Synagogue Attacker Was on the FBI’s Radar

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Synagogue Attacker Was on the FBI’s Radar

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was a terrorist attack had been on the FBI’s radar for years, according to the New York Post.

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, was born in Lebanon and naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2015. He was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township near Detroit and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire.

The Post reported Friday that Ghazali had been on law enforcement’s radar at least since 2019.

“At some point that year, Ghazali, who had been known to travel to Lebanon, was questioned by authorities in Atlanta, Ga., after coming back from an overseas trip,” the Post reported, citing anonymous sources.

“He told officials he had gone overseas for the hair transplant, sources said. But he also had contacts on his phone of known Hezbollah members, sources said. The FBI followed up on situation, but it’s unclear what the outcome was,” the Post added.

Ghazali also had brothers in the Iran backed paramilitary group, Hezbollah, according to the Post. Those brothers, Kassim and Ibrahim Ghazali, were killed—along with his niece and nephew—by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on March 5, just after sunset as they were having their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ibrahim Ghazali’s wife was also seriously wounded and remains in the hospital.

Ghazali’s attack came the same day as another apparent terrorist, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, committed a shooting at Old Dominion University—killing Lt. Col. Brandon Shah and wounding two others before a heroic cadet subdued and fatally stabbed him. Jalloh had also been on the FBI’s radar, having just got out of jail in late 2024 after serving nearly a decade for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Jalloh was still on supervised release at the time of his attack.

Additionally, the man who provided Jalloh with his weapon, Kenya Chapman, had been investigated by the ATF in 2021 for buying three guns that later ended up at crime scenes. Instead of punishing him, the ATF gave Chapman a warning and had him write an apology letter.

Chapman now faces charges for providing Jalloh with his weapon.

Dozens of terrorists, as well as at least 24 mass shooters, have been on the FBI’s radar before their attacks.

Prominent examples of mass shooters who were on the FBI’s “radar” include Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza, Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen and Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz.

In Lanza’s case, FBI agents had reportedly previously questioned him for hacking computers.

With Orlando shooter Mateen, the FBI reportedly went as far as investigating him in direct relation to possibly being a terrorist threat—twice. “But the F.B.I. soon ended its examination of Mr. Mateen after finding no evidence that he posed a terrorist threat to his community,” the New York Times reported in June 2016.

Matteen’s father was also an FBI informant for more than a decade, as was reported by NPR in March 2018.

Then, there’s Parkland. In 2018, The New York Times report that “The F.B.I. received a tip last month from someone close to Nikolas Cruz that he owned a gun and had talked of committing a school shooting, the bureau revealed Friday, but it acknowledged that it had failed to investigate.”

Additionally, Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron was possibly communicating with a retired federal agent within as little as 30 minutes of his killing spree. Gendron’s possible links to a retired federal agent are more bizarre when coupled with a July 2019 story from the Buffalo News about FBI agents tracking potential mass shooters in the area.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Purported Mastermind of Iranian Assassination Plots May Not be Dead After All

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Purported Mastermind of Iranian Assassination Plots May Not be Dead After All

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On March 4, Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that the leader of an Iranian unit that attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump has been “hunted down and killed.”

However, that may not be the case. The New York Times reported Friday that the purported leader—Rahman Mokadam, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ special operations division—may still be alive.

American officials are divided on whether Mr. Makdam is dead. Some say Mr. Hegseth is correct — that the man was killed in the strike. Other people briefed on the intelligence said his death has not been confirmed by either the United States or Israel,” the Times reported Friday.

The Times added that Hegseth may have also overstated Makdam’s role in the supposed Trump assassination plots.

“Makdam has overseen that unit as part of his broader responsibilities, and has been involved in other repressive acts in Iran from his job inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps special operations division. But officials said there was not intelligence placing him in a direct role of plotting to kill Mr. Trump,” the newspaper said.

“Another I.R.G.C. official, whom officials interviewed for this article would not identify, is believed to be the leader of the external assassinations unit, including the plot to kill Mr. Trump. That official is believed to be alive.”

