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IN POLITICAL NEWS

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran reportedly eliminated senior regime and military figures, weakened naval capacity, prompted limited retaliation, and intensified partisan divides at home.

Trump allegedly bypassed traditional media and addressed the Iranian public directly, while U.S. outlets drew criticism for their characterization of Iran’s leadership.

Most Democratic lawmakers opposed the strikes, framing the action as politically polarizing.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to cut Pentagon ties with select universities over ideological concerns.

Democratic strategists debate health care reform and party direction, with internal divisions emerging between centrists and progressives.

Senate GOP leadership declined to require a talking filibuster on the SAVE Act, frustrating some conservatives.

Thirteen state attorneys general secured a settlement in which Vanguard agreed to roll back ESG initiatives and provide documentation.

During the Iran conflict, Kuwait mistakenly shot down three U.S. jets; all crews survived.

Separate violent incidents occurred in Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas, resulting in multiple casualties.

Opposition grows to proposed tax increases in California and New York, including wealth and corporate surcharges.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced indictments of 30 individuals tied to an alleged church invasion in Minnesota.

IN EPSTEIN FILES NEWS

Questions raised about whether “yacht-girl” culture reflects broader patterns associated with elite exploitation networks.

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

Federal authorities seized a million dollar home, vehicles, and luxury goods from an alleged fraud suspect.

IN CULTURAL NEWS

New polling shows nearly half of Americans regularly reflect on life’s meaning, with atheists and religiously unaffiliated respondents doing so less frequently.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

The Defense Department ended its relationship with Anthropic over security concerns and signed a new agreement with OpenAI.

U.S. natural gas production reached record levels, while a federal environmental review advanced new offshore drilling consideration in California.

China’s attempt to restrict rare earth mineral access reportedly backfired amid new technological developments.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

A Hungarian court ruled intelligence agencies may not label AfD as a right wing extremist organization.

Energy analysts warned oil prices could spike due to Strait of Hormuz instability and a Saudi refinery disruption affecting shipping insurance and supply flows.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer allowed U.S. use of British bases in support of Iran operations.

Anti U.S. unrest in Pakistan resulted in multiple protester deaths.

A Hong Kong court reversed a fraud conviction against media figure Jimmy Lai.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Political controversy surrounding Netflix reportedly complicated a potential Warner Bros. deal.

Singer Neil Sedaka, known for mid century pop hits, died at 86.

Actor Crispin Glover faced allegations involving coercive misconduct.

Season two of The Night Manager received strong praise for its finale and overall execution.

IN MEDICAL NEWS

New research suggests bacteria within kidney stones may play a causal role, opening potential treatment pathways.

Researchers in Abu Dhabi announced development of a new weight loss drug described as more effective than Ozempic.

A large global data review found egg consumption associated with improved heart health outcomes.

AND FINALLY

A large sinkhole on a UK golf course exposed a previously hidden cellar stocked with alcohol.

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Today's News with Larry SchweikartTODAY'S NEWS, February 28-March 2, 2026. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Hey everybody, how you doing? Welcome to today's news here for February 28th through March 2nd, 2026. I'm your host Larry Swiker bringing you all the headlines, all the links. Everything you need to know, you can get the rest of it here below in the written version. I know some of you didn't know this is in video as well. So if you go to Wild World of Politics, you may be listening on Apple, but if you go to Wild World of Politics, you can see the video, see my wonderful charming face. All right, remember a new book came out last Tuesday, go grab a copy of America in the 21st century. Remember if you want an autographed copy, email me at Larry at wildworldahistory.com and we will take care of it. Remember if you want to free chapters that go with Patriots history of the United States, email me at Larry

at wildworldahistory.com. I'll send them to you free. We just got our most recent royalty statement and folks, Patriots history of the United States now has sold over 427,000 copies and that's not counting what Mike and I personally sell at conventions over the years, which has to be another 3 to 5,000. So there's over 600,000 copies in print right now. And as I mentioned before, a 25th anniversary edition has been approved. So we'll get started on that pretty soon. All right, headlines, strikes against Iran, hoax news, laments and evil dictators passing, terror attacks at home, in political news. With recent military strikes against Iran and reducing the Iatola Chamani to room temperature, that is if all particles of his useless human coil are still

discovered, President Trump wins again and has immediately made the world a better place, something that the last presidents for the last 50 years have been trying to do his deal with Iran. Now think of this, in less than three months he's removed three of the most vile, evil, anti-human sloth crutches from the surface of the planet. Maduro El Mincho, now Chamani. Wow, who's next? Little Bobby De Niro? Eric Baldwin? Well, predictably, Democrats are squealing. But of course, so is the Tuckster. You know, I don't know if this guy got Lyme disease or if he's been inhabited by one of those alien reptilians, but he's just like mass whole junior. For the record, those of you who know me know that I have never trusted the Tuckster, even when he briefly appeared to be on our side. I think, I don't have proof, but I think that

