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Trump’s release of strategic oil reserves
will lower stockpiles below Biden administration's levels replies
will lower stockpiles below Biden administration's levels replies
The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Wednesday that it would be joining a global, coordinated strategic release of crude oil reserves in order to lower oil prices resulting from ongoing hostilities in Iran.
“Earlier today, 32 member nations of the International Energy Agency (IEA) unanimously agreed to President Trump’s request to lower energy prices with a coordinated release of 400 million barrels of oil and refined products from their respective reserves,” Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement.
Of the 400 million barrels of oil that will be released, the U.S. will contribute 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Friday in an intensive care unit with pneumonia, marking the latest health issue for the 70-year-old.
Bolsonaro's eldest son Flávio Bolsonaro said earlier Friday that his father was being transferred from prison to a hospital after waking up with chills and vomiting.
One of the former leader's doctors, Brasil Caiado, described the 70-year-old’s medical situation as serious.
“Pneumonia in patients over 70 is always serious because it can progress to septicemia, since the bacteria can normally enter the bloodstream and cause an even more severe condition,” Caiado told reporters.
Five US refuelling planes struck by Iran
strikes at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan
Air Base: Report replies
strikes at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan
Air Base: Report replies
Iran struck and damaged five US Air Force refuelling planes on the ground at Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base, The Wall Street Journal reported, in what would mark a major escalation in the Middle East conflict involving the United States-Israel and the Islamic Republic. “The tankers were hit during a strike in recent days. They were damaged but not completely destroyed and are now being repaired,” one of the officials told the WSJ, adding that no casualties or fatalities were reported in the attack.
Iran wants to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage. Donald Trump just decided to raise the stakes by taking Iran's entire export capacity hostage. Late this evening, Trump announced that US forces had destroyed all of the military facilities on Kharg Island, through which Iran exports 90% of more of its oil.
Trump said he spared Iran's commercial export facilities on Kharg. For now. Nice oil business ya got there, Mojtaba ...
Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.
It's way too early to determine whether or not Operation Roaring Lion's objective of bringing down the Iranian regime will be successful or not, but all those military geniuses who claim that it is impossible are stuck in a paradigm that does not apply.
Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion are unlike anything we have seen in history. That doesn't mean the strategy behind them will work, of course, but it does mean that judging past performance tells you little about future success. It's clear that Israel and the United States have a brilliant, if risky, plan to not just decapitate and disarm the Iranian regime's civilian and military leadership,
A federal jury in Texas returned a guilty verdict on all nine defendants charged in the July 2025 attack on the Prairieland ICE detention facility near Alvarado, Texas. The verdict was read on Friday for Benjamin Hanil Song, the accused Antifa organizer behind the attack, and eight associates who now await sentencing for their roles in the attack.
The jury delivered the verdict at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Worth, finding Song, the alleged ringleader of the Antifa cell, guilty of attempted murder for his role in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer. The local police officer was responding to a request for assistance
Man Shot and Killed in Dallas Law Enforcement
Sting Was Part of Jasmine Crockett's Security Detail replies
Sting Was Part of Jasmine Crockett's Security Detail replies
CBS News Texas has uncovered that a man known as Mike King, who was entrusted to coordinate security for Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30), was shot dead late Wednesday night while attempting to flee from police.
Images obtained by CBS News Texas show King standing close to Crockett at events and on the campaign trail during her recent run for a U.S. Senate seat. Sources say he oversaw teams of security officers at several downtown Dallas hotels and at his church.
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Documents obtained by CBS News Texas show a person named Mike King received payments for "security services" from Crockett as recently as last year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is floating an extreme new proposal to change the state’s estate tax — a move that would hurt middle-class New Yorkers and their loved ones.
The socialist mayor wants to drastically slash the estate tax exemption threshold from the $7 million limit to just $750,000, a drop of more than 90%, according to a memo City Hall recently circulated to Albany lawmakers.
