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Anthropic Limits Access To New AI Model Over Cyberattack Concerns

Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com,

Anthropic is limiting access to its new AI model after the company said it identified thousands of software vulnerabilities across major systems, raising concerns about potential misuse in cyberattacks.

The new general-purpose model, Anthropic said, also found high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser.

“Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely.”

AI has already been widely adopted by hackers to conduct cyberattacks.

There was a 72% year-over-year increase in AI-powered cyberattacks, with 87% of global organizations experiencing AI-enabled cyberattacks in 2025, according to AllAboutAI. 

Anthropic expressed concern over what would happen if similar AI capabilities were used by bad actors.

To combat this, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on Tuesday, a new initiative that brings together more than 40 companies, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Cisco, Google, JPMorgan, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft and Nvidia.

Project Glasswing will use Claude Mythos Preview’s capabilities to defensively find bugs, share the data with its partners and get ahead of threats by patching critical vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them.

Decades-old bugs are being discovered 

A zero-day vulnerability is a software bug that can be exploited before anyone with the ability to fix it even knows it exists. Finding and patching them has historically required rare, expensive human expertise, but AI could change the scale and speed of detection. 

Anthropic said the vulnerabilities it finds are “often subtle or difficult to detect.” 

Many of them are 10 or 20 years old, with the oldest found so far being a now-patched 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD — an operating system known primarily for its security, it added. 

It also found a 16-year-old bug in the FFmpeg media processing library, a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in the open-source FreeBSD operating system and numerous vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.

Mythos Preview also identified several weaknesses in the world’s most popular cryptography libraries, algorithms and protocols, including TLS, AES-GCM and SSH. 

It added that web applications “contain a myriad of vulnerabilities,” ranging from cross-site scripting and SQL injection to domain-specific vulnerabilities such as cross-site request forgery, which is often used in phishing attacks. 

Lifecycle of a zero-day exploit. Source: PhoenixNAP

Anthropic claimed that 99% of the vulnerabilities it found have not yet been patched, “so it would be irresponsible for us to disclose details about them.

Software will emerge more secure, but not overnight 

Anthropic said that this is likely just the beginning of a trend, and the “work of defending the world’s cyber infrastructure might take years,” but AI will help harden software and systems. 

“In the long run, we expect that defense capabilities will dominate: that the world will emerge more secure, with software better hardened—in large part by code written by these models. But the transitional period will be fraught.”

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The man charged with killing seven women and scattering their remains throughout Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Wednesday, marking the end of a decades-long case that instilled fears of a serial killer lurking within the region. Rex Heuermann, a 62-year-old architect, was accused of brutally murdering seven women, many of whom were sex workers, and dismembering their remains over the course of 17 years. He appeared in Suffolk County Court at 11 a.m., where he admitted to the killings dating back to 1993. Heuermann was arrested outside his midtown Manhattan office in July 2023 and has maintained his innocence for nearly three years. A trial had been set for September.GILGO BEACH VICTIM’S SON CLAIMS SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER’S FAMILY TURNED HORROR INTO PROFITS AHEAD OF PLEA”It’s a difficult day,” Robert Macedonio, an attorney for Heuermann’s ex-wife Asa Ellerup, said Wednesday before the court hearing, according to the Associated Press. “No one can envision ever in their life standing here in a courthouse on a line surrounded by media having their ex-husband accused of seven, potentially eight homicides,” Macedonio continued. “It’s unimaginable. There’s no way to prepare for it.”The Gilgo Beach investigation was thrown into the spotlight in 2010 after police discovered numerous sets of human remains along an isolated beach highway on Long Island, while searching for 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert. REX HEUERMANN’S FAMILY KEPT GRUESOME PIECE OF EVIDENCE, SOURCE SAYSInvestigators relied heavily on DNA analysis to identify the remains of several victims found scattered throughout Long Island.Remains of six women – Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Lynn Costello,  Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack – were recovered along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach. The remains of a seventh victim, Sandra Costilla, were found more than 60 miles away in the Hamptons.EX-WIFE OF ALLEGED GILGO BEACH KILLER STILL DEFENDS HIM, BUT DAUGHTER SAYS HE ‘MOST LIKELY’ DID ITAn eighth woman, Karen Vergata, was discovered nearly 20 miles west on Fire Island in 1996, and later near Gilgo Beach in 2011. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XHeuermann has not been charged with Vergata’s killing. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERIn 2022, Heuermann, who was living in nearby Massapequa Park, was identified as a suspect after the newly-formed Gilgo Beach task force used a vehicle registration database to connect him to a pickup truck that a witness reported seeing when one victim disappeared in 2010. Detectives quickly began looking into Heuermann’s life, with prosecutors alleging he used burner phones to arrange meetings with the victims before abducting them.SEND US A TIP HERERetested DNA found on the victim’s remains also pointed to Heuermann, with cell phone data indicating he had been in contact with a few of the women shortly before they disappeared. Internet search history also revealed Heuermann’s interest in graphic torture pornography and news surrounding the Gilgo Beach killings – including the renewed investigation efforts. LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTInvestigators ultimately obtained Heuermann’s DNA after he threw a box of partially eaten pizza crusts into a sidewalk trash can outside his office in midtown Manhattan. The DNA found on the box was then linked to a male hair recovered from burlap used to restrain one of the victims. LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUBFollowing his arrest in 2023, detectives spent nearly two weeks scouring the backyard of Heuermann’s family home. There, they found a basement vault holding 279 weapons, along with a computer containing what prosecutors described as a “blueprint” for the alleged killings.Last year, Suffolk County Judge Timothy Mazzei dealt a blow to Heuermann’s defense by ruling evidence gathered from newly-released DNA technology would be admissible at trial, with prosecutors claiming the evidence directly connects Heuermann to the murders. Fox News Digital’s Tessa Hoyos and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

