Police arrested dozens during “No Kings” protests around the country on Saturday, including 70 in Los Angeles, California. According to organizers, eight million people took to the streets of American cities Saturday in a show of opposition President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and the Iran war. “Multiple demonstrators” failed to disperse at the Los Angeles rally and were taken into custody. More than 70 were arrested by the end of the night, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced that federal agents have “started arresting those who assaulted our personnel at the Los Angeles courthouse.”  “To those who were smashing concrete blocks and throwing them at our officers, we have you on video,” Essayli’s wrote. “We will find you and arrest you too. You’ve been warned.” Federal agents have started arresting those who assaulted our personnel at the Los Angeles courthouse. To those who were smashing concrete blocks and throwing them at our officers, we have you on video. We will find you and arrest you too. You’ve been warned. pic.twitter.com/kfegm6As3h— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) March 29, 2026 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported seven arrests were made in downtown Las Vegas for charges including throwing rocks, battery against protestors, refusing to remove a prohibited item, and four counts of pedestrian in roadway. Police arrested David Cox, 54, on accusations of traveling to New York City with plans to harm federal agents during the “No Kings” protest there. Cox was charged with making terroristic threats, false report of terrorism, and making a threat of mass harm. Three people were arrested in Denver on charges including resisting arrest, destruction of public property, throwing objects, second-degree assault, and carrying an unlawful weapon, according to the Denver Post. Portland police arrested three “No Kings” protesters late Saturday night at an ICE facility, saying the suspects vandalized the facility, damaged its gate, and threw rocks at local officers. In Memphis, when protests blocked the flow of traffic, officers attempted to move protesters out of the street, but some refused to comply. Police arrested one person for allegedly interfering with officers and refusing commands, according to News Channel 3 Memphis. Dallas police arrested one person after “punches thrown,” WFAA reported. The post Dozens of Arrests Made at ‘No Kings’ Rallies Around US Saturday appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Drug cartels have “limitless resources” and the ability to rapidly adapt to avoid interdiction, and authorities are currently playing a “game of catch-up,” says the head of a Caribbean security cooperative. “Cooperation and collaboration” between nations is paramount to stopping the illegal flow of drugs through the Caribbean to the U.S., Europe, and Australia, said Errington Ricardo Shurland, a senior retired naval officer from Barbados who serves as the executive director of the Regional Security System in the Caribbean. “The transnational criminal organizations, they’re not idiots, you know, if they see that they’re being stopped in a particular way, then they will find other ways” to transport narcotics, Shurland told The Daily Signal. The Trump administration has taken an aggressive approach to fighting the criminal cartels and has carried out more than 40 kinetic strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, leading to “a reduction” of drug smuggling vessels. “Yes, there has been a reduction on the maritime side, but that is not to say that there has been a reduction in the movement of drugs from south to north,” Shurland told The Daily Signal, explaining that he suspects the cartels are moving drugs increasingly by airplane now. “As we press the gas, so to speak, in a particular space, then the transnational organizations will shift to another space.” Rear Adm. Errington Ricardo Shurland. (Regional Security System) The Regional Security System exists to respond to security threats in the Caribbean and the surrounding region. Member states include Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Shurland says increased demand for drugs has led to larger drug loads moving through Caribbean waters, but he estimates authorities are only apprehending between 10% and 11% of the drugs flowing through the region. The Regional Security System works with the U.S. Joint Interagency Task Force South, as well as French, Dutch, and U.K. partners, but winning the “game” against the cartels will require greater intelligence sharing, more ships patrolling in the Caribbean, and even better relationships with West African nations where drugs are being moved overland into Europe, he explains. Because it is impossible to check every single shipping container, “sharing of information, sharing of intelligence, really positive working … relationships between states, functional relationships between law enforcement organizations” are necessary, he said, “to put pieces of the puzzle together so that we have that common operating picture” to interdict narcotics. Shurland said the Treaty of San Jose can serve as a tool to increase cooperation in the fight against the drug cartels. The 2003 maritime agreement “removes some of the bureaucracy in terms of being able to board and to interrogate a vessel” of a nation that is signed onto the agreement. Right now, states across the Western Hemisphere are willing to cooperate to combat the illicit drug trade, “but in the interest of partnership you have to do a much better job of sharing information and sharing intelligence and sharing resources.” The post A Path to Defeating the Drug Cartels   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Few things feel as American as a packed stadium singing about the land of the free—marching bands blaring, flags waving, the easy confidence of a people who believe in their liberty.  