Month: April 2026

 

The theft of 15 crop-drones in New Jersey has sparked concerns among the FBI.

National security news outlet High Side reported that 15 agricultural Ceres Air C31 drones were stolen from a New Jersey warehouse last month.

According to the report, a man impersonating a delivery driver deceived logistics company CAC International into giving him the fleet of drones.

The drones have the ability to spray up to 40 gallons of liquid chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, but authorities are concerned the drones could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons.

15 chemical spraying drones stolen in NJ as FBI investigates possible ‘nightmare scenario’: report https://t.co/ofuI3B1pg0 pic.twitter.com/NbW4maD6ZM

— New York Post Metro (@nypmetro) April 25, 2026

Per Yahoo News:

Fifteen industrial spray drones vanished from a New Jersey facility last month in what investigators call a sophisticated, coordinated theft. These aren’t hobby quadcopters—they’re precision farming machines capable of dispersing 40 gallons of liquid across 30 acres per flight, all guided by GPS autopilot.

Federal investigators launched a probe amid bioterrorism concerns, treating the theft as more than expensive equipment loss. Each drone operates as a potential delivery system that could disperse hazardous materials over wide areas without human pilots at risk.

Retired FBI agent Steve Lazarus warned of serious consequences and called it a concerning scenario, emphasizing these are industrial sprayers designed for precision agriculture, not weekend flying. The sophisticated coordination required suggests professional thieves who understood the equipment’s capabilities and value.

The theft revives post-September 11th anxieties about agricultural aircraft being weaponized for chemical or biological attacks. Today’s threat multiplies exponentially—instead of recruiting and training pilots for single planes, bad actors could deploy swarms of pre-programmed drones simultaneously.

The report comes a month after The Gateway Pundit reported that the U.S. Army Fort Campbell Facebook Page revealed that four Skydio X10D Drone Systems were stolen from the 326th Division Engineer Battalion building.

A spokesperson at Fort Campbell has since announced that the suspects behind the drone theft have been identified, but did not release their names.

Drone threats have reportedly increased since the United States began military operations in Iran.

ABC News previously reported that the FBI warned California police departments that Iran may try to attack the West Coast with drones.

The White House, however, refuted ABC News claims.

READ:

JUST IN: Leavitt Fumes, Demands ABC News Immediate Retract Its Report Claiming Iran Planning Drone Attack on California

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Roman Catholic voters are standing by President Donald Trump amid a deep and public spat with Pope Leo XIV, according to recent polling.

Newsweek examined polls from February, March, and April, during which the pope made public his disapproval of the U.S. war against Iran.

Continued sniping from the Vatican led Trump to suggest the pope stick to matters of faith and allow American leaders to govern.

Newsweek used three Fox News polls for its sampling of Roman Catholic opinion. In the first, taken between Feb. 28 and March 2, Roman Catholic voters gave Trump a 52 percent approval rating.

A poll taken between March 20 and March 23, as the pope was criticizing Trump, showed Trump had a 48 percent approval rating among Roman Catholics.

But a third poll, conducted between April 17 and April 20, showed Trump with a 51 percent approval rating with Roman Catholics, even after he suggested the pope should rein in his comments.

IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump’s approval rating among CATHOLICS just BUMPED several points after his public scuffle with Pope Leo on Iran

51% of Catholics now approve, per an April Fox poll – and it was previously below that in March

Trump is following his conscience!… pic.twitter.com/pSMn6Ssb6q

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 24, 2026

White House representative Taylor Rogers suggested Roman Catholics were focused on what Trump was doing for them and not the pope’s commentary.

“There has never been a greater president for Catholic Americans than President Trump, and his record proves it,” Rogers said in a statement.

“President Trump ended the weaponization of the federal government against Christians, proudly defended and expanded our religious rights, pardoned pro-life activists, stopped the chemical mutilation of our nation’s children, and protected parents’ rights. The president will never waver in his support for Catholic Americans and will continue delivering unprecedented victories,” she added.

Newsweek tried to parse the meaning of the poll, suggesting that “institutional authority from the Vatican carries less weight than positions on immigration, national sovereignty, judicial appointments and cultural issues” in the minds of many Roman Catholic voters.

“Trump’s combative posture toward Pope Leo may therefore register less as an insult to faith and more as resistance to clerical involvement in U.S. policymaking,” Newsweek wrote.

Newsweek noted that Vice President J.D. Vance, a Roman Catholic, has been forthright in defending Trump, which could sway voters.

Newsweek concluded that “rather than punishing Trump for confronting the Pope, some Catholic voters appear sympathetic to his argument that elected officials, not church leaders, should set U.S. policy.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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MSNOW’s latest segment offered a clear example of how legacy media handles politically inconvenient stories. Instead of engaging with the substance of a federal indictment, the discussion—featuring Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman—shifted toward deflection, narrative framing, and selective omission.