The “Tax Revenue Raising Proposals” document is a wish list containing dozens of different tax hikes that could be employed to bail the Big Apple out, according to Bloomberg. In addition to dropping the estate tax exemption —
Earlier this week, the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) suspended one of its ordained elders, Rev. Stephanie Remington, after learning that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from 2018-2019.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender and suspected sex trafficker, died in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, in what officials ruled a suicide by hanging. The high-profile financier was arrested a month earlier and charged with sex trafficking. Remington worked for Epstein as an administrative assistant and later as a temporary property manager for his private island.
The U.S. attorney tasked in 2020 by Attorney General William Barr with vetting evidence related to the Biden family and Ukrainian corruption knew nothing about the recently revealed "Round River" FBI operation launched to neutralize all negative information and allegations of Biden family corruption. The secret operation not only left the Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney unaware of potentially relevant information, it also buried scores of derogatory allegations bout the Biden family in the FBI's prohibited access files, preventing them from being accessed by other FBI officials.
When George Soros spends millions of dollars to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors in many of the United States’ biggest cities, much of that money ends up in the hands of a single Manhattan-based communications firm that’s boosted prosecutors’ campaigns.
Campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that the PACs Soros uses to fund left-wing DA campaigns have steered millions of dollars to BerlinRosen, a PR firm that "happens to be the largest expenditure item for nearly all Soros DA campaign spending," according to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. Led by former New York Senate Democratic campaign operatives Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen, the firm’s clients have included
Our sages tell us that we must always anticipate possibilities of what might happen and look for solutions. (snip) The Strait of Hormuz (snip) carries 20% of the world's oil supply every single day. And right now it is closed. (snip) The conventional response - to tap the Strategic Oil Reserve, broker a cease fire, rush the tankers through is (snip) a missed opportunity of historic proportions. (snip) Instead of scrambling to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as fast as possible, the United States can use this crisis - to restructure global energy architecture permanently so that the Strait of Hormuz can never again hold civilization hostage.
It happens all the time. You take your car in for one repair, and the next thing you know you’re being told it needs something else.[snip] Unless you’re a mechanic, it can be hard to know if you’re getting good advice.
“This device has been extremely crucial for us and our customers for full transparency,” Thompson said.Now a system called UVeye is designed to bring that transparency to the process.“We’re like an MRI for your car,” said Matt Small of UVeye.The drive-through system uses multiple cameras to capture hundreds of high-resolution images and video of a vehicle in just seconds.
Man Accused Of Selling ISIS-Inspired Shooter
Stolen Gun Was Caught Doing Same Thing
Under Biden replies
Stolen Gun Was Caught Doing Same Thing
Under Biden replies
The Department of Justice charged a Virginia man Friday for allegedly selling a stolen firearm to the ISIS-inspired Old Dominion University shooter after authorities previously caught him illegally purchasing firearms during the Biden administration but declined to prosecute.
Authorities say 36-year-old Mohamed Jalloh walked into a classroom at the Virginia campus, asked if it was an ROTC class, and then began shooting, killing an instructor and injuring two students. Federal prosecutors charged 32-year-old Kenya Chapman with dealing in firearms without a license in connection with the March 12 shooting and with three counts of making false statements during firearm purchases, according to a Justice Department press release.
House Republicans have taken a firm stance in Washington by promising to block Senate-passed legislation until the Senate takes up the SAVE America Act.[snip] Republican lawmakers leading the effort have framed the strategy as a necessary step to force Senate action. Reps. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) and Anna Paulina (R-Fla.) announced that they'll oppose nearly every Senate-originated bill until the Senate advances the SAVE Act.[snip] Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is at the center of the debate, indicating that the Senate plans to consider the legislation through the standard legislative processrather than procedural shortcuts.