Officials have yet to provide any evidence of a credible Iranian assassination threat against Trump. The Times reported Friday that Israeli intelligence provided the initial warnings that Iran was trying to kill him.

There were two assassination attempts against Trump in 2024. One occurred on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks allegedly shot him in the ear from a rooftop during a campaign rally. The other occurred about two months later at Trump’s Palm Beach golf course, where North Carolina man Ryan Routh was spotted by Secret Service hiding in the bushes with an SKS-style rifle a mere few hundred yards away from Trump.

There’s no evidence that either attempt was sponsored by Iran.

The FBI did arrest a Pakistani national named Asif Merchant on July 12, 2024—the day before Trump was shot—for murder-for-hire in an alleged plot to assassinate U.S. officials, including possibly Trump.

However, Merchant’s actions can hardly be called an assassination attempt. Rather, the available evidence suggests that Merchant was the target of a highly controlled FBI sting operation, and that he never posed a threat to Trump.

Indeed, the U.S. was monitoring Merchant before he even entered the U.S. in April 2024, and officials let him into the country to track him and see where he’d go.

Moreover, an FBI informant drove Merchant around while he was here, and introduced him to two undercover agents posing as “hitmen.” Merchant allegedly paid those two agents $5,000 as a downpayment for his plot—which also included staging a protest and stealing documents—and he was arrested as he was attempting to leave the country.

Merchant’s trial is currently underway and is expected to last through mid-March.

The FBI did accuse one other man of being involved in an Iranian plot against Trump in a criminal complaint filed in November 2024. In that case, there’s arguably even less evidence of a credible threat to Trump.

Indeed, the defendants in that case—Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran; Carlisle Rivera, also known as Pop, 49, of Brooklyn, New York; and Jonathon Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, New York—were not accused of conspiring to kill any politicians, let alone Trump. Rather, they were charged with plotting to kill a U.S. journalist of Iranian origin.

While Shakeri is one of the defendants, the government’s criminal complaint shows that he appears to have been snitching to the FBI in recent months. According to the charging papers, Shakeri participated in phone interviews with the FBI from Iran on September 30, October 8, October 17, October 28 and November 7—ostensibly trading information in exchange for a sentence reduction for an unidentified individual.

In one of those interviews, Shakeri—who was deported from the United States in 2008 after serving fourteen years in prison for robbery—told the FBI that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps official was pushing him to assassinate Trump.

Shakeri further told the FBI that the IRGC official told him on October 7 that he had to provide a plan to kill Trump within seven days. Shakeri said he was unable to do so, and so Iran decided to pause its plans to kill Trump until after the election—which would have made it easier to kill him if he lost.

The FBI admitted in the charging papers that Shakeri is a liar, but said his claims about Trump “appear to be truthful.” Nevertheless, when the Justice Department secured indictments in the case a month after the criminal complaint was filed, there was no mention of the allegation against Trump.

Loadholt and Rivera both pled guilty to conspiring against the journalist, while Shakeri remains at-large in Iran.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Texas Senator Cornyn Endorsed by Soros-Funded Pastors

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Texas Senator Cornyn Endorsed by Soros-Funded Pastors

(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is fighting for his political life against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a heated runoff, and he is turning to evangelical pastors for support. Three of those pastors, however, signed onto a pro-amnesty organization that receives funding from George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations, per a report by Breitbart News.

Cornyn rolled out his campaign’s Faith Advisory Council this week. The council features five Texas pastors, including Max Lucado of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Dr. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, and Dr. Gus Reyes, who formerly served at the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission in Dallas.

Lucado, Graham, and Reyes are all listed as signatories on the Evangelical Immigration Table’s Principles for Immigration Reform. Those principles advocate for establishing “a path toward legal status and/or citizenship for those who qualify and who wish to become permanent residents.”

The Evangelical Immigration Table functions as a project of the National Immigration Forum, a left-wing group that pushes for mass migration and has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the Open Society Foundations over the years, financial records show.

Breitbart News reported on the organization’s lobbying efforts back in 2013. That year, the Evangelical Immigration Table stormed Capitol Hill to pressure Republican lawmakers into backing the notorious Gang of Eight amnesty bill. That legislation would have granted amnesty to most of the estimated 11 to 22 million illegal aliens in the country. The group poured a quarter of a million dollars into campaigns urging Americans to call their representatives and demand support for the amnesty plan.

World Relief serves as one of the Evangelical Immigration Table’s leadership organizations. The group lobbies to expand immigration, grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and bring more refugees into the United States. World Relief regularly attacks President Donald Trump’s America First immigration agenda.

The organization recently condemned the Trump administration for a rule that bars migrants from obtaining work permits until they complete their asylum process. World Relief also sent a letter to President Trump, border czar Tom Homan, and members of Congress demanding an end to the administration’s policy of re vetting refugees who have not yet obtained green cards.

Cornyn defended the pastors despite their documented support for amnesty. In a statement, the senator declared that “attacking pastors who have spent decades bringing people to Christ, defending the unborn, and ministering to families in their hardest moments says far more about Ken Paxton’s campaign than it does about them. Texas respects its pastors.”

José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino 

 

Virginia Dems Shielding Immigrant Child Molester from ICE

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Virginia Dems Shielding Immigrant Child Molester from ICE

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The adult illegal alien accused of groping several female students at a Virginia high school may benefit from Fairfax County’s policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. 

Israel Flores Ortiz, a 19-year-old Salvadoran national, was charged with nine counts of assault and battery after allegedly groping at least 12 girls at Fairfax High School, where he attends the 11th grade. 

Authorities said Ortiz had no prior relationship with the victims. Several of the girls told investigators they were randomly targeted and allegedly groped as they walked through the school.

Ortiz remains in state custody after Virginia Judge Dipti Pidikiti-Smith denied his release request despite Soros-funded Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano agreeing to bail. 

Virginia’s ABC 7 News reported Friday that Pidikiti-Smith said the bail request did not properly protect the public. The outlet also noted that the Biden administration allowed Ortiz to enter the U.S. in 2024. 

Critics online slammed Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid for allegedly refusing to honor an ICE detainer for Ortiz. 

ICE told ABC 7 that the agency is “calling on Fairfax County to honor our detainer to ensure this violent criminal is removed from our country so he can never claim another victim again.” 

Fairfax County does not describe itself as a sanctuary jurisdiction. However, the county requires ICE to obtain a judicial warrant before local authorities will transfer an illegal alien into federal custody. 

ICE detainers are not judicial warrants, meaning Fairfax County typically does not honor them without a judge’s order. 

“The Board of Supervisors has not designated Fairfax County as a sanctuary county; it complies to the fullest extent required by federal, state or local law with any law enforcement agency requesting criminal law enforcement assistance,” the county said in a statement. 

Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin Flip-Flops on DHS Funding After Synagogue Attack

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Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin Flip-Flops on DHS Funding After Synagogue Attack

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., appeared to change her tune Friday on her efforts to block federal funding for DHS following the attack on Temple Israel in Michigan. 

The synagogue attack, carried out by Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, marked the latest attack on U.S. soil as Democrats block funding for DHS while demanding extensive reforms. 

Ghazali, a Lebanese national who became a naturalized U.S. citizen, died of a self-inflicted gunshot. He rammed his truck filled with explosives into the doors of Temple Israel. 

He exited the vehicle armed with a rifle and ran down a hallway while his car burned outside. Over 140 preschoolers and staff were inside the premises at the time. 

Before Friday’s attack, Slotkin had been one of the loudest voices demanding an overhaul of DHS funding. At a press conference updating the public on the attack, she reversed course:

“I would say the department, because they are essential workers, they have been at work. Certainly in Michigan, we have a ton of DHS folks, CBP and so they are on the call and they are doing their jobs. Certainly, we need to fund the Department of Homeland Security and we need, in my view, to cut away all the conversation on ICE, which is its own conversation, from all of the core missions at the Department of Homeland Security. But they’re essential, they are on the job and they are working today.” 

