Oil Jumps After Explosion And Massive Fire At One Of The Largest US Oil Refineries

Flesh-Eating Screwworm Cases Rise To 15 After New Detections In Texas: USDA Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on June 21 that three more cases of the flesh-eating New World screwworm have been detected in Texas, bringing the total in the United States to 15. The latest cases involved a lamb in Crockett County and two calves in Edwards County, Texas. The USDA said in a post on X that it would immediately begin releasing sterile flies outside the affected areas in Crockett...

A Property Tax Rebellion Is Emerging In America Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, At a petition table inside a Cleveland area gun show on a drizzly Saturday afternoon, citizens talk of an American Dream derailed. There’s the elderly couple who paid off their mortgage decades ago but can’t afford the property taxes on their home. Their local government, theoretically, can seize the property and auction it off to someone else if the annual bills remain unpaid. Then there’s the recent retiree who took a part-time job at Lowe’s to pay...

From "Don't Be Evil" To Drone King: Eric Schmidt's Interceptors Deployed With U.S. Troops Google's old motto, "Don't be evil," was retired for very good reasons eight years ago. On Friday, Google joined the growing list of tech firms preparing to deploy AI tools for national security work at the Department of War. But this note is not about Google. It is about Eric Schmidt's ventures in the drone warfare space, accelerated by the wars across Eurasia. Recall that earlier this year, Schmidt reportedly visited Kyiv to accelerate his drone-startup ventures, using Ukraine...