The Morning Brief — March 26, 2026

Loyola Paper Apologizes for Accurately Describing Murder Suspect

Sheridan Gorman is dead — killed at 18, just trying to go to college in Chicago — and the Loyola Phoenix’s big lesson from the whole ordeal is that they shouldn’t have called her alleged killer an illegal immigrant. They did, it was correct, and they apologized for it anyway. Mayor Brandon Johnson is doubling down on sanctuary policies in the same week, because in Chicago the rules are: protect the living murderer, lecture the dead victim’s family about “senseless tragedy,” and make sure the student journalists know that accuracy is a fireable offense.

New Jersey Gov Signs Law Barring ICE Agents From Wearing Face Coverings

New Jersey’s governor just signed a law requiring ICE agents to show ID and drop their face coverings before detaining someone — because apparently the real threat in the Garden State isn’t the cartels, it’s the federal agent who’d prefer the cartel not know his home address. This is the same state where Democratic machine politics has flourished for decades in glorious, unaccountable anonymity. The logic writes itself: masks for me, not for thee — unless “thee” is trying to enforce federal immigration law.

Transgender Migrant Gets 6 Months for Raping a Teen in New York

Six months. For raping a child. In New York. This is the sentence that the system — the one liberals insist is perfectly calibrated and beyond reproach — handed down. Two ideological sacred cows converged in one courtroom, and a child was the one who paid the price. The life of that teenager is sacred. The system that produced this outcome is a disgrace, and no amount of progressive credentialing can paper over what it is.

White House Warns Trump Will ‘Unleash Hell’ if Iran Doesn’t Deal

Three weeks into the Iran war, the White House is saying the regime has been defeated and just needs to admit it — while Trump separately insists Tehran wants a deal but is “afraid to say it.” I hope he’s right. What I know is that the Army raising the enlistment age to 42 and Russia shipping drones to Tehran means this thing is not wrapping up on a press release schedule. America First means finishing what we start, but it also means getting to “done” as fast as humanly possible.

Planned Parenthood Illinois to Pay $500K for Segregating Employees by Race

The organization that lectures America about equality and bodily autonomy just agreed to pay half a million dollars because it was literally segregating its own employees by race in DEI training sessions. Planned Parenthood: killing the unborn with industrial efficiency and apparently bringing back Jim Crow for the staff who survive the hiring process. The EEOC investigation was real, the settlement was real, and the irony is so thick you could perform a procedure on it.

Florida’s AG is putting Roger Goodell on notice that the Rooney Rule — which mandates interviewing minority candidates for coaching jobs — is discriminatory hiring policy, full stop, and the state is prepared to litigate it. The NFL has spent years hiding behind the shield of “this is just an interview requirement,” but a requirement based on race is a requirement based on race. If you need a law to make someone interview a Black candidate, you’ve already admitted you don’t actually trust the people doing the hiring — which is its own kind of bigotry.

Whoopi Goldberg Lectures Pete Hegseth on What It Means to Be a Soldier

Whoopi Goldberg — whose military service consists of watching Stripes on cable — sat across a daytime talk show table and explained soldiering to a man who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and earned a Combat Infantryman Badge. I genuinely have no follow-up. The bit speaks for itself. Someone on that show’s staff had to look at this segment and say, “yes, air it” — and that is the most baffling part of the whole production.

‘Trans Kids’ Is a Dying Trend

Nearly 90% of kids who identified as transgender simply… stopped. Not because of conversion therapy or cruel parenting — just because they grew up and the ideology didn’t stick. Turns out when you don’t chemically and surgically lock children into a diagnosis before they can drive a car, most of them find their footing on their own. The adults who insisted otherwise — the clinicians, the activists, the school counselors who kept secrets from parents — owe a lot of kids a very long apology.

Bottom Line

When a student newspaper apologizes for accurate reporting, a governor unmasks the people enforcing federal law, and a child rapist gets six months — the crisis isn’t at the border, it’s in the institutions that have decided the rules only apply in one direction.