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Russia Vows To 'Fill China's Energy Resource Gap' Amid Hormuz Crisis In Lavrov-Xi Meeting At a moment it remains a serious open question over just how vulnerable China is to the Hormuz Strait crisis, and now with the US-imposed US naval blockade of the vital oil transit waterway, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Beijing pledging energy support to China.  Lavrov met with President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, during which Xi urged China and Russia to "give full play to the advantages of geographic proximity and complementarity, deepen all-round cooperation and raise...

The US is discussing whether to deploy nuclear weapons to additional European NATO member states to assure allies of its commitment to keeping them under its nuclear umbrella, The Financial Times has reported. Currently, the US has B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs deployed in at least five NATO countries under NATO’s nuclear-sharing program: Belgium, Germany, Italy, […]

Landmark Decision: Federal Appeals Court Rejects New Jersey's AR-15 And Magazine Bans In a major victory those seeking to rid America of bans on so-called "assault weapons," for the first time ever, a federal appeals court has ruled that a state's ban on AR-15s and similar rifles, and its ban on "high-capacity" magazines, violate the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. The bans in question had been enacted by New Jersey, but the ruling carries weight throughout the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which also...