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The White House is pushing back on media reports citing anonymous “regional sources” claiming that the Iranian regime wants Vice President JD Vance to lead negotiations because of his “anti-war” stance, with an official telling Breitbart News that the stories are false and an obvious “foreign propaganda campaign.” On Tuesday, CNN reported that Iranian representatives indicated to the Trump administration that they would rather continue talks with Vance, instead of Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.  CNN’s Kylie Atwood wrote that Iran’s regime would “prefer to engage with Vice President JD Vance,” citing…

Sen. Ruben Gallego on Wednesday called former Attorney General Merrick Garland a “coward” over his handling of prosecuting Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Speaking at an event with Economic Liberties, the Arizona Democrat said it “took way too damn long” to hold anyone accountable for the 2021 attack on the Capitol. “We didn’t move fast enough in holding Jan. 6 Republicans, the president, everyone up and down the organizations that were helping out, accountable,” Gallego said, adding that he “100 percent” blames Garland for not being more aggressive. Despite more than 1,500 people being charged with crimes for their participation in the…

The Iran war is set to hit diesel and gasoline supplies starting next month, Wael Sawan has warned European countries could face fuel shortages as soon as next month as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Shell CEO Wael Sawan has warned.Major energy facilities in the Gulf have been damaged in the conflict, while maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway that handles about 20% of global oil flows, has nearly halted.The war has already affected supplies of jet fuel, Sawan said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters. Diesel is set to be next, followed…

Berlin plans to use Ukraine’s experience to develop an advisory tool, Lieutenant General Christian Freuding has said The German military is developing an artificial intelligence system to speed up battlefield decision-making by analyzing combat data, Lieutenant General Christian Freuding has said, adding that it will draw on Ukraine’s experience of fighting Russia.The remarks by Freuding, the commander of the German land forces, come as the country is undertaking a major military buildup. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is seeking to make the German military “the strongest conventional army in Europe.” German officials have set 2029 as the deadline for the armed forces…

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes granted on Tuesday a temporary 90-day house arrest benefit to conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro after he spent over a week at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to bacterial pneumonia. De Moraes, however, barred Bolsonaro from engaging with political allies while under house arrest — at a time when Brazil is about to start its 2026 presidential campaign. Bolsonaro, who turned 71 on Saturday, is presently serving a 27-year prison sentence after the STF convicted him for allegedly leading a purported “coup” plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election, which he…

The U.S. current-account deficit narrowed significantly in the fourth quarter as Americans earned more on their foreign investments than foreigners earned on their U.S. holdings, reversing a trend from the prior quarter. The overall current-account deficit shrank to a seasonally adjusted $190.7 billion in the fourth quarter from a revised $239.1 billion in the third quarter, a decline of $48.4 billion or 20.2 percent, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The deficit fell to 2.4 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product, down from 3.1 percent in the third quarter. The current account tracks movements of goods and services across borders as…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that tragedies like the killing of Sheridan Gorman “are going to continue to happen.” And criticized Democrats for refusing to back the Laken Riley Act. Fetterman said that “this is a serious, serious failure, and, now I — absolutely, it’s devastating as a father. So, I don’t know why anybody — and that’s — again, I was the lead, as a Democrat, for Laken Riley, because that’s why we have to require — to protect America from the dangerous elements that shouldn’t even be here…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats have submitted their latest proposal for pairing Department of Homeland Security funding with immigration enforcement policy changes. “Democrats sent Republicans our counteroffer on legislation to reopen DHS, pay TSA workers, while at the same time rein in ICE with commonsense guardrails,” Schumer said, adding that the offer “contains some of the very same asks Democrats have been talking about now for months” on changes to immigration enforcement tactics. Schumer met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Wednesday to discuss the funding stalemate. Read the full article here

Why Tehran is holding its fire and how its restraint is reshaping the battlefield US aggression against Iran has persisted for over three weeks now. Throughout this time, Tehran has acted largely on its own, without mobilizing allied forces. This raises a crucial question: what’s going on with the so-called Axis of Resistance – the extensive network of Iranian allies that took decades and billions of dollars to establish? Formally, the Axis of Resistance includes groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis (Ansar Allah movement) in Yemen, and various Shiite armed factions in Iraq, such as the Popular Mobilization Forces and…

The advantage of having offices around the world is that this also provides us with boots on the ground for first-hand accounts. We are getting from our Thailand office that there is “no gasoline here. Up North lineups for diesel. I tried to fill up a bike, no gasoline available. I tried several other stations, but all are out.” As I reported, Asia is going to be hard hit with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. There was no imminent threat from Iran. This has been a 40-year vendetta by Netanyahu. which he did admit in a national TV…