model positions Viking to deliver production-grade accelerated computing environments with institutional execution standards.
Viking Digital embeds execution, procurement, integration, and operations expertise directly into its campuses to improve speed-to-service, utilization outcomes, and unit economics for enterprise, hyperscale, and sovereign/regulated customers. The level of sophistication is such that Viking can deliver hyper-local, highly secure AI compute environments needed for sensitive public-sector and regulated enterprise workloads.
Heading up the company’s tech stack is Venkat Thummisi, former head of core infrastructure at OpenAI, where he led the buildout of large-scale, high-performance computing and data center infrastructure. Thummisi’s teams work to align design, procurement, deployment, and ongoing optimization under a single integrated delivery model to accelerate time-to-service and support consistent performance at scale.
Langøy believes the combination of superior technology, affordable renewable energy, and cold-water cooling — plus quality personnel — makes Viking Digital a great choice for both investors and customers and a valuable partner for hyper scaling, micro scaling, AI, and cloud users.
Across the pond, President Trump has mandated that large data centers find their own energy sources, driving large firms to consider both natural gas and nuclear energy. Hydro is not an option across much of the United States except in Alaska, which, like much of Canada, has an abundance of naturally cold water and hydropower potential.
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Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow who writes on a wide variety of public policy issues.

For the first time in more than two decades, the Illinois men’s basketball team will still be dancing when the Final Four tips off.Iowa’s underdog run in the NCAA Tournament ended Saturday with a 71-59 loss to a dominant Illinois team. Before Illinois could cut down the nets at Houston’s Toyota Center, a buzzer malfunction caused a loud, roughly 10-minute delay.The buzzer initially sounded signaling the end of a media timeout with just under eight minutes remaining in the first half. The horn continued blaring for about another seven minutes.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMPlayers stood on the court ready to play for a couple of minutes before both teams started to warm up as the buzzer continued to sound.It was finally silenced, to cheers from the crowd, but then the main scoreboard and video screen that hangs over the middle of the court went dark.The game ultimately resumed with the big scoreboard still off. Two smaller scoreboards at each end of the arena were working.Freshman guard Keaton Wagler scored 25 points to help secure Illinois’ first Final Four berth since 2005.This will be the sixth overall trip to the Final Four for Illinois, which has never won a national title. The Fighting Illini will face either Duke or UConn next week in Indianapolis.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Last week, The Atlantic’s Francis X. Rocca penned a damning indictment of America’s Catholic bishops, although I doubt he intended it as such. “The most urgent political concern for America’s Catholic leaders is no longer abortion; it’s immigration,” Rocca wrote. Noting that immigration concerns are addressed in Catholic teaching, he added, “But now immigration dominates U.S. Catholic leaders’ public messaging.”
How shameful. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly four years ago, but the butchering of unborn children in their mother’s wombs continues anyway. According to the abortion industry’s official research center, the Guttmacher Institute, abortions increased across the U.S. between 2024 and 2025, remaining above the one million mark in both cases, while the number of abortions committed via the abortion drug mifepristone increased by 26 percent. In other words, while over one million unborn children are ripped apart with scalpel and forceps or starved and expelled via a drug regimen, and the U.S. bishops are focusing their attention almost exclusively on ensuring that illegal aliens are not arrested and deported.
A U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) spokeswoman cited by Rocca stated that “human dignity and national security are not in conflict.” That’s true. Stringent immigration enforcement is in line with the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church and is, in fact, in accord with the virtue of justice. The arrest and detention of those who have violated the law (in this case, federal immigration law) is not a violation of human dignity, nor is returning foreigners who have abused U.S. hospitality and services to their home countries. In fact, it’s something of a merciful move.
