Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) broke ranks with her longtime colleague, retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), by endorsing a rival candidate over Hoyer’s handpicked successor, marking a potential final clash in their complex alliance.

Pelosi and Hoyer first crossed paths as Capitol Hill interns in the 1960s. Hoyer was elected to Congress in 1981 and Pelosi in 1987. By the late 1990s, the two began vying for leadership roles, with Pelosi defeating Hoyer in 2001 to become the House minority whip.

‘I’m beyond honored to have her support in this campaign.’

Despite previously heaping praise on Pelosi, Hoyer suggested that he would have won if Pelosi “hadn’t been a woman or from California.”

“Gender and geography in this case were overwhelming. C’est la guerre,” he said.

In 2006, Pelosi snubbed Hoyer by backing his opponent for majority leader, but Hoyer won despite her lack of support.

Hoyer then spent two decades as one of the highest-ranking House Democrats, second only to Pelosi.

RELATED: Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after nearly 4 decades in Congress

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Hoyer, 86, announced his retirement in January as a representative for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District after serving 23 terms. He endorsed his former campaign manager Adrian Boafo as his successor.

Instead of announcing her support for Boafo in the packed congressional race, Pelosi seized the opportunity to use her endorsement to seemingly pay back former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who was credited with protecting her on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pelosi announced her endorsement of Dunn on Wednesday, stating, “My friend Harry Dunn is a true American hero and exactly the right person to represent Maryland in Congress.”

She claimed that he “bravely defended our democracy from Donald Trump’s violent MAGA mob. Since then, Harry’s been called to do everything he can to protect Marylanders and all Americans from extremists like Donald Trump.”

“Few leaders have done more to defend our democracy and stand up to Donald Trump than Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi,” Dunn stated in reaction to Pelosi’s endorsement. “Her leadership helped deliver historic progress for the American people. I’m beyond honored to have her support in this campaign.”

Pelosi, who has also announced her retirement, will end her term in January 2027. She previously backed Dunn in his failed 2024 congressional run for Maryland’s 3rd District.

RELATED: Harry Dunn’s account of January 6 does not add up. At all.

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Dunn gained prominence for his testimony about defending the Capitol on Jan. 6. However, a Blaze News investigation found that Dunn gave false and conflicting statements on the witness stand concerning his interaction with a group of Oath Keepers. His testimony ultimately led to their imprisonment.

Dunn, who has since retired from the U.S. Capitol Police, has used his platform since Jan. 6 to publish a memoir, run for political office, and establish a political action committee named Dunn’s Democracy Defenders, which aims to fund Democrat candidates to defeat President Donald Trump, who Dunn has claimed is a threat to democracy.

“The outrageous truth is that Dunn’s lies are easily disprovable by anyone who examines the evidence. Far from the hero he portrays himself to be, when he was not hiding on January 6, 2021, Dunn was needlessly and recklessly screaming at and otherwise confronting protesters who posed no threat to him, violating official protocols and procedures. Other officers repeatedly had to intervene to calm him down,” Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker wrote in a 2023 analysis of Dunn’s account of Jan. 6.

“It is unfortunate that the media is celebrating the many lies in Dunn’s book, but the real tragedy is that this unstable man’s testimony in a federal trial was instrumental in the conviction and sentencing of several Americans to years in federal prison,” Baker added.

Maryland’s congressional primary race is scheduled for June 23, and the general election is November 3.

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An actress who starred in one of Quentin Tarantino’s biggest films says his writing is “creepy.”

Rosanna Arquette, 66, is taking issue with “Pulp Fiction” more than 30 years after its release, telling the press that she is “over” how Tarantino includes the use of the N-word in his scripts.

‘Do you feel this way now? Very possibly.’

In an interview published by the Times on Saturday, Arquette said that while “Pulp Fiction” is a great piece of cinema, aspects of Tarantino’s writing should not be considered art.

“It’s iconic, a great film on a lot of levels,” she began. “But personally I am over the use of the N-word — I hate it. I cannot stand that he [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass. It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”

Q’s A

The strong critique garnered near-immediate response from Tarantino, who wrote a letter to Arquette on Monday taking shots at her for showing a lack of “class” and “honor.”

“I hope the publicity you’re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?” Tarantino recalled.

