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Trump border czar Tom Homan says that Democrats’ sanctuary city policies are shielding thousands of illegal migrant truckers amid a federal crackdown. Homan said that the Department of Homeland Security and Trump Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy are doing a great job rooting out and cancelling the CDLs that states had given to illegals during the Biden years, but he noted the task is mostly being performed among red states while blue states are actively preventing federal officials from having access to state DMV databases. “We’ve removed thousands of aliens with CDLs, we’re working very closely with many states. DHS…

Washington revoked a two-month sanctions waiver and renewed strikes against the Islamic Republic after reported tanker attacks in the Strait of Hormuz Oil prices have surged as tensions between the US and Iran flared again, raising fresh concerns over supply disruptions in the Middle East after Washington reinstated pressure on Tehran and resumed military strikes.The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday revoked a two-month sanctions relief license for Iranian oil following reports of attacks on commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. US forces also carried out a new wave of strikes against targets inside Iran…

Block cofounder, chairman and “block head” Jack Dorsey.AFP via Getty ImagesBlock has agreed to pay $45 million to 46 U.S. states over how it handled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app with 59 million active users. The action is another sign that states are stepping up financial enforcement as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has pulled back under the Trump Administration. And it may shed light on a pending New York case involving alleged fraud on Zelle.In a New York State court filing tied to the $45 million settlement announced today, Block was accused of a…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz delivered a scathing condemnation of the communist Castro regime during Tuesday’s plenary meeting on the subject of the U.S. “embargo” on Cuba. At the request of the authoritarian Castro regime, the U.N. General Assembly held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. “embargo” on Cuba. For decades, the ruling communists have claimed that the “embargo,” which mildly limits economic activity between both nations, was the cause of all of Cuba’s problems — exempting themselves from any responsibility for the near-ruin of the island nation they have forcibly ruled for more than…

Fed officials were divided last month when it came to the direction of rates this year, minutes from the Fed’s June meeting indicated. The Fed left interest rates on hold at that meeting, unanimously approving a shortened statement that kept the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate target in a range of 3.50 to 3.75 percent. The meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee was the first chaired by Kevin Warsh. But officials did not agree about the direction of rates later this year, with what appear to be closely divided numbers of officials expecting that they would cut rates and…

Puneet Maharaj, executive director of National Nurses United (NNU), used the Fourth of July – America’s semiquincentennial celebration of freedom – not to celebrate America, but to lament Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and falsely claim voting rights are under attack. “Federal charges against protestors. Attacks on voting rights. ICE raids in our communities,” Maharaj wrote in a July 4 post on X. “The goal of these intimidation tactics is to silence us into submission. But our solidarity will not be broken! It’s more important than ever to fight back and protect our democracy,” she claimed. This kind of false…

The US president’s warmth toward Ankara is rattling West Jerusalem, but the real test is whether F-35s and engine deals ever make it through Congress There’s a real love-triangle dynamic playing out right now between the US, Türkiye, and Israel.Donald Trump is going out of his way to be seen embracing Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talking up sanctions relief and reopening the door on F-35 fighter jets and engines for Türkiye’s homegrown KAAN program.At the same time, Benjamin Netanyahu is working overtime to protect Israel’s privileged position in US Middle East policy, warning anyone who’ll listen that handing Türkiye advanced weapons…

Ship-tracking services said on Wednesday that at least four tankers carrying oil and liquid natural gas (LNG) abandoned their efforts to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran attacked three ships on Tuesday. Iran attacked three vessels with drones and missiles on Tuesday, most severely damaging the Qatari LNG tanker Al-Rekayyat. The tanker developed a fire in its engine room, which posed a severe threat but has reportedly been brought under control; the ship is now stranded off the coast of Oman. Another ship struck by Iran, a Saudi-flagged oil tanker called Wedyan, suffered significant damage but remained seaworthy.…

The World Cup Has Been Very Good for Bars and Restaurants The World Cup likely provided a boost to demand in the United States over the past several weeks, one that might not be initially picked up in the official economic reports but will likely show up in revisions. Bank of America looked at its aggregate debit card and credit card usage and found that retail activity was up across the 11 host cities. In the three weeks ending June 27, brick-and-mortar spending at restaurants and bars was up 5.3 percent in host cities and 3.8 percent in the rest…

Cops in the United States, Canada, and Europe arrested 24 Indian criminals from three different murderous drug gangs who were welcomed by progressive governments as they imported millions of wage-cutting Indian migrants. Americans were already dealing with migrant Central American gangs, such as MS-13, and the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang welcomed by prior presidents. The Justice Department reported the huge 50-site sweep on Tuesday: Law enforcement in the United States, Canada, and Europe have arrested 24 defendants – 11 of them in California – connected to three India-based transnational organized crime groups charged with a litany of criminal acts, including…