Shepherds ought to protect their flocks from wolves. Instead, we find them demanding that the wolves share our pastures.
Had President Donald Trump and his administration determined to mobilize paramilitary death squads to systematically hunt down and execute those known or suspected to be in the country illegally, then the bishops might have a cause for vocal complaint.
Had the administration decided to torture or waterboard detained aliens — for any reason — then the USCCB might not be accused of manufactured hysteria. And had the bishops devoted as much time and energy to combatting the continuing scourge of abortion and protecting the human dignity of the American people as they have to defending illegal aliens and their presence in the U.S., then cries of hypocrisy would fall flat. But they don’t.
Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago freshman hailed by friends and family as a devout Catholic, was murdered in cold blood last week by an illegal alien from Venezuela. Where is the outrage from the nation’s Catholic bishops? — who are always so quick to signal their virtue and condemn violence, even if all the facts have yet to be ascertained. A young woman, an American, and a Catholic has been slain, and her death can be traced directly to government policy. Yet there is no condemnation of former president Joe Biden (a self-identified Catholic) or his Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. No talk of how these two and their deputies violated human dignity and imperiled national security with their open-borders policies.
So the slaughter of unborn children is second fiddle. The murder of Catholic college girls is just the price of doing business. The rape and murder of so many women at the hands of foreign invaders is — what? Acceptable? A merely political matter? Not profitable? But the suggestion that hordes of foreign insurgents should perhaps be returned to foreign parts is somehow in violation of human dignity, according to their excellencies. How shameful. Shepherds ought to protect their flocks from wolves. Instead, we find them demanding that the wolves share our pastures.
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No Kings protest in New York City. Wikimedia Commons.
The pointless ‘No Kings’ folks were back out in force this weekend, up to all of their usual antics.
Like many people, you may be wondering who is behind all of this, specifically, who is funding it? Well, it turns out there is an entire network of groups and they have a lot of cash to work with.
According to a recent investigation, there are approximately 500 different groups involved in this and they have an annual revenue stream of approximately $3 billion.
In other words, it’s not just George Soros. It’s a lot of different people and groups. The only thing that is not surprising here, is that these groups are all linked to Marxism and bringing about revolution.
FOX News reported:
500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for ‘revolution’
A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide “No Kings” protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a “revolution,” according to a Fox Digital News investigation.
According to a copy of the permit for the “flagship” march in St. Paul, Minn., Indivisible, a national well-heeled Democratic political advocacy organization funded by billionaire George Soros, is the lead coordinator for the protest.
But Fox News Digital has also identified key participation by a network of radical socialist and communist organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.
Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
They are all sending members to the protests and one group said they plan to bring a message of “revolution” to the protests…
Across the country, similar preparations have been underway among socialist, communist and Marxist activist groups from the Singham network that have openly discussed using the demonstrations to spread what they describe as revolutionary organizing.
The most frustrating thing about these protests is the way the media covers them as if they are the voice of the people, not the millions of Americans who voted for Trump, handed him every swing state, and sent him back to the White House for a second time.
That was the real revolution, not a bunch of boomers with purple hair.
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Over 3,500 US Troops Arrive In Middle East As Houthis Enter War