Slotkin previously wrote on X that ICE required major reforms and accused Republicans of holding funding for agencies like FEMA, the Coast Guard, and TSA “hostage” during the reforms debate.

In another post, she wrote: “Last week, I voted no on the bill that included funding for ICE. I was unable to support more funding without serious, legislated change.” 

In a Jan. 30 post, Slotkin again said she voted against funding legislation that included ICE, citing incidents in Minneapolis that she argued reflected broader concerns about abuses of Americans’ rights. 

“Our fundamental rights as Americans, trampled. I have talked about these very issues for a year now, and I was unable to support more funding without serious, legislated change,” Slotkin added. 

Poll: Most Americans Unhappy w/ Trump’s Job Performance, Economy

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Poll: Most Americans Unhappy w/ Trump’s Job Performance, Economy

(, The Center Square) More registered voters disapprove of President Donald Trump’s job performance thus far into his second term than approve, according to a recent Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll.

Of the 2,659 registered voters surveyed nationally, 52% disapprove of his job performance, while 46% approve.

Bar chart showing approval and disapproval ratings of Donald Trump’s job performance from March 2026 poll.
Data: The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll (March 2026); Chart: Kate Guenther / The Center Square

And while the president’s approval rating remains high among Republicans – and reaches nearly 90% among those who voted for him in the most recent presidential election – the president isn’t performing well among true independents. True independents are registered independents who don’t lean Republican or Democrat, and are often considered the deciding factor in elections. Sixty-five percent of true independents are unhappy with Trump’s performance, with just 24% approving and only 7% indicating they strongly approve.

Respondents were also asked separately whether they approved or disapproved of the president’s handling of the economy.

Bar chart showing approval and disapproval ratings of Donald Trump’s handling of the economy from March 2026 poll.
Data: The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll (March 2026); Chart: Kate Guenther / The Center Square

As the economy remains the top issue for voters, responses typically differed by 3% or less, if at all, from Trump’s approval overall. For example, 54% of men polled approved of Trump’s performance so far, compared to just 39% of women. When asked solely about the economy, the percentage for men remained the same, and the percentage of women dipped slightly to 36%.

When it comes to respondents’ level of education, Trump polled best on the economy among those with a post-graduate degree – though the difference between groups was only slight – with 48% indicating they approved. He polled five points lower with college graduates at 43% and four points lower with those who had completed some college or less, at 44%.

He polled higher with whites than with hispanics, latinos or blacks and lower with suburban and urban voters than rural voters, both on the economy and overall. Regionally, the South showed the strongest support for the president, with 50% indicating they approved of his job performance. His approval rating across the West, Midwest and Northeast was virtually the same, at 43%, 44% and 44%.

The president’s overall approval ratings for job performance and the economy remain virtually unchanged from about a year ago when the same questions were posed to 2,500 voters in a Voters’ Voice Poll, despite the most recent poll being conducted in the midst of the American military campaign against Iran.

The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights from March 2-5, 2026, and included 952 Republicans, 934 Democrats and 773 independents. Each group was weighted “so it matches” its national party population. Of the independents, 330 were ‘true independents,’ as previously defined.

Trump Says ‘We Make a Lot of Money’ When Oil Prices Go Up

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Trump Says ‘We Make a Lot of Money’ When Oil Prices Go Up

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Thursday tried to portray the increase in oil prices since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran in a positive light, saying the US makes more money when prices rise, though Americans are already paying significantly more for gas.

“The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

“BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stopping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen!” Trump added.

Trump delivers remarks on energy at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, February 27, 2026 (White House Photo)

NBC News noted that in the weeks and months leading up to the war, Trump repeatedly cited declining gas prices as a positive development in his second term.

The day before he launched the war, the president was in Corpus Christi, Texas, and noted that the price of gas was below $2.30 per gallon in the area and even lower in other parts of the country. “I just left Iowa two weeks ago: $1.99. And then I passed another one: $1.85. It’s happening. It’s happening,” Trump said.

