https://hotair.com/headlines/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usSat, 25 Apr 2026 11:13:23 -0400<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;This fall, the&nbsp;Victims of Communism Foundation is hosting an&nbsp;Anti-Communist Film Festival. The idea for the festival came to me last year, and the Victims of Communism Foundation is the perfect sponsor for the event.]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Judge]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[George Clooney]]><![CDATA[George Soros]]><![CDATA[Riots]]>https://hotair.com/mark-judge/2026/04/25/the-anti-communist-film-festival-invite-list-adam-driver-and-george-pelecanos-n3814264<![CDATA[&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; You aren't going to believe the latest lawsuit fad in America: suing companies as monopolistic for cutting prices to consumers. In legal mumbo jumbo, this is called "predatory pricing" -- keeping prices lower than charged by competitors. The idea is to keep prices so low that rival firms can't compete. Quick, throw Walmart, Home Depot and McDonald's in jail.]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[Stephen Moore]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Republican Party]]>https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2026/04/25/lawyers-sue-for-higher-prices-n3814263<![CDATA[You've got your nuclear tabs, and your drip dry links ...]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Redistricting]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/24/fridays-final-word-n3814261<![CDATA[As everyone knows, President Trump has effectively shut down the U.S. border. As you can see in this chart, the number of border encounters so far this year is lower than any single month during Joe Biden's tenure.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:20:04 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/24/appeals-court-trumps-suspension-of-asylum-system-is-unlawful-n3814273<![CDATA[While the Trump administration continues to put the economic squeeze on what and who is left of the Iranian government, the Iranian royal family in exile hasn't been silent.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:40:38 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/24/reza-pahlavi-went-to-berlin-n3814270<![CDATA[The site Responsible Statecraft says some kind of deal with Cuba seems to be getting closer, though the U.S. might be running out of time to get the kind of deal it wanted.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:00:46 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/24/were-getting-closer-to-a-deal-with-cuba-but-will-it-matter-n3814272<![CDATA[The Pope likes to share strong opinions, and, given that he is the Pope, one would hope that those opinions are based on deep thought and a solid understanding of the issues he speaks to.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:20:25 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV]]><![CDATA[Vatican]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/24/the-narrative-is-not-reality-example-54702394572039-n3814256<![CDATA[This happened in Scotland where a trans woman who'd been housed in a women's prison after a murder conviction was accused of sexually assaulting a woman.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:45 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/24/trans-prisoner-kept-in-womens-prison-charged-with-sexual-assault-n3814262<![CDATA[It has been nine days since the TikTok, Instagram, but not-ready-for-prime-time social media personality known as Zohran Mamdani, aka Mayor of New York City, released what could be politely called a kind of menacing, creepy AF Tax Day Tax the Rich&nbsp;video. It was filmed while standing across the street from the part-time residence of one of the city's billionaire inhabitants.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:20:58 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/24/ken-griffin-kinda-torqued-about-nycs-commie-tax-the-rich-mayor-pointing-out-his-crib-n3814230<![CDATA[It's worth noting that the SPLC is getting a full-court defense from Pravda for a reason: the driving narrative about Donald Trump, political violence, and the need for a censorship infrastructure in the United States is largely buttressed by references to the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hate Map."]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:40:50 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[South Africa]]><![CDATA[Washington Post]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/24/splc-and-pravda-a-match-made-in-heaven-n3814260<![CDATA[For those still unfamiliar with the peculiar eschaton of the Iranian regime's cultish subsect of Shi'a Islam, the entire raison d'etre&nbsp;of the Islamic Republic is to hasten the end of the world to produce its messiah. The Qom mullahs believe that the Twelfth Imam has already come to the world but remains hidden until a global war obliterates all opposition to Islam. The mullahs have survived for nearly a half-century on the claims of divine authority to immanentize this eschaton, which will result in a global Islamic empire based in Tehran.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:00:38 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Islam]]><![CDATA[Islamic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]]><![CDATA[Masoud Pezeshkian]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/24/deep-question-of-the-year-did-nepo-babytollah-do-a-reverse-twelfth-imam-n3814252<![CDATA[The NY Times has a podcast up today in which four people who have worked in the DEI industry as corporate diversity officers debate whether or not DEI went too far and if who where it fell apart. Here are the four people having the debate:]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:20:59 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Marxism]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/24/diversity-officers-debate-where-dei-went-too-far-n3814258<![CDATA[Shocking, I know.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:00:46 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[USAID]]><![CDATA[Washington]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/24/usaid-is-back-in-the-news-n3814248<![CDATA[There's a case in Fairfax County, Virginia that has gotten some national attention because the person involved is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Israel Flores Ortiz is an 18-year-old who entered the U.S. in 2024 and is currently enrolled in at Fairfax high school as a junior. I'm not sure why he's a junior if he's 18-years-old (and about to turn 19 according to some reports). At 18 he should be a senior at least. In any case, he is an adult.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:20:41 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[Virginia]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/04/24/fairfax-county-groping-case-results-in-conviction-n3814254<![CDATA[Donald Trump's ceasefire extension expires this weekend. J.D. Vance's plane remains on the tarmac. Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner will go to Islamabad, apparently, although not with much hope of engagement:&nbsp;]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Abraham Accords]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Pakistan]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/24/ny-post-islamabad-ii-turns-into-impotence-boogaloo-n3814250<![CDATA[“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:48 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/24/voters-in-new-york-getting-what-they-voted-for-good-and-hard-n3814251<![CDATA[I've never really understood the official Democrat Party's rush to join the online and media antics of its low-class, juvenile, smarmy, anti-Semitic, and racist candidates, members, and minions as they mock, scorn, and f-bomb their way through the day for lack of anything constructive, coherent, or encouraging to share.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:20:16 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[DNC]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/04/24/dems-hung-themselves-out-to-dry-with-cao-x-hit-n3814245<![CDATA[Old and busted:&nbsp;If at first you don't succeed, try try again. New hotness:&nbsp;If at twice you have succeeded and you're still stuck with your bete noire ... maybe it's time to examine your strategy.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/24/les-folies-impechements-house-dems-think-third-times-the-charmif-at-n3814249<![CDATA[Is it any surprise that a growing number of young Brits say that "under no circumstances" would they ever go to war for Britain?]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/24/young-brits-hell-no-we-wont-go-n3814221<![CDATA[Pirates with no small amount of artillery, let us remember. Not to mention some "nuclear dust," which makes the piracy all the more dangerous – and the mission essential.]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:20:57 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[Pete Hegseth]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/04/24/hegseth-irgc-reduced-to-pirates-with-a-flag-n3814247