Summary

US troops arrive: More than 3,500 U.S. troops, including the USS Tripoli with about 2,500 Marines, arrived in the Middle East, officials announced Saturday, as strikes in the Iran war intensified

Houthis enter the war: Houthis launch their first missile barrage on Israel since Operation Epic Fury. Red Sea shipping could once again be under direct threat.

UAE Aluminum plant damaged in Iranian drone strike:  Emirates Global Aluminium – the Middle East’s largest aluminum producer and the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas – said its production plant at Al Taweelah sustained significant damage in an Iranian drone and missile attack on Abu Dhabi. 

Serious US casualties in Saudi base assault: Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base in a Friday attack that wounded at least 15 troops: AP. Late-night strike targeted Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (for third time of war).

Gulf states under sustained fire, casualties mount: Six wounded in missile strike on Abu Dhabi; Bahrain intercepts waves of missiles and drones near the United States Fifth Fleet base; Kuwait reports damage to Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port and Shuwaikh Port.

US expending billions on Operation Epic Fury: “Battle damage and replacement of losses over the first three weeks of the war likely costs roughly $1.4 billion to $2.9 billion”: WSJ. 

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Thousands Of US Troops Arrive In Gulf Region

More than 3,500 U.S. troops, including the USS Tripoli with about 2,500 Marines, arrived in the Middle East, officials announced Saturday, as strikes in the Iran war intensified. The U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that the USS Tripoli, which serves as the flagship for the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group / 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in its area of responsibility. Central Command said that in addition to the Marines, the Tripoli also brings transport and strike fighter aircraft, as well as amphibious assault assets to the region. The USS Boxer and two other ships, along with another Marine Expeditionary Unit, have also been ordered to the region from San Diego.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. Central Command confirms an amphibious warship carrying troops has entered its area of responsibility, signaling a potential escalation as forces position closer to the conflict zone. pic.twitter.com/fo1V0tQDp3
— War Radar (@War_Radar2) March 28, 2026
The Tripoli is the most updated of the amphibious warships, known as a “big deck,” which allows more room for F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets, Ospreys and other aircraft. The ship had previously been based in Japan when the order to deploy to the Middle East came almost two weeks ago.

U.S. Sailors and Marines aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7) arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, March 27. The America-class amphibious assault ship serves as the flagship for the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group / 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit composed of about… pic.twitter.com/JFWiPBbkd2
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 28, 2026
The arrival of the U.S. troops in the region comes after at least 10 U.S. troops, including two who were seriously wounded, were injured when Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base.

Trump said that he has not decided whether to deploy troops in Iran but he has not ruled out the possibility and is stationing some 7,000 troops, including members of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Meanwhile, the US military said in a social media post on Saturday that it had struck more than 11,000 targets and destroyed more than 150 Iranian vessels since the conflict began.

Operation Epic Fury: March 28th Update pic.twitter.com/WG1adY5YaR
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 28, 2026
Iran’s Fars news agency reported explosions across several districts of Tehran early Saturday, including strikes near Mehrabad Airport west of the capital. It’s the main hub for domestic flights.

And while Trump says Iran should negotiate peace, he is also saying the US can continue with strikes on the Islamic Republic. On Friday, he said more than 3,500 targets remained in Iran and “that’ll be done pretty quickly.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday the United States can meet its objectives “without any ground troops.” But he also said President Trump “has to be prepared for multiple contingencies” and that American forces are available “to give the president maximum optionality and maximum, opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.”

Major U.A.E. Aluminum Plant Damaged in Iranian Strike

Emirates Global Aluminium said its production plant at Al Taweelah sustained significant damage in an Iranian drone and missile attack on Abu Dhabi. Several employees were injured but no one died, the company said. The plant includes a smelter that produced 1.6 million metric tons of cast aluminum in 2025 and a refinery that supplies the smelter with alumina, the metal’s main ingredient. The company had substantial metal stock offshore when the war on Iran began last month as well as in some overseas locations, according to the statement. Emirates Global Aluminium is owned by Mubadala, an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and the government of Dubai.

EGA is the Middle East’s largest aluminum producer and the biggest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, according to the company’s website. Kezad facilities make up the company’s biggest plant. An aluminum producer in Bahrain, known as Alba, cut production earlier this month because it couldn’t ship metal through the Strait of Hormuz. Norwegian company Norsk Hydro slowed output at its Qatalum smelter in Qatar.

The United Arab Emirates is the fifth-biggest producer of aluminum in the world though it is dwarfed by China, the largest, according to consulting firm Harbor Aluminum. Excluding Iran, the Gulf as a whole smelted about 8% of the world’s aluminum in 2025, commodities brokerage StoneX reported. 

Aluminum prices in London, the benchmark, are 4% higher than on the eve of the war. Other metal prices have fallen on concern that high oil and gas prices will hurt energy-intensive industries that consume metals.

Houthis Enter the War

The Houthis have finally entered the war, greatly raising the stakes on what’s becoming a multi-front engagement, given Israel and Hezbollah have already been locked in a ground war in Lebanon. Overnight saw the Houthis send a barrage of missiles on Israel, which is the first such strike since the US began its Operation Epic Fury.

Military spokesman for the Houthis, Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, announced the attack on Saturday on the group’s Al Masirah satellite television, Al Jazeera has confirmed. Strikes “will continue until the declared objectives are achieved… and until the aggression against all fronts of the resistance ceases,” Saree said, confirming the Iran-aligned Yemeni group’s entry into the war on Tehran’s side.
Reports: In addition to damaging several air refuelling tankers, the Iranian missile attack of Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia reportedly damaged an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. USAF file image

The Israeli side confirmed the assault out of Yemen, saying that it intercepted one missile. This spells more bad news for global shipping through the other important regional energy and goods transit waterway, the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea. It will also make it even harder for Washington to try and wind down the conflict amid efforts to find an acceptable offramp. Interestingly, the Houthis are justifying their actions not just based on the US-Israel attack on Iran, but on assaults on populations in the broader region:

The group said the attack with a barrage of missiles came after continued targeting of infrastructure in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, adding that their operations would continue until the “aggression” on all fronts ends.

