In the film Mad Max, an oil shortage leaves Australian society teetering on the brink of total collapse. In real-life, things aren't quite that dystopian yet Down Under. But with barely a month of stockpiled diesel left and hundreds of forecourts running dry, the anxiety is palpable.
A national effort to circumvent the Electoral College has gained another state. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill Monday that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner. With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.
In a meeting with Israel's Cabinet ministers, Netanyahu said, "I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations." read more
On Monday, Trump said that he had instructed the U.S. Navy to "seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran," and the U.S. military later said that the "blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas." However, ship tracking data analyzed by BBC Verify revealed that at least four Iran-linked vessels "crossed the Strait of Hormuz" without incident; two on Monday, and two overnight.
Attorneys representing immigrants held at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention site alleged Friday in federal court that guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees after a protest over lost phone access " allegations they argue show state and federal officials defying a recent court order protecting detainees' civil rights. In a court filing in Fort Myers, lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and civil rights groups said officers at the controversial Everglades facility entered a unit earlier this month and physically assaulted detainees. One man was thrown to the ground and "severely beat," according to his attorney, who submitted photographs to the court showing her client with a black eye. The attorney, Katie Blankenship of the legal services organization Sanctuary of the South, wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke another detainee's wrist and "pepper sprayed everyone in the cage."
In announcing the deal, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Iran, the U.S. and Israel had agreed to an "immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere" that was "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY."
Sharif appeared to call out Israel in a follow-up statement, saying violations of the ceasefire "across the conflict zone ... undermine the spirit of the peace process."
"I earnestly and sincerely urge all parties to exercise restraint and respect the ceasefire for two weeks, as agreed upon," Sharif said.
Trump Denies Lebanon Part Of Ceasefire, Contradicting Mediator Pakistan
Loved that book. If you get the audio book the people who wrote the individual sections read their parts.