As the American-Israeli war on Iran entered its second day Sunday, Iranian missiles and drones struck targets across the Persian Gulf, hitting U.S. installations and energy infrastructure in allied Gulf states, while Israel continued air operations over Iranian airspace amid reports of heavy losses to the Islamic Republic’s senior leadership. Three U.S. service members were killed and five seriously wounded in the conflict, U.S. Central Command said. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was among several senior officials already killed by American-Israeli airstrikes. Others include Iran’s army chief of staff, General Abdol Rahim Mousavi, Defense Minister General Aziz Nasirzadeh, and Secretary of the Defense Council Ali Shamkhani. Thousands of Iranians, led by Shiite clerics, filled the main square in the central city of Yazd on Sunday to mourn Khamenei, with many chanting and holding vigils. Social media footage also showed some Iranians celebrating Khamenei’s death. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian appeared on Iranian TV in a recorded address, offering condolences for Khamenei’s death and announcing that an interim three-member leadership council had been formed. It will consist of Pezeshkian himself, Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, and a senior jurist from the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. In Israel, at least nine people were killed in an Iranian missile strike on the town of Beit Shemesh, according to local emergency officials. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps broadcast warnings that no ships could pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries roughly 20 to 30 percent of global seaborne oil shipments. Tehran has not issued a formal blockade.  An oil tanker, the Palau-flagged Skylight, was struck on Sunday near Oman and began sinking, with four crew members injured and all 20 sailors evacuated, Omani authorities said. Iranian state media said the vessel was targeted for attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz after its declared closure. Major shippers including Maersk have suspended use of the shipping route in response. President Donald Trump said Sunday he was open to speaking with Iran’s new leadership. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk,” Trump told the Atlantic from Mar-a-Lago. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released Sunday found that just 27 percent of Americans approve of President Trump’s strikes on Iran, while 43 percent disapprove and 29 percent are unsure. Roughly half of respondents, including about one in four Republicans, said the president is too willing to use military force. The poll surveyed 1,282 U.S. adults on Saturday. The post Iran War Enters Second Day: Gulf Nations Take a Beating appeared first on The American Conservative.

How does an organization like the Boy Scouts of America restore trust after betraying its values? Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has given the Boy Scouts a chance, but it remains unclear whether the historic organization will take it. Fickle human hearts often lead us to sully our integrity. The biblical history of Israel presents a recurring pattern: God’s chosen people reject him to worship idols, so he delivers them into the hands of their enemies. Only when they cry out to God does he rescue them, restoring their integrity as God’s people, before the cycle repeats. The external motivation of God’s judgment leads them to repent, but is the repentance genuine? Something similar is happening with Scouting America, the institution that has rejected its original name, the Boy Scouts. After standing firm for traditional values in the 1990s by rejecting the pressure to admit openly homosexual boys—and winning at the Supreme Court—the Boy Scouts caved on homosexuality in 2013 and 2015, and then embraced transgender ideology in 2017. In 2020, it announced solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and introduced a merit badge celebrating “diversity and inclusion,” now mandatory for the rank of Eagle Scout. As an Eagle Scout, I felt utterly betrayed. The Boy Scout Betrayal It’s hard to grasp the full extent of this betrayal. The Boy Scouts of America, founded in 1910 to teach young men survival skills, foster friendships, and train boys to become citizens and leaders, has helped form many of America’s heroes, including Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Mike Rowe. The Scout Oath runs, “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” The Scout Law states, “A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.” These values aren’t inherently conservative or liberal. They set a moral standard for honesty and integrity. In recent years, however, the Left has warped basic words to advocate radical social positions, and its ideology corrupted the Boy Scouts. Transgender ideology represents a fundamental betrayal of the pledge to be trustworthy and reverent. What is less trustworthy than promoting the lie that a boy can become a girl and vice versa? What is less reverent than saying God made a mistake when he created each person male and female, and a person’s supposed internal sense of gender justifies Frankensteinian “treatments” to force their male or female body to resemble that of the opposite sex? As for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” it sounds noble, but it often cloaks the Marxist poison of critical race theory, which teaches that America is systemically racist such that only a radical transformation akin to a revolution can bring about justice. This ideology teaches that white people are inherently racist and oppressive, while black people are inherently oppressed. Adopted in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots in the wake of George Floyd’s death, the pro-DEI merit badge sent the message that the Boy Scouts was aligning with the divisive racial movement inspiring violence on the streets, rather than the men and women in uniform whom the movement demonized. Hegseth’s Wake Up Call Last year, Hegseth drew a line in the sand. The Boy Scouts, and now Scouting America, enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the U.S. military, and President Donald Trump had rightly declared that transgender ideology and DEI are antithetical to his administration’s priorities and the good of America. If Scouting America wanted to maintain its benefits with the U.S. military, it needed to return to its core values. That pressure paid off. Hegseth announced that Scouting America agreed to review and replace DEI language; to revoke the “Citizen in Society” merit badge that encouraged DEI and asked scouts to engage in activism; and to allow membership based only on biological sex, not gender identity. The Department of War has officially put Scouting America on notice. It’s time to get back to basics — and DoW is leading the charge. pic.twitter.com/EnY9mvaFLX— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) February 27, 2026 External pressure should not have been necessary to deliver these concessions—they represent a