The United States is “winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy” in Operation Epic Fury just four days into the campaign against Iran, according to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said Tehran’s missile, air, and naval capabilities are rapidly “evaporating.”
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China's state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times declared on Tuesday that First Lady Melania Trump's leadership at a U.N. Security Council meeting the day before — an unprecedented act for a presidential spouse — drew "backlash from international society" for alleged hypocrisy amid the ongoing war with Iran.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to raise its across-the-board tariff rate to 15 percent this week, providing a timeline for an increase President Trump had announced but not yet implemented.
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When a garage pull rope that was shaped like a noose was discovered in Bubba Wallace’s garage at the Talladega Superspeedway in 2020, the media had a field day.
Despite the FBI determining Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime, NASCAR’s reputation was tarnished.
Now, according to BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, NASCAR is “fixing its popularity problem” with Michael Jordan.
Jordan joined NASCAR in 2020 and is making history in the sport after his 23XI Racing team won its third straight NASCAR race to start the 2026 season.
“There’s nothing that the media, mainstream media, loves more than a racial story, and Michael Jordan and Tyler Reddick are making a lot of history in a sport that has a lot of so-called racial baggage,” Whitlock says.
“Around 2006, 2007, NASCAR fell off a cliff in terms of popularity and visibility and just relevance and traction. Most people attributed that fall-off to the stock market crash in 2007 and that the hundreds of thousands of fans that would go from city to city to city with NASCAR, they lost their economic stability,” he explains.
“And that’s what most people believe gutted NASCAR. I’m going to posit a theory that, yes, the economic collapse played a role, but the economic collapse was about gutting all of the working class. And NASCAR built its reputation on southern rednecks, working-class people, you know, heart of America people,” he says.
“There was one path back, that NASCAR had to place the race card. They had to create ‘Race Jam.’ They tried to do it with Bubba Wallace. Bubba Wallace is a weak, inferior driver. He’s no good. And so, they couldn’t do it with Bubba,” he continues.
But Michael Jordan is different.
“The guy stepped away from basketball 25 years ago, hasn’t lost a bit of relevancy, and it’s Michael Jordan, and they’ve injected him into NASCAR, and they’ve injected that storyline into NASCAR,” Whitlock says. “And I think it’s going to produce results.”
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Fifty-seven percent of Americans want all illegal migrants sent home, according to a Harvard Harris poll.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's challenge to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn went unresolved in Tuesday's heated Republican primary race, as neither candidate proved able to secure 50% of the total vote.
With over 95% of the votes in as of Wednesday afternoon, Cornyn leads Paxton 41.9% to 40.7%, reported the Associated Press.
'We must win in November.'
Several hours after the Cornyn campaign stated on social media that "Judgement Day is coming for Ken Paxton," President Donald Trump announced that he would be staging an intervention and handpicking which of the two candidates — each of whom netted the support of approximately 900,000 Texans — he wants to compete against Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the general election.
Trump stated that the GOP primary race in Texas "cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer. IT MUST STOP NOW!"
Claiming that his GOP endorsements have "been virtually insurmountable," Trump said that he will be endorsing one of the two candidates imminently and asking the disfavored candidate "to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE!"
"We have an easy to beat, Radical Left Opponent, and we have to TOTALLY FOCUS on putting him away, quickly and decisively!" continued the president, referring to Talarico. "Both John and Ken ran great races, but not good enough. Now, this one, must be PERFECT!"
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"We must win in November!" he concluded.
The runoff election will be held on May 26 in the event that both candidates remain in the race.
On Wednesday afternoon, Paxton tweeted, "Last night, in a historic failure for John Cornyn, he failed to get nearly 60% of the GOP vote after spending $100 million. It's time to finish the job in the runoff."
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!NBA legend Charles Barkley says "stupid" people "need something to trigger them."
The Hall of Fame player was referring to the Team USA men's Olympic hockey team visiting President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address and the White House last month. The event sparked controversy because of the way Trump delivered the invite.
'I'm not a Trump guy. I want to make that clear.'
The president called the men's locker room after the team defeated Canada 2-1 in the gold medal game on February 22, but his invite to the White House included a joke about the women's gold medal team.
"We're going to have to bring the women's team," the president told the team as they laughed. He added that he "probably would be impeached" if he didn't.
While the call resulted in apologies, condemnations, and struggle sessions with the media, Barkley defended the team's choice to visit the capital.
"Guys who didn't want to go shouldn't have to explain why they didn't go. I've said this before. I'm not a Trump guy. But if I got invited to the White House, I would go," Barkley told co-host Ernie Johnson on "The Steam Room."
"I'm not a Trump guy. I want to make that clear," Barkley reiterated. "But I respect the office. He's the president of the United States. But if guys don't want to go, I understand that too. It doesn't have to be a talking point. It doesn't have to be ... 'un-American.'"
Earlier in the discussion, the 63-year-old made a point of saying that while he did not agree with everything the government does, he understands that the general public can't stop themselves from being triggered.
"Yo, man, why do y'all have to mess up everything?" Barkley said about Trump's phone call. He then told his fellow Americans to stop "falling for stupidity" like that, while also placing blame on the government for purposely saying things that trigger people.
"I know y'all say stuff to trigger them. Y'all say stuff, and y'all know they going to be fools," Barkley told the administration.
When co-host Johnson tried to redirect Barkley's blame to Trump's call to the hockey team, the former athlete said that people should control themselves and not react to everything, but also that they often react anyway because they are "stupid."
"We don't have to fall for stupidity, Ernie," Barkley argued. "But we do, [and] that's my point. These people out here are stupid. They need something to trigger them."
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Barkley went on to say he did not like how divisive the phone call had become, and that such division has "screwed up" the United States.
"Everything is not Democrat, Republican, conservative, or liberal," he argued. "That's why we got this divided, screwed-up country."
"Stop it, man," Barkley soon pleaded, looking directly into the camera. The Alabaman then reinforced his reasoning one more time.
"The public — they're idiots. They're fools. They can't think for themselves."
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