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“Do you feel this way now? Very possibly. But after I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor,” the director continued.

“There is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues. But it would appear the objective was accomplished,” Tarantino concluded.

The letter, published by Variety, ended simply with “Congratulations” before the sign-off “Q.”

No ‘Fiction’ friction

Strangely enough, Arquette had reunited with “Pulp Fiction” cast members as recently as April 2024 for a 30th anniversary screening at the TCL Chinese Theatre without issue.

Regarding Tarantino’s use of the racial slur, Samuel L. Jackson, who has starred in six of his films, has repeatedly defended the director’s dialogue choices. Not only has Jackson said, “There’s no dishonesty in anything that [Quentin] writes or how people talk, feel, or speak [in his movies],” but he also stood up for his colleague by comparing him to other art forms.

“When you have a song that says N-word in it 300 times, nobody says s**t,” he said in 2019.

RELATED: ‘Juvenile war porn’: Halo voice actor wants out of Trump administration hype video

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Sour taste

Arquette played “Jody” in “Pulp Fiction,” the wife of heroin dealer Lance. She told the Times that she is still sour about the movie because she was denied a box-office percentage.

“I’m the only person who didn’t get a back end [a share of the takings]. Everybody made money except me,” she said, blaming producer Harvey Weinstein rather than Tarantino.

Arquette was one of Weinstein’s original accusers of sexual coercion.

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Last year, Republican Reps. Andy Ogles (Tenn.) and Randy Fine (Fla.) urged the Department of Justice to investigate and pursue denaturalization of Zohran Mamdani over unsubstantiated claims that he misrepresented or concealed material facts on his 2018 naturalization application.

While the DOJ never publicly responded to the letters, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler thinks an investigation is warranted.

“I’m going to make the case for you that Zohran Mamdani may not be a valid U.S. citizen,” she says.

On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz dives into the nitty-gritty of Mamdani’s naturalization application, the federal law that allows revocation of citizenship obtained through fraud or concealment, and the specific evidence she believes proves he may have lied in order to obtain citizenship.

Liz begins by citing federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1451: “If naturalized citizenship is ‘illegally procured or procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,’ then it is the responsibility of the United States government to instigate denaturalization proceedings.”

“What, if you omitted that fact, would constitute a willful misrepresentation?” she asks.

Liz then displays the blank Application for Naturalization (Form N-400) used between 2016 and 2019 — the version Zohran Mamdani would have completed in 2017 — and reads aloud two questions she claims he might have answered dishonestly:

1. “Have you ever been a member of or in any way associated (either directly or indirectly) with: A, the Communist Party, B, any other totalitarian party, or C, a terrorist organization?”

2. “Have you ever lied to any U.S. government officials to gain entry or admission into the United States or to gain immigration benefits while in the United States?”

Liz argues that three key pieces of evidence could make Mamdani’s naturalized citizenship eligible for denaturalization: his 2017 public praise of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Holy Land Five, his “direct association with communist Roy Singham’s groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation,” and his longstanding membership in the Democrat Socialists of America, which Liz says “seek a totalitarian government … through violence.”

“So the option here is binary,” she says. “Either the application that he submitted was fraudulent, or the approval of the application … was fraudulent.”

To hear Liz’s full in-depth breakdown of Mamdani’s disturbing history, watch the episode above.

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Police departments in California have been warned that Iran may be seeking to strike the West Coast with drones as the U.S.-Israeli strikes continue in Iran.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued the alert at the end of February, according to an ABC News report.

‘As of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles.’

“We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran,” the alert reads.

If Iran has been planning these drone strikes since “early February 2026,” then those plans predate the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, which began in late February.

“We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack,” the FBI added.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office offered a brief statement about the report.

“The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is actively working with state, local, and federal security officials to protect our communities,” the statement reads.

The Pentagon has confirmed that the U.S. is deploying suicide drones against Iran patterned after drones used against Ukraine and supplied to Russia by Iran.

“These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution,” reads a statement from U.S. Central Command.

After Iran began using those drones against U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf, military leaders requested assistance from Ukraine to counteract the drones, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

RELATED: ‘American-made retribution’: US ‘suicide drones’ deployed against Iran are based on tech from Iranian drones used in Ukraine

When reporters questioned President Donald Trump on Wednesday about whether he was concerned about possible Iranian strikes on U.S. soil, he downplayed the threat.

