Yemen's Houthis declared a ban on Israeli shipping in the Red Sea and claimed a missile strike on Israel, with the Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz blockades now simultaneously threatening roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil and gas. Read more
The Trump administration's hesitancy in signing a major drone deal with Ukraine is slowing the U.S. military down in an area where it's already trying to play catch-up.
Sorry, Knicks fans: No Madison Square Garden watch party tonight. You won't even be able to walk close. The NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced another spate of street closures and security measures in anticipation of President Donald Trump's historic trip to the Knicks' NBA Finals game. No sitting president has ever attended an NBA Finals. And the security will be pretty historic, too. Starting at 4 p.m., 30th to 35th streets will be closed between Seventh and Eighth avenues. That means no vehicular traffic -- and no pedestrian traffic either.
House oversight committee alleges that Minnesota Democrats in the state turned a blind eye to mass fraud because they feared "political retribution from the politically active Somali community." James Comer, R-Ky, and the committee chairman said "Americans are fed up with fraud and expect action from the government entrusted with their hard-earned money."
A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton's defense during his 2023 impeachment trial is endorsing Democrat James Talarico in the state's critical Senate race this November. Dan Cogdell, a Houston-based defense lawyer who represented the Texas attorney general in both the impeachment trial and a long-running securities fraud case, told NOTUS in a statement that his former client "has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas." "And unlike Ken, I believe to my core that James Talarico believes in unity over division and that he knows how to assemble not only Democrats, but Independents and Republicans, and we need that right now," Cogdell said.
Near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, an IDF soldier murdered seven-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal by opening fire on the family car, despite the infant's father stopping the vehicle when ordered to do so. The IDF soldier opened fire, pulled back his unit, and then simply walked away without a single word or a second thought.
The IDF treats Palestinians as Untermenschen
I noticed today that I never check the DR on my phone anymore. It used to be my #1 boredom blocker. In a waiting room or on the subway, it was my go to. Now with all the drop down ads and in between ads, etc. I just don't anymore, it's just not worth the trouble. It seems counter productive to me to make your site so annoying that folks give it up. Now the ads play to no one.
After vastly underqualified acting USAG Todd Blanche said the controversial "weaponization" fund to pay Jan 6 lunatics would "not be moving forward," good-for-nothing still-in-the-closet Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) noted that the aggrieved have always had a pathway for extracting lucrative settlements from the nefarious Trumpf junta, like the way treacherous PV1 Michael Flynn received a generous dollop of American taxpayer dollars after he betrayed the United States of America.
Here is a potential claimant
In a recent interview, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) correctly pointed out that Democrats have lost sight of the important economic issues facing working-class Americans as the party works to rebuild itself after a devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election: "The party, as a whole, has lost its focus on working people."
Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party
Dummkopf Trumpf is considering buying the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, potentially sinking UK PM Sir Keir Starmer's plan to cede away the sovereignty of this British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
MapThis is good-for-nothing US Secretary of Treasury oligarch Scott Bessent's vindicative idea.
Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived by car to Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, where a military band and a "jubilant crowd" eagerly awaited their arrival, according to Chinese state news outlet Xinhua. They were greeted by Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju, flanked by banners that read "Eternal Friendship between North Korea and China" and "Long Live the Unbreakable Friendship and Unity between North Korea and China", the report added.
Been working on a book about psychoanalysis. The question popped into my mind. And so ... Read more
The conflict was supposed to force Iran to compromise. Instead, Tehran is negotiating from a position of surprising strength.
Nine people were injured in a shooting near the England team's World Cup base early on Saturday morning. As first reported by The Athletic and The Independent on Sunday, police were called to Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, at approximately 4:00 a.m. Those affected sought treatment at nearby hospitals, and thankfully none of the injuries is believed to be life-threatening. Neither newspaper reports that any suspects have yet been taken into custody, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The incident occurred about seven kilometres from Swope Soccer Village, the England squad's base for the tournament under manager Thomas Tuchel.
For decades, oil traders, executives and analysts warned that closing the Strait of Hormuz would be a global economic catastrophe. It's now been more than three months since the waterway was effectively blocked, creating the worst supply shock in modern history. But a slew of workarounds is keeping crude oil below $100 a barrel, defying many of the industry's grimmest forecasts for prices as high as $200.
Multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and a search for the suspects was ongoing as victims were taken to nearby hospitals, police said. Toledo police officers responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found multiple shooting victims, the police department said in a statement. Police said "many victims" were transported to medical facilities but did not provide further details on the injuries and how many people were shot. Authorities also did not provide any details on what may have set off the shooting.
