Chinese vessels seen exempt from proposed charges. Iran discussed Bab el-Mandeb fees with Houthis. Red Sea route disruption raises energy shortage fears. Yemen's Houthi group is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, a week after declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, regional sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Iran-aligned Houthis on July 20 declared a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, opening a new front against the U.S. and its allies in the Iran war and expanding attacks on tankers carrying global energy and other supplies to waters beyond the Gulf.
Childhood vaccines are at the center of a potential showdown between President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump has grown irate with Kennedy and is pushing him to move faster to change the nation's childhood vaccine schedule. The report said Trump has personally pressed Kennedy to take more action and reshape federal vaccine policy.
Hundreds of former Israeli military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials are urging Dummkopf Trumpf to compel ICC-indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to curb "Settler terror" in the occupied West Bank.
But the Gaza Strip will be emptied of Palestinians to make way for Settlers, luxury beach resorts, and Israeli access to natural gas deposits off shore under the seabed of the Mediterranean Sea
NEW ORLEANS " A Louisiana company accuses Tulane University of its funding application due to its owner's race. Plaintiff Revier Technologies Inc. filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The named defendants are Tulane University, Tulane Ventures GP LLC, Tulane Innovation Fund, the Louisiana Economic Development Corp., and Susan Bourgeois, secretary of Louisiana Economic Development. According to its website, the LED is the state agency responsible for "cultivating jobs and expanding economic opportunity for the people of Louisiana." Revier, located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, is owned by Matthew Schultheis, who is white. "By denying Revier Technologies's application to the Fund because its owner, Mr. Schultheis, is the wrong race, the Tulane Defendants engaged in unlawful racial discrimination in violation of Title VI and Section 1981, and the LEDC violated Title VI and the Fourteenth Amendment," the 17-page complaint states.
A Guatemalan man who was deported from the United States and his wife, who later left the country voluntarily to join him, were found dead in a sugarcane field in southwestern Guatemala, authorities said Tuesday. Their 1-year-old daughter was found alive beside their bodies. Nixon Giovanni Perez, 43, and Glendy Marisol Gonzalez, 25, were discovered with their hands tied behind their backs in a field outside Retalhuleu, a city about 112 miles (180 kilometers) west of Guatemala City, according to photos reviewed by Reuters.
Senator Lindsey Graham credited himself with persuading United States President Donald Trump to join Israel in going to war against Iran, "almost cried" with joy when the conflict began, and offered to lobby Trump on behalf of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack Lebanon too, newly released footage has shown. Graham, who died on July 11 aged 71, was a close confidant of Trump and Netanyahu, both of whom are attending his funeral on Tuesday. Graham, laughing and clearly delighted, exclaimed: "How long have we been pushing this?" "Look what we've done here. I almost cried," Graham said. "I talked to Trump this morning. Oh, he's jacked! He said best thing I've ever done'. He loves blowing stuff up."
President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice on Tuesday separately asked the Supreme Court to overturn a civil court verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. "This is the first case in our Nation's history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a President for his conduct in office," the petition to the Supreme Court by Trump's lawyers says.
Felon Musk's social media company X launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one another. "X Money" is using technology and banking services provided by Cross River Bank. Currently "X Money" is invite only, and users will receive a "X"-branded Visa debit card that is useable at any ATM. Users of X will be able to send money to other X users in real-time. Invitations are only available to X's paying members presently.
Should people trust the man whose DOGE destroyed the federal govt and who had access to our social security numbers and other personal data?
For now, the judge rejected the Baptist university's arguments that its actions are exempt from federal law and that students agree to information sharing.
Going into the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic Party is in the red. The party has $16.3 million in cash on hand, and $18.5 million in debt, leaving them about $2 million in the hole. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has $128.5 million in cash and zero debt.
Two likely candidates for a Dyson Sphere have been proven to have other explanations for their unusual energy signatures but astronomers are already incorporating this new data to Advanced science with the same goal of finding alien civilization Read more
STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. Tuesday marked the first time since two convicted murderers were executed on a single day -- in Arkansas in 2017 - that a state has planned virtually back-to-back executions. It also comes 18 months after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis began stepping up executions at a pace unseen in Florida since the U.S. death penalty was reinstated in 1976, making his the busiest death chamber in the nation. Read more
As I predicted during Democrat Zohran Mamdani's 2025 campaign to become NYC mayor, AIPAC would do everything they could to prevent him from winning, including resurrecting disgraced sexual predator NYS governor Andrew Cuomo to run against him. Mega-oligarch Michael Bloomberg wasted millions of dollars on failed negative ads. Now that the Muslim has become the successful Mayor of NYC, maniac AIPAC Jews and their proxies continue their slime campaign against him: Jared Kushner's deplorable plutocrat father Charles, Laura Lunatic" Loomer, John Fetterman (D-Israel), Jeffrey Epstein pal Alan Derskowitz, George Santos, ad nauseum. Randy "the Hebrew Ham Sandwich" Fine (R-FL) " an obese miscreant that a judge ordered to undergo rage therapy " just slandered Zohran Mamdani a "terrorist with blood on his hands."
Nasty-AIPACers attacking a US citizen who is a DemocratRead more
Unable to answer a simple question from a female reporter en route to a mob rally of MAGAts in Michigan, Dummkopf Trumpf insulted the journalist:
Audio only of POTUS meltdown
As early as October 2024, New Jersey lawmakers heard that some noncitizens were registering to vote through state Motor Vehicle Commission offices. The issue, county election officials said at a public hearing, appeared to be tied to the state "motor-voter" system, which can add residents to votor rolls when they do vehicle-related transactions. The commission offices' computer system asked in English whether users were U.S. citizens and eligible to cast ballots, and some people did not appear to speak or read the language well.
