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Iranian Woman Arrested In LA, Charged With Helping Iranian Regime Sell Drones Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal officials arrested an Iranian woman at the Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night for allegedly brokering weapons for the Iranian regime, officials said Sunday. (Left) Shamim Mafi is arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for allegedly trafficking arms on behalf of the Iranian regime, on April 18, 2026. (Right) Shamim Mafi. U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Central District Of California Shamim Mafi, 44, of Woodland Hills, California, is a...

75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol was interviewed by the French newspaper Le Figaro earlier on Tuesday and warned that the Gulf energy shock "is more severe than those of 1973, 1979, and 2022 combined" because it is affecting oil, gas, food, fertilizers, petrochemicals, helium, and global trade all at once. Birol said in the interview that more than 75 energy sites across the Gulf region have been attacked, with about a third severely damaged, suggesting tens...

'Sense-Making Seems Impossible...' Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The Man Who Might Wreck the Country “That a government’s primary responsibility is to its citizens should not be a controversial proposition.” - Coddled Affluent Professional on X The zeitgeist is a rough beast, hard to ride as it slouches into the unknown. Our country is trying to hang on while a party of goblins vexes and needles the beast from behind, and you cannot make them stop. Sense-making gets to seem impossible. We don’t have an explanation from Senate Majority Leader John Thune as to why he will...