“No, I’m not,” he responded.

The attacks against Iran have led to a spike in oil prices in the U.S., which threatens to damage Republicans’ chances in the midterms to hold on to control of Congress.

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Former NBA player Jalen Rose has made some bold claims — that salary caps in professional sports and restrictions preventing athletes from entering leagues straight out of high school are a “residue of slavery.”

“The only sports that have salary caps are black led, first off. So that’s basketball and football. Those [are] the only sports with salary caps. Baseball, golf, NASCAR, tennis, you can keep naming. … That’s the first thing,” Rose explained on “Joe and Jada Unfiltered.”

“The second thing is they have no after-high-school restriction. And so that’s a residue of slavery, is because we’re going to get money off of you for multiple years for free,” he adds.

“A residue of slavery is probably Jalen Rose’s IQ at this point. That’s probably the residue of slavery that he’s referring to here,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock tells Steve Kim and Jay Skapinac on “Fearless.”

“It just drives me crazy that sports conversation is this stupid, this racialized. The National Hockey League has the harshest salary cap in all of sports. The top players probably making $7, $8, $9 million dollars. NFL players making $40, $50, $60 million dollars,” he adds.

“So here’s the other thing. When he brings up tennis and golf, guys, if I’m not mistaken, aren’t those guys’ winnings really their salary cap? Like if you win 10 tournaments, you’re probably going to get more than a guy that finishes in 18th place. That’s just the last time I checked,” Kim chimes in.

“It’s probably my whiteness, guys, coming through here, but I just really resent the implications that slavery is somehow tied into guys making multimillion-dollar generational wealth to play a game for a couple months a year for like 10 years of their life,” Skapinac adds.

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The president has announced a massive deal to open the first oil refinery in the U.S. in 50 years in order to seek energy “dominance.”

President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday that the refinery would be built in Brownsville, Texas, and bring thousands of jobs to the region.

‘This is what AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE looks like. AMERICA FIRST, ALWAYS!’

“THIS IS A HISTORIC $300 BILLION DOLLAR DEAL — THE BIGGEST IN U.S. HISTORY, A MASSIVE WIN for American Workers, Energy, and the GREAT People of South Texas!” he wrote. “Thank you to our partners in India, and their largest privately held Energy Company, Reliance, for this tremendous Investment.”

He credited the streamlining of permits and lowering taxes under his “America First” agenda for attracting investments to the U.S.

“A new Refinery at the Port of Brownsville, will fuel U.S. Markets, strengthen our National Security, boost American Energy production, deliver Billions of Dollars in Economic impact, and will be THE CLEANEST REFINERY IN THE WORLD,” he added.

The refinery is being developed by America First Refining and will be designed to process shale oil.

“The United States has a surplus of light shale oil but a shortage of refining capacity designed to process it,” said America First Refining president Trey Griggs.

RELATED: ‘BEWARE!’ Trump threatens Iran with violence ‘never seen before’ over reported mines in Strait of Hormuz

“This is what AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE looks like. AMERICA FIRST, ALWAYS!” Trump concluded.

The announcement came after oil prices spiked folllowing the military strikes on Iran by the U.S. and Israel. Crude oil jumped to nearly $120 a barrel on Monday but has dropped to $84 since then.

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Stabbing suspects are seen laughing and smiling on surveillance video apparently after they ganged up on a lone victim in a Maryland mall restroom.

Montgomery County Police in a Monday news release said a male victim around noon Feb. 4 entered the Wheaton Mall in the 11100 block of Veirs Mill Road and went to a restroom.

‘And you wonder why I need a 30-round magazine?’

While inside the restroom, police said seven suspects armed with knives approached him, assaulted him, and stabbed him in the arm before leaving the scene.

The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and received medical treatment at an area hospital, police said.

Police said they are looking for five unknown Hispanic juvenile males and two unknown black juvenile males; authorities are calling the incident a first-degree assault.

Police released video below showing surveillance clips of the suspects in the mall. One clip shows the suspects entering a restroom and then running out of the restroom and down a hallway. A subsequent clip shows some of the suspects smiling and laughing as they walk down what appears to be the same hallway.

