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Nick Cannon is getting real about his political stance. During Friday’s episode of Cannon’s “Big Drive” online talk show, the “Masked Singer” host had an open conversation with model Amber Rose about President Donald Trump and the political parties.”Democrats don’t care about Black people, and they don’t care about people of color, and the Republicans do, and that’s the misconception,” Rose said. “I agree with you 100 percent,” Cannon replied. “People don’t know that the Democrats are the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.”JOY REID SAYS GOP USING NICKI MINAJ AS A ‘HOUSE PET’ TO PUT ‘BLACKFACE’ ON MAGA”I mean, both you and I have some conservative views,” he continued. “You just a little bit more outspoken than I am. And honestly, I don’t subscribe to either party. I rock with W. E. B. Du Bois, when he said there’s no such thing as two parties. It’s just one evil party with two different names.”When the topic of conversation turned to Trump, Cannon said, “Motherf—er’s cleaning house,” and is “doing what he said he was gonna do.””We got the Gulf of America now. [Trump is] like the club. He’s charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get into the country. I f— with Trump,” he added.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERWhile Cannon has been more reserved about discussing his political beliefs, Rose has been open about how her support for Trump has impacted her career. “During the election, I was ‘canceled,’” Rose told Maxim, as the magazine’s February cover star. “Now? All the naysayers are quiet. They see he’s already changing our country for the better.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSAt the Republican National Convention in 2024 in 2024, Rose said she would not be silenced.”I let go of my fear or judgment of being misunderstood, of getting attacked by the left, and I put the red hat on,” she told attendees. “The left told me to hate Trump. And even worse, to hate the other side: the people who support him.””Unfortunately, the ‘woke’ left cancels people for having a different ideology,” she told Maxim. “Fortunately for me, I don’t give a f— and will always stand 10 toes down until the wheels fall off, regardless of what my beliefs may be. I used to be on the left and thought I was doing the right thing. That’s why it’s so important to have open conversations.””On the left, there’s no objective truth. It’s only about feelings,” she stated. “As a society, we all need to get back to reality and have these difficult conversations to bring us all back to a better place.”

Refugees on a boat crossing the Mediterranean sea, heading from Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, 29 January 2016.
 
