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Iran made an all-out effort last week to combat a severe drought by seeding the clouds with chemicals to produce rain. The technique appears to have worked all too well, as heavy rainfall caused flooding in portions of western Iran on Monday. Iran grapples with chronic water shortages in the best of years, but the past six years have been among the worst, with chronic drought conditions so severe that partially evacuating the capital city of Tehran was on the table. Writing at Forbes on Sunday, environmental scientist Kaveh Madani of the U.N. University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health…
The Trump White House is working to fix the affordability crisis, making “significant progress” in this area after Americans suffered under Bidenflation for years, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out during Thursday’s press briefing. Leavitt pointed to the blockbuster September jobs report, which showed the addition of 119,000 jobs – more than doubling the forecast of 50,000 jobs. “These gains came after the summer passage of President Trump’s historic tax cuts and multiple big trade deals with countries around the world,” Leavitt said. “In particular, construction jobs surged by 19,000 in September, the largest monthly gain in a year.”…
Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said local and state police should protect American citizens from unlawful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests. Cooper said, “I was talking to Shimon Prokupecz who reported on this lady who was was taken by one of these masked customs and border guys, put in his vehicle, which is an unmarked vehicle, and driven around for five hours with two other prisoners, all of whom were citizens. But they had just been at a protest and the border guy was clearly full of adrenaline. He pulled out his his handgun, pointed it at…
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud on Wednesday signed a joint declaration on civilian nuclear cooperation, taking a step toward fulfilling Saudi Arabia’s nuclear power ambitions. “Today is a historic day for the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We’ve come together on a deal for civil nuclear cooperation. Together, with bilateral safeguard agreements, we want to grow our partnership, bring American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and keep a firm commitment to nonproliferation,” Wright said. “All of this is made possible because of President Trump’s vision of prosperity…
How Tariffs Lower Inflation Without Hurting the Economy The San Francisco Federal Reserve’s paper on tariffs leaves us with a puzzle: why do tariffs affect the economy in such a counterintuitive way? Looking at 150 years of data, the researchers at the San Francisco Fed found that tariff hikes are followed by lower inflation and higher unemployment. That runs contrary to the widespread assumption that tariffs might result in higher levels of employment but at the cost of higher inflation. The authors of the paper say they think this might be a demand-destruction story: tariffs scare investors, tighten financial conditions,…
American Chemistry CEO Chris Jahn spoke at a Breitbart News policy event, outlining China’s lead in global chemistry and plastics production and pointing to regulatory and trade policies he sees as key to future U.S. investment. Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow opened the conversation by asking, “Who’s the biggest chemical producer in the world right now?” Jahn responded: “The biggest producer of chemistry and plastics in the world is China, and they’re about four times our size, and that lead is growing.” He referenced “a lot of reasons for that,” while emphasizing what he viewed as “the over regulatory overreach…
Israeli intelligence on Wednesday unveiled the dismantling of what it dubbed the “Hamas Octopus” — a sprawling Europe-wide terror network that stockpiled weapons to strike Israeli and Jewish targets on “command day.” The Mossad said the months-long investigation exposed terror infrastructure built by Hamas leadership to carry out attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets on European soil, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office acting on behalf of the spy agency. In a rare public disclosure, the Mossad credited close cooperation with European intelligence and law-enforcement services for the arrests of Hamas operatives and the seizure of weapons…
Private sector and native-born American citizens are driving economic growth, Vice President JD Vance said during a live discussion with Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. Vance spoke about the latest jobs report and said it shows that it is the private sector, first and foremost, that is driving employment growth. Further, these jobs are going to native-born U.S. citizens — not foreign workers. “And this jobs report confirms that you have the number of manufacturing hours worked in the economy is actually going up. You see, the private sector is really driving this economic growth and is driving…
T1 Energy CEO Daniel Barcelo highlighted the challenges facing the U.S. solar industry in competing with China, particularly in areas like polysilicon, while expressing confidence that America can be cost-competitive by strengthening domestic manufacturing. Speaking at a Breitbart News policy event with Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, Barcelo explained that one area where it is still difficult to compete with China is polysilicon, citing the pricing advantage of Chinese polysilicon as creating “a very large disadvantage to the foundation of a robust solar industry.” While he noted that “the U.S. solar industry is very robust,” he emphasized that America can…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Ibrahim Almadi, the son of U.S. citizen Saad Almadi, who was released by Saudi Arabia, said that his father wouldn’t have been released without President Donald Trump and also credited CNN host Erin Burnett and Washington Post Analyst Josh Rogin and stated, “I understand Saudi Arabia is supposed to be our ally regime to us, but they’ve been mistreating us for a while now. And, finally, they are correcting the course when it comes to my father’s situation.” Almadi said, “[T]his wouldn’t happen without great individuals like yourself, Erin and, like, Josh Rogin, and the individuals…