RINGGOLD, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller credited President Donald Trump in his victory speech after keeping a solidly red district in GOP hands and boosting Republicans’ razor-thin House majority.”He was the difference maker,” Fuller, who was backed by Trump, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview following his victory Tuesday night. “He was the key factor in us winning.”Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to fill the empty U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, in the northwest corner of the crucial southeastern battleground state. The seat was left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a bitter falling out with Trump.TRUMP-BACKED REPUBLICAN PADS GOP’S FRAGILE HOUSE MAJORITYThe special election came as Republicans clung to a fragile 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP was under the gun to make sure the Democrats didn’t pull off an upset in a district that Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.Fuller, who was a local district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, who’s served in the Air Force since 2009, called himself a “reinforcement” for House Speaker Mike Johnson and said his victory was “extremely crucial.”PRIMARY PAUSE, POLITICAL FIRESTORM: HIGH-STAKES ELECTIONS THIS MONTH TAKE CENTER STAGEBut even in defeat, Democrats see cause for celebration.Harris, a cattle farmer who spent four decades in the military and retired as an Army brigadier general, lost to Fuller by roughly 12 points, according to the latest election results. That’s a significant improvement from the 29-point defeat he suffered to Greene in her 2024 re-election.Democrats touted the results in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District as their party’s latest ballot box overperformance in the nearly 15 months since Trump returned to the White House and say they have the wind at their backs as they aim to win back congressional majorities from the Republicans in this autumn’s midterm elections.”In the deepest-red congressional district in Georgia — and despite more than $1.5 million in spending by Republicans to defend this Trump +37 seat — Democrat Shawn Harris notched a jaw-dropping more than 20-point overperformance in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s backyard,” said Charlie Bailey, chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, in a statement.HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAILAnd Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin highlighted that “Shawn Harris ran a fearless campaign in the reddest district in all of Georgia, delivering a double-digit overperformance.”Fuller pushed back on the Democrats’ messaging.”They lost. They’ve got to call me congressman, and they poured in millions of dollars, just lit millions of dollars on fire, and still got crushed,” he argued, in his Fox News Digital interview.And Georgia Republican Party Chair Josh McKoon said that “Democrats threw everything they had at this race… They made this the Super Bowl and they lost.”The runoff in Georgia wasn’t the only major election on Tuesday night.Liberals expanded their majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, strengthening control in a key battleground state, in a ballot box showdown that drew limited national attention but had plenty riding on the results.Wisconsin Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state representative, defeated Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, a conservative. Taylor will succeed a retiring conservative justice and with the victory, liberals will expand their majority on the state Supreme Court to 5-2.While officially a non-partisan contest, state Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin have become extremely partisan in recent election cycles.Taylor ended up topping Lazar by roughly 20 points, a larger victory than expected. And national Democrats once again were quick to showcase the overperformance.”Wisconsin voters showed up and sent another big message to Republicans, securing a liberal majority until 2030!” the DNC’s Martin said in a social media post.It’s hard to deny that Democrats are on a roll in electoral showdowns since the start of Trump’s second term.The flipping of two GOP-controlled state Senate seats in Iowa last year denied Republicans their super majority in the chamber. Democrats also scored larger than expected victories in last November’s gubernatorial elections in blue-leaning Virginia and New Jersey, and over performed in last December’s special congressional election in a red-leaning district in Tennessee.Earlier this year, plenty of Republicans were calling their party’s double-digit shellacking in a state Senate election in a ruby red district in Texas in an early February special election a “wake-up call” for the party.And in special elections two weeks ago, Democrats in Florida flipped a state Senate seat and a state House district that includes Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home turf in Palm Beach.Partially fueling the Democrats’ ballot box performances is their laser focus on affordability amid persistent inflation.Meanwhile, Republicans are battling stiff political headwinds as the party in power in the nation’s capital traditionally loses seats in the midterms, and a rough political climate fueled by economic concerns, an unpopular war with Iran, and Trump’s underwater approval ratings.”Enthusiasm for Democrats is growing everywhere. We’re closing the gap and Republicans are absolutely terrified,” Martin claimed.But Republicans say that Democrats are overemphasizing their ballot box performances, especially their special election successes in what are often low-turnout contests.”A low-turnout state House special election is a snapshot of local quirks, candidate dynamics, and turnout math — not some grand verdict,” RNC senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said after last month’s special election in Palm Beach, Florida.And veteran Republican strategist and communicator Jesse Hunt told Fox News Digital that “historically, special elections have been a poor barometer for what will occur during regularly scheduled midterm or presidential elections. Specials have unique dynamics that don’t play as much of a factor when the broader electorate feels the muscle memory of showing up to vote in November.”

