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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) U.S. and Israeli actions against Iran aim to weaken the clerical regime and encourage internal revolution without deploying ground troops; analysts note potential parallels to past regime-change attempts.

2) Israeli strikes reportedly targeted dozens of senior clerics, while U.S. operations eliminated a figure linked to an alleged assassination plot against Donald Trump. Reports also suggested Western intelligence sources within Iran’s leadership and earlier warnings about Iranian nuclear material stockpiles.

3) Iranian retaliatory missile attacks have largely been intercepted; Western forces have targeted launch systems and naval assets while protecting Gulf shipping routes and offering insurance support for maritime trade.

4) Early maneuvering for the 2028 U.S. presidential race is emerging within the Democratic Party, with figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani discussed in political speculation; internal party divisions continue to be debated by commentators.

5) Several U.S. primary contests produced notable results, including competitive races in Texas involving Ken Paxton and John Cornyn, with runoffs expected.

6) The House Oversight Committee released deposition footage involving Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton connected to past investigations; a separate report criticized Minnesota leadership’s response to a large fraud case.

7) The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office carried out a major child-trafficking sting leading to 89 arrests; federal authorities are reportedly pursuing additional investigations.

8) Maryland school districts that previously purchased electric school buses have decided to switch back to diesel fleets after operational problems.

9) The New York Supreme Court blocked a redistricting plan that could have eliminated a Republican seat; Texas courts upheld a state ban on paid ballot harvesting, while several congressional retirements were announced ahead of the 2026 cycle.

10) A driverless taxi from Waymo reportedly obstructed an ambulance response, raising further concerns about autonomous vehicle safety.

11) U.S. states report recovering more than $2 billion in fraud cases, while the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under Mehmet Oz has launched a probe into New York’s $124 billion Medicaid program.

12) Illinois officials are debating how overdose deaths from Fentanyl should be categorized in official statistics.

IN EPSTEIN FILES NEWS

13) Russian businessman Umar Dzhabrailov reportedly died by suicide after his name appeared in discussions related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

IN TRANSOID NEWS

14) The Supreme Court of the United States sided with parents seeking transparency about school gender-identity policies, temporarily blocking certain practices in California while litigation proceeds.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

15) U.S. trade data shows exports rising and imports falling while oil prices climb modestly; a trade court ordered refunds for some tariffs while new tariff policies continue.

16) Energy company Valero Energy plans to exit operations in California, citing costs; meanwhile a developer is experimenting with 3D-printed homes priced around $375,000.

17) Analysts warn California’s limited pipeline infrastructure and reliance on imported oil could create energy security challenges; new infrastructure deals are being promoted as potential solutions.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

18) Analysts report declining investor enthusiasm for some green-energy projects as fossil fuel demand persists, while Europe’s emissions trading market faces pressure.

19) Venezuela has expanded oil exports amid shifting global supply, while disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to affect Asian importers, particularly China.

20) Trade tensions emerged after the U.S. restricted commerce with Spain during disputes over military basing; the U.K. later agreed to host U.S. bombers for regional operations.

21) The Royal Navy faces operational constraints, with aircraft carriers undergoing maintenance and limited deployment capacity.

22) A U.S. submarine reportedly sank an Iranian warship, marking the first such torpedo sinking since World War II.

23) U.S. and Ecuador forces conducted joint operations targeting narcotics trafficking groups.

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

24) Bruce Campbell, known for the Evil Dead franchise, announced he has an incurable but treatable cancer diagnosis.

25) Legendary Lou Holtz, who led Notre Dame Fighting Irish football to the 1988 national championship, has died at age 89.

