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Britain’s Royal Navy has been forced to return its only warship deployed for the Iranian conflict to port for a “maintenance period”, the government admitted on Tuesday. The shambolic UK response to the Iranian conflict continued on Tuesday as the Daily Mail reported that HMS Dragon, the only destroyer-class ship deployed to the Mediterranean, has already been pulled from service. According to the paper, the ship suffered an issue with its onboard water system. It comes after it took nearly a week for HMS Dragon to set sail to protect British sovereign territory on Cyprus after the RAF Akrotiri air base came…
U.S. stock futures jumped higher and oil prices plunged after President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire and a potential longer peace deal with Iran on Tuesday night. Futures indicated a two percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P futures were up 2.3 percent and Nasdaq futures were up nearly three percent. Oil prices fell sharply. Brent crude futures fell by around 13.5 percent to $94.50 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped 14.7 percent to $96.40 a barrel. U.S. natural gas prices dropped by 3.6 percent. U.S. home heating oil futures dropped by more than 18 percent. Stocks…
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate Democrat, has since governed as a far-leftist, and now has the worst favorability rating of any Virginia governor of the 21st Century at this same point in their term — which is 80 days. The honeymoon is already over. Already, Spanberger is nearly upside-down on approval, something that did not happen to a single one of her eight predecessors after only 80 days in office. The Washington Post-Schart School poll asked 1,100 registered Virginia voters if they approved or disapproved of the way Spanberger is doing her job. Only 47 percent approved,…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) argued that “it’s kind of hard for the Iranians to be able to trust any American negotiators at this point in time.” Because “in the middle of negotiations, Donald Trump decided to bomb the Iranians.” In response to a question on Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his role in negotiations, Van Hollen said, “Secretary Rubio was part of the classified briefings that were provided early on to members of Congress. We’ve been calling for public hearings, because we want the public to be able to…
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested nearly 20,000 illegal migrants in the Washington, DC, area since January 2025, the Washington Post says. The arrests ranged throughout D.C. as well as the surrounding areas in Maryland and Virginia from the start of Trump’s second administration through March 20, according to the Post. While the rate of arrests in D.C. itself has fallen, the arrests have stayed about the same in the surrounding areas, the paper added. The number is an amazing divergence over President Biden’s final year in office when ICE only recorded 3,800 arrests in the area. Still, the…
The US president has claimed Washington has already met and exceeded all military objectives and is now giving diplomacy more time President Donald Trump has announced a two-week suspension of bombing of Iranian energy infrastructure, agreeing to a “double sided ceasefire” contingent on Tehran agreeing to the “complete” and “immediate” opening of the Strait of Hormuz.The US president said Iran’s 10-point proposal delivered via Pakistan offers a “workable basis on which to negotiate.” Trump warned, however, that it is not good enough in its current form – and said he would order devastating new airstrikes if no final deal is reached…
In early March, Russia accused Ukrainian forces of launching a devastating drone attack against a tanker from secret bases on the coast of Libya. French media outlet RFI on Monday published a report that said Ukraine is indeed operating out of western Libya, with over 200 personnel deployed to three locations. The Russian tanker Arctic Metagaz, a liquid natural gas (LNG) tanker that belongs to Russia’s sanctions-evading “shadow fleet,” was hit by a drone attack in the Mediterranean on March 3. The ship was carrying 60,000 metric tons of LNG from Murmansk, Russia, to Port Said, Egypt. The 30-man crew…
The Labor Force Participation Rate Is Probably Wrong The labor force participation rate has been sliding for over year, falling from 62.6 percent in January 2025 to 61.9 percent in March 2026, according to the official figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That looks like a labor market in retreat, Americans pulling back from work, perhaps discouraged by uncertainty or softening demand. But there is a good reason to think the decline is substantially an illusion produced by the way the statistic is constructed, and that the real story is not about workers at all. It is about how…
The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced that it had filed a lawsuit to prevent non-residents from being able to vote in elections in Virginia. In a press release on Monday, it was revealed that the RNC and RITE PAC filed a lawsuit against the Virginia State Board of Elections over a “provision in state law that allows non-residents to vote” in elections. While the provision is described as having been “written to allow military members to vote while living overseas,” people who have “never lived in” Virginia or even the United States are allowed to “register and vote”: • Today,…
The US vice president has arrived in Budapest to show support for Viktor Orban ahead of elections US Vice President J.D. Vance has met with Viktor Orban in Budapest in a high-profile visit ahead of a critical parliamentary election. The Hungarian prime minister’s party is trailing that of his pro-EU opponent in the polls, and he has accused Brussels of interfering in the vote.Vance touched down in Budapest on Tuesday, where he was greeted by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. In a short clip published on social media, Szijjarto hailed the visit as a sign of “a golden age for Hungarian-American…