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Tehran and Washington continue “sporadic” exchanges of fire as they vie for control of the strategic waterway The US military has attacked two more Iranian-flagged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman as Washington presses ahead with its “freedom of navigation” blockade, while Tehran has compared control of the Strait of Hormuz to possessing an “atomic bomb.”US Central Command said on Friday that American forces had struck two “unladen” Iranian tankers, the M/T Sea Star III and the M/T Sevda, which it claimed were attempting to “violate” the US blockade by entering an Iranian port.Iranian armed forces allegedly responded to “the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The shaky ceasefire in the Iran war was tested again on Sunday when drones of unclear origin set fire to a cargo ship off Qatar’s coast and entered Kuwaiti airspace before dawn, authorities said. Qatar and Kuwait said that no casualties were reported from either attack. The events marked the latest threats to a month-old ceasefire, which the Trump administration says remains in effect. The pause in fighting has faced difficulties, with Iran restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway key to the global flow of oil, and the U.S. imposing…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile acknowledged that “very often” people are not able to use the healthcare they have under Obamacare, and Maher said that Republican attempts at sabotaging the legislation are a factor in this. Brazile said, “More Americans have healthcare because of Obamacare.” Maher responded, “Well, they have healthcare, but it is true that, very often, they can’t use it, because — now, part of that is because the Republicans tried every way they could to ratf*ck Obamacare after it was…

The president has recently threatened NATO members with withdrawals over their refusal to back the war on Iran US President Donald Trump has indicated that moving American troops from Germany to Poland is on the table. The statement comes as the Pentagon prepares to withdraw around 5,000 soldiers from the Western European nation over the next year.Trump first announced plans to withdraw the troops from the country earlier this month. The announcement came shortly after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Washington “obviously has no strategy” in the Iran war and that the US “is being humiliated by the Iranian…

A UK immigration officer and a London-based Hong Kong trade official have been found guilty of utilising Home Office systems to track down and spy on dissidents in Britain on behalf of China. The two British-Chinese dual nationals, 40-year-old former Border Force official Chi Leung “Peter” Wai and 65-year old Chung Biu “Bill” Yuen, a former head of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London, stand at the center of an unprecedented years-long case that has raised significant concerns over the malign influence of the Chinese communist regime and its attempts to subvert British democracy. The two men…

They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization. The initiative called “Golden State Start,” which will provide free diapers to newborns in hospitals throughout the state, debuted ahead of Mother’s Day. It has been promoted as a partnership between the state and the Los Angeles-based Baby2Baby nonprofit. However, the deal has resulted in scrutiny over how the organization was chosen and its “proximity to Newsom’s political and…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” ABC News Contributor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said that she pays a ton of taxes but people who are wealthy are able to hire accountants to find loopholes in the tax code and “understand how to get tax breaks when they want to move their companies into a state” and get tax breaks for doing so. While discussing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) claims that rich people don’t pay taxes, host Bill Maher said, “I pay a shitton of taxes.” Brazile responded, “Me too.” Brazile added that Sanders’ point is…

Kiev should keep its UAVs away from Estonian territory, the country’s defense minister has said Ukraine should not be using Estonian airspace for drone attacks on Russia, the Baltic nation’s defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, has said.Over the past few weeks, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland have reported several cases of Ukrainian UAVs crashing in their territory. Moscow previously accused NATO members of quietly permitting Ukraine to target Russian territory, particularly energy facilities in northwestern Leningrad Region.Earlier this week, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said that he told Vladimir Zelensky that Helsinki deems Ukrainian aircraft entering its airspace “unacceptable.”Speaking about incursions…

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that Democrats have “kind of made making money evil” though he does believe there should be an upper wealth limit. While discussing the Met Gala, Maher said that there was an attempt to get people to boycott the event by people he calls “liberals in theory” that wasn’t successful. He added, “I guess the question I’m asking is, for the party that’s always talking about money and [has] kind of made making money evil — now, I do believe that there should be an upper number that we tax on,…

Here is a salient place to start regarding the economic impact of the Donald’s misbegotten war on Iran: To wit, approximately 7 billion ton-miles of freight moves by truck each and every day in the USA, which heavy truck fleet consumes upwards of 2.9 million barrels per day (mb/d) of diesel fuel. Alas, the price of diesel fuel was about $3.55/gallon both a year ago and as of early January 2026, but has since soared by more than+$2.00 per gallon to $5.60. That’s a 56% rise in the cost of pumping goods and commodities through the arteries of the US economy. On an annualized basis, the diesel…