US obliterates ‘every Military target’
on Iran’s Kharg Island in historic bombing
raid, Trump says replies
on Iran’s Kharg Island in historic bombing
raid, Trump says replies
Military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island – the loading site for most of the Islamic Republic’s oil exports – were “totally obliterated” by US airstrikes during a historic bombing raid in the Persian Gulf, President Trump announced Friday.
“Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The island, located about 16 miles off the Iranian coast, is one-third the size of Manhattan and controls 90% of Iranian crude oil exports.
Last year, while the media was busy crying over Trump’s America First immigration policies, his admin was quietly making a really clever structural change to the way immigration courts operate… and oddly enough, nobody’s really talking about this. Instead of sitting around pontificating and debating policy until the cows come home, President Trump made a move to change the entire system… and a year later, we can see that it’s working.
But last year the left absolutely flipped out. Reports started circulating that the Trump administration planned to deploy hundreds of military lawyers, known as JAG officers, to serve as immigration judges through the Department of Justice. Left-wingers instantly began warning
Democrats in both chambers of Congress are plotting potential investigations into companies, colleges, and even law firms that worked with the Trump administration, according to a report.
Axios reported that Democrats are in the early stages of planning to use their subpoena power if they take power after the 2026 midterm elections.
Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), all of whom serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have been involved in the preliminary discussions, according to Axios.
e Center Square) - The second auction of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of America since President Donald Trump’s election in 2024 drew almost $47 million in high bids, with 98% of the activity in offshore areas deeper than 800 meters, according to sales results released by the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management.
The Big Beautiful Gulf 2 auction in New Orleans on Wednesday drew 38 bids from 13 companies on 25 blocks covering about 141,000 acres in federal waters off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to the agency.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder warned that the attack Thursday at a synagogue and Jewish kindergarten just outside of Detroit, Michigan, was not an isolated incident but part of a broader wave of “acts of terror aimed squarely at Western and Judeo-Christian values.” If leaders don’t act quickly, democracy and society as we know it are at risk of total collapse,” Lauder warned. The renowned Jewish leader and billionaire philanthropist noted that the synagogue attack came after Islamic State-inspired suspects threw explosive devices at a protest outside the New York City mayor’s residence over the weekend.
There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there's the United States of America.’
I recall that he said something about red and blue states too. It worked in 2008 for a lot of reasons: Iraq war fatigue, a sloppy McCain effort, a housing crisis that conveniently happened in the last 2 months of the campaign, and a news media deeper in the tank for Obama than the Titanic on the ocean floor.
So what happened to the great uniter? Well, a couple of things. Maybe it was all a big “moderate” fake as Larry Elder wrote:
The Florida Senate passed voter ID legislation Thursday, sending the bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, as the SAVE America Act stalls in the U.S. Senate.
SB 1334, a bill to strengthen the verification process for voters’ citizenship status, passed the Sunshine State’s Senate 27-12, fulfilling the prediction of Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia earlier Thursday.
The bill had passed the Florida House, 83-21, in February.
These new laws will further help protect the ballot box,” Jeremy Redfern, deputy chief of staff to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, told The Daily Signal.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.
There’s a lot of talk about a Make America Great split among Trump supporters, and this originated here in context with the Iranian war. I’m speaking on a Monday, the 10th day of the war. And there’s talk in the air that the MAGA base may desert President Donald Trump because, after all, MAGA’s credo was no optional wars in the Middle East. That came out of a disgust with the 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan and the skedaddle from Kabul that left billions of dollars of weapons, and, of course,
Mar. 13, 2026) — In the 1960s, the Russian KGB and Yasir Arafat literally invented the entire concept––or should I say fiction––of a “Palestinian people,” you know, those perpetual “victims” who have received billions —more likely trillions — in “aid” from the world’s bleeding hearts, but after over 50 years, have become famous for a few things only:
Relentless attacks on Israeli Jews, the better to fulfill their Charter, which calls for the end of Israel and all Jews on earth.
Building tunnels in which to store arms and bombs to kill Jews.
Launching balloons of fire into Israel to kill Jews.