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- US Stealth Fighter Jet Hit by Iranian Fire for First Time in Ongoing Conflict
(Photo by Alfie Cosgrove/News Images) in Lakenheath, United Kingdom on 2/23/2026. (Photo by Alfie Cosgrove/News Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) An American stealth fighter was forced to land at a base in the Middle East after being struck by what the military believed was Iranian fire. In a Thursday report from CNN, Central Command confirmed that the pilot of an F-35 made an emergency landing after taking fire. The jet, according to Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins, was “flying a combat mission over Iran” before having to make the emergency landing. The report continued: “The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added. “This incident is under investigation.” The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million. As noted in the report, the war has cost the U.S. numerous aircraft over the last few weeks. Just days after the start of Operation Epic Fury, Kuwait mistakenly shot down three jets. The six crew members aboard those jets were able to safely eject, and viral videos posted online showed them being greeted by locals just moments later. A little over a week later, six service members were killed when a KC-135 Stratotanker — a refueling aircraft — crashed. At the time of writing, it was not believed that enemy fire caused the crash, and it was still under investigation.The post US Stealth Fighter Jet Hit by Iranian Fire for First Time in Ongoing Conflict first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.44 mins ago - Megyn Kelly Ruthlessly Mocked Over Pearl-Clutching Hypocrisy on Fox News Graphic
(Screenshot) Megyn Kelly, call your production team. On Wednesday night, Kelly expressed outrage over a Fox News chyron that blended the American and Israeli flags together. “Holy shit is this real?” she asked in a quote-tweet of a post calling the graphic “absolutely disgusting.” When one user noted that the U.S. and Israel are presently fighting together and asked what the issue was, Kelly replied: “You don’t put another country’s flag on the USA flag, ever. We don’t share it. We treat the flag as inviolate. It’s extremely inappropriate.” Holy shit is this real? https://t.co/NgBqDhcPHQ — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 19, 2026 You don’t put another country’s flag on the USA flag, ever. We don’t share it. We treat the flag as inviolate. It’s extremely inappropriate. — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 19, 2026 But as a Community Note affixed to her second post points out, “Megyn Kelly’s show used a circular graphic blending the US flag with Iran’s on her March 3 ‘AM Update’ episode titled ‘America’s Iran War Planning,’ similar to the one she criticized on Fox.” Hey grandma, what's this? https://t.co/dzgiI0u7Tz pic.twitter.com/D5tsfnpz65 — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 19, 2026 So instead of blending the American flag with that of an ally, Kelly had done the same thing with that of an enemy with quite a lot of American blood on its hands. Naturally, the internet had thoughts. “Holy shit are you this dumb and malicious?” asked James Lindsay. Holy shit are you this dumb and malicious? https://t.co/erIdev6vx3 — James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) March 19, 2026 “She’s going full Groyper – Jew-baiting sleeze b/c in chyron Fox News create graphic about US and Israel working together that included both flags. Your true colors have come out and they are very ugly,” observed Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson. She's going full Groyper – Jew-baiting sleeze b/c in chyron Fox News create graphic about US and Israel working together that included both flags. Your true colors have come out and they are very ugly. https://t.co/7wOa1m0NZW — William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) March 19, 2026 “You mean showing the flags of two allies fighting together against a common enemy of mankind? Yes Less common to merge ours with the enemy but you could do that…and did.” observed The Middle East Forum’s Jim Hanson. You mean showing… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Republican Congressman Turned Independent Now Says He’s Open to Caucusing With...
Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA), who recently left the GOP to become an Independent, told Stephen A. Smith that he would be open to caucusing with Democrats if reelected to Congress. Kiley switched parties after changing districts due to California’s gerrymandering to make it more difficult for GOP members to keep their seats. California gerrymandered its map, in a rare mid-decade move, following President Donald Trump’s urging Texas Republicans to eliminate the Democratic Party’s seats in that state, which they did. Kiley lost his committee assignments after switching parties, but is hoping to get them back. Kiley was on SiriusXM’s Straight Shooter with Stephen A. on Thursday and was asked, “Will you still be caucusing with the Republicans?” “For the remainder of this term, yes, because that is the way the rules are set up right now is that essentially to be a fully functioning member of the House, you have to caucus with one of the two parties. And since that’s how I was elected at the beginning of this term, I think that makes sense,” Kiley replied. “That’s totally fair. Totally understand that, sir. But respectfully, what does independence look like in practice if you still have to caucus with the Republicans? I’m just asking because I don’t know,” followed up Smith. “I mean, in practice, it actually is a reflection of the way I’ve generally approached my job, is that, regardless of my party label I’ve always said I’m going to be an independent voice for my district. And sometimes I voted with Republican leadership. Other times I’ve gone against what the rest of our party did on particular issues because I’ve always said that I answer to my constituents as opposed to party leaders in Washington, D.C. So I think that this new designation is simply a reflection of that philosophy that I’ve had all along. And hopefully maybe it’ll inspire some others to take the same approach,” Kiley replied. Later in the interview Smith asked, “Well, you’re certainly not planning – it doesn’t appear like you’re planning on leaving office. And to be quite honest with you, I’m glad that you’re not. Let me state that for obvious reasons. But you’ve left open the possibility of caucusing with the Democrats next term. What