(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Commercial ships will pass through the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Hegseth spoke alongside Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after the United States and Iran agreed to a...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Archbishop Paul Coakley, head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has condemned President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy a “civilization” in Iran and urged an end to the war, echoing Pope Leo XIV’s appeals for peace.
“The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the...
(Headline USA) California Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday promised to aggressively push back on federal immigration officers if elected governor, vowing to make them ineligible for state jobs and take away their driver's licenses if they refuse to unmask while on duty.
“They think they’re invincible. They’re not,” Swalwell told...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran a little more than two weeks after he was briefed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Sources told the Times that the briefing took place in the White...
(Headline USA) U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate to a deal.
Trump said he was holding off on his threatened attacks...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s running mate, Adrienne Adams, funneled $435,000 in taxpayer dollars to a Brooklyn-based migrant shelter provider now under federal corruption probe, according to a Sunday report.
Adams, the former speaker of the New York City Council, used her office’s discretionary funding to steer...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Tuesday “completely destroyed” a Jewish synagogue in central Tehran, Iranian media has reported, as the bombing campaign continues to hit places of worship and other civilian targets.
Photos and videos of the aftermath show that the damage at the Rafi-Nia Synagogue, and...
(Tate Miller, The Center Square) An education group has uncovered that teacher’s union the National Education Association has given nearly two million dollars in donations since 2020 to an organization that trains for May Day school “walk-in” protests, as well as demands agendas such as “tax the rich” and...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In what seems like a groundbreaking move, an Indian gold ETF is set to back its fund with gold futures contracts, as well as physical metal.
ETF is an acronym for “Exchange Traded Fund.” In simplest terms, an ETF represents a basket of investments...
(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) Drivers in Florida have gas prices above $4 per gallon for the first time in four years with crude oil prices rising almost 60% since the Iran conflict began, AAA says.
Second-term Republican President Donald Trump put out a strongly worded warning on social media...
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In a move that netted a nice capital gain, the Banque de France (BdF) sold the remainder of its gold held in the U.S. and replaced it with higher-quality bars purchased in Europe.
The move significantly upgraded the quality of the French central bank's...
(Headline USA) Airstrikes hit two bridges and a train station in Iran on Tuesday, and Iranian officials urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as U.S. President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline...