https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSun, 17 May 2026 18:33:32 -0400<![CDATA[The situation in Cuba remains intense. As I reported last week, the regime has announced that is has no oil or reserves. Major protests have broken out, and the regime is cutting lines of communication in an attempt to prevent the outside world from seeing the truth. The number of political prisoners detained is at an all-time high. The U.S. is trying to bring in humanitarian aid through the Catholic Church. Rubio has heavily sanctioned GAESA, the apparatus that basically controls half of the country's "economy" and makes the regime wealthy. The CIA director paid a visit last week and made what sounded like some final warnings on behalf of Donald Trump. And old Raúl Castro may be less than a week away from becoming a U.S. fugitive from justice, if a grand jury gets it right.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:50:36 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Vatican]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/05/17/cuba-falling-whats-all-this-talk-about-drones-n4952965<![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized enough illegal fentanyl this fiscal year to kill 100 million Americans, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed May 15.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:25:01 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[DHS]]><![CDATA[Fentanyl]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/17/cbp-seized-enough-fentanyl-to-kill-100-million-so-far-in-fy2026-n4952968<![CDATA[It’s easy to understand why thousands of Pacific Palisades fire victims are shocked — and skeptical — about why their former homes have suddenly reappeared in online maps. The timing comes right before a hard-fought mayoral race in which the complete incompetence displayed by the Los Angeles mayor and her staff before and after this fire is the front-and-center issue. Was this Silicon Valley’s spiff to fellow traveler Karen Bass?]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:46:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Google]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Mental Health]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/05/17/why-did-google-and-apple-maps-just-retcon-devastating-palisades-fire-losses-n4952958<![CDATA[If Americans won’t have the meekness to get sick enough ahead of the midterm elections to justify lockdowns and all mail-in ballots, it seems globalists might be willing to manufacture another “global health emergency.” Hopefully Donald Trump and We the People are too smart to fall for that destructive nonsense twice.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:40:52 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[HHS]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/17/here-we-go-again-who-says-ebola-is-global-emergency-as-us-virologist-smuggles-in-pathogens-n4952960<![CDATA[Barack Obama appeared on Late Night with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday evening and decided it was a good time to rewrite history. And he did it with a smile and a room full of applauding liberals who were never going to challenge his lies.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:32:06 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Operation Epic Fury]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/17/obama-just-claimed-his-iran-deal-worked-heres-the-proof-it-didnt-n4952961<![CDATA[While student scores continued to hit horrifying lows across America’s public schools, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union boss Randi Weingarten is prioritizing anti-Trump and pro-illegal alien propaganda.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:05:54 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Randi Weingarten]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/17/as-student-scores-plummet-teachers-union-head-rants-against-trump-n4952955<![CDATA[Bill Maher has had enough.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 10:02:55 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Liberal Media]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/17/bill-maher-calls-out-the-democrats-antisemitism-n4952956<![CDATA[I’m a big fan of the movie 28 Days Later. For those who’ve never seen it, the movie takes place in Britain. A man-made virus is inadvertently loosed from a top-secret laboratory onto an unsuspecting public. The virus causes its victims to immediately suffer from an uncontrollable rage and compels them to viciously attack anyone and anything in their vicinity. After decimating the British Isles, the infected people become incapable of doing anything else. They don’t produce, they don’t work, they don’t build, they don’t compose, they don’t write, they don’t create. All they can do is kill. And with nobody left to kill, they simply die off themselves.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:05:35 -0400<![CDATA[A.J. Christopher]]><![CDATA[England]]><![CDATA[France]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Islamic Jihad]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Italy]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/05/16/28-jihads-later-n4952948<![CDATA[President Donald Trump honored two and a half centuries of “the most powerful, accomplished, and courageous military the world has ever known” for Armed Forces Day.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[USA]]><![CDATA[Veterans]]><![CDATA[Veterans Day]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/16/valiant-warriors-trump-marks-armed-forces-day-n4952943<![CDATA[When Gavin Newsom became governor, he inherited a $21 billion surplus.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/16/gavin-newsom-is-totally-lying-about-balancing-californias-budget-n4952939<![CDATA[A group of men was congregating outside a Manhattan barbershop as they often did on Friday, when a drunk driver who had already crashed his SUV into a parked car plowed straight into them.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 15:38:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gun Violence]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/16/manhattan-car-crash-2-dead-3-critical-in-drunk-rampage-n4952936<![CDATA[A university-funded group at George Washington University (GW) hosted an exhibit promoting abusive sexual perversions on Good Friday.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 14:31:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Abortion]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/16/george-washington-university-funds-creepy-sexonian-exhibit-for-rage-group-n4952934<![CDATA[Reread that headline. Yes, Gavin Newsom and the Democrats are allowing gas prices to keep going up, up, and up, instead of giving relief to Californians who pay the highest gas prices in the country.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:35:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/05/16/you-dont-hurt-enough-california-democrats-are-raising-gas-prices-again-n4952929<![CDATA[American and Nigerian forces coordinated to eliminate leaders of the Islamic State terror group, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on May 16.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:27:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Nigeria]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/16/usa-eliminates-isis-leaders-in-terror-plagued-nigeria-n4952933<![CDATA[Intifada means jihad against Jews, Christians, and even any Muslims who don’t acquiesce in the plan. And that is exactly what a group of Islamist rioters called for this weekend at the site of the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:58:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/16/ny-islamists-call-for-intifada-at-ground-zero-and-uk-arrests-nationalist-leader-at-protest-n4952930<![CDATA[Admittedly, I haven’t been paying much attention to the Los Angeles mayoral race, but a LEGO-animated campaign ad caught my attention, and I just had to write about it.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/16/everything-is-awesome-about-this-spencer-pratt-ad-n4952925<![CDATA[In March 2022, Texas Children's Hospital announced that it would no longer authorize "gender-affirming care" for minors. That was a lie, or at least, a mischaracterization of the kind of care the facility was giving to children. Texas Children's Hospital continued to treat minors for gender issues, including performing surgeries on patients as young as 11, giving them implantable puberty blockers.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rick Moran]]><![CDATA[DOJ]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/05/16/texas-childrens-hospital-will-open-a-detransition-clinic-as-part-of-deal-with-the-government-n4952924<![CDATA[It was another day on The Five, which means another round of Jessica Tarlov losing her mind over something to do with Donald Trump and Greg Gutfeld methodically dismantling every argument she threw at the wall.]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:52:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov]]><![CDATA[Tim Walz]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/15/jessica-tarlov-had-a-complete-on-air-meltdown-and-then-gutfeld-torched-her-n4952922<![CDATA[Colorado 2020 election whistleblower Tina Peters finally received some good news.]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/15/colorado-governor-commutes-election-whistleblower-tina-peters-sentence-n4952919<![CDATA[The Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency appeal to revive their gerrymandered Virginia congressional map on Friday, delivering a final, fatal blow to their efforts in the state. The justices issued a brief order with no explanation. Still, the outcome was hardly surprising — the federal courts don't typically wade into rulings made by state courts on state constitutional matters, and that's exactly what happened here.]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:51:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/15/breaking-supreme-court-delivers-devastating-blow-to-democrats-gerrymandering-efforts-n4952918