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Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off. One ship is headed for India, while the other is bound for China. The ship headed for India is the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Nissos Keros, flagged to the Marshall Islands and chartered by Swiss-based trading company Vitol. The ship is carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is headed for India’s port of Visakhapatnam, which is the location of a refinery owned by Hindustan Petroleum, a subsidiary of…

Mayor Karen Bass believes that the streets of Los Angeles are now “safer than they’ve been since the 1950s.” Bass supported this claim during an interview with KBLA radio host Dominique Diprima, who suggested that Los Angeles may actually be a safer place than the media lets on. “Reality is our streets are safer than they’ve been since … What? The 1950s?” said Diprima. Bass agreed. “Yeah!” said Bass. “And gang homicide is down — and by the way, most of the homicides are gang related. It’s down to 1960 levels.” According to the Los Angeles Times, while violent crime…

Vladimir Putin contrasted foreign broadcasters’ silence over Kiev’s killing of Russian students with their extensive coverage of Moscow’s response Western media have ignored Kiev’s killing of Russian students in Starobelsk while devoting extensive coverage to Moscow’s response, President Vladimir Putin has said, accusing foreign outlets of “making fools” of their audiences.  Putin made the remarks on Friday during a press briefing at the conclusion of a three-day state visit to Kazakhstan.  Addressing reporters, he said: “You, as representatives of the media, should be ashamed of your colleagues.” “Not a single word about the tragedy in Starobelsk. Not a single word about…

The State Department will announce on Thursday that it is planning to designate Brazil’s two most powerful organized criminal syndicates, the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Capital Command, or PCC), as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The designations impose onerous sanctions on the gangs and their members, block them from keeping their assets in the United States or freeze assets already in the country, and make it illegal for American citizens to offer material support to them. In a statement on Thursday, the State Department explained that the PCC and Red…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ actions were “cruel and inhumane.” Mamdani said, “We are proud of the fact that we are a sanctuary city. We’re proud of that for a number of reasons. One, it is a policy designed to keep New Yorkers safe. Two, we know that here in our city, we are proud of the more than 3 million New Yorkers who are immigrants. I’m one of them. And we know that in a city like this, it is incumbent upon us to live up to…

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Wednesday revealed that it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug boat engaged in narco-trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific, killing two male individuals identified as narco-terrorists. Wednesday’s strike is the fifth such military strike against a drug-trafficking vessel disclosed by SOUTHCOM in May 2026 and is part of Operation Southern Spear, an ongoing U.S. military counter-narco-terrorism security campaign. In an official statement, SOUTHCOM detailed that the operation was carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known…

Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement was “chaotic, cruel and corrupt.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Senator, you went inside the facility yesterday. You said it is a moral stain in our nation. What did you see? What did the detainees tell you?” Booker said, “Well, remember this is being run by a private corporation that showered Republicans with cash. Have $1 billion operation. So it is a private, for profit prison now profiting off of people’s pain. Inside, the conditions were insufficient and unacceptable. From lots of complaints about medical conditions,…

Hungary will keep the policy of the previous administration in relation to Ukraine unchanged, Peter Magyar has reiterated Hungary will not supply weapons or military equipment to Ukraine, the country’s newly elected prime minister, Peter Magyar, said on Thursday shortly after meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels.Magyar’s center-right Tisza party defeated Viktor Orban’s Fidesz last month, securing a two-thirds parliamentary majority. EU officials, who had previously criticized Orban as a Kremlin-friendly politician, voiced support for Magyar ahead of the election and were widely seen as expecting him to roll back many of the previous government’s policies.Magyar, however,…

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, filling in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, stressed at Thursday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will not “take a bad deal” on Iran. Shortly before Bessent took the podium, anonymously sourced reports began to surface that U.S. officials and Iran had agreed to a deal on a ceasefire extension contingent on final sign-off from the president. When asked if there was agreement at the top of the briefing, Bessent said U.S. and Iranian negotiators “have been going back and forth.” “President Trump has made it very clear, he talked about it at the…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund was a “collusive, fraudulent settlement.” Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “I’d like you to comment on the judge’s motion to this judge. And then that, the notion that rule 60 here could be the crucial lever, for the judge in this case, to use.” Raskin said, “Well, it was a true act of public service on behalf of these former judges to step forward, to say that this would truly be a fraud, not just on the court, but on…