https://pjmedia.com/feed/PJ 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 17:52:33 -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[May this new week bring strength, courage, and safety to Israel and the U.S., as we continue to navigate through these challenging times.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:18:53 -0400<![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Barclay]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Israel]]>https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/05/17/rabbi-michael-barclays-iran-war-update-for-may-16-n4952971<![CDATA[Hello once again: Welcome to Sunday,&nbsp;May 17, 2026. A busy day today. Today is Emergency Medical Services Day, National Walnut Day, National Creativity Day, National Play Your Ukulele Day, World Tuna Day, National Cherry Cobbler Day, National Mushroom Hunting Day, National Pack Rat Day, National Pinot Grigio Day, and Stepmother's Day.]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:26:37 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Bill Cassidy]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Louisiana]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]><![CDATA[Thomas Massie]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/05/17/the-maga-effect-on-the-mid-terms-n4952963<![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[Sara Innamorato (D), Allegheny County’s county executive, was a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) when she defeated an old-guard Democrat to take her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2018. This marked her entry into public life.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:59:02 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/16/fettermans-backyard-is-going-full-socialist-with-proposed-parental-leave-mandate-n4952947<![CDATA[Founder and former executive director of Feeding Our Future, Aimee Bock, finds herself sitting in custody as one of the central figures in one of the ugliest COVID-era fraud scandals in America. A federal jury convicted Bock in March 2025 on seven counts tied to wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, and federal program fraud.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:59:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Ilhan Omar]]><![CDATA[Minnesota]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/16/feeding-our-future-convict-points-at-ilhan-omar-n4952946<![CDATA[Aaron Rodgers has reportedly agreed to return as quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers on a one-year deal worth up to $25 million. The base salary is expected to land around $22 to $23 million, with incentives pushing the number higher.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 23:49:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[NFL]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/16/steelers-get-rodgers-packers-fans-remember-the-baggage-n4952949<![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[Texas stands at a rare and narrow window of opportunity. With an America-First administration still in the White House, Texas has a partner in the fight to secure our land from those who seek to invade, infiltrate, and corrupt her. For the first time in years, federal courts are receptive to originalist arguments, clawing back decades of liberal case law.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:11:00 -0400<![CDATA[Andy Hopper]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Cartels]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://pjmedia.com/andy-hopper/2026/05/16/texas-never-surrendered-its-right-to-defend-its-borders-n4952928<![CDATA[California state employees now face a return-to-office rule that millions of private-sector employees already know as “going to work.”]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/16/california-bureaucrats-meet-the-four-day-office-week-and-start-complaining-n4952944<![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[Open the Books exposed yet another insight into the stinking, rotten catastrophe that is the massive, systematic, and continuing stealing from American taxpayers via an unknown number of federal social service programs that for decades have all but hung in their windows signs saying "Come Steal."]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:02:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2026/05/16/now-we-really-know-how-the-left-played-the-southern-baptist-convention-n4952816<![CDATA[Rail workers shut down the Long Island Rail Road early Saturday morning, leaving Long Island commuters with the kind of travel problem that ruins workdays before they even begin.]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/16/hochul-blames-trump-while-long-island-loses-its-trains-n4952940<![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