Author: Press Room
The regime in Tehran bizarrely claimed to be the “protector of security” for the Strait of Hormuz, even as its terrorist attacks on commercial vessels continue to block vital traffic from passing through the strategic waterway, in comments following President Donald Trump’s visit to China this week. Some of Iran’s rhetorical gymnastics – and sudden reluctance to openly claim responsibility for attacks on shipping that it used to boast about – could be due to China declaring its agreement with the United States on the importance of reopening the strait. President Donald Trump said during his trip to Beijing this…
Reality television star Spencer Pratt responded to reports that he has been living at a luxury hotel seemingly in contradiction of his claim to have been living in an airstream trailer on the empty lot whereupon his home stood prior to the Palisades Fire. Earlier this month, Spencer Pratt’s bid to unseat Karen Bass as Mayor of Los Angeles gained significant steam when he released an explosive ad calling out his opponents for living in millionaire homes while Angelenos deal with the homeless crisis. The ad closed with him standing outside an airstream erected upon the charred lot of his…
The German luxury carmaker once manufactured military trucks and airplane engines for the Nazis Mercedes-Benz is considering engaging in defense production if it would make “business sense,” its CEO Ola Kallenius has told the Wall Street Journal.The Munich-based company once manufactured military hardware on a large scale, before and during World War II. It began supplying trucks and airplane engines to the Nazis in 1937.After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, all of the vehicles produced by Mercedes-Benz were sent to the army or to businesses viewed as essential for the war effort. During that period, almost half of…
Chinese state media reporting on Thursday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and dictator Xi Jinping was generally upbeat, with the state-run Global Times celebrating the leaders’ visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing as a “new historic footnote to China-U.S. relations.” The Global Times was impressed by the “rapid pace” of Trump’s visit, and pleased that Trump’s busy agenda included time for a visit to the Temple of Heaven. Xi explained the “deep symbolic weight” of the site to his guest, saying it embodied “the traditional Chinese concept that the people are the foundation of a state.” The Temple…
A letter to the Department of War in support of investment into domestic lithium supply chains, including a massive, untapped lithium deposit that stretches across the southern United States, was led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). The letter, also signed by Sens. John Boozman (R-AR) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), was addressed on Tuesday to the Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) director, David Lorch. Naming the Smackover Formation, North America’s top lithium brine resource that spans from Central Texas to the Florida Panhandle, the senators wrote that “recent assessments indicate the Formation may represent one of the most…
The strike killed at least seven people, leaving more than 50 others injured according to emergency services in Gaza Israel carried out strikes in Gaza targeting Hamas’ top military commander, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement. It marked the first attack on a senior official of the militant group since a US-backed deal in October intended to halt fighting in the Palestinian enclave.The strikes on Friday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 50 others, who were taken to Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza emergency services said. Neither side…
The middle-aged Pennsylvania couple had lived together for more than a decade, buying a home together and sharing other assets. They never got married. It didn’t matter, they thought. But after he died of cancer recently, leaving her his entire estate, it did matter. A lot. Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states that still imposes an inheritance tax–a tax on transfers from a person who has died to the people who inherit, with rates based on the category of recipient. Transfers to spouses, but not to unmarried partners, are exempt. Pennsylvania subjected everything she was left to inheritance…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of several Iranian politicians vying for influence following the elimination of “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, disparaged American Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as a “failed TV host” in commentary on Friday following a successful visit by President Donald Trump to Iranian ally China. The comments – apparently intended for an American audience given the use of terms such as “cosplay” and “LARP” – also occur as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a summit of BRICS ministers in India. BRICS is an anti-American coalition named for its top countries – Brazil, Russia, India,…
Special agents with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration arrested a man in Washington state this week on federal charges for throwing a coconut-sized rock at an endangered monk seal’s head in Hawaii last week. Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, 38, a Washington state resident, was on vacation in Hawaii last week when he was reportedly recorded harassing the endangered animal. He surrendered to special agents in Seattle on Wednesday on charges of “harassing and attempting to harass a protected animal,” per the Associated Press (AP). The state Department of Land and Natural Resources investigated a report last week of a man…
President Trump is the champion of American greatness, American companies, and American energy. Now he has a historic opportunity to land the plane in Bulgaria to secure lucrative energy trade deals and lock in strategic partnerships for generations to come. Bulgarian leaders and businesses are hungry for exactly this kind of engagement and prosperity. They are not looking for lectures or sleepy bureaucrats; they want decisiveness and President Trump’s ambassadors are decisive, and in this case, billions are at stake. The American LNG Opportunity: Thirty Billion Cubic Meters Between Turkey and Greece, the United States and its partners have assembled…