The U.S. Military said Sunday that the headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been destroyed during the joint U.S.-Israel military strikes launched over the weekend. “The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed more than 1,000 Americans over the past 47 years. Yesterday, a large-scale U.S. strike cut off the head of the snake. America has the most powerful military on earth, and the IRGC no longer has a headquarters,” U.S. Central Command said, posting a video of the strikes.  The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed more than 1,000 Americans over the past 47 years. Yesterday, a large-scale U.S. strike cut off the head of the snake. America has the most powerful military on earth, and the IRGC no longer has a headquarters. pic.twitter.com/WdpN7JBECr — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 1, 2026 The IRGC was based in Tehran and designated as a foreign terrorist organization by Trump during his first term in office. Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the IRGC, was reportedly killed during the strikes. The State Department has said that the militant group has engaged in terrorism for decades and is responsible for the deaths and kidnappings of hundreds of Americans. Suspected IRGC attacks have been disrupted in recent years across the United States, Germany, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Bahrain, and Turkey. During his first term, Trump took out Qasem Soleimani, the general who commanded the IRCG Quds Force. That unit was responsible for much of the IRGC’s terrorist activities, according to American officials. Trump on Saturday called for members of the IRGC to lay down their weapons. “We are hearing that many of their IRGC, Military, and other Security and Police Forces, no longer want to fight, and are looking for Immunity from us. As I said last night, ‘Now they can have Immunity, later they only get Death!’ Hopefully, the IRGC and Police will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves. That process should soon be starting in that, not only the death of Khamenei but the Country has been, in only one day, very much destroyed and, even, obliterated,” the president wrote on Truth Social. Iran has launched attacks on 11 countries, targeting both military infrastructure and civilians, in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli strikes. At least three American service members have been killed with five more seriously wounded.

Fireballs obliterating defense sites, plumes of black smoke twisting into the Tehran skyline, and precision strikes flashing across the darkness — dramatic new footage released by the Israel Defense Forces shows what it says was a rapid seizure of air superiority over the Iranian capital within 24 hours of launching a joint assault with the United States. The IDF says the Israeli Air Force carried out more than 700 sorties and unleashed thousands of munitions in a sweeping campaign designed to dismantle Iran’s military infrastructure at speed and scale. “The Air Force cleared the way to Tehran within 24 hours,” the IDF said, adding that Israeli aircraft have been operating “with air superiority in the skies over Tehran” in recent hours. The video shows fighter jets lifting off for strike missions, explosions ripping through Iranian air defense systems, and thick columns of smoke rising from targeted sites across the city. Interceptor missiles can also be seen streaking skyward as Israeli forces knock down waves of unmanned aerial vehicles launched from Iran toward Israeli territory. According to the IDF, targets struck include ballistic missile launchers, military headquarters, air defense batteries, and command centers tied to what Israel describes as the Iranian regime’s terror apparatus. The Israel Defense Forces says it is striking targets in Tehran, releasing video strikes on defense systems. pic.twitter.com/4JmoS5F53u — Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) March 1, 2026 At the same time, Israel’s multi-layered air defense network — including the Iron Dome system, which intercepts incoming aerial threats mid-flight — working alongside fighter jets and attack helicopters, has knocked down Iranian drones since the beginning of the operation, the military said. The air campaign unfolds as part of a broader joint offensive between Israel and the United States targeting Iranian military assets across multiple fronts. President Donald Trump announced that United States forces, operating alongside Israel, have sunk multiple Iranian naval vessels and largely obliterated Tehran’s naval headquarters, signaling a coordinated push to degrade Iran’s land, air, and sea capabilities simultaneously. Securing air superiority over a capital of nearly nine million people in less than a day marks a significant escalation. Control of the skies allows for sustained precision strikes and limits Iran’s ability to contest operations from above. Israel says strikes in Tehran are ongoing, with additional attacks carried out in the heart of the city in recent minutes against remaining defense systems. Iran has responded by launching drones and vowing retaliation, setting the stage for further exchanges as the confrontation intensifies. Related: ‘Bottom Of The Sea’: Trump Declares Iran’s Navy Is Finished

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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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PBS's Washington Week with The Atlantic remains a reliably Democrat-boosting/Republican-bashing political roundtable, but this Friday, the show featured a tiny, overdue peek into an under-covered angle of the sordid Jeffrey Epstein saga, which thus far the media has used as a cudgel against President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. It turns out Democrats have their own hypocritical partisan reasons for not pursuing the Epstein case, according to a story by Sarah Fitzpatrick of The Atlantic magazine, going back to the elitist media's favorite power couple, the Clintons. Guest moderator Vivian Salama of The Atlantic, filling in for their editor Jeffrey Goldberg, tossed to her magazine colleague Fitzpatrick. SHOCKER: On PBS's 'Washington Week with The Atlantic,' they discussed an article they published on how Democrats avoided focus on the Epstein files because the Clintons didn't want it. More senior Democrats like Nancy Pelosi put the kibosh on it. But not any more. pic.twitter.com/jJajlvnNBy — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 1, 2026 VIVIAN SALAMA, THE ATLANTIC: Yes. Sarah, you know, you have a great piece out today….one of the things that you've mentioned in passing is that, for years, Democrats didn't pursue the release of these files in part because of that Clinton link. Can you talk a little bit about that and how, as your story talks about, it became a bipartisan issue? SARAH FITZPATRICK, THE ATLANTIC: Absolutely. This is one of the things that I find most fascinating about this story, because all of these files, millions of these files could have been released at any point by a Biden Justice Department, by the first Trump administration. I mean, these have been there for a very long time. But the reason that this is coming out now, I think, is because party leadership had been very, very clear to a rank and file, do not pursue this, in part, I think out of concern about donors, about the Clintons, also for the fact that it was viewed as a distraction versus things like health care. But now, I think what we saw as younger Democrats, to your point, realize that this is a transparency issue. This is a trust in government issue….One of the things that's in my piece is that the Clintons were actively lobbying, calling around on Capitol Hill to Democrats to try and prevent this vote and to kind of influence how this was being done. And I think that really does not -- it just hits the wrong way with Democrats that are already feeling very jaded, given what happened with allegations of a cover-up about Biden's health and Harris’s loss…. ANDREW DESIDERIO, PUNCHBOWL NEWS: It is generational too, because Nancy Pelosi was the one actually behind closed doors, admonishing those younger Democrats for even entertaining the idea of voting to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress…. Not to quibble about a rare media bright side, but the “most fascinating” part about Democratic qualms is 40 paragraphs down in Fitzpatrick’s underlying Atlantic article: Democrats have had their own crisis over the Epstein files: How do they separate themselves from the party’s elder statesmen and wealthy donors who have been revealed to have been close to Epstein? During Joe Biden’s four years in office, the Justice Department did not pursue releasing records related to Epstein and lawmakers did not pursue legislative action. Democrats in Congress told me that their party leadership sought to dissuade them from pursuing the effort in recent months, changing their stance only after feeling public pressure and seeing internal polling.

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