US Airstrikes in Iraq Kill 15 PMF Fighters, Including Senior Commander

'Eliminating Energy Blockade Top Priority' As Cuba Confirms Direct Talks With US Cuba confirmed on April 20 that it recently held direct talks with U.S. officials in Havana, marking a rare diplomatic engagement as tensions persist over Washington’s long-standing economic restrictions on the communist nation. Alejandro Garcia del Toro, deputy director general for U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in remarks published on April 20 by Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma that discussions were underway. “This is a delicate matter which, as we have already said, we are handling...

A Tale Of 2 Deserts: Utah, California, & The Race To Power America's Next 50 Years Authored by Lance Christensen via The Epoch Times, In July, as America turned 250, a reactor the size of a minivan went critical in the red-rock desert of Emery County, Utah. The company that built it, Valar Atomics, isn’t a Utah company at all. It’s based in El Segundo, California, in the shadow of the aerospace giants that once made Southern California the undisputed capital of American engineering. But when President Donald Trump challenged American industry to...

Clashing Over Saylor, Strategy, And Bitcoin's Biggest Risks Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Sometimes the best conversations happen after an argument. That's exactly what unfolded this week when I sat down with fund manager Larry Lepard for a discussion that almost never happened. After disagreeing earlier in the week over my criticism of Michael Saylor, Strategy, and the company's evolving Bitcoin strategy, we decided to hash it out publicly in a podcast/debate. Stupid thing to get in the way of a friendship, right? The result wasn't a shouting match. It was a substantive debate...