American mainstream media and Europe’s left manipulate statistics to support claims that illegal aliens and migrants do not increase crime and that they benefit the economy. The data tell a different story. Immigrants are disproportionately represented in arrests, convictions, prison populations, and on welfare rolls across EU countries.
In Germany, foreigners represent roughly 17% of the population but accounted for 41.8% of all criminal suspects in 2024 and approximately 39% of all convictions in 2023, a new high. In France, foreigners make up about 7.8% of the population by citizenship, yet account for 17% of all criminal suspects, more than twice their population share, rising to 40% of suspects for vehicle theft, 38% for burglary, and 31% for unarmed robbery.
In Italy, foreigners are approximately 8.9% of the population but are implicated in 28% of murders and attempted murders, 33% of assaults, and 41% of rapes, and make up 31% of the prison population as of mid-2022. In Spain, foreigners represent 13% to 14% of the population, account for 28% of criminal convictions, and make up 31% of the national prison population, rising to 49% in Catalonia. Belgium presents the most extreme disparity: foreigners are 13% of the population but constitute 43% of the prison population, with roughly 30% of those foreign inmates holding no valid residence permit.
The welfare data are equally stark. Of the 5.6 million people on welfare in Germany as of May 2024, 2.7 million — nearly half — were not German citizens. The unemployment rate among foreigners in Germany stood at over 16% in 2023 to 2024, roughly double the national average. EU-wide research identifies France, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and the Nordic states as places where social benefits are higher for immigrants than for natives, with dependency persisting even after controlling for age, education, and work experience.
In France, 57% of Afghan signatories to integration contracts were unemployed 18 months after signing, with only half reaching an elementary level of French. In Italy, absolute poverty among foreign families is almost six times higher than among Italian-only families. According to official Italian government statistics for the 2022 to 2023 school year, 26.4% of students with foreign citizenship experienced school delays, compared with 7.9% of Italian students, and the dropout rate for students with foreign citizenship was 40.3%, nearly three times the 13.7% rate for Italian students.
Many in Europe are growing weary of open borders and unbridled migration, and a number of right-wing parties have made gains in recent elections. However, the battle for control remains contested, and the left has also notched recent victories. In France’s municipal elections that ended last Sunday, centrist and left-leaning forces held Paris, Lyon, and Marseille, where the National Rally had hoped to make inroads. In Slovenia’s parliamentary election, liberal Prime Minister Robert Golob’s Freedom Movement edged out the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party led by former Prime Minister Janez Janša.
Italian voters rejected Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s flagship judicial reform in a constitutional referendum. The reform would have separated judges and prosecutors into distinct career tracks,  a change Meloni’s party argued was crucial to reducing corruption and creating greater judicial independence. The loss weakens her ahead of the elections she must face by 2027.
The broader European picture nonetheless favors the right. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party has been in power since 2022. France’s National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, holds the largest share of seats in France’s parliament and advocates for strict immigration controls, French nationalism, and opposition to EU integration. Right-wing populists are now in government or supporting ruling coalitions in Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Sweden. Poland’s Law and Justice party (PiS), which governed from 2015 to 2023, maintained close ties with conservative Catholic groups, sought to restrict abortion, and opposed special rights for LGBTQ people.
PiS lost power in 2023, and the current government under Donald Tusk is centrist and pro-EU, though Poland’s 2025–2030 migration strategy, introduced in 2024, is still framed around security, control, and selectivity, launched under the banner “Regain control. Ensure security.”
Though PiS lost power in 2023 to Donald Tusk’s centrist government, Poland’s 2025 to 2030 migration strategy is still framed around security, control, and selectivity. Slovakia, under Prime Minister Robert Fico, governs from a nationalist, socially conservative position aligned with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán; in 2025, the Slovak government amended its constitution to recognize only two genders and has resisted EU migrant relocation quotas.
“Another key example is Austria, where the Freedom Party, led by Herbert Kickl, secured 29.2% of the vote in September 2024 parliamentary elections, the first far-right election victory in Austria since World War II. Three centrist parties then formed a coalition government that excluded the FPÖ, following the longest government formation process in Austrian postwar history. Despite being blocked from power, the FPÖ now polls at around 36.4%, far ahead of the People’s Party at 20.8% and the Social Democrats at 18.1%.
Hungary under Viktor Orbán remains the most explicit example of a government fusing Christianity with a closed-border immigration policy. Orbán has declared that “Christianity is Europe’s last hope” and warned that Western European politicians “opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam.” His government recognizes immigration as a threat to Hungary’s ethnic, cultural, and Christian identity, grants asylum to fewer than ten non-Europeans annually, has rewritten the constitution to define marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman, banned materials related to LGBTQ issues in schools, and built a razor-wire fence along Hungary’s southern border.
In June 2024, the European Court of Justice fined Hungary 200 million euros and imposed a daily penalty of one million euros for failing to implement EU asylum laws, describing Hungary’s conduct as “an unprecedented and exceptionally serious breach of EU law.” Hungary refused to pay, and the European Commission deducted the fine from Hungary’s EU budget allocation.
As of July 2025, €18 billion in cohesion and recovery funds remain withheld from Hungary.
Orbán’s response has been defiant. He posted publicly that the ECJ’s decision was “outrageous and unacceptable” and that “illegal migrants are more important to Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens.” He had previously promised in 2021 to “maintain the existing regime even if the European court ordered us to change it.” In 2023, Hungary recorded the lowest positive asylum decision ratio among all 27 EU countries, approving just 1.44% of claims.
In Germany’s most recent federal election, the center-right CDU/CSU won with 28.5% of the vote, while the anti-immigration AfD doubled its 2021 result to finish second at 20.8%, gaining 10.4 percentage points. The left-wing SPD collapsed to 16.4%, their worst federal result ever, the Greens secured 11.6%, and the FDP fell out of parliament entirely with just 4.3%. Voter turnout hit 82.5%, the highest since reunification. The AfD’s gains were strongest in the former East German states, where it won between 32.5% in Brandenburg and 38.5% in Thuringia. Despite finishing second nationally, the AfD remains locked out of government, as CDU leader Friedrich Merz and all mainstream parties have refused to govern with them.
Lorenzo Caccialupi, a right-leaning nationalist and outspoken Christian who became a popular content creator documenting migrant crime after appearing in a Charlie Kirk video, recently interviewed Alexander Sell, an AfD Member of the European Parliament from Germany. Sell called the result a historic shift. “This was a very important, historic day,” he said. “We have realized a right-wing majority with all of the right-wing parties from all over Europe and the Christian Democrats in the center, and this makes it possible to better return illegal migrants from Europe. That’s our mission.”
Sell added that the upcoming elections in Germany could further strengthen this movement, saying it was approaching 40 percent support. The two closed out the interview by pledging to “Make Italy Great Again” and “Make Germany great Again.”
Unfortunately, in Europe’s multi-party parliamentary systems, winning votes and holding power are two different things. The AfD finished second in Germany with 20.8% of the vote, but remains completely locked out of government because all mainstream parties have agreed never to form a coalition with it. The likely outcome is a CDU-SPD grand coalition that excludes the AfD entirely, meaning roughly one in five German voters elected a party with zero cabinet seats and zero ability to pass legislation.
 