The underlying story is not complicated. 

As previously covered by The Gateway Pundit, a federal grand jury has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges including wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

According to prosecutors, the organization allegedly misled donors for nearly a decade—raising funds under the banner of combating extremism while secretly diverting millions of dollars to individuals connected to extremist groups.

The indictment outlines a detailed pattern. Between 2014 and 2023, more than $3 million in donor funds were allegedly funneled to individuals tied to organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations. 

Donors were not informed. Instead, prosecutors describe the use of fictitious entities and concealed bank accounts to obscure where the money was actually going.

On MSNOW, however, the focus shifted almost immediately. 

Rather than addressing the specifics of the indictment, Rep. Goldman emphasized the SPLC’s historical role as a “civil rights” organization and suggested that the case itself is politically motivated.

That argument sidesteps the central issue. A federal indictment is the result of a grand jury reviewing evidence presented by prosecutors.

The segment relied heavily on reputation as a substitute for analysis. The SPLC’s past work was repeatedly referenced, while the current allegations were treated as secondary or speculative. That approach creates a disconnect.

If an organization built its credibility on identifying and exposing misconduct, then allegations of internal financial misconduct should be treated as a serious institutional issue rather than dismissed as partisan noise.

There was also a noticeable effort to broaden the conversation into unrelated political territory. 

References to national political divisions, election narratives, and broader ideological disputes diluted the discussion. The effect was clear: move attention away from the details of the indictment and toward a more familiar partisan framework.

That strategy may work in a television segment. It does not resolve the underlying claims.

The indictment, led by the FBI with assistance from IRS Criminal Investigation, points to a longer-term structural concern. Prosecutors describe a system in which donor funds were not only misrepresented but also routed through layers of entities designed to avoid detection.

If proven, that raises questions beyond a single organization. It touches on how nonprofit networks operate, how donor-advised funds are monitored, and how oversight mechanisms function when large sums of money move across loosely regulated channels.

Public reaction so far has largely treated the case as an isolated controversy. That framing misses the broader implication.

The alleged conduct spans nearly a decade and involves millions of dollars. That is not a one-off incident—it suggests a system that, at minimum, failed to prevent it.

None of this establishes guilt. The legal process will determine that.

But dismissing the case outright, as MSNOW’s segment attempted to do, avoids the central question: whether donor funds were used in ways that directly contradicted the organization’s stated mission.

MSNOW had an opportunity to examine that question. Instead, the network chose to defend a narrative.

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The radical left never ceases to amaze with its bottomless depravity.

Just when you think they can’t sink any lower after celebrating the cold-blooded political assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last September, a group of deranged far-left students steps up to prove that the Democrat Party’s culture of hate has rotted their brains beyond repair.

Charlie Kirk, a devoted father, husband, and fearless warrior for America First values, was publicly executed on September 10, 2025, when a gunman shot him in the neck during a Turning Point USA event.

The assassination sent shockwaves around the world, with millions mourning the loss of one of conservatism’s brightest young leaders.

But this latest incident takes the depravity to a new low.

Conservative comedian and street journalist Alex Stein was doing a campus tour when the goth-looking far-left students spewed their disgusting punchline.

“So, uh, Charlie Kirk was pretty conservative, right? But in the end, he leans left,” the student quipped with a straight face, as her leftist comrades laughed along like it was the funniest thing in the world.

Alex Stein immediately confronted the sick student and delivered a masterclass in righteous humiliation.

“You think that’s funny to make fun of a guy that was brutally assassinated, publicly executed?” Stein fired back. “What happened to you in your life that you think that’s okay? … You think that’s funny to watch a guy brutally get murdered and just to make jokes about it?”

Stein continued, tearing into the student’s moral bankruptcy:

“Listen, you have freedom of speech. You should be able to say whatever you want. But you think that — you think that’s funny? A guy, a father, just to get brutally murdered? And you think it’s funny to just joke about that? … You’re a sick person and you’re mentally ill and you’re shaking. You’re mentally ill. And really, one day you might look in the mirror and you realize how seriously mentally ill you are for coming up here and thinking that it’s so funny that a guy that was brutally assassinated died in front of thousands of people and millions of people saw it.”

Stein didn’t stop there. He pointed out the obvious, that these students are projecting their own miserable, broken lives onto the world:

“Whether you like Charlie or not, everybody was seriously affected by that. And you know what? You probably were affected by it too. But because your life is so bad, because you’ve had such a challenging and horrible life, the only joy that you get is by seeing somebody else go through pain.”

