The State Department and a congressional delegation have engaged with a top-ranking Bosnian official who earlier this year reportedly touted potential cooperation with the government of Iran for military industry development.  The same official, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Defense Minister Zukan Helez, also smeared Heritage Foundation Research Fellow Max Primorac over his congressional testimony this week.  Last week, the U.S. Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina promoted a meeting Helez had with two members of Congress, Reps. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, and Donald Norcross, D-N.J.  Rep. Mike Turner and Rep. Donald Norcross met with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Minister of Defense Zukan Helez and Deputy Minister of Defense Aleksandar Goganovi? today to discuss our shared interest in a secure and stable BiH, and to highlight the importance of our continuing… pic.twitter.com/JY6AkMwKOa— US Embassy Sarajevo (@USEmbassySJJ) November 25, 2025 The embassy, which used “BiH” to refer to the Balkan state, said the members of Congress and Helez discussed “shared interest in a secure and stable BiH, and to highlight the importance of our continuing U.S.-BiH security partnership, which has secured 30 years of peace in BiH, bolstered regional stability, and enhanced economic opportunities for citizens of both the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In May, Helez met with Brigadier Mahmoud Mohaghagh Pour, the non-resident military envoy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Sarajevo Times reported.  “Minister Helez emphasized that he will never forget the assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Iran provided during the war years, when it was most needed,” the outlet reported. “He noted that he believes that Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina can also cooperate in the field of military industry development, taking into account all political circumstances and the state structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” The report went on to say: “Pour announced to Minister Helez an invitation for high-level delegations from BiH and Iran to exchange visits, with the aim of considering the possibility of establishing closer bilateral cooperation between the Ministries of Defense of BiH and Iran.” Helez is an “extremist,” and “Iran’s point man in the Balkans,” said J. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy in a post on X Friday.   Why is US Embassy promoting Bosnia's Islamic extremist defense minister Zukan Helez? Helez is Iran's point man in the Balkans. In league with jihadists, Helez executed Christian prisoners. @RepMikeTurner @DonaldNorcross https://t.co/F2NMslhiel— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) December 5, 2025 Waller also noted that Helez verbally attacked Max Primorac, a senior research fellow with The Heritage Foundation, after Primorac testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. Helez called him the spawn of “fascists” and “Nazis”, Waller noted.  Immediately after @Heritage foreign policy veteran Max Primorac testifies in the House to defend the president's foreign policy agenda, Bosnia's defense minister Zukan Helez calls him the spawn of fascists and Nazis. The @USEmbassySJJ is promoting Helez. @DeputySecState https://t.co/qBimgVl3mz— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) December 5, 2025 Primorac said the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo has not criticized the Helez statement. A former official in the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, Primorac said that embassies typically defend Americans.  “Helez is sending the message to anyone in the future, you criticize us, we will come after you,” Primorac told The Daily Signal.  He also blames the embassy more than the members of Congress for the meeting, since embassies have the background information on officials.  “The embassies arrange meetings for congressional delegations. They put these guys in a compromising position,” Primorac said. “There are no new political employees in the embassy there. Nothing has changed from the Biden administration.” The Daily Signal reached out to the State Department, as well as to the offices of both Turner and Norcross, but did not get a response by Friday afternoon.  The Daily Signal also reached out to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Embassy in the United States by phone and email, as well as Bosnia’s Ministry of Defense and the office of the prime minister by email. None responded by publication time.  Primorac wrote a Heritage Foundation report in July detailing some of the historic ties between the Balkan nation and Iran.  “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps established long-term ties to Bosniak leaders, especially those in the intelligence services,” the report explains. “Thirty years on, these ties remain as BiH’s Muslim leaders have revived wartime ties with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood while undergoing radicalization via years of external funding of hardline imams.” “The May 2025 visit of a high-level Iranian defense official to meet with the BiH’s Muslim minister of defense prompted a sharp rebuke from the Trump Administration,” Primorac’s report continued. “The radicalization of BiH’s Muslim authorities reached its apex last month [June 2025] when they cancelled the biannual meeting in Sarajevo of the Conference of European Rabbis, calling their meeting ‘morally offensive’ as ‘support will be sent to the occupier [Israel]… who commits genocide against the innocent population of Gaza.’” The post Why Are US Officials Promoting a Meeting With an Ally of Iran? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Fox News Channel has been the highest-rated TV network for 23 consecutive years and is on its way to making it 24 as year closes out. According to Nielsen Big Data + Panel numbers released Friday, Fox News continued to dominate viewership in November and substantially outpaced CNN and MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, during the day and primetime slots. Fox News’ cable competition sunk to historic low ratings not seen since the 1990s. Fox News averaged 2.38 million viewers during primetime, followed by MS Now (945,000 viewers) and CNN (556,000 viewers). Fox News more than doubled its competitors during the day, averaging 1.379 million viewers and topping MS Now with 600,000 viewers and CNN with 430,000 viewers. Compared to its broadcast TV rivals, Fox News beat CBS (3,190,000 viewers) and NBC (3,142,000 viewers), even though both are more widely available. Despite the primetime competition of ESPN’s Monday Night Football, Fox News still averaged 2.439 million viewers in weekday primetime while ESPN had a slightly lower average of 2.435 million viewers. Fox News launched three new weekend shows in September, which are all dominating the network’s cable news competition. “Saturday in America” with former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is the most-watched cable news show on Saturday with an average of 1.3 million viewers. “My View” with Laura Trump on Saturdays garnered 1 million average viewers. “The Sunday Briefing” with senior White House correspondents Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich ranked as the second most-watched cable news program on Sunday with 1.2 million average viewers. The top five cable news programs in November were all Fox News shows. “The Five,” the network’s most popular show, airs at 5 p.m. and averages 3.6 million viewers “Jesse Watters Primetime” airs at 8 p.m. and averages 2.9 million viewers “Special Report” with Bret Baier airs at 6 p.m. and averages 2.7 million viewers “The Ingraham Angle” airs at 7 p.m. with an average of 2.53 million viewers “Gutfeld!” stars conservative comedian Greg Gutfeld, airing at 10 p.m. and averages 2.52 million viewers nightly “Fox & Friends,” airing weekdays from 6-9 a.m. remained the No. 1 cable news morning program for the 57th consecutive month. With an average of 1.3 million viewers, it outperformed CNN and MS NOW combined. The post Meet the Saturday Show Host Crushing the Cable News Competition appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Catholics beware: Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger apparently doesn’t consider it disqualifying for someone to endorse an activist group that considers the official teaching of your faith “hateful.” Stanley Meador, formerly the special agent in charge at the Richmond FBI office, approved the notorious memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics” and citing as a reliable source a far-left activist group that characterizes part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as hateful enough to merit inclusion on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. Spanberger, who presents herself as a moderate and uniter, nominated Meador the commonwealth’s next secretary of public safety and homeland security. To be sure, Meador has an impressive resume: he received a Virginia “Declaration of Valor” for his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attack at the Pentagon and a Sheriff’s Star Award for his efforts in dismantling a gang enterprise in Spokane, Washington. Yet Spanberger never mentioned the scandal that likely led the FBI to put Meador on administrative leave in June. The FBI Memo Under Meador’s leadership, the FBI’s Richmond office crafted a memo urging agents to probe the supposed nexus between “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” and “radical-traditional Catholics,” citing the SPLC and including a list of SPLC-designated “hate groups” for agents to target. The FBI told The Daily Signal in February 2023 that the memo “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI” and would be rescinded immediately. Meador later approached Catholics in Virginia to try to mend the rift. FBI Director Kash Patel described the SPLC as a “partisan smear machine” when announcing that the bureau had cut all ties to the organization under his leadership. The Southern Poverty Law Center gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, but it has weaponized that reputation, putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups on a “hate map” with Klan chapters. This map is a double-edged sword: it helps the SPLC raise money by exaggerating “hate” and presenting the SPLC as the solution to it; and it helps the SPLC police the national discourse by demonizing those who dissent from its radical agenda as hateful. The SPLC pushes transgender ideology and brands those who oppose it “anti-LGBTQ hate groups,” even when they themselves are made up of lesbian and gay members. It supports divisive racial lessons in school and brands parental rights groups that disagree “extremists,” adding them to the “hate map.” In 2019, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led the SPLC to fire its co-founder and see its president resign, a former employee called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam” aimed at bilking donors. The “hate map” inspired a terrorist to target a conservative Christian nonprofit in the District of Columbia, in 2012. The assassination of Charlie Kirk followed just a few months after the SPLC put his organization, Turning Point USA, on the “hate map.” The SPLC condemned both of these attacks, but has yet to remove either group from the map. A Particularly Bad Record on Catholicism, Christianity Yet the SPLC’s record is particularly atrocious when it comes to conservative Christianity and Catholicism, in particular. Critics have long accused the SPLC of being anti-Christian, and the group responded to these claims by noting that it does not put all Christian groups on the “hate map.” For years, the SPLC cited its decision not to put the organization Focus on the Family on the “hate map” as evidence it wasn’t anti-Christian. This year, it added Focus to the map. Yet the worst attack on Catholicism arguably came when the SPLC added The Ruth Institute, a Lousiana-based nonprofit dedicated to helping the victims of the sexual revolution, to the “hate map.” It cited as evidence of “hate” a quote from the institute’s founder, Jennifer Roback Morse. Morse had quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church, stating that homosexual activity is “intrinsically disordered.” Even now, the SPLC lists that quote as proof that her organization is a “hate group,” even though it comes directly from the Catechism, a document that binds one billion Catholics around the world. “If this claim is enough to make an organization a ‘hate group,’ then the SPLC should call the Catholic Church a ‘hate group.’ Otherwise, it is being intellectually dishonest,” I wrote in my book, Making Hate Pay. “The Catholic Church is the largest Christian denomination, claiming one billion adherents. By the SPLC’s criteria, this massive church representing more than one eighth of the world’s population should be considered a ‘hate group.’ It doesn’t get more mainstream than that.” Spanberger can call herself “moderate” until she’s blue in the face. She can call her transition team “United for Virginia’s Future” all she likes. But the fact remains, she just promoted a man who approved one of the most notorious documents to come out of the FBI, and Virginians of faith deserve an explanation. The post CHILLING: Spanberger Taps FBI Agent Who Oversaw Anti-Catholic Memo appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship. The high court announced Friday that it will hear arguments regarding Trump’s executive order that would revoke the automatic guarantee that any child born on U.S. soil—even to an illegal immigrant parents—would be an American citizen. Trump’s order has not gone into effect, and was previously stopped by lower courts. This has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent going back to 1898, when the majority upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which was enacted to grant citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War. Several left-leaning immigration groups, along with 22 states, sued to overturn Trump’s executive order that he signed on the first day of his second term.  In one sentence about the case, the court issued an order Friday saying, “Trump, president of the U.S. et al. v. Barbara, et al. The petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is granted.” Oral arguments will be held next year, with a ruling likely by the end of June.  The provision of the 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The point of contention in the case is the phrase, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” which Solicitor General D. John Sauer has argued was misinterpreted by the court’s late 19th century ruling.  More than 22 U.S. states and immigrants’ rights groups have sued the Trump administration to block the change to birthright citizenship, arguing in court filings that the executive order is both unconstitutional and “unprecedented.” This is a breaking news story. Please return for updates. The post BREAKING: Supreme Court Takes Trump Birthright Citizenship Case appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump received the first ever “FIFA Peace Prize” on Friday at the 2026 World Cup Draw in Washington, D.C. “The FIFA peace prize is presented annually on behalf of the billions of football-loving people from around the world to a distinguished individual who exemplifies an unwavering commitment to advancing peace and unity throughout the world,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said of the award presented to Trump. Infantino proceeded to applaud Trump for facilitating the Abraham Accords agreements of 2020, which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and multiple Arab nations, and for the recent ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War. Trump Draws the USA as the FIFA World Cup Draw BeginsPresident Donald Trump, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, and Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney each drew balls of their own nations during a ceremony at the @kencen in Washington, D.C., today.The three leaders’ countries… pic.twitter.com/uQdfZcBUe4— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 5, 2025 The World Cup Draw, a ceremony that determines the matchups in the global soccer tournament, was held at the Kennedy Center. The World Cup will take place in cities across the continent as the United States, Mexico, and Canada host the games. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney were present at Friday’s event. Ahead of receiving the prize, Trump told reporters, “I can tell you I did settle eight wars and we have a ninth coming—and which nobody’s ever done before. But I want to really save lives. I don’t need prizes, I need to save lives, so we’re saving a lot of lives. I’ve saved millions and millions of lives.” .@POTUS on the FIFA Peace Prize: "I want to really save lives. I don't need prizes. I need to save lives." pic.twitter.com/EDeIqjPGoD— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) December 5, 2025 Liberals, however, were outraged at Trump getting the prize despite the administration’s diplomatic successes. Progressive political commentator Keith Olbermann called the award a “bulls–t peace prize,” adding that FIFA “bought it at Trophies-R-Us in Georgetown this morning.” Trump couldn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize so FIFA made one up for him. https://t.co/noNf4I43PY— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) December 5, 2025 The Democrat Party’s X account also weighed in: “Trump couldn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize so FIFA made one up for him.” Nevertheless, the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2025, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, dedicated her prize to the president. Furthermore, several foreign leaders have nominated Trump for the peace prize in 2026 as the president is the odds on favorite to win the prize next year, according to Polymarket. FIFA Honors Donald Trump With Newly-Invented Peace Prize for ‘Advancing Peace and Unity’Gianni Infantino, president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, presented President Trump with a newly-invented @FIFAWorldCup peace prize during the draw for the 2026… pic.twitter.com/9DCAJeE9mK— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 5, 2025 The post Trump Receives First Ever ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.