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Republican Michigan Rep. John James called out a local school board for censuring an elected trustee who blew the whistle on a secret plan to increase taxes.
Rochester Community Schools Board of Education Trustee Carol Beth Litkouhi sued the district on Feb. 3, the Detroit News reported, accusing the board of violating her First Amendment rights by censuring her and removing her from all committees after she publicly exposed the tax hike. James, who represents the district, appeared at a March 9 school board meeting to defend the ousted whistleblower.
“In the army, we had a saying, Mission first, people always. You cannot accomplish the mission working against the people you serve,” James said at the start of his speech, which he posted on X. “That’s exactly what’s happening in this school district.”
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The Rochester school board secretly planned a tax increase and told their own elected trustee to keep quiet. She refused and told the truth. They censured her for it, refused to stand for the Pledge, and tried to silence me when I showed up to defend her.
Michigan deserves… pic.twitter.com/GJjN7B42cg
— John James (@JohnJamesMI) March 9, 2026

Litkouhi exposed the plan in an October 30 op-ed in the Detroit News, revealing that school boards in Oakland County, Michigan were seeking to place an “Enhancement Millage” on the ballot as soon as August of 2026. The Board of Education censured her and removed her from all committees on Nov. 10 in apparent retaliation for the op-ed, according to The Midwesterner.
“I want to speak directly to the board about Trustee Litkouhi. What Carol Beth Litkouhi did took courage, what I’m not seeing out of this board here today,” James said when confronting the board. “School officials briefed you behind closed doors, handed you a message to sell a tax hike to voters, and told you to stay quiet.”
“You said no,” James continued, addressing Litkouhi. “You wrote the truth and for that the board censured you, stripped your committee assignments, adopted a written gag rule, and silenced an elected official from speaking freely to the public she represents. They silenced an elected official for telling the truth.”
James also referenced an incident in Rockford, Michigan, saying a school attempted to socially transition a child behind the back of her parents.
“Across the state in Rockford, school officials secretly encouraged a young girl to adopt male identity without ever telling her parents,” Jones said. “That family had to hire a lawyer just to get answers because the school decided it knew better than them.”
James is running for governor in Michigan, where Democrat Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited.
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Iran Allowing 20 More Ships Through Strait Of Hormuz, Pakistan Says

Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times,

Iran has agreed to allow 20 Pakistani-flagged ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz unharmed, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar announced on March 28.