AND FINALLY

26) Conservation efforts in Turkmenistan are helping the endangered Persian leopard population recover. 🐆

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Today's News with Larry SchweikartTODAY'S NEWS, March 3-5, 2026. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Hey, everybody. How you doing? Welcome to Larry's news. Today's news. March 3rd through 5th, 2026. I'm Larry Swijkert, your host, bringing you all the links here, full stories below at the wild world of politics. Remember the new book, American 21st Century is out. Get your copy now. If you want an autographed copy, email me at the Larry at WildworldHistory.com. I will give you the specifics. If you want the two updated chapters to Patriots history, the United States, by all means, email me. I'll send them to free. Yes, we do have permission to go ahead for a 25th anniversary edition. That's not going to be for a couple of years. The new home school season starts up. The convention start up here in three weeks. I'll be starting off in St. Louis at the end of the month. Then we'll be going to Cincinnati

or Orlando, Ontario, California, Austin, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona. If you're in those areas, I'm giving speeches in all of these home school conventions. You can come out and see me. Let me know. I won't arrange for you to get in. Finally, make sure you like share Bailaria coffee. It's convenient for you. All right. Let's get started. Headlines. Iran Action continues. A runoff in Texas for the Senate seat as Khrinsha loses his house race. Clinton reminisces about the epi photos. In political news, the actions in Iran are aimed at completely eliminating the mullet Muslim fundamentalist government there and fomenting a general revolution. Now, this is regime change without boots on the ground as it has worked in the past. It has failed in the past. Both. We have Libya where it didn't work so well. We have other cases where like in Venezuela, where it appears to have worked

out pretty well. In this case, the Iranians are not Libyans though. They are highly educated. Many remember the good old days of the Shah and they are apparently sick of mullet itis. There's even a new action toy of the Supreme Leader. Check this one out. That's pretty good. Kamimi wasn't alone in taking a dirt nap as Israel took out 90 clerics at a meeting that was to replace him. Then the US took out the pork roller who was behind the Trump assassination plot. The financial times revealed that the CIA had a human source inside the Iatola's inner circle. Folks, that's huge. We haven't had that kind of human intel in the Arab world in many, many, many years, probably 30 years. Special envoy Steve Whitkopf said that in their first meeting with the Iranians prior to the attack, the Iranians warned him they had 400 kilograms of fishnable material enough to make 11 nuclear bombs. I

guess not anymore. Iranian opposition as Jeff Childers points out in yesterday's coffee and COVID has responded by launching ballistic missiles at anything that moves or doesn't move. Most of these are easily shut down. Moreover, the launcher is immediately targeted and they lose that too. That means the Iranians are losing very valuable and expensive resources, missiles, to cheaper drones and other missiles. Oh, and their navy is gone too, meaning no more incursions in the Gulf of Hormuz. Trump also ordered the development finance corporation. We had such a thing to provide lower cost insurance for maritime shippers and also said that the US would provide escorts for ships in the strait. Oh, and remember how brave Spain was going to deny us to use a basis for the Iranian attacks? How Trump immediately pulled all trade from Spain?

Yes, Spain folded. Told you, but the left doids in the Democrat Party are beginning to push occasional cortex for the nomination in 2028. Now, I think they'll eventually shift to the amazing Zoran with her as VEEP. She's just too unpopular. But meanwhile, the level-headed guys over at Liberal Patriot are now actually contemplating a third party while they somewhat couched their language. I do believe they're starting to see the handwriting on the wall for the now-going extinct Democrats. The amazing Zoran is warming up by giving free health care to all, including illegal aliens, trying to keep pace with the alleged and as booty racists gruesome, continues to feed the fire of Democrat Civil War. Number one, where he said Israel is, quote, an apartheid state, unquote,

what, like downtown LA? Then you have the latest survey showing congressional Democrats are at a 70-70% disapproval. Now, I know they had some big turnout in Texas, but this has to be weighing on their mind. In the primaries in Texas, Captain Ron Krinshaw lost his race after telling maggot to take a flying leap. Ken Paxson and John Cornhole are heading for a run-off if, as I am told by some people in Texas, Wesley Hunt supporters end up supporting Paxson. Cornhole is finished. The latest Betamail Aurora iteration, James Tolerico, you know the pastor who said Jesus would like abortion. I mean, where's the lightning bolt for these people? Anyway, he defeated Jazzy Watercrocket for the Senate race there, and she, of course,