Which makes the scenes on city streets all the more shocking: groups shouting about oppression, injustice, and human rights violations in a country that is, by every historical and global measure, among the freest in the world.  Freedom still exists in this country—but we’ve forgotten to teach the principles that make it work: hard work, discipline, and purpose.   British politician Edmund Burke warned liberty must exist “with order and virtue,” and without them “cannot exist at all.” That insight still applies today  Hard Work and Discipline  Freedom means having agency. But agency only matters when you have the discipline to control your emotions and impulses and make wise, productive choices. Hard work is the training ground for that kind of self-control.  According to Science Insights, self-discipline is one of the strongest indicators of success in nearly every domain of life, including finances, career performance, physical health, and longevity. They write, “What makes it so powerful isn’t just willpower in the moment. It’s the ability to maintain patterns of behavior that align with long-term goals, even when short-term temptations pull you in the other direction.”  Now, as you foster these traits of work and discipline, the meaning of freedom begins to shift. You experience more freedom when you have a stronger career, greater financial stability, and fewer limitations from poor health.  In other words: The more disciplined you are, the more freedom you actually have.  As religious leader Boyd K. Packer taught, “the key to freedom is obedience”—not to external authority, but to the principles that keep a person grounded, disciplined, and capable of self-government.  Purpose  Purpose makes us work hard, and hard work gives us a purpose. Purpose creates order.  Think of it this way: With unlimited freedom and zero purpose, your life will drift toward disaster.  Take the familiar example of an 18-year-old who has lived under curfews, chores, school schedules, and rules their whole life. The moment they leave home, they chase “freedom” with no direction—no plan, no structure, no purpose, and no reason to say no to temptation.  Within weeks, they’re skipping work, losing stability, slipping into addictions or destructive habits, and being controlled by the very impulses they once mistook for independence.   What they believed was the pursuit of freedom becomes the loss of it. Because freedom without purpose quickly collapses into chaos.  Now What  Be free. Not in the shallow sense of doing whatever feels good in the moment, but in the deeper way freedom was meant to be lived: through hard work, self-restraint, and purpose.  Too many people today chase the feeling of freedom by shouting about oppression or searching for something external to blame. But noise isn’t freedom. Outrage isn’t purpose.  Get a job. Build a family. Commit to something. Work hard at it. In doing so, you create a life that is stable, meaningful, joyful—and genuinely free.  The post Freedom Requires Discipline—and We’ve Forgotten How to Teach It  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

MIAMI—A Mexican senator has received death threats for speaking out boldly against the criminal cartels operating in her country. “I am under threat,” Sen. Lilly Tellez told The Daily Signal. “But I have faith in God, and that’s why I do this. And if we don’t speak about it, this will get worse, and no one is safe.” Tellez has been serving in Mexico’s Senate since 2018 and is outspoken about the country’s crime and drug problems, going so far as to call Mexico a “narco-state, because the former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a pact with the cartels.” “He took money from them to get into power, and in exchange, he didn’t go after the cartels,” Tellez claimed. Tellez is not the only political leader to make the allegation. The Texas Public Policy Foundation has accused Lopez Obrador of taking payments from the Sinaloa Cartel. In 2024, The New York Times reported that U.S. law enforcement spent years looking into allegations, but a formal investigation was never launched. Law enforcement reportedly dropped the inquiry over a lack of “appetite to pursue allegations against the leader of one of America’s top allies.” Lopez Obrador has denied that the United States inquired about his alleged deals with the cartels and has called accusations that he took money from the cartels “completely false.” However, Tellez asserts that Lopez Obrador allowed the cartels to influence Mexico’s government and that the criminal organizations continue to exploit that access today. Mexico’s Education Secretary Mario Delgado is a “narco-politician,” Tellez claims, accusing him of being involved “with the cartel that smuggles oil.” She accuses Coordinator of Advisors to the President Jesús Ramírez Cuevas of the same. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is “protecting these narco-politicians,” Tellez says. The Embassy of Mexico denied the claims, calling them “unfounded,” and told The Daily Signal that the accusations “belong in the realm of fiction, not in a serious conversation about security. What we can speak to are results, measurable reductions in violence, and sustained action against organized crime.” Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations are “among the world’s leading producers of illicit drugs, such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin,” according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. They “also control the wholesale trafficking of these drugs, and others such as cocaine, into the United States.” Sheinbaum was critical of Tellez in January after Tellez appeared on Fox News and said Mexicans want help from the U.S. to combat the cartels. “It’s not a minor issue that a senator gave an interview to a foreign media outlet calling for intervention,” Sheinbaum said. President Donald Trump announced in March a new military coalition aimed at addressing threats from drug cartels. “The United States will train and mobilize partner nation militaries to achieve the most effective fighting force necessary to dismantle cartels and their ability to export violence and pursue influence through organized intimidation,” Trump’s proclamation declared. In response to Trump’s proposal, Sheinbaum said the U.S. should focus first on stopping the flow of illegal weapons to the cartels in Mexico. Despite signs of tension, the U.S. and Mexico remain close allies. The U.S. provided intelligence to Mexico in February in an operation that killed the senior cartel leader known as “El Mencho,” according to the White House. The post ‘I Am Under Threat’: Why Mexico Politician Calls Her Country a ‘Narco-State’   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