Dar presented the announcement as a sign of good faith from Tehran, as Iranian forces continue to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has actively targeted shipping in the region as part of its retaliation for U.S. and Israeli attacks on the leadership and military of the Islamic regime for its nuclear program, which have continued since Feb. 28.

“I am pleased to share a great news that the Government of Iran has agreed to allow 20 more ships under the Pakistani flag to pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” Dar said in an X post on Saturday.

The Pakistani foreign minister said two ships will be permitted to leave through the narrow maritime passage daily.

Oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Pakistan.
Map frm @Kpler pic.twitter.com/qSUSTca7k1
— Anas Alhajji (@anasalhajji) March 29, 2026
In recent days, the Pakistani government has stepped forward as a potential intermediary for communications and further peace talks between Washington and Tehran.

Dar said Tehran’s decision to allow these 20 ships through the Strait of Hormuz marks “a meaningful step toward peace and will strengthen our collective efforts in that direction.”

The move came two days after President Donald Trump announced that Iran had let 10 oil tankers through the key Middle East waterway.

“Dialogue, diplomacy, and such confidence-building measures are the only way forward,” Dar wrote on X.

Trump has recently cited progress in negotiations with Tehran to end the war, but Iranian officials have downplayed the significance of the communications.

In a statement shared by Iranian state media, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran had received messages from Washington by way of intermediaries but said, “this is not considered a negotiation.”

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke by phone with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday. According to the Pakistani prime minister’s office, Pezeshkian said trust is needed in order to advance talks with Washington.

During a cabinet meeting earlier this week, Trump said that Iranian officials have, in private, been far more adamant about negotiating an end to the ongoing conflict.

“They say, ‘Oh, we’re not talking’ … They are begging to work out a deal,” Trump said.

Last week, Trump threatened to destroy Iranian energy sites if the Strait of Hormuz was not fully reopened to shipping within 48 hours.

In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to completely close down access to the Strait of Hormuz and target energy facilities in Middle Eastern countries that host U.S. forces, along with other critical infrastructure like water desalination plants.

Trump has since postponed his strike deadline to April 6.

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Americans searching for a happier place to live may want to look beyond the country’s biggest and most well-known cities.A new WalletHub study analyzing more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities found that overall happiness is driven by more than just income, factoring in mental health, physical well-being and community environment.Instead of major hubs like New York or Los Angeles topping the list, smaller and mid-sized cities dominated the rankings.MORE AMERICANS LEAVE BIG CITIES FOR RURAL STATES AS MIGRATION PATTERNS SHIFT IN 2026Fremont, California, ranked as the happiest city in America. It was followed by Bismarck, North Dakota, Scottsdale, Arizona, South Burlington, Vermont and Fargo, North Dakota.Rounding out the top 10 were Overland Park, Kansas, Charleston, South Carolina, Irvine, California, Gilbert, Arizona and San Jose, California.Higher salaries in large metro areas don’t necessarily lead to greater happiness, the results suggest. Instead, quality of life appears to play a larger role.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER”Research shows that having more money only increases your happiness until you’re making at least $75,000 per year — anything more you earn likely won’t have an impact,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said in a statement.”Therefore, when deciding where to live to maximize your happiness, you’ll want to pick a city that offers more than just a decent average income,” he added.Cities that ranked highest tended to perform well in areas such as emotional and physical well-being, job satisfaction and strong community ties.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESFremont stood out in particular, ranking first in emotional and physical well-being and fourth in community environment.The city also has one of the lowest separation and divorce rates in the country, along with a low depression rate and high life expectancy, the study noted.Nearly 80% of Fremont households earn more than $75,000 annually, a key benchmark tied to happiness levels, according to the report.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZFremont also ranks fifth among the most caring cities in America, WalletHub noted.Together, those factors highlight what separates the happiest cities from the rest.”The ideal city provides conditions that foster good mental and physical health, like reasonable work hours, short commutes, good weather and caring neighbors,” Lupo said.