Now Israelis will face aerial threats from Iranians, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Iraqi Shia paramilitaries…

Several people are lightly injured after an Iranian ballistic missile struck the Jerusalem-area town of Eshtaol, first responders say.
The missile, which is assessed to have carried a conventional warhead of several hundred kilograms of explosives, caused extensive damage to… pic.twitter.com/gn5xwZEjiP
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 28, 2026
While the Houthis didn’t say they would target tankers or other vessels transiting the southern Red Sea and the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, they have the capability to do so. The group effectively shut the waterway to most Western shippers after the war in Gaza began in 2023, forcing vessels to reroute and disrupting a key shipping corridor. The Saudi port of Yanbu, which the kingdom is using to bypass the closed Strait of Hormuz for its oil exports, is well within the range of Houthi missiles.

For now, the Houthis are likely to avoid targeting Saudi oil sites, New York-based political consultancy Eurasia Group said in a note to clients. The Islamist militants agreed a truce with Saudi Arabia in 2022, which has largely held and involved the Saudi government making some payments to areas under Houthi control.

While the Houthis “need to be seen as participating in the war effort, they remain inclined towards minimizing the downsides of further entanglement in the war and keeping their tacit understanding with Saudi alive,” Eurasia analysts including Firas Maksad said on Saturday. “The Houthis may still target Saudi oil exports under pressure from Iran in case of escalation.”

At Least 15 Americans Wounded in Major Strikes on Saudi Base

The most significant overnight development saw major Iranian cross-Gulf attacks emerge. This is a serious escalation despite the White House having approached Tehran with a 15-point peace plan, delivered via Pakistan. The Iranians have clearly rejected it for now, and have instead launched a serious assault on Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia Friday.

The Wall Street Journal details that “Twelve American troops–up from 10 previously reported–were wounded in an Iranian attack on the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia Friday, according to multiple U.S. and Arab officials.”

The AP in follow up issued higher figures: “Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan air base in a Friday attack that wounded at least 15 troops, including five seriously, according to the sources who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. U.S. officials initially reported that at least 10 U.S. troops were injured, including two seriously wounded.”

This is a very big deal. The E-3s were rushed in as replacements for the radars. Clearly, the Iranians know what they are looking for. https://t.co/MYZ6cGtP0G
— Policy Tensor (@policytensor) March 28, 2026
“The injured troops were inside a building on the base that was struck in the attack, the officials said,” the report continues. “The attack also damaged multiple U.S. refueling aircraft. At least one missile struck the base, as well as several unmanned aerial vehicles, according to two of the officials.” This marks the second significant strike on the same base. The aircraft hit was a KC-135 air refueling aircraft, which reportedly caught fire.

The mass casualty incident has raised ongoing questions of troop exposure and Pentagon preparedness for Iran’s response:

I have a question. Did the Pentagon look at Operation Spiderweb that destroyed a big chunk of Russian strategic aviation last year, and decide: nah, we’re good, we can just park our planes in the open within enemy reach because if we believe we have nothing to learn from these… https://t.co/LWK97USX8r
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) March 28, 2026
Fresh Attacks on Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait

Iran’s missile war has continued expanding deeper into the Gulf, with the casualty count climbing in Abu Dhabi after an early Saturday strike. The Abu Dhabi Media Office confirms casualties (injuries, but no fatalities reported) have risen to six after a Saturday morning ballistic missile attack.

Elsewhere, in Bahrain, home to the United States Fifth Fleet, authorities reported air defenses have engaged almost nonstop over the past 24 hours, responding to 20 missiles and 23 drones.

Post raises question over future of Iran’s nuclear program, with one Iranian proclaiming “The war will boost Iranian science and technology.”

