MIRANDA DEVINE — If the grand jury in Delaware investigating Hunter Biden's business ventures does its job properly, it will be pulling on the threads that lead to the president, and already there are signs that is happening.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Joe Biden is being told to "reload" his brain before "shooting off" his mouth any more. The blunt, and insulting, comment comes from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and it was over Biden's "shameless" exploitation of a tragic shooting in California just days ago.... (more)

FOX NEWS — The mayor of the besieged city of Mariupol said that roughly 31,000 residents have been forcibly deported and sent to Russian "filtration camps" in occupied eastern Ukraine. Mayor Vadym Boychenko said in a Telegram post Friday that he had "verified" that Ukrainians from the southern port city were being taken "at gunpoint" to a camp in Novoazovsk -- a Ukrainian border town 35 miles from Mariupol and just 9 miles from the Russian border.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Russian President Vladimir Putin transferred one of his top spies tasked with political intelligence in Ukraine from house arrest to the pre-trial Lefortovo prison in Moscow, the Center for European Policy Analysis reported.... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday signed into law a ban on "gender transition" procedures for children and a bill modeled after Florida's Parental Rights in Education law that cracks down on LGBT ideology in elementary school classrooms. "There are very real challenges facing our young people, especially with today's societal pressures and modern culture. I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl," Gov. Ivey said in a statement.... (more)

PJ MEDIA — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wasn't bluffing when he said he would bus illegal aliens dropped off by the federal government in small Texas communities to Washington, D.C. Apparently, DHS simply dropped the illegals off without warning and without asking permission. Many Texas towns were blindsided by Joe Biden's "catch and release" policy and were begging Abbott for help.... (more)

TOWNHALL — Earlier this week billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk purchased a 9.1 percent stake in Twitter after becoming frustrated with the social media platform's censorship. The purchase made him the company's largest shareholder and landed him a seat on the board.... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Biden-nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court of the United States after a contentious confirmation process in which Republican senators probed the former Circuit Court judge's judicial record and slammed her allegedly lenient sentencing for child pornography offenders.... (more)

LIFE SITE NEWS — In an apparent effort to appeal to politically-correct young people, Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox shared his "preferred pronouns" during a 2021 student town hall, video from which has only now gained notice. In a clip circulated this week from the Zoom call for the April 13, 2021, virtual #OneUtah Student Town Hall, Cox can be seen declaring that "my preferred pronouns are he, him, and his," and thanking a student "for sharing yours with me."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Congress voted overwhelmingly Thursday to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities. House action came after the Senate approved the two bills with 100-0 votes. The measures now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Former director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield was reportedly sidelined from discussions about the coronavirus pandemic after he warned Dr. Anthony Fauci that COVID-19 may have originated from a lab, according to a Vanity Fair investigation.... (more)

AMERICAN GREATNESS — How does a mob "illegally storm" the Capitol building when police let them in? That is the latest narrative-shifting question the media wants desperately to avoid after a federal judge on Wednesday found a January 6 defendant not guilty for his conduct during the protest at the Capitol that day.... (more)

RADIO FREE EUROPE — Russian troops allegedly shot a 72-year-old professor when he tried to defend his home and protect neighbors in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin. Yevhen Khrykov was killed on March 23 after Russian forces found him and about a dozen neighbors sheltering in the basement of their bombed-out building, according to his widow, Valentyna. Locals say they want to rename their street in Irpin in honor of Khrykov.... (more)

YOUTUBE — The tiny nation of Estonia shares a 180-mile border with Russia. During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied the country and then annexed it until Estonia regained its independence. Now, it is a NATO and European Union member on the front lines with Russia. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas joins Judy Woodruff to discuss how her nation is responding to the war in Ukraine.... (more)

REDDIT — How Russia uses English-speaking Westerners to spread fake news about Ukraine.... (more)

YOUTUBE — "Jesse Watters Primetime" host reports the latest on the federal investigation into the Biden family's financial dealings, with the possibility Joe himself may soon be a focus, alongside his son and brother.... (more)

JOHN SOLOMON — Special Counsel John Durham is revealing new smoking gun evidence, a text message that shows a Clinton campaign lawyer lied to the FBI, while putting the courts on notice Durham is prepared to show the effort to smear Donald Trump with now-disproven Russia collusion allegations was a "conspiracy."... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Russian soldiers have raped girls as young as 10 and pulled out Ukrainians' tongues -- while also burning swastikas into their victims' bodies, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the United Nations Security Council that the Russians had committed "the most terrible war crimes" since World War Two and terrorized civilians "just for their pleasure."... (more)

PETER LEMISKA — The visionaries who crafted our founding documents foresaw a land of liberty, free from government oppression. They knew then that no society can ever be free where dissent is silenced and the free exchange of ideas is suppressed. So they guaranteed that our freedom of speech would forever be protected. They wrote that guarantee, and others, into the First Amendment to our Constitution.... (more)

PETE RIEHM — Most Americans are wondering why can't we just let kids be kids? Children are intrinsically curious, innocent, and loving; they view the world with wide eyed wonder and boundless affection for everyone. To the chagrin of radical LGBTQ leftists, that affection is naturally and purely platonic, so their brazen campaigns demanding schools instruct sexuality to very young children demonstrate the depth of their depravity. By teaching children about deviant sexual relationships, these perverts are literally insisting schools introduce an erotic component to our children's instinctive unconditional affection.... (more)

BBC — A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky. The moment came two or three days after the first Russian forces crossed into Ukraine on 24 February, when Ukrainian forces destroyed a column of Russian tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving through the town of Bucha to the city of Kyiv.... (more)

THE FADER — John Legend took the stage alongside three Ukrainian women artists – bandura player Siuzanna Iglidan, singer Mika Newtown, and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, who had just escaped her war-torn homeland a day earlier – to sing Legend's new song, "Free," following a rousing pre-taped speech by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.... (more)

RUMBLE — "A lot of things are always lacking in war. But what is in abundance is pain, dirt, blood, and death. Thousands, tens of thousands of deaths," President Vlodomyr Zelenko said in a passionate speech Jan. 3, before the Russian invasion began. The speech was posted to rumble on Feb. 24 by Fox News' Brian Kilmeade.... (more)

ART MOORE — A spokesman for Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as "neither new nor newsworthy" an upcoming documentary by conservative activist David Bossie that charges the Facebook founder's $400 million to fund election operations was intentionally channeled largely to three key swing states in an effort to defeat Donald Trump. Bossie's Citizens United Productions is the producer of "Rigged: The Zuckerberg-Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump," which will debut next Tuesday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. After the debut, it will be available for streaming at Rigged2020.com. [NOTE: See trailer above]... (more)

MIRROR — Mega-rich Russians living in a British billionaires' row have been reduced to tears after Ukraine war sanctions wrecked their luxury lifestyles. Pampered Putin cronies in Surrey's St George's Estate -- an exclusive gated enclave where a third of residents are Russian -- are unable to pay for private jet flights, holidays or even taxis now their credit cards are frozen. Many have been forced to ask staff to fork out for cabs after finding Uber executive accounts linked to their cards had been closed.... (more)