Even as Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth declares a “historic and decisive victory” against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the U.S. still faces foot soldiers on another front: on America’s streets.There, a network of pro-communist groups funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in China, supporting the Chinese Communist Party and allies, like Iran, are flying the Iranian flag and declaring “Trump failed in his criminal war against Iran.”The rapid mobilization and quick narrative pivot illustrate how an interconnected protest infrastructure, spanning pro-communist political groups, pro-Palestinian advocacy networks and far-left activist organizations tied to international propaganda ecosystems, can coordinate demonstrations in U.S. cities within hours in a dynamic that national security experts call cognitive warfare, or a “smokeless war.”In the nation’s capital Tuesday evening, activists from the professional network of well-funded far-left anti-American groups pulled up to the curb at the corner of 16th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, unloading wagons with megaphones, pre-printed signs and protest-friendly arts-and-craft. Within minutes, they painted their hands blood-red and launched familiar chants, blurring one cause into the next, including a condemnation of “Trump’s war on Iran.”A few hours later, writers at the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a self-declared pro-China communist group in the Singham network, banged out a missive on their propaganda platform, “Liberation News,” headlined, “Why Trump failed in his criminal war against Iran – and why we need to keep up the pressure.”The next morning, as Hegseth declared victory over Iran, officials in the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s busy Atlanta chapter issued a call for members to meet at Marietta Street NW and Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW at 5:30 p.m. for a “National Day of Action” against the U.S., declaring the Trump administration “was compelled to temporarily step back from its genocidal threats,” but its members have to “KEEP THE PRESSURE UP!”SHANGHAI SABOTAGE: INSIDE SINGHAM’S SECRET STRATEGY TO DEMONIZE AMERICA”U.S. out of everywhere!” shouted Olivia DiNucci, a regular on the protest circuit and Washington, D.C., coordinator for CodePink, a theatrical protest group that just sent a “caravan” to Cuba to support the communist party there. DiNucci pressed her hands into the red paint and smeared them across a banner, then raised her paint-covered hands in the air as she stood beside a smiling Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink.DiNucci moved through the crowd with a wagon, handing out stickers, chatting with demonstrators and pausing with Benjamin to pose for photos.Nearby, members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation handed out their trademark signs with the group’s brand along the bottom and messages in bold sans-serif font, this time reading, “STOP THE WAR ON IRAN!””Free, free Palestine!” shouted members of the Palestinian Youth Movement, as flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran flew overhead, beside Palestinian flags.”Zionism will fall, brick by brick, wall by wall,” another chant began.POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A ‘REVOLUTIONARY BASE’ AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAMNearby, Nadine Seiler, a regular on the protest circuit who sometimes dresses in costumes, including as a pink frog, stood with her spray-painted banner, raising a question about U.S. “war crimes.” Recently, she acknowledged the performative nature of the protests. “It is political theater,” she told Fox News Digital, “and we need more of it!”Experts say scenes like this are not simple expressions of dissent, but part of a broader geopolitical contest played out in cognitive warfare, where adversaries use narratives, imagery and street theater to shape how Americans perceive conflicts unfolding far beyond their borders, even after bombs stop dropping.In cognitive warfare, experts note, the battlefield isn’t territory, like the Strait of Hormuz, but the public mind, where propaganda, protests, social media messaging and ideological narratives are used to influence how citizens interpret events and pressure governments to change policy. In this case, proxies for U.S. adversaries, including Iran and China, are pivoting to declare the ceasefire a “victory” for Iran.Many of the groups, including CodePink, are part of the broader protest network funded by Singham, who has financed a global constellation of activist groups and media projects promoting narratives sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party, while depicting the United States as a “fascist” and “rogue” nation.In 2017, as reported in a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham married a co-founder of CodePink, Jodie Evans, and started pouring a documented $278 million into a network of groups that fuel anti-American protests in the United States, support the People’s Republic of China and now back the Islamic Republic of Iran, a strategic partner of China and a major source of its oil imports. Code Pink has waged a pro-China campaign for years under the slogan “China Is Not Our Enemy.”CHINA’S AMERICAN MAO: INSIDE SINGHAM’S BLUEPRINT TO ‘WAGE WAR’ FOR A ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’U.S. Justice, State and Treasury officials, the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight Committee are investigating several of these groups for possible violations of federal laws, including statutes that require individuals and groups acting on behalf of foreign interests to register as foreign agents with the Justice Department.Gordon Chang, an expert on China’s global influence, has warned about an expanding anti-American campaign emanating from China, writing, “Now, the Chinese regime has help funding propaganda and protests in America. After all, it has Singham’s cash and world-spanning network.”In their call to action, organizers criticized Trump’s Tuesday night deadline for Iran, writing: “Trump has given a deadline for genocide — either Iran surrender by 8 p.m. ET or the country’s ‘whole civilization will die tonight.’”They added: “This is the criminal threat of a madman, but a madman who controls the deadly might of the Pentagon war machine.”Within hours, the same messaging began circulating across the network as additional organizations promoted similar protests nationwide.Soon afterward, another cluster of organizations, including CodePink, joined forces with the Chicago chapters of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Palestinian Youth Movement, American Muslims for Palestine and Students for Justice, to announce an emergency protest at Federal Plaza in Chicago at 6 p.m. today.Even as news emerged of the ceasefire, the protests remained scheduled because for these foot soldiers the war continued.OVERSIGHT DEMANDS DOJ ANSWERS ON FOREIGN FUNDING OF AGITATOR GROUPS AS IRAN, ANTI-ICE PROTESTS CONTINUEOutside the White House, several self-described communist organizations, including “Refuse Fascism,” the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, were among the crowd at the corner of 16th Street NW, unfurling their banners and unpacking their pre-made signs.The coalition also included Muslim advocacy organizations such as Emgage Action and the National Iranian American Council, a pro-regime Iranian-American lobbying group.By 8:02 p.m., the CodePink crew posted a fast film from its protest at the White House with the headline, “PROTESTING US WAR ON IRAN AT THE WHITE HOUSE.”Minutes later, at 8:09 p.m., the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s D.C. chapter published a hyperbolic message of success, declaring, “TONIGHT: While Trump threatens people with war and genocide abroad, the people of the U.S. call for a total end to endless imperialist wars!”The political theater accomplished, most of the crowd, including DiNucci, with her hands still painted red, dispersed to ready for today’s “EMERGENCY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION.”Sure enough, this morning, on cue, at about 6:53 a.m., allies of the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Florida chapter summoned their foot soldiers to the corner of East Colonial Drive and North Bumby Avenue in Orlando, to support the regime in Iran, issuing an urgent dispatch for “RAPID RESPONSE MASS MOBILIZATIONS.”