This is a building in Iran university of science and technology (IUST) that was targeted today in Tehran. This university -one of the leading engineering universities of Iran- is where I got my BSc and MSc degree in engineering years ago.
This aggression is all about Iran… pic.twitter.com/qXPo9JmZna
— Sarbaz Roohulla Rezvi (@SarbazRezvi) March 28, 2026
Kuwait has also taken fresh hits, with the ports of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port and Shuwaikh Port sustaining damage amid combined drone and missile attacks, according to the Defense Ministry. Kuwaiti forces say they have also engaged four ballistic missiles, one cruise missile, and seven drones in the same window – in yet another sign the tempo is only accelerating.

Bushehr Nuclear Plant Hit for Third Time

Late-night strike targets Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, marking the third hit in 10 days as pressure mounts on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure – and as especially Israel seeks to obliterate it as fast as possible. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization of Iran claims the attack caused no material damage, no casualties, as well as zero technical disruption at the facility.

And the International Atomic Energy Agency says it was notified by Tehran following the strike, underscoring continued monitoring even as attacks edge closer to sensitive nuclear sites. President Trump has meanwhile said that thousands of targets inside remain on the Pentagon’s list.

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Sat, 03/28/2026 – 22:20

FBI Director Kash Patel is reportedly pushing to release investigative files related to Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang.
In was previously reported that the Intel Community has a classified report detailing Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s intimate relationship with Chinese spy and honeypot Fang Fang.
Recall, according to Axios, Fang Fang was a “bundler” for Eric Swalwell and other Democrat candidates but it was also reported the Chinese spy had an intimate relationship with Swalwell.
A source on Capitol Hill previously confirmed to the Federalist that Swalwell indeed had a sexual relationship with Fang Fang.
Despite the Chinese spy scandal, Swalwell remained on the House Intelligence Committee (thanks to Pelosi) and had access to some of the nation’s most highly classified information.
In 2021, Breitbart News reported that China puppet Joe Biden was hiding the classified report on Swalwell’s sexual relationship with Fang Fang.
“The report, which intelligence and national security sources familiar with its contents who spoke on condition of anonymity told Breitbart News, contains details of the nature of Swalwell’s relationship with Fang Fang including certain sexual acts they allegedly engaged in together. Sources familiar with it, however, would not provide any more detail on the nature of those acts or other details in the report—which is currently classified,” Breitbart News reported.
“For those who have seen the details of the Swalwell case, it was shocking that Pelosi and Schiff so willingly kept him on the intelligence committee even for nakedly partisan lawmakers like themselves,” a former senior national security official familiar with the details of the report told Breitbart News.
The Washington Post reported:
FBI Director Kash Patel is pressing to release a decade-old investigative file involving Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) and a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, recently dispatching agents in the bureau’s San Francisco office to quickly redact the files before they are released publicly despite no evidence of wrongdoing by Swalwell, according to three people familiar with the effort.
The potential release is part of the Trump administration’s aggressive push to investigate Swalwell, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, according to the people familiar with the effort. It is highly unusual for the FBI to release case files tied to a probe that did not result in criminal charges.
As FBI director, Patel has focused on trying to bring a criminal case against the outspoken Democrat, reassigning multiple agents in San Francisco to work on the matter, the current and former officials said.
FBI leaders have even discussed sending agents to China to talk to the suspected intelligence operative, believing she could have damaging information about Swalwell, according to two of the people familiar with the investigation. The people familiar with the matter spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation that has not been made public.