The Middle East is once again on edge as U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian military infrastructure continue. Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks. Oil markets have surged, and global shipping lanes are under pressure.But this is not unfolding like a typical war in the region.Even as strikes continue, tankers are still moving through the Strait of Hormuz under constrained conditions. Backchannel communications have not collapsed. Key regional players are not fully committing to either escalation or restraint. Instead, they are doing something far more telling: they are adjusting.That is the first signal that this is not just a military confrontation. It is a system under stress—one that is being deliberately reshaped.TRUMP SAYS IRAN’S SUCCESSION BENCH WIPED OUT AS ISRAELI STRIKE HITS LEADERSHIP DELIBERATIONSTo understand what is happening now, you have to go back to the system that existed before this moment.For nearly two decades, the Middle East operated on a managed equilibrium. After the Iraq War, through the Arab Spring, and into the fight against ISIS, three distinct power structures emerged and learned to coexist without resolving their conflicts.Shia-dominated Iran built what became known as the “Axis of Resistance,” embedding itself across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. These were not loose proxy relationships. They were institutional footholds—militias integrated into state structures, political actors controlling territory and budgets. Iran’s incentive was clear: expand influence without triggering a direct, overwhelming response. Stay below the threshold of full-scale war while steadily increasing leverage.TRUMP’S OPERATION EPIC FURY PROVES REAGAN-STYLE PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH IS BACKAcross the Sunni world, there was no unified front to counter this. Saudi Arabia and the UAE pushed for a centralized, state-led regional order, while Turkey and Qatar backed Islamist political movements that offered a competing model of legitimacy. Their incentive was not alignment, but competition. Each camp used regional conflicts to expand influence without fully committing to a single strategic bloc.Israel, meanwhile, stood apart. By the mid-2010s, it had unmatched military capability and operational reach, but it remained outside the region’s political framework. Its incentive was to preserve that advantage through deterrence—strike when necessary, but avoid becoming entangled in the region’s unstable alliances.The United States managed this system rather than resolving it. The Iran nuclear deal treated Tehran’s nuclear ambitions as separate from its regional behavior. Conflicts like Gaza followed a predictable cycle of escalation and ceasefire. Stability was maintained, but only by compartmentalizing the underlying tensions.TRUMP’S STRIKE ON IRAN DEALS A MAJOR BLOW TO PUTIN’S WAR MACHINE IN UKRAINEThat model allowed every actor to operate within the system without fundamentally changing it.President Donald Trump rejected that model from the start.His first major break came in May 2018, when he withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sweeping sanctions. This was not just a policy shift on nuclear issues. It was a systemic move. By targeting Iran’s oil exports, financial networks and shipping, the administration began raising the cost of maintaining its regional architecture.MORNING GLORY: TRUMP HAS RESTORED THE GOP AS THE PARTY OF DEFENSE AND DETERRENCEThe incentive for Iran started to change. Expansion was no longer low-risk. Every additional node in its network now carried economic and operational consequences.That pressure escalated in April 2019 with the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, and then in January 2020 with the strike that killed Qassem Soleimani. These actions were widely described as escalation at the time. In reality, they were consistent steps in a broader strategy: eliminate the assumption that Iran could operate indefinitely in the gray zone.At the same time, Trump moved to reshape the other side of the system.TRUMP’S IRAN STRATEGY IS WORKING AND TEACHING OUR FOES WHAT DETERRENCE MEANSThe Abraham Accords in 2020 broke one of the longest-standing constraints in Middle Eastern diplomacy. For decades, Arab states had conditioned normalization with Israel on a resolution to the Palestinian issue. Trump reversed that sequence. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalized relations first, followed by Morocco and Sudan.This created a new set of incentives across the Sunni world. Alignment with Israel was no longer politically off limits. It became a pathway to security cooperation, advanced technology and closer ties with the United States. Instead of waiting for a final settlement, states could now act in their immediate strategic interest.For Israel, this was a structural shift. It was no longer operating outside the regional system. It was being integrated into it.NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST TELLS LIBERAL READERS TRUMP’S WAR WITH IRAN IS ‘GOING BETTER THAN YOU THINK’But alignment alone did not resolve the system’s contradictions.Saudi Arabia remained cautious. Turkey and Qatar continued to pursue their own networks. Iran’s influence persisted through deeply embedded institutions. The region had new alignments, but they were incomplete.This is where Trump’s approach evolved from alignment to enforcement.AMB. GORDON SONDLAND: THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAN’S ‘IMMINENT THREAT’ THAT POLITICIANS HATE TO ADMITDuring the Gaza war following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, the United States helped broker a phased arrangement by early 2025 that tied hostage releases to Israeli withdrawals and linked humanitarian aid to monitoring mechanisms. This was not a traditional ceasefire. It introduced conditionality directly into the structure of the agreement.That logic carried forward into 2026 with the development of a U.S.-led reconstruction and governance framework involving Israel and its regional partners. The principle was clear: participation in the system would now be tied to measurable outcomes.This changed incentives again. Cooperation was no longer symbolic. It became transactional and enforceable.MORNING GLORY: THERE’S A WAR GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HAVE YOU HEARD?And yet, even with these changes, the system did not fully realign.Iran’s networks remained intact. Sunni divisions persisted. Israel continued to expand its own strategic relationships beyond the immediate region. The old structures were weakened, but not dismantled.That is why the current war matters.MORE THAN 90% OF IRANIAN MISSILES INTERCEPTED, BUT A DANGEROUS IMBALANCE IS EMERGINGThe strikes that began at the end of February 2026 are not just about degrading Iranian military capabilities. They are about forcing simultaneous adjustments across all three systems.Iran is now facing a different calculation than at any point in the past two decades. Its strategy of gradual expansion has collided with sustained economic pressure and direct military risk. The incentive is shifting from building influence to preserving it under constraint.Sunni states are being pushed out of their comfort zone of strategic ambiguity. The ability to hedge between competing blocs is narrowing. As pressure increases, the cost of remaining non-aligned rises, and the incentive to consolidate around a clearer regional framework becomes stronger.THE FUTURE OF WAR? US-ISRAEL BLITZ ON IRAN UNVEILS NEXT-GEN ALLIED COMBATIsrael, in turn, is being positioned not just as a military actor, but as a central node in that emerging framework. Its role is evolving from deterrence to system participation—linking security, technology and governance across aligned states.What Trump is doing through this war is not simply escalating a conflict. He is compressing timelines.Instead of allowing these systems to evolve gradually, he is applying pressure that forces decisions now. Each actor is being pushed to reveal its position, not in theory, but in practice.TRUMP DELAYS XI MEETING AS IRAN CONFLICT LETS US STRONG-ARM CHINA’S OIL SUPPLYThat is why this war appears inconsistent on the surface. Escalation and negotiation are happening at the same time because the objective is not a clean military victory. It is a forced realignment of incentives across the entire region.This marks a fundamental break from the model that defined U.S. policy for decades. The old approach managed instability and accepted unresolved tensions as the cost of avoiding larger conflicts. The current approach is attempting to resolve those tensions by making the cost of maintaining them too high.Whether that works remains uncertain. What is clear is that the Middle East is no longer operating under the same rules.This is not just a war with Iran. It is an attempt to change how the region functions and who gets to shape it going forward.This article is a Fox News Digital exclusive from the author’s Substack series on different theaters President Trump is realigning with the Iran War.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM TANVI RATNA

