Honolulu / Washington – In a case that has ignited fury across conservation communities, wildlife law enforcement agencies, and social media platforms simultaneously, U.S. agents have arrested a tourist after video footage emerged showing a rock being thrown directly at the skull of a Hawaii Monk Seal one of the most critically endangered marine mammals…
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Beijing / Tehran / Washington – Beneath the surface of the US Iran war’s military strikes, diplomatic ultimatums, and cascading sanctions packages lies a financial reality that Washington has found extraordinarily difficult to confront directly: Iran is not broke. It is not collapsing. It is not being strangled into submission by the maximum pressure campaign…
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He was the candidate who promised to make America affordable again. Now, with gas at $4.50 a gallon, inflation at a three-year high, and 75% of Americans saying the Iran war has hurt their finances, Donald Trump has delivered the most politically explosive quote of his second term: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.…
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It began just after midnight. By 2 a.m., the posts had accumulated into something that veteran White House correspondents, opposition researchers, and even some Republican strategists were struggling to characterise with their usual clinical detachment. President Donald Trump, in what observers are calling one of his most sustained and factually untethered late-night social media episodes…
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The United States has now spent $29 billion fighting the Iran war and every expert watching the numbers says that figure, staggering as it sounds, is a fraction of what the true bill will eventually be. Acting Defense Department Comptroller Jules Hurst III delivered the updated figure to the House Armed Services Committee on May…
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Beijing / Washington / Tehran – In the weeks before President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for his high-stakes visit to Xi Jinping in Beijing, American intelligence officials and independent energy analysts have assembled a picture of Iranian oil financing that is as audacious in its scale as it is difficult to dismantle: a…
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Washington / London / Tehran – In one of the most significant displays of transatlantic security coordination in recent months, the US and UK have jointly imposed sweeping sanctions on an Iran-linked network accused of actively planning kinetic strikes against Western targets and orchestrating the covert transfer of funds across multiple jurisdictions to sustain those…
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Donald Trump lands in Beijing on May 14 carrying a packed agenda Iran, Taiwan, tariffs, tech and a promise to American farmers that he will bring home a trade win. But on the biggest agricultural commodity of all, the hard truth is already visible in the data: China does not need as many US soybeans…
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Jerusalem / Beijing / Washington – Standing before cameras with the controlled fury that has become his signature posture in the Iran-Israel war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a statement on Sunday that simultaneously complicated ongoing US-Iran Disarms negotiations, directly accused China of enabling Iranian missile capability, and drew a bright, unambiguous line around what…
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Wall Street enters one of its most consequential weeks of 2026 carrying six straight winning sessions, a fragile Iran peace process teetering on the edge of collapse, and an inflation print that could rewrite the Federal Reserve’s script for the rest of the year. It is the kind of week where three separate macro forces…