Deteriorating asset quality, collateral markdowns and a growing rush for the exits are rattling private credit markets and prompting comparisons to the Global Financial Crisis.
An Iranian military spokesperson has mocked US attempts at a ceasefire deal, insisting the US was only negotiating with itself. Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the statement in a prerecorded video aired on state television. He said: "The strategic power you used to talk about has turned into a strategic failure. The one claiming to be a global superpower would have already gotten out of this mess if it could. Don't dress up your defeat as an agreement. Your era of empty promises has come to an end. Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves?" Read more
Effective 20 April 2026, the US Army:
DOD Recruitment Goals
On 11 Nov 1921 at Arlington National Cemetery during the burial ceremony for the Unknown Soldier of World War I, President Warren G. Harding said: "We do not know from whence he came, but only that his death marks him with everlasting glory of an American dying for his country."
"Gardens of Stone" 1987 Hollywood Film About the Sentinels During the Vietnam War
General Josh Rudd, the new director of US Cyber Command and the NSA, used his first all-hands meeting to urge his workforce to share more intelligence with US allies and partners: "Work with our allies until it hurts." Rudd stated that while the Trump administration has emphasized southern-border security, the NSA still should keep a watchful eye on foreign adversaries such as Russia and China.
General Rudd Bio
"Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer Darren Indyke and his accountant Richard Kahn testified to House lawmakers they were never interviewed as part of any formal federal investigations into their late client's sex crimes."
Jeffrey Epstein's legal adviser was not interviewed either
A Texan oil refinery has exploded, rattling residents' homes as they are urged to find shelter.
The Valero refinery in Port Arthur, which produces 380,0000 barrels of fuel per day, sent smoke billowing into the sky after it exploded yesterday evening.
Now, here's the irony: If passed, the SAVE America Act will not only not solve a problem that doesn't exist, but every one of its provisions will severely disadvantage Republicans " perhaps even more than it harms Democrats. Read more
Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned the reckless US-Israeli war against the people of Iran, calling the vicious attack a violation of international law and warning of a transatlantic rupture comparable to Germany's break with Russia.
Donald Trump is All Lost at Sea Over the Catastrophic Quagmire Benjamin Netanyahu Stuck the US Into
Ousted Border Patrol Officer Greg Bovino was revealed Tuesday to have claimed minority status, according to previously unreported legal documents obtained by The New York Times and despite his admission to having referred to undocumented migrants as "filth" and "trash." Bovino was moved out of his role at "commander at large" of the US Border Patrol in January following the deadly immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that led to the killings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Set to retire this week, Bovino spoke with the Times for a Tuesday report that uncovered a surprising revelation. "He identified his race as Native American' and his tribe as Cherokee," the Times report reads. "He testified that he had identified this way since he was 8 years old, but said he was not registered on any official tribal rolls.
LOS ANGELES -- A civil jury in California found Monday that Bill Cosby was liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972 and awarded her $59.25 million. After a nearly two-week trial in Santa Monica, jurors found Cosby, 88, liable for the sexual battery and assault of Donna Motsinger. They awarded her $17.5 million in past damages and $1.75 million for future damages, including "mental suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, inconvenience, grief, anxiety, humiliation, and emotional distress." Then in a second phase of the trial Monday afternoon, they awarded an additional $40 million in punitive damages. Read more
How's the economy?
Not bad if you're rich.
Demand for luxury yachts and private jets is surging thanks to last year's tax law. Sales of $10 million-plus mansions are booming as stocks hit new highs. And the wealthy and powerful will get to enjoy a new ballroom for galas at the White House.
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis offered a sobering take Monday on the Strait of Hormuz, criticizing the Trump administration for what he saw as a failure to think strategically about Iran. "We're in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen, and I can't identify a lot of good options," the retired Marine general told attendees at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference. If President Trump declares victory and pulls back the U.S. military, Iran "would now say we own the Strait." "I think that you could see a tax for any ship going through " something completely unsustainable in the international market," Mattis said.
Americans are feeling more pessimistic about the job market, a worrisome signal for the White House as it navigates economic blowback from the Iran war.
In the Gaza Strip, IDF soldiers reportedly tortured one-year-old Karim Abu Nassar in front of his father to pressure him to confess to something by burning the toddler's leg with a cigarette and piercing his other leg with a nail.
A Revolting Moral Outrage'
Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA): "Corey Lewandowski, a Special Government Employee at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reportedly attempted a pay-to-play scheme with the private prison company over DHS contracts. Lewandowski allegedly demanded kickbacks based on the value of GEO Group's new or renewed contracts with DHS. After Lewandowski rejected GEO Group's counteroffer to put him on retainer, Lewandowski allegedly told a senior DHS official not to award the corporation any more contracts in an apparent act of retaliation."
None of the people targeted in this congressional oversight investigation are good human beings