Growing up in Wisconsin, it was relatively easy for Jordan Stolz to get into speedskating.Waters are frozen early and often in the frozen tundra, which has made the Midwest somewhat of a hockey hotbed.But watching Apollo Anton Ohno as a kid, the direction was natural for the 21-year-old.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThis past February, he accomplished the dream by taking home not one, but two Olympic gold medals.Of course, winning one is a success, but with three other medal events, celebrating wasn’t exactly the easiest.”Yeah, it’s pretty tough,” Stolz told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “I mean, I wanted to celebrate, but actually I was really focused on the 500 (meters), because it’s only one day off and then the 500 final.”Stolz’s first gold came in the 1,000-meter race, but the pressure was on to win a second in the 500.”I kind of felt like I really needed to win that 500. So I wasn’t really messing around at all,” he said. “So I wouldn’t say it was hard to not celebrate, but competing throughout the entire time of the games, it got a little bit difficult, especially with the 1,500, and the minute I start, there’s a lot of time in between. There’s also things that can get messed up.”WNBA LEGEND SUE BIRD SAYS IOC’S NEW POLICY TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS IS AKIN TO ‘FEARMONGERING’It was a lifetime of training both on and off the ice in order for Stolz to bring home the hardware, as what’s going into Stolz’s body might be more important than what he does on the rink. Recognizing that importance, he also makes sure his cat, Mitzi, a stray who showed up on his porch looking for food when Stolz was a preteen, is getting a similar nutritional treatment with Nulo food.”I’m so careful about what I put into to my body. Now I’m just eating, you know, kind of terrible food, not really paying attention, and it’s like, man, I kind of feel like garbage,” Stolz said. So it’s like, I kind of get a taste of what it’s like, you know, bad quality food. So Mitzi, I don’t want her to be eating poor nutrition, because she doesn’t even have a choice, right? It’s up to me to give her what’s right. So that’s why I choose to give him a Nulo.”While Stolz accomplished his goal, there’s much more work to be done. And he actually may not need to wait until 2030 to do it.”I’m gonna keep training until the next Olympics,” Stolz said. “Do some World Championships, World Cups, we’ll see what I can do.”I might try, you know, a little bit of track cycling this summer, maybe in LA ’28’s on the table, but we’ll see.”Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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The Swalwell campaign is not happy about a young Democrat activist accusing their boss of sexually harassing innocent women.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, Cheyenne Hunt, an attorney and former congressional candidate, says a number of women are preparing to accuse California Rep. Eric Swalwell of sexual misconduct.
Hunt, the executive director of Gen Z for Change, said she has been working with multiple individuals who intend to come forward.
In a post on X, Hunt said the allegations involve “DMs and Snapchat messages” and range from uncomfortable comments to potentially criminal conduct.
“I got involved because the first victim who approached me is a close friend, but when I saw that there were others whose experiences fit the same pattern of manipulation and abuse of power, I knew I couldn’t stay silent,” Hunt wrote.