specifically will Republicans have to do or fail to do to lose your support?” “Well, what I’ve said is that I think… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - CNBC’s Sara Eisen Swipes At Trump Econ Adviser For ‘Brushing Off’ American...CNBC’s Sara Eisen, who’s guest hosting The View this week, swiped at Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett for dismissing Americans’ pain at the pump due to the war with Iran. Whoopi Goldberg played tape of Hassett calling the U.S. economy “fundamentally sound,” adding that if gas prices were to remain high, “it wouldn’t really disrupt the U.S. Economy very much at all.” Hassett admitted, “It would hurt consumers and we’d have to think about, you know, if that continued, what we would have to do about that, but that’s like really the last of our concerns right now because we’re very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.” “It was kind of unfortunate how he phrased it,” Eisen said. “He basically just brushed it off and said it’s the last thing we’re worried about.” She continued: Americans are feeling this, I don’t have to tell you guys. If you have filled up a tank of gas, you are paying 80 to 90 cents more per gallon than before this war began. That’s a sharp increase. It’s painful. You feel it and it will impact your spending everywhere else. It’s an economic hit. The good news, there are many reasons to believe that it is short-lived and that it is temporary, and I’ll tell you why. Because why it’s happening — just overnight there’s more bombings and attacks on Iranian oil facilities, on other facilities like Qatar in the Gulf. What will happen is either the military campaign will stop, will end, or the U.S. and Israel will actually be successful in degrading a lot of Iran’s capabilities to do things like block this very important Strait of Hormuz, which is where…20% of oil exports go through, which is causing oil prices to spike. “When one of two of those things happen, the Strait opens up, there’s reason to believe oil prices will come back down,” Eisen said, adding, “by the end of the year the market is telling you — hopefully they’re right — that oil prices will be a lot lower than they are right now.” “That’s a lot of ifs!” exclaimed a skeptical Goldberg. “It’s a lot of ifs,” Sunny Hostin repeated. Watch the clip above via The View on ABC.The post CNBC’s Sara Eisen Swipes At Trump Econ Adviser For ‘Brushing Off’ Americans’ Pain at the Pump first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Rogan and Canada’s Conservative Leader Roast Trump’s 51st State Talk: ‘I J...Joe Rogan brought Canadian Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre onto his podcast this week, where the two roasted President Donald Trump’s continued insistence that Canada should become the United States’ 51st state. Poilievre appeared on Thursday’s The Joe Rogan Experience where the two mainly discussed the state of politics in Canada, but talk inevitably turned to Trump. Rogan shared a theory that he has before that Trump helped boost Canada’s Liberal Party to victory with his talk to absorbing Canada. Rogan voted for Trump and brought him on his show shortly before the 2024 presidential election, but he’s grown more critical in recent months on mass deportations and more. “So there’s a narrative in America, and the narrative is that you were about to win and your party was about to wind, but then Trump came along and said he was gonna turn Canada into a 51st state, and everybody went crazy. Is that accurate?” Rogan asked Poilievre. “I would say everybody went crazy,” Poilievre said. “Well, they got very upset,” Rogan replied. “They should be upset though,” Poilievre said. “Well, it’s a crazy thing to say,” Rogan agreed. Poilievre said Canada is “not for sale” and that he wishes Trump would just “knock that s**t off.” He said: It is a crazy thing to say. Canada’s not for sale. We’re never going to be the 51st state. We love Americans as neighbors and friends, but we want to be uniquely — and we want to be sovereign — as Canadians. It’s our country. It’s where we grow up. You’re a patriot as an American. I’m a patriot as a Canadian. It’s where my grandfather arrived. It’s where our collective ancestors put on military uniforms and sailed to fight wars. It’s where our grandkids are going to live. We’re very proudly Canadian so we’re never going to be the 51st state. And I just wish he’d knock that s**t off so that we can get back to talking about the things that we do as two separate countries that are actually friends. “Did that really have that much of an effect up there? Like, did people take him seriously?” Rogan asked. Poilievre, who is aiming to become Canadian prime minister, said people thought Trump was joking, but as he repeated his message over and over again, they became “upset.” “Understandably,” Rogan said. “I mean, it’s a crazy thing to… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Trump Says He Warned Netanyahu Against Striking More Iranian Oil and Gas Fields:...President Donald Trump told reporters at an Oval Office meeting with Japan’s prime minister on Thursday that he admonished Benjamin Netanyahu for striking Iran’s South Pars gas field, and reiterated that he knew nothing about it ahead of time. When a reporter asked if Trump spoke directly to Netanyahu about the situation, he answered, “Yeah, I did, I did.” “I told him, don’t do that, and he won’t do that,” Trump continued. “We didn’t discuss, you know, we do independent, but get along great. It’s coordinated, but on occasion he’ll do something, and if I don’t like it — And so we’re not doing that anymore.” Trump posted to social media Wednesday night that neither the U.S. nor Qatar were involved in the attack on South Pars after Iran hit back at Qatar’s natural gas facilities. “Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit,” Trump wrote, continuing: The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. Despite Trump’s claims, three anonymous Israeli officials said that the South Pars attack was made in coordination with the United States, according to Reuters. In addition, a source told Reuters that Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said that although the strike “was not a joint U.S.-Israeli operation, Washington was informed about it ahead of time.” Reuters called the exchange of fire “the biggest escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.” Neither the White House nor Netanyahu responded to… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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