The video gets even more unhinged when another far-left radical chimes in with an even sicker “joke”: “Charlie Kirk was such a patriot that his last action was turning red, white, and blue.”

Stein’s response was pure gold: “You seriously are sick. You need to get some help. Yeah, I know you guys probably don’t have parents, and you know, that’s really a sad reality.”

WATCH:

“In the end Charlie Kirk leaned left” – goth student pic.twitter.com/mjTJdx5UMh

— Alex Stein #99 (@alexstein99) April 24, 2026

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Jesse Kelly of “The First” talked about the massive fraud that the Democrat Party is behind in numerous states.

Kelly referenced States including Minnesota and Maine. The biggest one discussed was California, due to its large economy and the massive level of fraud there. Hospice and home healthcare fraud is running rampant in the Golden State.

Kelly explained at the beginning of the video about the corruption that exists in many Latin countries. He went on to say that when crime is institutionalized, there is no way to keep your family safe from danger.

Crime has been largely institutionalized within numerous states in our own nation.

“In the United States of America, I have told you time and time again, the Democrat Party exists on fraud, foreigners and cheating in elections,” Kelly said.

“Without ‘FFC,’ there is no major party known as the Democrat Party. They would be a relatively obscure, 20 percent party. They have to steal. They have to bring in foreign barbarians who don’t care about freedom, and they have to cheat in elections,” Kelly continued.

“There is no place in the United States of America that is a bigger evidence marker of this than the State of California,” Kelly explained.

Kelly talked about the fraud in Maine and then compared the size of California’s economy. California is considered the fifth-largest economy in the world, apart from the US. In comparison, the amount of fraud is in the billions of dollars.

Kelly showed a clip of Dr. Oz being interviewed by the Epoch Times. He explained that the fraud in Minnesota was bad, but was only “the tip of the iceberg” compared to California. Dr. Oz said that the fraud in California was “whole-scale, cultural malfeasance around healthcare.”

Dr. Oz also said that, “there is an acceptance that you need to be in the fraud business, especially in Los Angeles, and the magnitude of fraud there we believe is approximately 4 billion dollars just in hospice and home healthcare.”

Kelly also showed a video of independent journalist Nick Shirley pretending to show interest in opening a hospice care place in California. The business would not let them into the lobby. You could see one of the fraudsters driving off with a very expensive car.

Watch:

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The next G20 summit may take on a greater meaning.

Even though the wars in Ukraine and Iran are still unresolved, there is space in the geopolitical landscape for other currents of events.

While the world is on fire, there is still momentum on the work to rebuild diplomatic and commercial ties between the two nuclear superpowers: the United States and Russia.

Yesterday (24), the Kremlin announced that Russia’s Vladimir Putin could travel to the ​G20 summit in Miami in December.

This comes after US President Donald J. Trump has publicly stated that Putin’s presence would be ‌very helpful, and also that ‘it had been a mistake to expel Russia from the G8’.

Trump thinking about inviting Putin to G20 Summit in Miami

“If he came, it would probably be very helpful.” pic.twitter.com/ZriWdLdSai

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) April 24, 2026

Reuters reported:

“The United States has invited Russia to the annual meeting of Group of 20 countries that Washington is holding this year in Miami, and Moscow has accepted the invitation, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Putin ​has not attended a G20 summit since 2019 due to the COVID pandemic and then Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine which triggered the ​biggest crisis in relations between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.”

JUST IN: Russia says President Putin may travel to Miami for G20 summit. pic.twitter.com/Xv6SpNXo36

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) April 24, 2026

“‘President Putin may ⁠go to Miami as a member of the G20, or he may not go, or another Russian representative may go’, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ​told state television correspondent Pavel Zarubin.”

The Kremlin says Putin “may or may not” show up to the G20 in Miami this December. But Russia will be represented either way.

Trump invited him, saying his presence “would be helpful.”

Putin hasn’t attended a G20 in person since Japan in 2019. The ICC issued an arrest… pic.twitter.com/nPnVPiAUYw

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 24, 2026

Even if Putin chooses not to go, Russia will be ‘represented properly’ at the summit, Peskov said.

“The Kremlin said last year that it agreed with Trump that it had been a mistake to kick Russia ‌out of ⁠the Group of Eight in 2014 but that the G7 was no longer significant for Russia and looked ‘rather useless’.”

Read more:

BREAKING: Pentagon Halts Some Weapons Shipments to Ukraine After It’s Revealed Joe Biden Depleted US Munitions Stockpiles

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Whenever this man issues a stock market warning…

You should stop and listen because…

He’s the famous economist and best-selling author who predicted the two biggest stock market crashes of the last two decades.

