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President Donald Trump lauded Australia for handling asylum for members of the Iranian Women’s soccer team after he called on the country to do so earlier Monday. Trump took to Truth Social to announce he had spoken with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the matter because several of the team’s members refused to sing along to the Iranian national anthem ahead of its first game in the Women’s Asian Cup. The refusal to sing along runs afoul of the rules Iran sets for its players and comes amid the United States’s Operation Epic Fury campaign, which has seen the…

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) needs “dramatic, bold, meaningful and transformational changes.” Host Kristen Welker said, “Leader Jeffries, let me ask you about another aspect of this. As you well know, President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week, something you and other Democrats have been calling for. Democrats continue to block funding for DHS amid these demands that there be changes to ICE in the president’s deportation policies. Is the change in leadership at DHS enough for you and other Democrats to reopen the government,…

U.S. stocks pared back declines on Monday morning as oil prices retreated from multi-year highs hit over the weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down around 1.8 percent in the first hour of trading, or around 800 points, before retracing to be down around 500 points, or one percent. The Nasdaq composite was down by around 1.3 percent at the open but those losses were cut to around 0.4 percent by 11 am. The S&P also fell sharply in the first half our of trading but was down by just 0.7 percent by late morning. Stocks have been responding…

On Sunday, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the military action in Iran will increase gas prices for “weeks,” not months. Host Jake Tapper said, “Let’s talk about gas prices here at home. The head of GasBuddy’s petroleum analysis told me a few days ago that two of the 10 largest single-day price increases in history happened this week. The price of oil jumped 36 percent, the largest one-week spike since 1983. President Trump told Reuters about gas prices, ‘If they rise, they rise.’ Is that really the message of the Trump administration to consumers,…

Rep. Andy Ogles said on Monday that Muslims have no place in America, an Islamophobic attack from a sitting member of Congress. “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie,” the Tennessee Republican posted Monday morning on X. It is not the first bigoted social media post Ogles has made. He has also said that “America and Islam are incompatible,” and has introduced legislation to halt immigration from Muslim-majority nations. A spokesperson for Ogles referred POLITICO to an interview the member of Congress did with Fox News following a shooting in Austin, Texas, in which he said that…

Gold ix being sold to absorb the oil price shock – but no amount of tinkering with margin requirements can address physical shortages. The moment we all wondered about has come. Oil has surged past $100 per barrel and markets are coming under serious strain. When I wrote an initial reaction to the Iran war last week, markets were still clearly pricing a “nothing to see here” scenario.With the system of global governance in shambles and institutional checks conspicuously lacking, I wrote that markets may now be the only force left capable of imposing constraint. Think of markets as a…

Caitlin Kalinowski, who led hardware and robotics operations at OpenAI since November 2024, has resigned from the company citing concerns about Sam Altman’s contract with the Department of War. Fortune reports that Kalinowski announced her departure through posts on social media platform X and LinkedIn, explaining her decision to leave the artificial intelligence company. “I resigned from OpenAI,” she wrote. “I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines…

Assessing the first week of the U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran, retired U.S. Army Major and urban warfare scholar John Spencer sharply rejected what he called the “lazy comparisons” critics have drawn between the operation and the Iraq War. He told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump’s decision to strike reflects a clear America First action taken squarely in the nation’s national-security interest after diplomacy failed to stop a radical regime racing toward a hardened nuclear threshold — a precision campaign designed not to start another forever war, but to end one, restore American deterrence, and place the region on the…

Morgan Stanley’s surprise decision to cut 2,500 jobs — 3 percent of its global workforce — was driven primarily by artificial intelligence, according to reporting by the New York Post’s Charles Gasparino. The firm officially attributed the cuts to “shifting business and location priorities” and employee performance, but Gasparino reports that sources inside Morgan Stanley say the real story is the replacement of back-office workers with AI bots across the firm’s investment banking, trading, and wealth management divisions. “Management just launched an awesome AI program with ChatGPT in the wealth management division,” one Morgan Stanley executive told Gasparino. “Lots of…

Dana White and the UFC have announced the lineup of fighters for the big “Freedom 250” fight event set for the White House in June. Top billing went to Ilia Topuria, lightweight champ, and Justin Gaethje, interim lightweight champ, for the Sunday, June 14 event planned to be held on the grounds of the White House in Washington, D.C., according to TMZ Sports. Co-main was assigned to Alex Pereira and Ciryl Gane, who will vie for the interim heavyweight belt. “The rest of the main card rounds out like this … “Suga” Sean O’Malley vs. Aiemann Zahabi, Mauricio Ruffy vs.…