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Republicans should move toward ending the Senate filibuster on “Sunday Morning Futures” as lawmakers battle over Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding, arguing the chamber’s 60-vote threshold to end a filibuster is preventing action on border and homeland security priorities.Johnson called Democrats “obnoxious” and “obstructionist,” blaming them for the current government shutdown as the congressional stalemate over funding DHS continues. Democrats are refusing to allocate money to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which falls under DHS, unless their proposed reforms to the agency are accepted.The Wisconsin Republican said Democrats would continue to obstruct budgetary votes under the current administration and predicted that, when they reclaimed the majority, they would get rid of the filibuster anyway.”The split in the Senate, in terms of a filibuster, is [between] those of us who believe that Democrats will [get rid of] it next time they have the power, and those who are hoping beyond hope that they won’t.”In practice, most major legislation in the Senate can be delayed or blocked by a filibuster unless 60 senators vote to end debate. As long as this is the case, Johnson argued, the deadlock will persist.REPUBLICANS CAN FUND ICE FOR AN ENTIRE DECADE WITHOUT A SINGLE DEM VOTE: SEN CRUZHe recommended moving toward a reconciliation process, a special budget procedure Congress can use to get around the filibuster and pass certain changes more quickly than ordinary legislation.”Let’s get as much DHS funding as possible, move to reconciliation, pass a reconciliation bill focused on DHS funding through fiscal year 2029, and then be ready for another reconciliation to fund the rest of government, starting in October, when Democrats obstruct the regular order appropriation process,” he said.SEN KENNEDY SAYS HE WOULD ACCEPT DEMOCRATS’ OFFER TO ‘OPEN UP EVERYTHING’ BUT ICEJohnson admitted that he didn’t yet have a sufficient number of Republicans on his side to pass a vote dispensing with the filibuster, but argued that the U.S. Senate was “broken” due to overly complex rules impeding progress.”My colleagues [say] ‘We don’t want to be responsible for breaking the Senate.’ How could it be much more broken?” he asked.”When we’re at war with Iran… They might possibly have sleeper cells here in this country. We can’t even fund the very agency designed to keep our homeland safe. I don’t see how it could get much worse. So I’m for ending the 60-vote threshold and ending the filibuster.”

