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International and U.S. benchmark oil surged by over four percent on Wednesday amid renewed fears of supply disruptions, as Iran’s terrorist proxies in Yemen began implementing their “maritime ban” against Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea, turning several ships away with threats of force. The Houthis, an Islamist insurgency backed by Iran that has been waging a civil war in Yemen since 2014, announced a “ban” against Saudi ships on Monday. The Saudis intervened against the Houthis in the Yemeni civil war from 2015 to 2022. An uneasy and informal ceasefire was observed until this month, when the…

New Jersey’s Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill has admitted that a “software error” in the state’s Motor Voter registration system allowed thousands of non-citizens to register to vote and that around 400 of them have voted illegally in the state’s elections since 2023. The admission comes only days after President Trump highlighted election irregularities in a nationwide speech. Sherrill posted a long explanation on social media Tuesday blaming a glitch in the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) for registering 6,600 migrants to vote even though they selected “no” when asked if they were a citizen. The Democrat, who only just took…

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spoke to an influential group of House Republicans on Wednesday — but he didn’t make a pitch for more money when he walked through his agency’s ambitious plans for space. “I’m not here asking for money,” Isaacman told GOP members during the weekly Republican Study Committee lunch, according to five people who were in the room. RSC Chair August Pfluger (R-Texas) also confirmed Isaacman’s comments while leaving the meeting Wednesday. Isaacman’s reassurances come as NASA juggles a number of high-profile missions in the next few years, including returning humans to the moon, building a new Mars…

The former US president’s son also claimed that ‘everybody knew’ Lindsey Graham was gay Washington is controlled by a “closeted gay mafia” largely made up of Republican politicians, former US President Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son, Hunter, has claimed, alleging that “everybody knew” late Senator Lindsey Graham was gay.Longtime Russia hawk Lindsey Graham died earlier this month at the age of 71 from an aortic dissection, according to the preliminary findings of a medical examiner that was released by his office. The senator’s death came a day after his return from Kiev, where he had met Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.Biden made…

The US military on Tuesday unleashed the 11th consecutive night of strikes against Iran. CENTCOM struck aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities and maritime capabilities. President Trump last week said the ceasefire with Iran is over after Tehran struck vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Full statement from CENTCOM: At 8 p.m. ET on July 21, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) successfully completed the 11th consecutive evening of strikes against Iran. CENTCOM assets targeted Iranian military operations centers, maritime capabilities, aircraft hangars, drone storage facilities, and military logistics infrastructure to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of…

The internal electronic communications of Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party were reportedly seized by criminal prosecutors on Tuesday, in a move the party has compared to the former communist regime in the country. According to Budapest’s Blikk newspaper, the IT system of the nationalist-conservative Fidesz party was raided by prosecutors, who are reportedly set to examine the entirety of the opposition party’s electronic communications. The paper reported that the party’s email system and website have been taken over by authorities and are currently inaccessible to party officials. Blikk said that the raids on Tuesday are believed to be connected to an…

Tuesday on CSPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Al Green (D-TX) accused President Donald Trump of trying to “push people of color out of the country.” Green said, “As to the Haitians, as you know, the president has pushed for and they’ve successfully now eliminated the TPS for the Haitians, temporary protected status, sending them back to a country that is ruled by gangs and sending them back to a country where poverty is, something that they live with in ways that we cannot imagine.” He added, “I don’t think the president has a heart. He simply desires to do whatever he can…

The Republican-led Senate Health Committee voted Wednesday to advance legislation over the objection of its chair to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for diabetes patients on private insurance. One of the chief sponsors of the INSULIN Act is Maine Republican Susan Collins, who Democrats are banking on beating in November in order to regain control of the chamber. Collins immediately touted the bill’s committee approval in a statement, saying that it showed how effective she is at working with Democrats. “Too many patients struggling to afford lifesaving insulin,” she said. “I will keep working across the…

Burnham has arrived on a wave of hype, but his vague promises and nostalgia-heavy agenda look no more workable than Starmer’s Earlier this week, Andy Burnham traipsed out to Buckingham Palace, symbolically kissed the hands of King Charles III – as tradition demanded – and the “King of the North” was duly anointed the new UK prime minister.Amidst the subsequent euphoria within the Labour Party, the fact that Burnham’s swift rise to the prime ministership was the result of the brutally executed political coup that had deposed his predecessor – the now patently unelectable Keir Starmer – was not mentioned.Also…

President Trump on Tuesday said he’ll talk to China after revealing Chinese election interference in 2020, including breaching our election systems and running a disinformation campaign.   As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump announced that a massive Chinese voter data breach, affecting 220 million US voters, occurred during the 2020 election cycle. “The People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said. “That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would…