Rush Limbaugh agreed with me on him. At any rate, the U.S. Israeli strike killed seven targets with the objective of so destabilizing the Iranian tyranny that the people can take over once and for all. Iranian Americans love them. Some President Trump has celebrations broke out across the country and the globe. And of course, hoax news media is out there trying to say, you don't really mean this. It's Trump. They're all we love Trump. Iran retaliated weekly and ineffectively by apparently hitting some empty buildings and non-military targets. So far, only four U.S. battle deaths have been noted in retaliatory missile attacks. One intercepted missile aimed at the burger hotel caused, quote, a small fire and limited damage. Great. So now you can get a room there for just under 1.2 mil a night. Meanwhile, American forces sent nine Iranian naval ships. U.S. attacks also killed over 40

senior Iranian military officials. Trump went through the whole deck of cards. Remember that in the Iraq war? Rumsfeld had his deck of cards of the top 52 guys in the Iraqi regime. Well, Trump has gone through the whole deck of cards in a day. And now it appears that Kamini's replacement was killed just hours after he took office. The mullahs that seems have a lifespan of a Colombian policeman. And Iran's indiscriminate airstrikes have just as Jeff shoulders puts it in his coffee in COVID in a single weekend managed to unite the Arab Gulf states, the E3 and the United States all against itself. That level of self owning requires a special kind of strategic stupidity, right, Jeff? All this, of course, led to Politico to write that, well, Trump has buried the 20th century. Yep, like you bury a dead parakeet in your backyard.

Not only did Trump, as usual, bypass the traditional sclerotic, mummified hoax news media and state department, but he managed to get this to hack into the Iranian's own state TV and address the Iranian people directly. Wow. Meanwhile, our media, such as the New York Slimes, which noted in its obituary of the late Scott Adams that he had used quote, racist language, which is a total lie called Kamini. Now this is the New York Slimes. They call Kamini quote a hard-line cleric who made Iran a regional power like he was some sort of diplomat. See, such a nice murderer, kids, it's okay. You can play with stabby the clown. But no, they weren't done. The Washington Compost praised Kamini's quote, easy smile. You know, Stalin had a nice easy smile as he drafted lists of former friends to be shot and tortured.

I swear these hoax news media is the enemy of the people, period. I don't care how much reforming they do. They can't hip it. It's who they is. The strike pushed all nut job Democrats into opposition, almost as Trump might have predicted. They're on the wrong side of yet another 80-20 issue, which will remain so as long as there are very few U.S. casualties. Crazy, amazing Zoran is just the latest to oppose. Good. The publisher Pete Hickseth says the Department of War is cutting ties with all you woke universities. You know, it's a good start. Do you realize that with the exception of the University of Kansas and the University of North Carolina, virtually no university history departments in the nation offer a course in military history today? Most don't even offer a course in U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Think about that. Of course, if you had such a course,

it would have to replace their course of transgender Aztecs or something like that. Anyway, I love these guys over at the Liberal Patriot. You know, I do feel for them. They're working really hard to keep the Democrat Party from total extinction. In their latest list of policies, the Dems should adopt one is to reform health care. Get it? Holy crap, guys. Did you miss the zero administrations? That's not Obamacare. We're supposed to do reform health care. It made it worse. You cannot reform health care without explicitly repudiating Obamacare, which they won't do. Meanwhile, as I predicted, the battle lines are shaping up with the so-called centrist Democrats, both of them, I guess, lining up to stop occasional cortex and the amazing Zoran. Oh, my little biodegrading friends. She's not the one you need to worry about. It's the

other New Yorker, you know, the communist mayor. Completely predictable. And this is who many of us thought can't carry a throne really was. He refuses to require a talking filibuster in order to pass the SAVE Act. In other words, they don't have to get up there and talk. They just say, oh, yeah, I'm busy talking. In other words, garbage. He doesn't want to pass the SAVE Act. What a nasty turd bucket. I tell you, in better ways and in better news, 13 state attorneys general have won a suit versus Vanguard in which the company ended all ESG programs and agreed to hand over documents. That's pretty cool. During the Iran attacks, Kuwait mistakenly shot down three US jets, but fortunately, all crews survived. I think Kuwait should be getting a bill from the war department on that one. A knife-wielding urine dropper injured four in D.C. and was taken into

custody with the no information provided scenario. So I think we can guess who this guy is. While a shooting in an Austin bar, a man with an Allah hoodie and a Quran in his car killed three and wounded several others before being killed by the cops. Now my question is this is Texas. Why weren't the patrons of the bar shooting back? But yes, it was Austin. In the final pushback against California's new wealth tax, a Democrat group is dumping $10 million into stopping the so-called CEO tax that they says, quote, will destroy groomer cities in Francisco. Well, in that case, I'm for it. Oh, and speaking of killing cities with taxes, the amazing Zorons, Albany Pals are trying to institute, wait for it, a 25% corporate surcharge in the state.

