Shalom Baranes, who arrived in the U.S. as a Libyan refugee -- helped with PENTAGON renovation and now will Build TRUMP Ballroom (magazine piece)

 "Trump's Ballroom Architect is roasting

in the hot seat . . . he is baffling architects

for accepting the job . . . he says his previous

projects have also drawn outrage"

NY TIMES .com [online article - NYT Magazine)

us/politics/trump-ballroom-architect.html

Gov. Mikie_ Sherrill of NJ sues Trump-Vance over poorly planned ICE Warehouse to hold 1,500

 POLITICO online coverage

KATIE BARTLETT and DANIEL HAN

politico.com/news/2026/03/20/new-jersey-sues-trump-

ice-warehouse-00838005

Don Lemon - - 36 days ago before Judge in Minnesota for Prelim. plea_ -- courtroom trial to be scheduled about disruption / First Amendment

church service at City Church, St. Paul, MN 

Friday Feb. 13, 2026

"Not Guilty"

flanked by his lawyers

Heather Danae Lewis -- no longer charged in Church (St. Paul - Minneapolis, MN) Protest case brought by JUSTICE Dept. (Pamela Bondi)

 Charges dropped against woman

mistaken for protester

50-yr-old

were dismissed by the judge

with prejudice --

Pam Bondi nor her deputy

prosecutors can charge the

woman again

_______________________

her lawyer of Minneapolis said

Ms. Lewis had demonstrated she

was NOT there at Cities Church

St. Paul, MN . . .

Allied nations balk at invitation to PATROL and KEEP OPEN the strait of Hormuz : local Wealthy Nations (Bahrain & U.A.E. first in neighborhood)

These nations will send naval ships to ensure

safe passage:

U.K.

France

Italy

Germany

the Netherlands

Japan

BBC.com/news/world

Trump lashes out at N.A.T.O.

"US no longer needs help" . . .

3/17/2026 

Trump in social media

mentioned

7 nations he wanted to assist

the security to keep open the

STRAIT OF HORMUZ :

replying thus far are

Germany - - No

Italy -- officials / diplomats

Japan

Australia

officials also decline . . .

Details @ ABC News.go.com/ world

also Sir Keir Starmer, P.M. of

U.K.

If regime change was the "reason" for "war of choice" -- Bombings / targeted assassination did not succeed in new Leader of Theocratic Regime

Trump-Vance Director

of National Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard

admitted that 

Iran's regime remains

"intact" as of SENATE

hearing

March 18, 2026

__________________

New AYATOLLAH

elected March 11, 2026;

a hard-line Theocratic

leader not expected nor desired by POTUS 47 . . . 

Mojtada Khamenei

son of the prior

AYATOLLAH

On this date -- in History (21st Century) -- an earlier example of how the EXECUTIVE BRANCH handles a war of choice

 March 19, 2003

then-President George W. Bush

announced the U.S. military coalition

forces had invaded IRAQ on the way

to toppling Saddam Hussein;

five months later Bush would declare

victory in his "Mission Accomplished"

speech.

apnews.com/today-in-history/March-19