screamed, vote fraud, if that's not rich. By the way, I'm not all that convinced about the Democrat turnout. I do think there was a lot of turnout because I think that they were jazzed about Jazzy Ratchet and about Tolerico, but I think that when it comes to the general, you're going to see better turnout from Republicans. We'll see. House Oversight Committee released videos of the Clinton depotitions, both Bill and Kankles, and Bill looked entertained as he surveyed the photos of him and in the hot tubs, naked young nips all around him. His lawyer, quote, was visibly mortified, unquote. On that St. House Oversight Committee released a report on Minnesota and concluded that Tampon Timmy knew all about the fraud and just didn't want to act, which is absolutely true. Hillsboro, Florida Sheriff's Office, has conducted a major child sex

trafficking sting arresting 89. It's interesting, folks. This is the fifth such major trafficking sting since Trump's election, not counting two giant ones by Interpol in Latin America and the Mediterranean. Where are they getting all these leads? Couldn't be from the epiphyles, could it? Meanwhile, Pampondi reportedly is building big cases against members of Congress and federal agencies for being involved in sexual proclivities. The Maryland school districts have bought all those electric buses that didn't work. Yeah, now they're ordering a whole fleet of diesel buses. Every seat is important, folks. The New York Supes ruled that the state cannot redistrict away the only Republican seat in New York. Meanwhile, a new poll shows GOP surging by eight points

into a tie with Democrats for 2026. That's the generic ballot. I don't put a lot of stock in that. Texas has criminalized pay ballot harvesting and the fifth circuit upheld Texas. Meanwhile, Montana Republican Senator Steve Daines will not be seeking reelection, just as Marshall Blackburn will not be. Utah's Burgess Owens Congressman has also announced he will not seek reelection. This brings, by my count, the number of House Republicans to resign or announce retirements to 35 compared to only 26 Democrats. Now, the ONC should be a safe RC, but this is a little bit concerning. We need to see more Democrats also start announcing that they won't run for reelection. We'll probably see more of this. A non-human driver, Waymo, blocked an ambulance that was

responding to an emergency. I'm told that Waymo is paying DoorDash drivers to close the doors of Waymo's where the customer got out and didn't close the door and they can't do anything. The Waymo stuck. It can't close the door by itself. So they're not paying DoorDash people to go by and close Waymo doors. State governments are getting into the act protecting a recovering over $2 billion in fraud and speaking of fraud, Dr. Oz has launched a probe of New York's $124 billion Medicaid program. One about half of that is fraud. More than one third of New York's population is on Medicaid. Think of that. As Jeff Childers points out in his coffee in COVID column yesterday, the New York Medicaid budget alone is larger than the GDP of many countries. New York's Byzantine hiring non-regulations allow non-licensed people to be AIDS. And right now there are

over 624,000 such AIDS on the government payroll. AIDS and Medicare is now the state's largest industry. And it's building Uncle Sam in Congress. So we'll see where this goes. I see a typo. I'm going to correct it right now if you don't mind. You know, these disgusting liars will do anything except confront reality. Now it is trying to reclassify, that is the Democrats, this is in Illinois, are trying to reclassify fentanyl overdoses as poisoning. You know what they're trying to do is Jimmy, the statistics in their own states that have huge overdose problems. Hang on, I think he wants to reload. Okay, we're back. The page just reloaded on me,

