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Utility costs are squeezing New Yorkers after officials decided to shut down a nuclear plant, and criticism over the move is piling up. Indian Point Energy Center had supplied 25 percent of electricity to people in New York City and Westchester County, but the plant was closed in 2021 after environmental activists opposed it, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) was former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lieutenant governor when the plant was shut down on his watch. Now, critics are saying it was the wrong move, and former Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who filed a lawsuit to…

By precipitating industrial erosion, the dollar’s supremacy undermines the foundational sources of American might The dollar’s reserve status grants the US the luxury of comparatively cheap borrowing and chronic deficits, even as a systemically overvalued currency drives industrial erosion on a vast and clearly measurable scale. To crown injury with indignity, this attrition imperils the strategic foundations of American power.Beyond deindustrialization: The distinct logic of hollowing-outWorld-reserve status has facilitated the long-term real appreciation of the US dollar, undermining the competitiveness of export-oriented manufacturing and placing broader segments of domestic industry under pressure from cheaper imports.In structurally tilting the economy toward…

President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried America and the European Union will forget about Ukraine as focus turns to the Middle East, and that the deliveries of advanced Western missiles will dry up as they’re needed to fight Iran, he told an Italian newspaper. The United States and allies attacking Iran “is right”, President Zelensky said, and brings certain benefits to Ukraine, but the brewing up of a war in the Middle East risks Ukraine’s defence because there is a limited supply of air defence missiles in the world, he has said. Speaking to Milan-published Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera as…

Reaping financial rewards from strong-arming fans into paying for streaming services has become one of the NFL’s largest revenue streams, but that may change. Senator Mike Lee (R, UT) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the NFL and other professional sports leagues, as well as the exorbitant costs fans are being forced to pay to watch games on streaming services. Lee, who chairs the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee, made a direct appeal to the DOJ’s Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi and the FTC’s Chairman Andrew Ferguson to reexamine whether the country’s laws regarding…

Lindsey Graham’s effort to convince Donald Trump to attack Iran began — to the surprise of no one familiar with the relationship between the South Carolina senator and the president — on the golf course. After the 2024 election, the pair hit the links to discuss a second-term agenda for the resurgent president, and Graham had lots of advice. In an extensive interview Tuesday in his Capitol Hill office, Graham recalled pushing Trump to “blow some shit up” to combat drug trafficking. He talked about taking on Big Tech by challenging the legal underpinnings of their industry dominance. And he…

Hungary has accused Ukraine of stopping the flow of oil via the Soviet-era Druzhba route Ukraine has rejected a proposed EU mission to inspect the Soviet-era pipeline that transports Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Central Europe, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing diplomats and officials.Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately blocking the flow through the Druzhba pipeline, while Ukraine said the infrastructure was damaged by Russian strikes in January.The EU is pressuring Ukraine to restore the operation of the Soviet-era pipeline that transports Russian oil through Ukrainian territory to Central Europe, the Financial Times reported on…

Thousands of cruise line passengers are trapped in ports in the Persian Gulf due to ongoing military strikes in the Middle East. Cruise ships have become stationary hotels as the conflict in Iran has left many stranded. Escalating hostilities have raised fears over safety in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes. The Daily Mail wrote that at least six big ships are said to be stationary and awaiting word regarding when they can leave. These passengers are docked or anchored in port cities such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and…

Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons is criticizing the Boston Police Department for ignoring immigration detainer requests after ICE arrested large numbers of illegal aliens in Massachusetts. Lyons said police ignored nearly 170 of those requests in 2025, not 57 as the city’s police commissioner said, the Boston Herald reported Tuesday. He told the Herald in a statement: ICE lodged 167 immigration detainers against criminal illegal aliens in Boston police custody during 2025 — far more than the Boston Police Department is admitting to. Ironically, Commissioner Michael Cox says the police won’t honor our detainers because…

Friedrich Merz says Iran deserves being the target of war because it hasn’t bent the knee to sanctions Say what you will about Germany’s current ‘elites’, but they are consistent: Once they don’t give a damn about international law, elementary fairness, rudimentary human decency, and, last but not least, basic logic, they really won’t quit before their country’s reputation is ruined as it has not been since 1945. Hyperbole, you think? Can it really be that bad, you wonder?Leave it to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and company to achieve what seems almost impossible. For almost two-and-a-half years, not one but two…

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to “cut off” all trade with Spain after the socialist-led country refused to allow the American military to use its bases to strike the Islamist regime in Iran during Operation Epic Fury. Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Trump vented his frustration with some European allies, including the United Kingdom and Spain. “Spain has been terrible,” Trump said. “In fact, I told [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] to cut off all dealings with Spain.” On Saturday, Spain was also the lone country in Israel to…