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The mother of slain college student Sheridan Gorman is speaking out, vowing a “fight for justice” after the 18-year-old was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant earlier this month in Chicago.Jessica Gorman delivered emotional remarks Saturday at a vigil in Yorktown Heights, New York, honoring her daughter — a Loyola University Chicago freshman whose life was cut short in what authorities describe as a sudden, violent attack.”I want to say this gently, but honestly, as a mom, I’m angry,” Jessica Gorman said. “I’m like completely heartbroken, and we are going to fight for justice for our sweet Sheridan, and we’re going to fight for change.”While acknowledging that “not everyone” will see the situation the same way, Jessica Gorman underscored what she described as a universal truth shared by parents.WATCH: SENATE HEARING GOES SILENT AFTER ANGEL FATHER CONFRONTS TOP DEM OVER DAUGHTER’S DEATH”At the heart of all of this, we all want the same thing for your children and for ours to be safe, to be protected, and to come home,” Jessica Gorman said. “Because at the end of the day, that’s what this is all about. All of our kids, every single one of them, protecting them, loving them, showing up for them. And that is how we honor her.”Sheridan Gorman, a New York native, was killed at around 1:06 a.m. on March 19 while with friends near a pier in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.Officials say that Jose Medina-Medina, 25, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly fired one shot at the Loyola University Chicago student, killing her.Gorman was reportedly only a few months away from completing her freshman year.CHICAGO KILLING REIGNITES SANCTUARY CITY FIGHT AS ANGEL PARENT HEADS TO SENATE HEARINGMedina-Medina was previously apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.At the vigil, the family’s attorney, Thomas Tripodianos, warned against what he described as growing complacency about public safety.”If we accept this, even silently, then we are accepting a reality where young people are not as safe as they should be. And that is not acceptable,” Tripodianos said. “And there must be justice. Real justice.”Family members and friends also shared memories of Sheridan, remembering her impact on those around her.”Sheridan, you are deeply loved at Loyola,” Steven Betancourt, director of campus ministry at Loyola University Chicago, said. “You are deeply missed, and you will live on in the lives you touched and forever changed.”ANGEL PARENTS SLAM ILLINOIS SANCTUARY LAWS AFTER ‘PREVENTABLE’ TRAGEDY IN STUDENT’S DEATHThe Gorman family has sharply criticized Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, arguing that their daughter’s death “demands accountability.””She was doing something entirely normal — walking near her campus with friends. She should be here,” the Gorman family said regarding comments by Johnson.The suspect appeared in court Friday and was ordered held in custody, according to FOX 32 Chicago.He faces multiple charges, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, and unlawful possession of a firearm.Fox News Digital’s Adam Sabes contributed to this report.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says his latest reforms will allow the Chaplain Corps to fulfill its mission of being the spiritual backbone of America’s military.
The number of faith codes used in the service has been winnowed down to 31, according to a War Department news release.
In 2017, the Pentagon issued a list of 221 groups that qualify as a religious group. The list included Wiccans and atheists, according to Stars and Stripes.
“The previous system had ballooned to well over 200 faith codes,” Hegseth said Tuesday.
“It was impractical and unusable, and many codes were never used at all,” Hegseth said, adding that most of the 82 percent of service members who identify as being religious used six of the codes.
The reduction “brings the codes in line with its original purpose, giving chaplains clear, usable information so they can minister to service members in a way that aligns with that service member’s faith background and religious practice,” Hegseth said.
Hegseth added that the chaplains will display their religious insignia on their uniforms instead of their ranks.
“A chaplain is first and foremost a chaplain, and an officer second. This change is a visual representation of that fact,” he said.
“While they will retain rank as an officer to those they serve, their rank will not be visible.”
Hegseth said his Chaplain Corps reforms are not over.
“These two reforms are big progress, but we’re not even close to being done. These are the first steps toward restoring the esteemed position of chaplain as moral anchors of our fighting force,” Hegseth said.
“Theirs is a high and sacred calling, but they can only be successful if they are given the freedom to boldly guide and care for their flock.”

We are (still) making the Chaplain Corps Great Again. pic.twitter.com/nlv9KLAVpo
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) March 24, 2026

“As I reported to you in December, in previous administrations, our Chaplain Corps was infected by political correctness and secular humanism,” Hegseth said in a video posted to X.
“The core functions of the Chaplain Corps were changed and watered down until many viewed them as nothing more than therapists. Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care. We started correcting that drift then, and today, we’re going further,” Hegseth said.
“The crucible of combat tests more than the body. It tests conviction, character, and spirit. The military’s Chaplain Corps serves as the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation’s armed forces,” he continued.
“Chaplains help forge spiritual readiness across the force. And that matters because in combat, in crisis, and in loss, a war fighter needs more than a coping mechanism,” he said.
“They need truth, big T truth. They need conviction. They need a shepherd.”
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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