and all of a sudden I didn't have any news to read to you. Okay, in Epstein files news, another epi-casualty as magna, this is his name, magna, Jebriloth. I'm not even going to spell it for you. Who said, Jelaine Maxwell was his soulmate. Now he committed suicide after his name appeared in the epi files. In Transoid News, the Supreme Court cited with parents over the state of California when it came to trying to keep Transoid policy secret. You know, they were trying to transition kids without telling the parents soup said absolutely not. Schools are changing names and pronouns of kids without informing parents. And now that is on hold while the case proceeds, this is an emergency ruling. And believe me, they're going to overturn this stuff is not going to stand. They're not going to allow them to operate without parents consent. In economic news, net export sores imports fall, oil spikes a little, but not like the 70s when

output is still surging here today. Still, a trade court ordered the administration to begin the tariff refund process. And I'm sure folks, this is going to be an end with this hand and out with that hand kind of affair as new tariffs are just imposed under new legislative reasoning. I can't emphasize this enough. California isn't just losing people. It's losing big businesses. Now, Valero company is eating 1.1 billion so it can leave the garbage state elsewhere in California. A developer is printing 3D houses for sale at 375,000 each. Yes, you heard that right. Printing houses. I'm sure those are going to be real solid. Moreover, as Ronald Stein shows, California is becoming an energy island with no pipelines and total dependence on outside oil. States becoming a national security risk. Meanwhile, David Blackman, the Rush Limbog energy,

argues that the new AES deal provides the infrastructure that has been needed here in energy or sometime. He's been harping on the infrastructure for two years. In international news, Bloomberg says as people rationally turned to return to gas and oil investors and are underestimating, underestimating the losses that are going to be coming from green. Meanwhile, Europe's emission trading system, this ETS stuff where you can you can pollute here, but you can sell your pollution rights to somebody else. It's collapsing. And the Euro green street, green steel deal, that's hard to say, green steel deal. It's proving to be a joke. There's no such thing. So, Europe, as always, is in trouble. Venezuela's crude oil exports doubled under the watchful eye of Uncle Sam, but none for the

Chikams who just lost two major sources of oil in three months, Iran and Venezuela. Oh, and guess who's begging Iran to reopen the straight of hormones? Yeah, the Chikams. Now, Putin is watching this and taking it all in and he's now threatening a total Euro cutoff of natural gas, which would really screw the green guacamole dippers and Brussels. I'm telling you that they're almost to the point where they're going to collapse. Trump cut off all trade with Spain when they bought it, letting us use bases and all of a sudden they re-nigged and immediately were basing things out of Spain. Same thing happened after a stuttering-care starmer in mediocre Britain said we couldn't use UK bitches after bases, UK bases, and Trump bitch slapped him and got them to accept B2 bombers, which arrived

today. Royal Navy, anyone remember the Royal Navy used to dominate the waves all the way, right? Now, it can't even send a ship, a ship, to Cyprus for another week. Both of its carriers are laid up with maintenance and repairs. Yeah. A US sub sank an Iranian warship by torpedo. This is the first time a sub has done that since World War II. US and Ecuadorian forces engage in military strikes against narco lords. This is going to be the subject of my sub-stack today if I can get to it. One of the reasons this is coming today and not yesterday folks, I've been involved in these rehearsals. I told them I'm going to do a concert in October in Texas with my former bandmates and we had to rehearse all day yesterday. I'm headed for rehearsal today. So I'll see if I can get the sub-stack out today. If not, it'll definitely be tomorrow and I'll have one for Saturday as well. In entertainment news,

anyone who after Bruce Campbell, he's famous for his roles in the Evil Dead, a kind of comedic action actor, great guy, says he has an incurable but treatable cancer diagnosis. Lou Holtz, the well-liked coach who restored Notre Dame to greatness and won an NCAA title in 1988 dead at the age of 89. And finally, endangered Persian leopards are making a comeback in Turkmenistan of all places powered by a wealthy conservationist. You know, as beautiful as lions and tigers are, I've always been partial to panthers of all varieties. Anyway, that's today's news. Buy me a coffee once in a while and make sure you check out the sub-stacks. Like I say, if I don't have it up today, it will definitely be up tomorrow and I'll have one up Saturday. All right, guys, I will see you back here tomorrow.

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