(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) As conflict in Iran escalates, Middle Eastern refineries have been hit and the Strait of Hormuz remains compromised, and oil futures hit $120 a barrel. Physical cargos of crude from Oman and the UAE have already hit $150 a barrel for May delivery.
Prices at...
(Headline USA) Democratic senators pressed the U.S. government’s top intelligence official at annual worldwide threats hearings Wednesday about the war with Iran, including whether she had advised President Donald Trump that Tehran was likely to block the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passageway for oil and gas from the...
(Headline USA) Police in a small town at the southern end of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia said they were responding to a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic, and at least one person was airlifted to the hospital.
Jasper police were sent to the VA...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. House Oversight Committee will call several members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to testify as part of its investigation into the Department of Justice’s handling of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is fighting for his political life against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a heated runoff, and he is turning to evangelical pastors for support. Three of those pastors, however, signed onto a pro-amnesty organization that receives funding from George and...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. has the most billionaires in the world – a record 989 with a combined fortune of $8.4 trillion.
Eighty-eight of them are in Texas, including the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who ranks first on Forbes’ new billionaire list. His net worth of...
(Headline USA) House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
Richard Kahn, who worked closely with Epstein for years and now serves as an executor of...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has released new records on Matt Gaetz, detailing the bureau’s investigation into the former congressman.
Gaetz was under investigation from 2020 to 2023 for allegedly paying women, including a minor, for sex. Gaetz has steadfastly denied the allegations, and the Justice Department closed its...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An Iranian drone attack that hit a makeshift US military operations center at a port in Kuwait on March 1 and killed at least six US troops was much worse than the Pentagon has revealed, according to a report from CBS News.
Sources told CBS that dozens...
(Headline USA) Canadian police are investigating after the United States consulate in downtown Toronto was hit by gunfire early on Tuesday morning. Nobody was injured.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather called it a national security incident and said the national police force is working with Toronto police...
(Headline USA) Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday.
No one was injured, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the singer was at home when the shooting happened Sunday afternoon.
Police received...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A classified report from the US’s National Intelligence Council has found that even a large-scale US assault on Iran is unlikely to oust the Islamic government and military establishment, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The intelligence report was completed about one week before the US and Israel...