He predicted the 2008 meltdown…

Just three weeks before Lehman Brothers imploded and the stock market collapsed…

And he predicted the COVID meltdown…

Again just three weeks before the stock market suffered the fastest drop in history.

He’s now predicting we’re about to see an AI meltdown of historic proportions…

Similar to what happened in 2000 during the dotcom bust…

When the stock market crashed almost 80%…

Ruining the retirement of millions of Americans.

In short, he believes the most important AI company in the world is about to go bust…

In a meltdown that will be 10 times bigger than Lehman Brothers…

….sending a ripple effect through the market that could crater the entire AI industry.

And he’s warning everyone to take these five simple steps to prepare.

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President Trump fired multiple scientists who served on the National Science Board on Friday.

According to The Washington Post, it is unclear how many of the scientists were ousted.

The scientists on the National Science Board serve 6-year terms.

The Washington Post reported:

Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Donald Trump.

Members of the National Science Board, which helps govern the National Science Foundation, were dismissed in a message from the Presidential Personnel Office thanking them for their service, according to screenshots shared with The Washington Post: “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I’m writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

The National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation, in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector.

It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports basic science research in laboratories across the United States.

The NSF has a long history of supporting technology and research that powers many innovations the world relies on today. The agency helped language-learning app Duolingo get its start. NSF research has also helped evolve technology used in MRIs, cellphones and LASIK eye surgery.

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The US Military blew up another drug boat in the Eastern Pacific this week, killing two narco-terrorists.

Full Statement from SOUTHCOM:

On April 24, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.

Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.

Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action.

No U.S. military forces were harmed.

WATCH:

The US Military on Monday released unclassified video of the US vaporizing another drug boat in the Caribbean, killing three narco-terrorists.

Last week, the US Military blew up a narco boat in the Eastern Pacific.

The US military has destroyed at least 55 drug boats in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September.

Last month, US Southern Command announced that the US conducted a military strike on a narco-terrorist network in Ecuador.

“At the order of Secretary of War Hegseth, SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan directed the joint force to support Ecuadorian forces conducing lethal kinetic operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations within Ecuador March 6,” US Southern Command said.

“We are advancing alongside our partners in the fight against narcoterrorism,” General Donovan said.

“I congratulate our joint forces and the Ecuadorian armed forces for the successful operation against narcoterrorists in Ecuador. This collaborative and decisive action is a strategic success for all nations in the Western Hemisphere committed to disrupting and defeating narcoterrorism.” General Donovan said.

“This operation demonstrates the power of coordinated action and sends a clear message: narco-terrorist networks will not find refuge in our hemisphere,” the Pentagon said.

“The United States remains steadfast in supporting nations that stand against narcoterrorism. Together, we will dismantle trafficking and corruption networks, hold these organizations accountable, and restore peace through strength,” the Pentagon said.

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One police officer is dead and another officer is injured after a suspect opened fire inside a Chicago hospital.

On Saturday morning, a black male suspect opened fire inside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Chicago’s Ravenswood hospital.

“Two Chicago Police Officers are reported to have been shot by a suspect at Swedish Covenant Hospital located at 5145 N California. This occurred around 1045am. Note: The suspect is still at large. Please pray for our police officers,” Chicago Alderman Jim Gardiner said in a post on Instagram.

The unidentified suspect was eventually taken into custody after a manhunt.

The motive for the shooting is not clear.

NBC Chicago reported:

A suspect is in custody after a shooting inside a Chicago hospital left one police officer dead and another critically injured on Saturday morning, law enforcement sources said.

Around 10:45 a.m., two Chicago police officers were shot at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital, located at 5140 N. California Ave. in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood.

Police took the suspect to the hospital to be checked out before going to jail for a separate offense before the shooting broke out, police sources told NBC Chicago.

One officer was later pronounced dead and the other was at a local hospital in critical condition, sources told NBC Chicago.

The suspect was taken into custody around noon after a manhunt, authorities said.

The suspect, described as a black male, was reportedly wearing ‘minimal clothing’ at the time of the shooting.

BREAKING: Shots FIRED inside Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Chicago, two police officers reportedly shot and injured.

According to multiple police scanner reports and first responders on scene, gunfire erupted at the hospital.

The incident happened inside the facility,… pic.twitter.com/cZuVNRc4HI

— Bethany O’Leary (@BBMagaMom) April 25, 2026

WGN reported that the suspect was either being transported to or transferred from the hospital.

@HilleryJewell is on the scene with the latest updates after two officers were injured in a shooting at a north side hospital.

Read more: https://t.co/4RSNc0kkxD pic.twitter.com/zQhA5UkkBf

— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) April 25, 2026

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