According to GasBuddy, a tech company that tracks gas prices nationwide, on March 1, one day into the war, the national average price of gas in the US was $2.94 per gallon. As of Thursday, it stood at $3.61, a 23% increase in just 11 days.

The price of oil has spiked as Iran has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 30% of all seaborne crude passed in 2025. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that only ships with permission from Iran can pass through the strike and it has continued to strike tankers with drones that attempt to make the transit.

This article originally appeared at Antiwar.com.

Tucker Carlson Says the CIA is Reading His Texts and Preparing a Criminal Referral Against Him

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Tucker Carlson Says the CIA is Reading His Texts and Preparing a Criminal Referral Against Him

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson said Saturday that the CIA is reading his texts, and could be preparing a criminal referral against him over allegations that he’s acting as an unregistered foreign agent.

“I found out the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral for me to the Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed. What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war,” Carlson said in a video broadcasted on Twitter/X. “They read my texts.”

Carlson, who interviewed the president of Iran about eight months ago, said he believes the matter could stem from allegations that he’s in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires people lobbying on behalf of foreign entities to register with the DOJ. He added that he’s not worried about actually being charged because his only motive is to act in the interests of his own country, the U.S.

Carlson has been under increasing pressure from the pro-Israel lobby due to his outspoken opposition to the war in Iran. Zionist political commentator Laura Loomer admitted on Twitter/X that she reported him to the DOJ.

“You have no idea how relentless I have been in speaking to GOP reps and even reporting Tucker to law enforcement and the DOJ,” she said. “I pray my efforts are successful … Lock him up!”

This isn’t the first time the U.S. government has investigated Carlson for communicating with a foreign government. In 2021, Carlson said he had received evidence that the NSA has been reading his communications.

“A whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails,” Carlson said at the time, explaining that the whistleblower told him the NSA tapped his phone because he sought an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An internal NSA review reportedly confirmed that the NSA had monitored Carlson’s communications.

“The nation’s top electronic spy agency found that Carlson was mentioned in communications between third parties and his name was subsequently revealed through ‘unmasking,’ a process in which relevant government officials can request the identities of American citizens in intelligence reports to be divulged provided there is an official reason,” The Record reported in July 2021.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Biden ATF Let Terrorist’s Gun Supplier Make Illegal Straw Purchases

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Biden ATF Let Terrorist’s Gun Supplier Make Illegal Straw Purchases

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man who supplied the Old Dominion shooter with his firearm had previously been caught by the ATF making illegal straw purchases of weapons in 2021—but he went unpunished at the time.

The man charged, Kenya Chapman, reportedly admitted that he stole a .22-caliber firearm from a car about a year ago recently sold it to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who committed Friday’s shooting—which killed Lt. Col. Brandon Shah and wounded two others. Jalloh was fatally stabbed by a heroic cadet who intervened.

According to charging papers, the ATF previously caught Chapman buying firearms that were recovered from crime scenes.

“Two [of] the firearms were recovered from a homicide shooting in the fall of 2021—one from a victim and one from the shooter. Another firearm was recovered from a drunk in a public incident, court records state. “Chapman was interviewed and admitted to straw purchasing all three firearms. ATF issued Chapman a straw purchaser warning letter and Chapman wrote a letter of apology.”

Chapman apparently wasn’t that sorry. Some five years later, he’s facing charges for selling a firearm to a terrorist—a convicted felon who’s not allowed to own guns.

According to court records, Chapman said he met Jalloh at work and that Jalloh told him he needed the gun for protection as a delivery driver, according to court papers. Chapman told agents he knew Jalloh had spent some time behind bars but denied knowing he had a previous felony conviction.

Chapman told agents he had no idea the man would commit the attack, the affidavit says.

Jalloh was a former Army National Guard member who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to aid the Islamic State extremist group.

Jalloh, who yelled “Allahu akbar” before opening fire, was subdued and killed by ROTC students, according to FBI officials who praised the students’ bravery for preventing further harm. The shooting killed an ROTC leader who was a professor of military science at ODU, and left two others hurt.