return to the politically neutral position the Boy Scouts of America had historically prided itself on. Scouting America released its own statement, noting that its moves reinforce its “commitment to scouting’s foundational ideas: leadership, character, duty to God, duty to country and service.” The group noted that it would not revert to its original name, because girl troops have played a role since the 1960s. Scouting America needs to not just celebrate the new policies, but explain what went wrong, and hold the leadership accountable. The organization’s president, Roger Krone, has served as chief scout executive since November 2023. Before that, he served as the CEO of Leidos from 2014 to 2023. During that time, Leidos received a perfect 100% score with the LGBTQ activist group the Human Rights Campaign. Krone needs to address this and explain why he won’t keep advocating transgender ideology at the Boy Scouts—or he needs to step down. The rejection of DEI and transgender ideology represents a step in the right direction, but alienated conservatives need to see more. It will take time for Scouting America to reverse the serious damage it did to its own honor. Like God’s judgment on Israel, Hegseth’s pressure campaign represents a call for the Boy Scouts to return to its original mission and restore its integrity. It may feel like punishment at first, but it will help restore the organization in the long run. The post ‘ON MY HONOR’: Can the Boy Scouts Restore Trust After Betraying Its Values? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If men’s basketball is the most popular and professional athlete-filled team sport at the quadrennial Summer Olympic Games, then men’s ice hockey is its Winter Olympic Games analogue. Every four years, the two-week Summer and Winter Olympics provide a respite for NBA and NHL fans from the annual domestic calendar. Stars who might normally be teammates instead pick up the jerseys of rival nations, competing against one another for love of home and hearth on the world’s grandest sporting stage. Each Olympic sport has had its iconic American triumphs too: Who can forget the 1992 basketball “Dream Team” in Barcelona, or the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid? But there is one major difference. The United States has dominated men’s basketball at the Summer Olympic Games, only once failing to win gold since NBA players were first allowed to compete in the Barcelona games. But in men’s ice hockey, the U.S. hadn’t won gold since the 1980 miracle—and not once since NHL players first competed in Nagano in 1998. Basketball, like baseball (which returns as an Olympic sport in Los Angeles in 2028), is an American invention. Not so for hockey: The bruising tough-guy game is Canadian in origin, and Canada is the winningest team in Olympic history. This year’s Canadian hockey team was touted by some as the greatest team ever assembled on ice. Yet, in one of the more extraordinary fixtures in recent sporting memory, the United States upset mighty Canada in Italy last Sunday to capture the Olympic gold medal in men’s ice hockey. It was a wildly entertaining affair—a bitterly contested 2-1 overtime thriller, marked by intense passion from both sides and an all-time historic performance from American netminder Connor Hellebuyck. It was a gritty upset victory over a more talented foe, made possible through determination and sheer force of will. The viral photo of golden goal-scoring forward Jack Hughes, smiling widely with two teeth missing and an American flag draped around his shoulder, instantly entered the realm of American sporting lore. Arguably even more impressive than the victory itself, though, was the way the American team handled the aftermath. And here, some additional context is necessary. For over a decade, the sports establishment has increasingly embraced the Left. The trend was crystallized when, in 2015, ESPN awarded Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at its eponymous ESPY Awards—just for being a man “identifying” as a woman. Alternative sports media such as Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Sports and Clay Travis’ OutKick seized on the obvious market share void, but much of the sports establishment still leans leftward. At the Australian Open tennis tournament in January, American stars deftly swatted away obnoxious questions from tendentious anti-Trump sports journalists. Earlier in the Milan Cortina games, some American athletes unfortunately succumbed to similar journalistic activism; freestyle skier Chris Lillis, for example, said he was “heartbroken” about the political situation at home. The golden American hockey men had no interest in playing this game. FBI Director Kash Patel, a lifelong recreational hockey player and fan who was in attendance, joined the men’s team in the locker room afterward to celebrate. Patel was able to get President Donald Trump on speakerphone, and the president congratulated the team for a hard-fought and well-earned victory. He invited the team to attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address in Washington. The players immediately accepted, and, in a viral video of the interaction, they seemed genuinely grateful for the phone call. But in a slew of predictable subsequent interviews, a number of journalists asked the players whether they were concerned at all about appearing alongside such a divisive president. In each and every instance, the players refused to take the bait. Golden boy Jack Hughes encapsulated this sobriety in Miami on Monday: “Everything is so political. We’re athletes. We’re so proud to represent the U.S. When you get the chance to go to White House and meet the president, we’re [just] proud to be Americans.” Jack’s brother Quinn Hughes, also on Team USA, even thanked the military for the victory over Canada: “It’s so special, and I want to thank our troops for allowing us to play this game.” Two-time Stanley Cup winner Matthew Tkachuk offered a similar sentiment when asked about Trump’s locker room call: “It’s an honor hearing from the president of the United States. … We’re definitely honored to represent him and the hundreds of millions across the country and to bring a gold medal back.” How unbelievably refreshing it all is. Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity. For a long time, it looked as if that might have been written off as nostalgia and forever lost to history. But perhaps not. As many noted, the instantly iconic photo of Hughes looks and feels like a throwback to a bygone era. The gold medal-winning 2026 U.S. Olympic men’s ice hockey team will inspire an entire generation of American hockey players, but if they can help us recover sports as a rare cultural totem that we share in common, and not yet another thing tearing us apart, they will make an even greater contribution to the health of the country they very clearly love. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The US Olympic Men’s Hockey Team Did It the Right Way appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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