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Washington was unhappy with Kiev launching drone attacks on vessels carrying oil to a terminal co-owned by US companies, the article says The US called Ukraine to heel for targeting oil tankers in the Black Sea after Kiev began launching drone attacks on vessels sailing to a partly US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Russia, the Financial Times reported.The CPC funnels Kazakh crude across southern Russia to a marine terminal near Novorossiysk, where tankers carry it onward to Europe and Asia. The route includes an unusual combination of Russian, Kazakh, and Western interests, with Chevron and ExxonMobil among the…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to equip its officers with specialized gloves capable of delivering an electric shock to help subdue violent or resisting suspects. According to a Department of Homeland Security notice reported by the Associated Press, ICE plans to spend up to $20 million purchasing thousands of the devices for deployment early next year. Known as the G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) the technology is manufactured by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies and has already been used by some police departments and correctional facilities. The equipment functions as an ordinary pair of patrol gloves until an officer…

President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his assertion that the United States has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz, warning Iran could either continue buckling under mounting economic pressure or risk getting “blown away” if it challenges American forces. “We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it,” Trump told reporters Tuesday evening after returning from Ohio. “At some point, maybe they’ll do something, and then they get blown away, but we, right now, we’re in a very good position,” Trump said. The president’s remarks came…

A Joe Biden-appointed judge in D.C. has ordered the Kennedy Center to pay a jazz musician a $250,000 fee after the organization tried to sue him for cancelling his concert because he opposes President Donald Trump. Musician Chuck Redd cancelled his Christmas Eve concert at the Kennedy Center despite having performed there for years because he opposed the addition of Trump’s name to the center. Redd said in a statement that he was cancelling due to the “defiant and illegal name change happening to the Kennedy Center,” according to Variety. The Trump Kennedy Center, as it was then called, immediately…

State House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the GOP primary for Minnesota governor on Tuesday, knocking off President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate, former MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. It’s a major loss for Trump given his close relationship to Lindell, who has been one of the president’s staunchest defenders — especially regarding his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Demuth, a more moderate Republican than Lindell, will face Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who faced no serious primary opposition, in November. Republicans are bullish that a fraud scandal under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz gives them an opening in the blue-leaning state.…

AI-Generated image by Grok Who are these drones spying for, in the end? The Royal Navy is fighting a war with Britain, to have resources to modernize and expand the much-diminished forced, said to be the smallest-ever. But even when modernization efforts do come, they are not without issues, as we’ve learned this week. It’s been widely reported that the Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces had cameras suspected to be secretly sending sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal. 🇬🇧 The UK Ministry of Defence has launched an emergency security response after discovering that…

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares claimed on Tuesday all illegal migrants who invaded Ceuta will be “sent back” – if they haven’t already escaped to mainland Spain and then on into Europe. According to Spanish outlets, Albares did not present a timetable towards the deportation of all of the migrants and a return to normalcy for Ceuta. Minister Albares traveled to Ceuta on Tuesday — 12 days after tens of thousands of illegal migrants swarmed into the city. The visit, Albares and Spanish outlets pointed out, marked the first time that a Spanish Foreign Minister has travelled to Ceuta.…

Consumer prices inched up in July after declining sharply in June. The consumer price index rose 0.1 percent compared with June, the Department of Labor said Wednesday. Compared with a year ago, the consumer price index is up 3.4 percent. That matched the consensus forecast. In June, prices fell 0.4 percent while the consumer price index was up 3.5 percent from a year ago. Core prices, a measure that excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent compared with the previous month. For the year, core prices are up 2.5 percent, a decline in year-over-year inflation from the previous…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” co-host Michael Steele said the Trump Administration has put the nation on a “roller coaster to election hell.” Steele said, “Can I just start by saying to our audience what you just heard there was simplistic stupidity. It was telling the president of the United States something that is just constitutionally and factually incorrect. And the reality of it is, when you engage in simplistic stupidity, particularly when you’re speaking to someone who doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to understand that it is simplistic stupidity and the best answer they can give you is, ‘Well,…

Donald Trump just suffered one of his biggest endorsement losses of the cycle. Former MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — a close ally of the president who was at the forefront of his 2020 election denialism — fell to Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth in Minnesota’s gubernatorial primary on Tuesday. Lindell’s loss is the third for Trump endorsees in the last two weeks, following GOP Rep. Andy Ogles’ defeat last Thursday and his pick in a battleground Michigan House race falling to a candidate who had dropped out. Like other Trump-backed candidates who lost in this year’s primaries, Lindell was…