For a brief window this coming week, Passover and Holy Week, the sacred observances of Jews and Christians, respectively, will overlap. Jews around the world will gather this Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the Seder, which recounts the Exodus from Egypt and God’s redemptive hand in history. And after Good Friday and Holy Saturday on Sunday, April 5, Christians will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise of eternal salvation. Two biblical traditions, distinct but from the same Abrahamic family tree, will thus find themselves marking holy seasons at the same time. In this fraught moment, this calendar convergence feels like quite a bit more than mere serendipity. It is a visceral reminder of the shared moral and theological inheritance that undergirds Judaism and Christianity—the common foundation that has molded and shaped what we know today as Western civilization. At their core, both holidays tell a story of redemption. For Jews, Passover is the story of a people delivered from bondage, divine justice meted out against tyranny, and covenantal purpose eventually forged after national liberation. Likewise for Christians, Easter is a story of redemption—of sin confronted and overcome, of sacrifice and renewal, of life triumphing over death. The theological particulars certainly differ, and Judaism’s heavier emphasis on particularism contrasts with Christianity’s universalist orientation, but the underlying message is still strikingly similar: Hope springs eternal. Equally central to both traditions, and both springtime holidays, is the idea of repentance. In Judaism, the concept of “teshuvah”—returning to God through repentance and righteous action—is a cornerstone of religious life. Jewish tradition teaches that in addition to the fall High Holiday season’s well-known focus on repentance, the springtime season of Passover is also a perfect occasion to atone and confidently step closer to God. Christianity, of course, also places repentance at the heart of spiritual renewal, calling believers to turn away from sin and toward charity and grace. The searing imagery of Christ’s crucifixion is ensconced in the West’s collective memory, perhaps more than anything else, for its emphasis on atonement for mankind’s sins. These shared values—redemption, repentance, moral accountability—help constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today. Zooming out from the overarching themes of this season’s calendrical overlap, consider some of the West’s other defining principles: the rule of law, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of life, the pursuit of justice. The fingerprints of the ecumenical biblical inheritance are ubiquitous. This is our common inheritance. This is who we are. And yet, at this very moment when the alignment of Passover and Easter should prompt reflection on that shared inheritance, bad-faith actors on the home front are seeking to tear Jews and Christians apart at the seams. The timing of this subversion could not possibly be worse. The West finds itself under unprecedented strain. The threats are multifaceted and very real. There is the challenge of Islamism—a totalitarian political ideology, historically beyond America’s borders but increasingly also found within, which seeks not peaceful coexistence but dominance. There is the rot of woke neo-Marxism, which rejects objective truth, undermines meritocracy, and seeks to replace individual responsibility with collective grievance and a debilitating victimhood culture. And there is the ever-insidious force of globalism, which threatens to erode national sovereignty, dilute cultural identity, and promote homogenized technocratic governance over the democratic accountability that only the nation-state can provide. Against these challenges, Jews and Christians must not stand apart. We simply cannot afford to. The symbolic overlap of Passover and Easter this year should serve as a moment of reflection that, despite real theological differences, we are bound together by an overwhelming common inheritance and an inescapable common destiny. This does not mean erasing distinctions. But it does mean acknowledging that we are allies in a broader civilizational struggle. It means recognizing the values we share are far more significant, at this juncture in history, than the doctrines that divide us. Loud provocateurs notwithstanding, the Judeo-Christian tradition has long been a powerful unifying force in the United States—a framework that transcends religious lines. Now is the time to build on that foundation. As families gather around the Seder table and for Easter services, there is an opportunity to reflect not only on the past but also on the future. What kind of civilization do we want to preserve and leave to our children? What values, customs and ways of life are worth defending? And who will stand together in that defense? The story of the West is, in many ways, a shared story. It is a story rooted in the belief that man is made in God’s image, redemption is possible, repentance is necessary, and human beings are called to something higher. It’s up to us, ultimately, to take that message seriously—and to lock arms and stand shoulder to shoulder like never before to preserve our inheritance for many more generations to come. 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 Jews and Christians: United We Stand, Divided We Fall appeared first on The Daily Signal.