Dominic Smith was playing with a heavy heart when he made his Atlanta Braves debut on Saturday night – his sixth team in four years.Smith’s mother, Yvette LaFleuer, died of cancer earlier this month. When Smith stepped up to the plate against the Kansas City Royals in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded, he said he could feel her presence with him.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe slugger hit a walk-off grand slam to win the game for the Braves, 6-2.”It’s just amazing,” he told reporters. “Played against the Braves for a long time, and being on the other side a lot of these endings kind of hurt, so to be on the right side of it this time was so fun.”Smith said that his teammates had been very supporting of him during spring training when his mother was ill. She was diagnosed with cancer in September and nearly died at the start of camp.He left the team to be with her for over a week when she had a “scare” and when he returned, he was fighting for a roster spot.MLB TOP PROSPECT SHARES HILARIOUS MOMENT WITH VETERAN WHO ROBBED HIS HOME RUN AFTER FOUR-HIT MLB DEBUT”This team is just so awesome,” Smith said. “I’m so blessed because of the love they showed me, the support every day. They’re asking about her, asking about her well-being, my well-being, and that’s all they really cared about. They didn’t care about baseball.”Smith’s walk-off grand slam made him the first player in MLB history to achieve the moment in his debut with a new team, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.Smith has been trying to find a permanent home after spending his first six years with the New York Mets. He played for the Washington Nationals, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants since leaving New York.Last year, Smith had five home runs and 33 RBI in 63 games with the Giants.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.

