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The top diplomats discussed international affairs and upcoming contacts, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a “constructive” phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has said.The top diplomats compared notes on “the current state of international affairs and Russia-US relations” and discussed the schedule of upcoming bilateral contacts, the ministry said in a statement.The conversation was “constructive and businesslike,” it added.The US State Department has not yet commented.The Lavrov-Rubio call – their first in more than six months – came less than a week after Russian President…

Since the ceasefire on April 8 and Trump’s apparent capitulation to Iran, it appears the Iranians will levy a toll on all oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The details are still unclear, but according to The Hill citing the Financial Times, the Iranian Republic will levy $1 per barrel of oil to be paid in bitcoin on all traffic out of the Persian Gulf. The Iranian government obviously benefits from this, but who actually pays the toll? This question, what is known as tax incidence, is one important point of difference between the Austrian school and mainstream economics that remains widely…

Hundreds of people are planning a major celebration in the Mexican city of Culiacan, Sinaloa, over the resignation of the state’s cartel-connected governor, who is now a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The celebration is set to take place this week outside of the Governor’s Office, where organizers are asking citizens to be respectful, bring their grills to share a meal, and ask for a better state. The celebration comes soon after Sinaloa’s cartel-connected Governor Ruben Rocha Moya announced he was stepping down from his post to deal with a series of federal charges filed by the…

The JOLTS Report Shows a Healthy Labor Market, Not a ‘Sluggish’ One The March JOLTS report dropped Tuesday morning and the Associated Press immediately informed the nation that the labor market “remained sluggish.” That’s a strange way to describe a report showing hiring surged by 655,000 to 5.6 million, job openings held steady at 6.9 million, and the quits rate ticked up — all consistent with the March payrolls report that showed 178,000 new jobs and unemployment falling to 4.3 percent. So, why does it look “sluggish” to the Associated Press? It’s tempting to write this off as pure Trump Derangement…

Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) was investigated over allegations of inappropriate behavior with interns, but the case was later dismissed, NOTUS reported Monday. The news comes after now former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) resigned from the U.S. House and abandoned his campaign for governor of California when he was accused of rape and sexual misconduct, per Breitbart News. The NOTUS article said: A former House Democratic staffer filed a complaint with House ethics officials in early 2023 alleging that Costa behaved inappropriately and made advances toward her in February 2020, when she was an intern for a different lawmaker. The woman…

Lindsey Graham has pitched a “Second Amendment solution” for the Islamic Republic, reviving a failed covert scheme to arm protestors with guns US President Donald Trump should send large amounts of weapons to Iranian civilians in order to spark a civil war in the country, Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the biggest cheerleaders of the US-Israeli war on Iran, has suggested. Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday, the South Carolina war hawk Republican framed the proposal as a “Second Amendment solution” for the Islamic Republic and an alternative to deploying American ground troops. “If I were President Trump and…

Arlington, Virginia — War Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed calls from President Donald Trump for South Korea to join the United States’ “Project Freedom” mission after a ship operated by a major Seoul-based shipping firm suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz. The HMM Namu cargo vessel reported an explosion and fire on Monday while it was anchored near the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and South Korean officials say they are working to verify whether it was caused by an attack. The boat’s crew was made up of six South Koreans and 18 foreign nationals. No casualties have been reported…

Officials are warning customers about scammer calls that could deceive them into draining their bank accounts.  The FBI said scammers are increasingly posing as banking staff or law enforcement officials in order to steal money from people, Fox Business reported.  “The agency has said spoofing and phishing schemes are designed to trick victims into providing sensitive information, such as passwords or bank PINs. Suspected cyber-enabled scams can be reported through the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center,” according to the report.  Chase customer Jennifer Lichthardt told ABC7 how she was tricked out of $40,000 by a spoof-calling fraudster.  “The first call…

Gas prices would be far worse if President Donald Trump had not unleashed American energy after it was stifled by the Biden administration, Republican Senate hopeful Michael Whatley said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily. Whatley and host Mike Slater discussed the frustrations that loom over rising gas prices and the fact that Democrats are trying to capitalize on them ahead of the upcoming midterms, despite the fact that the highest gas prices on record occurred in the summer of 2022 under the leadership of former Democrat President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – both leftists. “The only…

President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Tehran was based on American interests, the Pentagon chief has claimed President Donald Trump was not “pulled in” to the war on Iran by Israel, but chose to attack the Islamic Republic based on his ‘America First’ policy, War Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed in a Pentagon press briefing on Tuesday.During the event, the war secretary was asked whether Washington was risking “getting roped back into a war” by Israel, as “the Israelis are explicitly stating their intent to continue fighting at a later date.”Hegseth argued that the core idea that Trump was “pulled into”…