RELATED: Blaze News original: 19 nauseating times cowardly thugs ganged up on — and savagely beat up — lone victims

Police said those with information regarding the suspects or this crime are asked to visit the Crime Solvers of Montgomery County website at www.crimesolversmcmd.org and click on the “www.p3tips.com” link at the top of the page or call 1-866-411-8477.

Police added that a reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information that leads to the suspects’ arrest, and tips may remain anonymous.

A number of commenters under WJLA-TV’s Facebook post about the incident posted rather pointed reactions:

“They won’t be smiling for long,” one user declared.”This is why I go NOWHERE without my legal semi-automatic hole puncher,” another commenter said. “This story would have read very different[ly] with a few obituaries and some shiny personalized bracelets for the rest. Sharing is caring.””And this is why I stay strapped,” another user noted.”And you wonder why I need a 30-round magazine?” another commenter offered.”That’s why we carry our guns and MUST use them at times like this … stopping threats, teaching lessons to filthy criminals, [deterring] crime, and protecting ourselves,” another user said. “It’s time We The People make it like the good [old] days.””That’s when you draw your pistol and tell them about the lack of wisdom in bringing a knife to a gunfight,” another commenter stated.

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A movement in Washington state to pass a new tax on millionaires may have persuaded billionaire Howard Schultz to abandon his decades-long residence in Seattle.

Schultz has lived in Seattle for four decades and headed the Starbucks corporation as it grew into a global brand.

‘We will be forever grateful for the memories made in Seattle and the relationships built along the way.’

On Tuesday Schultz posted an announcement on LinkedIn that he was leaving rainy Seattle for sunnier climes in Florida.

“We have moved to Miami for our next adventure together. We are enjoying the sunshine of South Florida and its allure to our kids on the East Coast as they raise families of their own,” he wrote in the post.

“We will be forever grateful for the memories made in Seattle and the relationships built along the way,” he added.

Schultz did not cite the new tax proposal, but it was aimed straight at wealthy individuals like him. The millionaire tax would strip another 10% of personal earnings over a million dollars on top of the state’s already heavy tax burden.

The state House already passed the tax proposal, and it is likely to pass the Senate as well.

Schultz paid $44 million for a five-bedroom penthouse with an ocean view and 5,500 square feet that includes a rooftop terrace.

He wrote that he had hopes Washington state would “remain a place for business and entrepreneurship to thrive, creating essential opportunity for those in Seattle and the surrounding areas.”

Had he stayed, his resulting tax bill under the new proposal could have cost him tens of millions of dollars.

RELATED: Director Steven Spielberg abandons California as debate over billionaire tax heats up

Democrats in California have been pushing a similar tax proposal, and the wealthy have been abandoning the state in anticipation that the proposal will pass soon.

Among those who have already left the state is legendary director Steven Spielberg, who did not mention the proposal but skedaddled from the state just ahead of the deadline set in the motion.

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What was supposed to be a solemn farewell quickly turned political.

Despite a direct request from Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. asking mourners to leave politics out of the funeral service for his father, several high-profile Democrats used the occasion to deliver pointed political remarks.

“Over the weekend, they decided to hijack the funeral service for Reverend Jesse Jackson to push their radical ideologies. Now you’re probably thinking, well, Jesse Jackson was very, very political. Jesse Jackson was very radical,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.

“According to his son, that was the last thing that he wanted. So let’s back up a bit. Several weeks ago, after Jesse Jackson had passed, his son Jesse Jackson Jr. warned people not to bring politics to his funeral service,” she says.

“Do not bring your politics out of respect to Reverend Jesse Jackson and the life that he lived to these homegoing services. Come respectful, and come to say thank you. But these homegoing services are welcome to all: Democrat, Republican, liberal, and conservative, right-wing, left-wing,” his son announced.

“Because his life is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what it means to be an American. We only ask people to come and be respectful in the context of the extraordinary life that he lived,” he added.

“Seems very clear, a very clear and polite warning from Jesse Jackson Jr. But you guys are going to be shocked to hear, Democrats didn’t care,” Gonzales comments, before playing a clip of former President Barack Obama from the funeral.

“Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law. Each day we’re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other and that some Americans count more than others,” Obama said.

“And that some don’t even count at all. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength. We see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty and cruelty and corruption are reaping untold rewards every single day,” he continued.

But Obama wasn’t the only one.

