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By Yuka ObayashiTOKYO (Reuters) – Oil eased on Friday after a rally the previous day, but prices remained set for a second straight weekly gain as investors weighed the impact of hurricane damage on U.S. demand against any broad supply disruption if Israel attacks Iranian oil sites.Brent crude oil futures fell 39 cents, or 0.5%, to $79.01 a barrel by 0152 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures dropped 32 cents, or 0.4%, to $75.53 per barrel.For the week, both benchmarks were headed for a 1%-2% gain.In the United States, Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after…

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AP) — A new mayor was sworn in Thursday in a city in southern Mexico where his predecessor was killed and beheaded less than a week after taking office.The new mayor, Gustavo Alarcón, a doctor, had been elected as an alternate on the same ticket as deceased Mayor Alejandro Arcos in the June election.Arcos took office on Oct. 1 in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero. But his beheaded body was found in a pickup truck Sunday; his head had been placed on the vehicle’s roof. Two rival drug gangs are…

Former President Donald Trump said in an economic address Thursday that the U.S. has allowed “big companies” to “come in and raid and rape our country.””‘Oh, he used the word ‘rape.’ That’s right. I used the word ‘rape,'” Trump said at the Detroit Economic Club after his remarks were met with what sounded like some gasps from the audience. “They raped our country,” he repeated.Trump did not specify what companies he was referring to but indicated he was talking about businesses that export goods to the U.S. that were made overseas.”So here’s the deal that I will be offering to…

Native Vote 2024. Minnseota Gov. Tim Walz, the 2024 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, brought a message that tribal nations would alwasy have a voice in DC when Harris-Walz ticket is elected to Native American tribal leaders Gila River Indian Community.on Wednesday, October 9, 2024.“We are not going back to the way it was,” Walz said, a common theme used in the Democratic campaign. “I feel it across the Indian Country that people know this is an opportunity to keep this momentum going forward,” he said. “This is an opportunity that many of us have waited lifetimes for, to finally see that we’re…

Tehran is ready to defend itself and to respond proportionally to any aggression, the informed source added Iran is fully prepared to defend itself and retaliate against any potential attack by Israel, including on its oil and nuclear facilities, a source in Tehran familiar with the matter told RT on Thursday.Retaliation against a potential attack will be proportionate and based on domestic and international norms, the source explained. For instance, should Israel target Iran’s oil infrastructure, Tehran will in response strike three main oil refineries in that country.Attacks on other infrastructure, such as power plants or nuclear facilities will likewise…

Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times,The largest cannabis delivery company in California will shut down by the end of the year, according to a letter from the chief executive officer Sunday, joining a growing number of marijuana businesses in the state that are going belly up.In the note published on LinkedIn, Eaze CEO Cory Azzalino said that “ongoing challenges” in the state’s cannabis industry led to the foreclosure of company assets on Aug. 6.He added that the San Francisco-based company is “winding down” current operations and is expected to fully close around Dec. 31.Eaze’s management team is working…

All of the talk about how sacred ‘our democracy’ is from Democrats in recent years might go right out the window in November. Rep. Jamie Raskin of California and other members of his party are already signaling that they may not vote to certify the 2024 election if Trump wins. This would not be a big change for Raskin. He objected to certifying the 2016 election when Trump won. It’s almost like they don’t really care about ‘our democracy’ at all. Almost. Breitbart News reports: Top Democrats, Including Election Denier Jamie Raskin, Won’t Commit to Certifying a Trump Victory Top…

Topline The tariffs proposed by former President Donald Trump would pose a major headwind to stocks globally, according to a report from UBS investment bank examining the impact of several scenarios for equities heading into November’s U.S. election. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping in 2017.AFP via Getty Images Key Facts The joint analysis from UBS economists and strategists, including its chief U.S. economist Jonathan Pingle and chief U.S. strategist Jonathan Golub, forecasted that if the U.S. implements the 60% import tax on Chinese goods and 10% tariff on other imports backed by Trump, the…

(Charlotte, North Carolina – September 30, 2024) – The Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange are proud to announce the inaugural Sound Money Fellowship—a new program designed to foster advanced research in the field of sound money. The two groups have set aside more than 100 ounces of physical gold (currently valued at approximately $260,000) to reward deserving students and researchers advancing original sound money analyses. Building on the overwhelming popularity of the nation’s first gold-backed annual Sound Money Scholarship, the Sound Money Fellowship is open to graduate students, post-graduate students, and independent researchers. The fellowship seeks to…

A professor at the University of Kansas has been placed on administrative leave after saying that men who don’t for Vice President Kamala Harris because she’s a woman should be shot. “We could line all those guys up and shoot them,” he said in a recently leaked video. The university has not named the instructor as of Wednesday evening. “What frustrates me [is] there are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president, because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president,” the University of Kansas professor said during…