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Ship tracking data released on Monday showed six Saudi-flagged supertankers turning away from the Gulf of Aden and heading for southern Africa to avoid the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen have declared a “maritime ban” on Saudi shipping, backed up by terror attacks. According to maritime security firms LSEG and MarineTraffic, the six Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) — each with capacity for two million barrels of oil — were empty after delivering cargoes to Asia. Instead of passing through the Bab el-Mandeb strait into the Red Sea, the tankers opted for a much longer course around…
PragerU has launched a new series on financial literacy, called Economic Game Changers. Each episode highlights a historical figure who played a role in shaping the way people see and talk about modern economics today. “From Adam Smith to Thomas Sowell, meet the men whose bold economic ideas shaped history and defined the way everyone talks about money, trade, and markets today,” the description for the Economic Game Changers reads on PragerU’s website. Marissa Streit, the CEO of the conservative organization, told Breitbart News, “Many Americans are appalled by the increasing number of students who tell pollsters they prefer socialism over capitalism.” “But…
Francesca Hong, current Democrat gubernatorial candidate in the state of Wisconsin, said she once left a Culver’s fast food restaurant after she nearly experienced an “anxiety attack” due to “too many old white people.” Hong shared her story about the anxiety episode in a 2019 post on X. “I ate two bites of my kid’s cheeseburger at a Culver’s in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack,” she said. Hong said the establishment had “to many old white people who…
Democrats on the Budget Committee were frustrated by Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) first turn with the gavel after the new chair rebutted each of their remarks. “Welcome to the chairmanship, but I find you are turning this into a debate committee and not a budget committee,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said during the Tuesday hearing on Medicaid. Johnson, who took over chair after the unexpected passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last month, fact checked Democrats on the committee after their allotted question time, which got on the nerves of his colleagues. Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said near the…
Prime Minister Burnham at 10 Downing Street – Picture No 10 Downing Street/Wiki Commons Leftist Burnham can only resist so much of Labour’s insane policies. We have been reporting on the first days of former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as the new British Prime Minister. But in all fairness, it’s not looking too good – after all, he has headed out on a holiday break a mere fortnight after becoming premier. The guy spends his whole career trying to become the prime minister, and then he is already away from his day-to-day duties. What a horrible example. But the worst…
SpaceX is preparing for two significant events that could trigger substantial volatility in its stock price: the company’s first quarterly earnings report as a public entity Tuesday and the expiration of a lockup period that will release nearly one billion shares into the market on Thursday. CNBC reports that SpaceX is approaching a pivotal moment in its history as a publicly traded company, facing its inaugural quarterly earnings report alongside a major stock unlock event that analysts warn could create significant market turbulence. The convergence of these two milestones has prompted comparisons to the extreme pressures experienced during rocket launches.…
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp used the company’s second quarter earnings announcement to warn that “Marxist” AI frontier labs threaten to seize control of enterprise data and intellectual property. TechCrunch reports that Alex Karp, who holds a PhD in social theory, wrote in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that AI labs building large language models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, intend to “capture the means of production of their purported partners.” He described this dynamic as having “Marxist overtones and undertones.” The comments came as Palantir announced exceptional second quarter results. The company reported revenue of $1.9 billion, up 93 percent…
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong said that she is “not interested in abolishing prisons.” But then responded to a question on whether a world without prisons would be a perfect world by saying that “what may be aspirational and then understanding the role of the governor, what they can and cannot do and what is implementable right now, these are different conversations.” And also stated that she supports “those things right now that are helping to ensure that there is public safety.” Host Kaitlan Collins played clips of HBO host Bill Maher saying he…
A lawyer for Rep. Max Miller took responsibility Tuesday for inadvertently releasing sensitive photos of the Ohio Republican’s daughter in a trove of material Miller published Sunday in a bid to defend himself against domestic abuse claims. The attorney, Aaron Minc, took responsibility for the photo being released and called it “completely unintentional and a mistake” after a lawyer for Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, accused Miller of disseminating the daughter’s name and one image that “could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material.” “I am solely responsible for what happened,” Minc said in a statement. “I was the only person responsible…
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning advanced Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General in a 12-10 vote. The Committee advanced Blanche after RINO Senators Tillis and Cornyn backed down and came to an agreement over the weaponization fund. The full confirmation vote to make Blanche permanent AG could happen this week. Senate Judiciary Committee advances the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General, 12-10. pic.twitter.com/bizDrVPBit — CSPAN (@cspan) August 4, 2026 Late Sunday night Todd Blanche rescinded the $1.8 billion weaponization fund. “My team and I have met with committee members and Senators over the past several weeks…