I have been working with a number of women who are in the process of coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and even alleged abuse at the hands of Eric Swalwell. Here’s why we’re talking about it before mainstream media:
— Cheyenne Hunt (@CheyenneHuntCA) April 6, 2026

Hunt also released a video on March 31 in which she said Swalwell “has a known history of being predatory towards women.”
One message she displayed read: “You know Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign NDAs so they don’t speak up, right?”
“And when I was 19, he tried hitting on me and sliding into my DMs.”
WATCH:

@cheyennehuntca This message I recieved about Eric Swalwell is not an anomaly. While many folks may be afraid of speaking out, it is crucial that we bring these allegations to light and grapple with them. #news #politics ♬ original sound – Cheyenne Hunt

Swalwell campaign spokesman Micah Beasley issued a statement to Politico on Tuesday. In it, he not only slammed the allegations as “false and outrageous” but also accused Hunt of teaming up with “MAGA conspiracy theorists.”
“This false, outrageous rumor is being spread 27 days before an election begins by flailing opponents who have sadly teamed up with MAGA conspiracy theorists because they know Eric Swalwell is the frontrunner in this race,” Beasley asserted.
Beasley later added in his statement that Swalwell never forced anyone to sign an NDA.
“In 13 years, no one in Eric Swalwell’s Congressional office has ever been asked to sign an NDA. Ever,” Beasley said. “In 13 years, not a single ethics complaint by any staff in his office or any other office has ever been lodged. Ever.”
There is no evidence that Hunt has teamed with GOPers to spread these rumors about Swalwell. However, there is proof that Swalwell previously eroticized violence against women and once had an affair with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
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The Iran ceasefire was less than three hours old when missiles began flying from Iran toward Israel and the Gulf states. That detail — documented in real time — tells you more about the durability of this agreement than any official statement. A pause is not peace. A handshake in Islamabad is not a settlement. And a region that has been at war for forty days does not stand down because two governments issued parallel social media posts.The two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir is genuinely welcome. It stepped both sides back from a precipice with real humanitarian and strategic consequences. But Vice President Vance himself called it a “fragile truce.” That is the most honest thing anyone in this administration has said about it. Hold that phrase.What the Ceasefire Actually SaysUnder the agreement, Iran has committed to allowing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week period, “with due consideration of technical limitations” — Iran’s qualifier, not ours. The United States and Israel have suspended bombing operations. Trump declared Iran’s 10-point proposal “a workable basis on which to negotiate,” adding that “almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to.” That claim requires scrutiny. Iran’s demands include lifting all sanctions, withdrawing U.S. combat forces from regional bases, war reparations, Iranian control of Hormuz transit at $2 million per vessel, and — critically — the right to nuclear enrichment. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council declared the ceasefire “an enduring defeat” for Washington. Trump called it a “total and complete victory.” When both sides claim the same agreement as their triumph, what you have is a temporary suspension of hostilities while each side repositions.IRAN CONFLICT TESTS PAKISTAN AMID OWN BORDER CLASHES AS ISLAMABAD TOUTED AS VENUE FOR US-TEHRAN TALKSThe Fractures Are Already ShowingIsrael is not bound by this ceasefire in Lebanon. Netanyahu’s office stated plainly that the deal does not cover the fighting there, directly contradicting Pakistan’s public claim that the ceasefire applied everywhere. Hezbollah has issued no statement. Iran-backed militias in Iraq declared a two-week operations suspension — but that declaration came from a group that follows its own timeline. Oil futures dropped 13 percent on the news. Markets are relieved. They should also be watchful. A single maritime incident, a proxy rocket, or an intelligence miscalculation could collapse this arrangement before talks in Islamabad even open.The Hidden Winners: Beijing and MoscowWhile Washington and Tehran negotiate, two other capitals are quietly counting their gains. Russia and China have not been idle spectators in this conflict — they have been active participants, and the ceasefire does not change that calculation one degree.Russia’s role has been documented in intelligence assessments reviewed by multiple major news organizations. Russian satellites conducted at least 24 surveillance surveys of 46 military and infrastructure sites across 11 Middle Eastern countries in the final ten days of March alone — including U.S. bases at Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia, Al Udeid in Qatar and Diego Garcia. Within days of those surveys, Iran struck many of those same facilities. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was 100 percent confident Russia was sharing that targeting data with Tehran. Putin’s stated goal, according to Zelenskyy: a “long war in the Middle East.”The financial incentive is equally clear. The Peterson Institute for International Economics calculates that Russia could pocket between $45 billion and $151 billion in additional budget revenues in 2026 from the oil price spike alone — revenues that flow directly into financing the war in Ukraine. The Trump administration’s temporary easing of sanctions on Russian oil, described as a market-stabilization measure, has compounded that windfall. Every dollar Moscow earns from Iran’s disruption of the Strait buys another day of war against Kyiv.China’s role is subtler, but equally calculated. Reports emerged after the ceasefire that Beijing had been working through intermediaries — including Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt — to quietly encourage Iran toward negotiations. China welcomed the outcome publicly. That is the posture of a power that wanted the crisis to end on terms it helped shape, not the posture of a bystander. Intelligence reporting also indicates that China may have provided Iran with financial assistance, spare parts and access to its BeiDou navigation satellite system — which analysts say may explain the improved accuracy of Iranian missile targeting throughout the conflict.Trump has repeatedly identified China as America’s most significant long-term security challenge. That assessment is correct. Which makes the strategic arithmetic of the past forty days deeply troubling: every Patriot interceptor fired over Riyadh is one fewer available for Kyiv or Taiwan. Every week consumed by ceasefire negotiations in Islamabad is a week not spent shoring up the Indo-Pacific deterrence architecture Beijing is systematically probing. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy noted bluntly that Putin hopes “successive crises in Iran will continue distracting the United States from pressuring him about the Ukraine war.” Both Moscow and Beijing understand something Washington must not forget: the enemy of your enemy is your strategic opportunity.The Nuclear Question Is the Whole BallgameI have spent years arguing — in my 2024 book Preparing for World War III: A Global Conflict That Redefines Tomorrow — that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are the engine driving this conflict. A ceasefire that leaves that question unresolved has postponed the most dangerous phase, not solved it. Trump said Iran’s uranium would be “perfectly taken care of,” but declined to confirm whether the deal permits enrichment. Iranian state outlets reported it does. The English-language version omitted that clause. That is not a translation problem. It is a substantive gap of the kind that generates wars when it resurfaces. My former battalion commander Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn rule applies to diplomacy as surely as it applies to war: “You break it, you own it.” If we accept terms that paper over the nuclear question to secure a headline-friendly announcement, we own every consequence that follows when enrichment resumes. The mullahs played that game in 2015. Nothing in this framework suggests a different outcome.The Bottom LineCatastrophe avoided is not a small thing. But the underlying issues remain: Iran’s nuclear program, its proxy network, its regional ambitions, and Russia and China calculating every move to their advantage behind the scenes. The next two weeks will reveal whether both sides negotiated seriously — or whether each used the pause to reposition for the next confrontation. A fragile truce in a volatile region, with two great powers working the margins, is not an endpoint. It is a moment of decision. Use it wisely.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM ROBERT MAGINNIS

Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah of Iran, shared a message on Tuesday evening to the Iranian Armed Forces. Here is that message: To the Iranian Armed Forces: You … Read more
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President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, March 23, 2026, en route Memphis, Tennessee. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)
“Radical Left” Democrats in Congress have ordered the United States Postal Service to defy President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at making the nation’s elections more secure by providing that only U.S. citizens vote, and more.
The Democrats have ordered the USPS to “Refuse to implement any provision of Trump’s executive order that interferes with state election laws or the established handling of election mail.”
Further, they demand a “public” affirmation of the USPS “neutrality.”
Trump recently issued an executive order regarding election security, and then followed with another, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” providing for states to send the USPS a list of voters “to whom the State intends to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot” and requiring “unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes,” for those votes.
The USPS would be authorized to deliver ballots to those people. Under current practices, such ballots can be delivered to anyone on state voter lists that have been documented to include dead people, non-Americans, illegal aliens and more.
In fact, some states have fought for years in court to keep those names on state lists.
Trump’s reasoning was linked to accurate votes and national security: “We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”
The letter was from far-left Rep. Nellie Pou and signed by the entire New Jersey Democratic congressional delegation – including Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim and Reps. Frank Pallone, Donald Norcross, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Josh Gottheimer, Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Herbert Conaway.
“The Radical Left is in total panic as President Trump moves to finally secure our nation’s broken and fraud-riddled election system!” charged a report at the Gateway Pundit. ”
The Democrats’ letter to Postmaster General David Steiner said that only Congress can influence the “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections” run by states.
“Any effort by the executive branch to dictate or interfere with election administration through federal agencies is not only unlawful, but violates the fundamental principle of separation of powers. Against this backdrop, any effort to involve the United States Postal Service (‘USPS’) in carrying out this executive order—especially in ways that affect the handling, timing, or treatment of election mail—must be rejected,” it charges.
It boasts New Jersey’s systems have “strong safeguards,” such as envelopes being labeled “Official Mail-In Ballot.”
In addition to state law, New Jersey has a “multi-agency effort to safeguard election integrity.”
And the letter demands that the signers be informed of “any communications, guidance, or operational changes considered in response to this executive order.”
The Gateway Pundit report charged the Democrats are “demanding the United States Postal Service ignore the president’s executive order aimed at stopping non-citizen voting and cleaning up the mail-in ballot chaos that plagued our election.”
The report characterized Trump’s order as directing “the Department of Homeland Security to compile verified lists of eligible U.S. citizens” and having secure barcode tracking on mail ballots.
The order also “bars the Postal Service from delivering ballots to non-citizens,” the report said.
Democrats are challenging the president’s order in court, as they have with almost every order he’s issued during his presidency.
One dispute over mail-in ballots currently is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Arguments recently were held over states’ practices of accepting mail-in ballots days, even weeks, after the election is over.
Reports confirm a majority of the justice appeared skeptical about the legality of that practice, which can open the door to election fraud. More than a dozen states currently allow the suspect practice.
Trump, meanwhile, is continuing to push Congress to adopt further election integrity protections found in the SAVE America Act.