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You won’t see this reported in the anti-Trump establishment media, but on April 24 about a dozen Chinese officials, including a "high-ranking official from the Chinese Ministry of Finance," were seen entering the U.S. Treasury's main building in Washington at 7:00 in the morning as Chinese security officials attempted to prevent photographers from recording the entry. Read More.

A jihadist attack against mostly Indian tourists in Kashmir has precipitated a crisis that may see two nuclear-armed states go to war again. If that happens, it may be precipitated by the weaponization of water. Read More.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters trust Republicans more to handle immigration, while 39% trust Democrats more and 11% are undecided. These findings are almost unchanged from April 2023. Partisan affiliation obviously matters a lot on these questions, with Democrats skewing strongly against President Trump’s policies. Read More.

As millions of Americans anxiously await action from the new HHS leadership against the deadly COVID-19 mRNA injections—injected into over 9 million children this year—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has finally gone publicly on the offensive, citing "profound" risks of myocarditis, stroke, and death on national TV. Read More.

Given that most of the population increase in the United States comes from immigration (both legal and illegal) we were all prepared to endorse the idea of a $5,000 “baby bonus” to encourage the growth of the native population of the United States. Read More.

Today's Secure Freedom Minute with Frank Gaffney: Has Egypt switched sides? For over five decades, successive Egyptian governments have received enormous amounts of U.S. foreign aid and military assistance – essentially rewards for making peace with Israel and for remaining generally aligned with American regional policy and interests. Read More.

Classical liberalism included thoughtful people such as Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan. The Gipper once joshed the Right views every day as the Fourth of July while the Left views every day as April 15th. It was funny then, but liberalism is a dangerous concept today. American liberalism has descended into a black cauldron of hate and violence, antisemitism, murder, shallowness and anti-intellectualism. Read More.

Today's Secure Freedom Minute with Frank Gaffney: President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke yesterday about “trade, Iran, etc.” and are “on the same side on every issue.” Hopefully, that means no further extensions of the U.S.-Iranian disarmament negotiations past this weekend. Read More.

In May 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden helped engineer a Memorandum of Understanding between agencies of the U.S. and Chinese governments that allowed PRC companies access to American capital markets not enjoyed by our companies or those of any other country. That was a monumental strategic error and has put our nation and people needlessly at risk. Read More.

After taking a long journey through the world of podcasters and influencers with big conservative audiences CHQ guest columnist Diana West asks, why are Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan giving antisemitic quack "historian" Darryl Cooper a ringing endorsement and access to their huge audiences without even questioning any of his more preposterous claims and conclusions. Platforming Darryl Cooper doesn’t test the boundaries of conservative intellectual inquiry, it erases them. Read More.

TikTok is poisoning America: TikTok’s algorithms drive users down rabbit holes of anti-American propaganda and harmful self-behavior. Its algorithms highlight the most aberrant human behaviors so users, primarily young people, consider them normal. A Utah youth committed suicide after being relentlessly fed pro-suicide content on TikTok. Read More.

Today's Secure Freedom Minute with Frank Gaffney: Pete Hegseth is a change agent in the Defense Department. Like most institutions, especially highly bureaucratic and hierarchical ones, the Pentagon is inherently resistant to major course-corrections. And few have been more dramatic than those being undertaken by the Trump administration after four years in which the military was subjected to unprecedented, highly politicized and debilitating “fundamental transformation.” Read More.

This the second of two columns to post this week in which author, historian and occasional CHQ contributor Diana West shares the discoveries she made on a recent journey through the fast-evolving landscape of podcasters and “influencers” who have come to have an outsized influence on conservative audiences, perhaps the most puzzling and troubling is the airtime given to quack “historian” Darryl Cooper. Read More.

The passing of Pope Francis prompts an examination of his legacy and what it portends for Catholics and other Christians. An illustrative facet was his diplomacy with the Chinese Communist Party. Since 2018, Francis has approved four deals with Xi Jinping’s regime. While they remain secret, their effects have been unmistakable. In short, they legitimized the CCP’s increasing domination, mutation and in some cases destruction of Catholic churches. Read More.

After Maryland’s Democrat crybaby Senator Christopher Van Holen made a trip to El Salvador to whine about rightly deported MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia being locked-up with his fellow gangbangers in his home country, a steady stream of Democrats are now making the pilgrimage to attempt to see the wife beating, human trafficking suspect “Maryland Dad.” Read More.