Iran is moving unilaterally to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz — and to start collecting revenue from it – even as it negotiates with the U.S. and its Gulf neighbors over future management of the waterway.Iran’s top insurance regulator, Mousa Rezaei, announced Sunday that a new insurance co…
Eight activists convicted of terrorism-related charges and rioting for their role in a noise demonstration outside an ICE facility, at which a local police officer was shot, face up to life in prison when they go before a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, for sentencing on Tuesday.Another, the las…
Abelardo De la Espriella, a right-wing lawyer who used to practice law in Florida, appeared to win his presidential bid in Colombia this week after securing an endorsement from President Donald Trump, and the journalists at Zeteo opted to shed light on his “eye-opening” background in a scathing repo…
Trillionaire Elon Musk spent Monday night posting and re-sharing posts online in an apparent effort to defend his record spearheading massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid – which reporting increasingly suggests may end up causing millions of preventable deaths – and was subsequently hammered by critics….
A handful of GOP senators signaled trouble for the Trump administration as it pushes a controversial $1.5 trillion defense budget, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.Representing a 42% increase from the previous year, the White House is hoping to push through its controversial $1.5 trillion budget prop…
Conservative influencer Cam Higby set out to embarrass a Democratic congressman’s aide over his private life. Instead he handed Rep. Dan Goldman an opening, and the New York Democrat used it to deliver a public dressing-down that left Higby, not the staffer, looking like the story.Higby, a right-win…
If the chaos of this last year and a half week has shown us anything, it’s that every distraction Donald Trump has manufactured to stop people from talking about the Epstein Files has failed spectacularly. The UFC fiasco kicked off a week that ended with a full surrender to Iran at Versailles, whic…
One member of President Donald Trump’s White House holds a “big chip of leverage” that could decide Trump’s fate once he leaves office, according to a new analysis. Mark Green, president of the New Democracy Project, argued in a new Substack essay that Vice President JD Vance holds the key to decidi…
Retired Gen. Michael Flynn’s conservative nonprofit America’s Future is engulfed in chaos as a wave of prominent figures abruptly quit its anti-trafficking arm and offered only cryptic clues about what tore the group apart, according to reporting by The Bulwark’s Will Sommer.Flynn, who briefly serve…
A former FBI hostage negotiator flagged a dark detail in the new Nancy Guthrie ransom note that was delivered to the family on Monday. In the note, Guthrie’s abductors claimed that the 84-year-old mother of “Today!” co-host Savannah Guthrie had been “buried with nature now,” according to a source cl…