One of them, who was hospitalized in critical condition, has been upgraded to fair condition, according to Sentara Health. The other was treated and released.

Jalloh, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in the Islamic State group case, was released from federal custody in December 2024. He was on supervised release, which is comparable to probation.

He was released about 2 1/2 years early after completing a drug treatment program. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.

It wasn’t clear how Jalloh qualified for the program, which allows inmates to shave up to a year off their sentences. Inmates serving sentences for terrorism-related offenses typically aren’t eligible for such programs or other sentence-reducing credits.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Forbes: A Record 989 Billionaires Are in the U.S., 88 Are in Texas

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Forbes: A Record 989 Billionaires Are in the U.S., 88 Are in Texas

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. has the most billionaires in the world – a record 989 with a combined fortune of $8.4 trillion.

Eighty-eight of them are in Texas, including the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who ranks first on Forbes’ new billionaire list. His net worth of $839 billion comes from his companies, Tesla and SpaceX.

“There has never been a better time to be a billionaire,” Forbes states. “Thanks to AI’s explosion, sizzling markets and favorable fiscal policies, a record 3,428 entrepreneurs, investors and heirs made this year’s World’s Billionaires list, 400 more than in 2025. They are richer than ever, worth a record $20.1 trillion, up $4 trillion from last year.”

The analysis counted a record 3,428 billionaires worldwide living in 80 countries and territories. More than half, 51%, live in three countries: the U.S., China and India.

China, including Hong Kong, has the second most billionaires of 610. India has the third most of 229. The analysis is based on data from stock prices and exchange rates from March 1, 2026, Forbes says.

Forbes provided a list of the 10 richest Texans on the list to The Center Square.

Following Musk is Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, ranking second with a net worth of $141 billion.

Ranking third and eighth are Walmart heiresses Alice Walton ($134 billion) and Ann Walton Kroenke ($14.6 billion).

Ranking fourth are Elaine Marshall and family, who amassed a net worth of $30.9 billion from Koch Inc., followed by Lundal Stephens Greth and family whose $30 billion fortune comes from oil and natural gas.

The sixth wealthiest Texan on the list is Stanley Kroenke, who amassed his $22.2 billion from sports and real estate investment. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his family are not far behind with a net worth of $20.3 billion.

Next is Ken Fisher, the ninth wealthiest Texan with $13.2 billion from money management.

Rounding out the top 10 is Richard Kinder with a net worth of $13 billion from his oil and natural gas pipeline company, Kinder Morgan.

Other notable Texans on the list include Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta and now U.S. Ambassador to Italy, ranking 268th overall with a net worth of $11.7 billion.

Charles Butt, the owner of grocery chain H-E-B, ranks 289th with an estimated net worth of $11.1 billion. His sister, Eleanor Butt Crook, ranks 934th with a net worth of $4.6 billion. His nephews, Howard Butt III and Stephen Butt, with a tied ranking of 1,325, also each have a reported net worths of $3.2 billion.

Houston native Beyonce ranks 3,332 with a net worth of slightly more than $1 billion.

Texas ranks fourth for having the most billionaires in the country, behind California, New York and Florida, Forbes told The Center Square.

Of the top 20 billionaires in the world, 15 are in the U.S.

Following Musk, they are:

  • Larry Page, Google: $257 billion,

  • Sergey Brin, Google: $237 billion,

  • Jeff Bezos, Amazon: $224 billion,

  • Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook: $222 billion,

  • Larry Ellison, Oracle: $190 billion,

  • Jensen Huang, semiconductors: $154 billion,

  • Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway: $149 billion,

  • Rob Walton and family, Walmart: $146 billion,

  • Jim Walton and family, Walmart: $143 billion,

  • Michael Dell, Dell Technologies: $141 billion,

  • Alice Walton, Walmart: $134 billion,

  • Steve Ballmer, Microsoft: $126 billion,

  • Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP: $109 billion

  • Bill Gates, Microsoft: $108 billion.

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