You know, the likelihood of Miami becoming the new financial capital of the world is one step closer. Attorney General Pam Bundy announced indictments of 30 more people who invaded that Minnesota church. Where do you rest? Right there, my friends. In Epstein files news, are yacht girls, shapely beauties who take these trips with rich codgers and hopes of landing a permanent gig of some sort? Are they an extension of the Epstein culture as this writer? An illegal criminal a they used the feds of seized a million dollar home cars and designer goods from one of the skinny stammer's. Hope they get all of them. In cultural news, the great Ryan Burke shows that nearly half of Americans think about the meaning of life and their purpose at least once a week, with atheists and nuns pondering their role in the universe and considerably

less, probably with good reason. In economic news, no sooner did the Department of War boot out anthropic AI as a security rift than it signed with open AI, musk outfit. US natural gas production jumped to a record, meanwhile, in a blow to the Olanginus Buduratius gruesome, Governor of California, a federal environmental board is going ahead with a review for new offshore drilling in California. Good. I'll drill one through some new some skull. The tricons attempted to cut us off from rare earth minerals that has now backfired with new tech discoveries here. In international news, pretty big news for the Huns. As a court, their rule that the country's intel agencies could not refer to AFD, the alternative for democracy party, as quote, a right wing extremist organization, which I guess means now they'll just call

them Nazis and be done with it. David Blackman, the rest of the energy, says to fill up now. He says, oil prices will spike in part because the Iranians have for the moment shut down the Gulf of Hormuz, but not like you think, not like they're singing a bunch of ships. Many of the big freight tanker companies don't always carry fully-insured cargo and will have to rejigger their insurance before they can continue. Then there is the shutdown of the Tamula refinery in Saudi Arabia. I'm sorry, Tamura refinery in Saudi Arabia. AFRA drone attack of really no consequences. Still, it spooked Aramco enough to close it down for now. However, with the straight of Hormuz shut down, the Chikam just lost 20% of their own oil. Something tells me they're going to miss it a whole lot more than we do. Mediocre Britain's stuttering starmer reluctantly allowed the US to use our own

bases there for support of the Iran Chess Geismat. Anti-US rioters in Pukistan, as Obama used to call it, succeeded in getting 20 of their own numbers sent to the 72 virgins when they protested the American embassies there. A Hong Kong court reversed the verdict of the fraud trial against Jimmy Lai, or Lee, I don't know how he pronounces it, LAI, a Chinese media mogul. In entertainment news, how Susan Rice's stupid, moronic comments may have caused Netflix the Warner Brothers deal. But hold on, it might be actually weirder than that. When a group of GOP lawmakers are invited to Netflix's headquarters, in order to convince them to approve the deal, they found tampons in the men's room. No, Jimmy wasn't there. But the message was loud and clear. Netflix is woke, so nope.

One of the early rockers who bridge the gap between Elvis and the Beatles, Neil Sedaka, famous for calendar girl and breaking up his hard-to-do dead at 86. Great and original voice. The actor who played the adult Marty McFly in the movie back to the future, Chris Van Glover has been accused of keeping a sex slave. Heck, he isn't even in the Epstein files. Wow, second season of Primes, the night manager show with Tom Hiddleston was fantastic. Couple of slow spots early, but hang in there, my friends. The finale is one of the very best. I can't wait for next season to start in Hiddleston, as I said before, is a great actor. In medical news, could be a huge breakthrough for decades. Doctors didn't know what caused kidney stones to form. Now, new research suggests there is bacteria inside the kidney stones, which could be

the formative agent and easily treatable. Mrs. LS would certainly appreciate that one. Researchers in Abu Dhabi have developed a new wakebuster drug called the Holy Grail, or I guess in this case, the Holy Kaba, that's better than ozimpic. We'll see. I think we all knew this data from 142 countries says eating eggs is good for your heart. I think we all knew that was true. Panera, deeply disappointed. And finally, every cloud has a silver lining as a massive sinkhole on a UK golf course, revealed a hidden booze-filled seller, although apparently Botoxic wasn't in there when they found it. Anyway, that's today's news. Bailaria Coffee. We've decided we're going all in on AI for the background and everything else at Patriots history. So we're ready to move on this if we can just

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