Iran Rejects US Proposed Ceasefire, Counters With 5 Conditions For Ending War, As US Troops En Route

Tucker Carlson Unveils Major Political Plan Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Popular podcast host Tucker Carlson has long dismissed questions about whether he would ever seek public office. But this week, he hinted at a major political move, though don’t expect to see his name on the ballot. Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review in an interview published Wednesday, Carlson said he plans to “help build a third party,” just months after publicly breaking with President Donald Trump over the U.S.’s involvement in the Israel-Iran war. “I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort...

The Iran-US de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey […]

Aluminum Market Descends Into Supply 'Black Hole' Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange are climbing into the end of the week, reaching $3,621 a ton and approaching the peak seen during Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The problem now is that the aluminum market has been thrust into a serious supply shock amid the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East, one that is unlikely to be reversed in the near term. One big problem we highlighted last weekend was that Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the Gulf's largest aluminum...