Senator Tom Cotton was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss the funding of DHS.
Senator Cotton blasted the Democrat party and its leadership for their radicalized ideology to continue preventing the funding of DHS.
“What do you think of the President’s call for getting rid of the filibuster?” Bream asked.
“The President is right that the Democrats have become crazy on this issue,” Cotton said.
“The reason we are at this impasse is that Democrats are using long TSA lines to throw a temper tantrum about deportations of violent criminal illegal aliens and funding of ICE and Border Patrol,” Cotton said.
“We prefunded ICE and Border Patrol last summer in our big budget bill because we saw just how radicalized Democrats have become,” Cotton continued.
“What you have seen over the last week is Chuck Schumer continually move the goal post. He makes a deal and then he retreats from that deal,” Cotton explained.
Senator Cotton explained the intention of the Democrats, who have been radicalized. He said their goal of unmasking agents is so they can terrorize ICE agents and their families.
“Democrats insist that we write a new law that ICE officers can’t wear masks. The reason why ICE officers wear masks is because radical left-wing Democrats will dox them, and then their street militias will terrorize their wives and their kids at their houses,” Cotton explained.
“That’s why the Democrats are inflicting long TSA lines on the American people,” Cotton continued.
The Senator defended President Trump’s common-sense policies of prioritizing the safety of the American people from the disaster Joe Biden invited in during the previous four years.
“What the President is trying to do from the beginning is to protect the country from the wave of illegal immigration that Joe Biden invited into America that has brought depraved, savage gang members and drug traffickers into our country,” Cotton said.
“Now, the President on Friday made the decision that he’s gonna fund TSA using monies that have been appropriated for other purposes, but for which Congress gave him discretion to use,” Cotton explained.
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WATCH: @SenTomCotton says reconciliation is “the path we’re going down now,” adding he thinks there are enough votes for what they want to do. pic.twitter.com/4RAFctNXGF
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) March 29, 2026

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John Panicci (Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)
PALM BEACH, Florida – A Democrat elections volunteer in Palm Beach County has been arrested for allegedly stealing an encrypted access key and sensitive computer equipment ahead of last week’s special election in which a Democrat won by 800 votes in the district including President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.
John Panicci, 59, of Lake Worth, Florida, was taken into custody Saturday evening, accused of taking sensitive computer equipment and other supplies on March 19, just five days before the March 24 special election.
WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach reports: “Sheriff’s office detectives determined that on March 19, the Supervisor of Elections Office conducted a training session for volunteers assisting with the election scheduled for March 24. During the session, Panicci stole an encrypted access key from a voter registration terminal. …
“The sheriff’s office said the key was configured only for training databases. There was concern that a knowledgeable person could potentially reverse engineer the encryption and reintroduce the key into a voter registration kiosk for malicious purposes.
“Once probable cause was established, the sheriff’s office obtained search and arrest warrants. On Saturday, March 28, deputies executed a search warrant at Panicci’s home. During the search, detectives recovered the stolen items along with a substantial amount of electronic and digital storage devices. …
“During a court appearance on Sunday morning, Panicci was told not to have contact with the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office. He is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail on $6,000 bail.”
Panicci is listed as a registered Democrat in Palm Beach County on state voter records, with an active registration dating to 2001.
WPTV-TV noted: “The investigation highlights security concerns surrounding election equipment, even when configured for training purposes only.”
The March 24 election in Trump’s home district saw Democrat candidate Emily Gregory in an upset win over Republican Jon Maples, who had been endorsed by the president.
Democrat Emily Gregory
Eric Daugherty of Florida’s Voice News warned Sunday: “Election integrity is vital to our republic. If it’s happening in Florida – IT’S HAPPENING NATIONWIDE.”
Others commented:
“The election results should be thrown out and the election should be held again.”
“Floridians demand investigations now in these special elections that were won by Ds with very little votes advantage. We can’t trust our elections systems and results if we are constantly confronted with fraudulent behaviors that go unchallenged.”
“Nothing to see here! A Palm Beach elections volunteer steals an encrypted access key and gear just days before the election … but we’re told it ‘wouldn’t have changed the outcome’ and investigations will be minimal. Meanwhile, another razor-thin Democrat ‘flip’ in Florida Senate District 14 (Hillsborough) by only ~400 votes in a low-turnout special. Two ‘surprise’ flipped Republican seats in one night. Move along, folks—nothing suspicious about electronic voting systems, volunteer access to keys, or these convenient upsets. Time for full forensic audits, paper ballots, and real transparency before November.”
“When will members of Congress ever realize that if a man built a computer including an electronic voting device, there’s no way to keep it from getting hacked! Somebody somewhere can hack it! My God the stupidity is astounding but I really don’t think it’s stupidity. I think it’s absolute fraud!”

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