Kamala Harris also took the stage at Jackson’s funeral to ignore his son’s pleas.

“So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what’s happening right now,” Harris said, laughing.

Former President Joe Biden also joined in — though his contribution was mostly unintelligible.

“I’ve forgotten how much I enjoyed watching these clips, and honestly, I enjoy them much more that he’s not president because it was terrifying when he was president,” Gonzales comments.

However, Jesse Jackson’s son did not enjoy their speeches as much as Gonzales did.

“I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson. He maintained a tense relationship with the political order. Not because the presidents were white or black, but the demands of our message,” Jackson said in response.

“The demands of speaking for the least of these, those who were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected. Demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent prophetic voice,” he added.

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President Donald Trump, committed to toppling Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie (R), is traveling on Wednesday to the congressman’s district to support his Republican challenger Ed Gallrein at Hebron’s Verst Logistics packaging facility.

Bad blood

Massie first drew the president’s ire in a big way in 2020 when he delayed Trump’s $2 trillion COVID relief package.

Although the antagonism between the two men apparently subsided — Trump endorsed Massie in 2022 and characterized him as a “first-rate Defender of the Constitution” — their detente proved short-lived.

It certainly did not help that Massie backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican presidential primary; voted against Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act; criticized the president over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files; and publicly opposed the current and previous U.S. military actions against Iran; or that the president, in turn, branded Massie’s Trump-voting wife a “Radical Left ‘flamethrower'” and repeatedly called for the congressman’s removal both from office and the GOP.

Trump allies are also behind the political action committee that has spent over $1 million on anti-Massie ads in Massie’s 4th congressional district.

Trump’s champion

On Tuesday, Trump once again identified his champion in the campaign to unseat Massie: Ed Gallrein, a farmer and Navy SEAL combat veteran whose website notes that he’s “fighting for President Trump’s and the Republican Party’s America First Agenda.”

‘Trump fans in KY-4 and across the entire Commonwealth also support my work.’

While Trump originally endorsed Gallrein in October, the candidate officially filed to run on Tuesday.

After saying that Massie — a lawmaker with a 86.53% lifetime Turning Point Action score and a 90.74% score this Congress — is the “Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman we have had in many years,” Trump stated that “the person that will help us do the job, and do it right, is Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, Fifth Generation Kentucky Farmer, and American Hero, Captain Ed Gallrein, a true Patriot.”

RELATED: Trump holds off on Texas Senate endorsement to pressure GOP to deliver on ‘No. 1 priority’ legislation: Report

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Trump urged individuals thinking about running against Massie to “rally behind Captain Ed Gallrein, the Candidate who is, far and away, best positioned to DEFEAT Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie.”

The president noted in a separate post hours before making the trip to Kentucky, “Massie, who is running against a great American Patriot in the Kentucky Primary, will hopefully lose BIG.”

Blaze News reached out to Massie’s office for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.

Massie claimed in an X post ahead of Trump’s visit that interlopers may discover “Trump fans in KY-4 and across the entire Commonwealth [who] also support my work in the Epstein files, reigning in spending, ending forever wars, draining the swamp, and food freedom!”

The congressman also released an attack ad this week, amplified by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), that portrays Gallrein as a fair-weather friend who abandoned Trump and left the GOP just after the president secured the Republican nomination in 2016.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the voter registration cards referenced by Massie indicate that Gallrein changed his voter registration from Republican to independent on May 18, 2016 — around the same time Trump won the GOP nomination.

Gallrein reportedly registered as a Republican again in June 2021, when he decided to launch his unsuccessful campaign for the Kentucky Senate.

Gallrein’s spokeswoman Alexandra Wilkes told the Enquirer that Massie, not Trump, prompted his flight from the Republican Party.

“Ed briefly changed registration out of frustration with the broken system Congressman Massie created in his district, which hurt the Republican Party, and he is proud to stand with President Trump and true conservative Republicans,” said Wilkes.

As of midday Wednesday, the prediction market Kalshi put Massie’s chance of securing the Republican nomination at 58% and Gallrein’s chance at 43%.

Massie faced two challengers in the 2024 GOP primary for Kentucky’s 4th congressional district and secured 75.9% of the vote. He went on to net 99.6% of the vote in the general election.

The primary election takes place on May 19.

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