Republican Lawmakers Led By Nancy Mace Begin To Break With Trump On Iran War: 'We Were Misled'

Trump Seeks $152 Million To Reopen Alcatraz Prison Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The White House on Friday requested $152 million to reopen Alcatraz, which is offshore from San Francisco, as a federal prison. The funding appears in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2027, released by the administration. It would cover first-year costs for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild the island facility into “a state-of-the-art secure prison facility,” according to the document. Alcatraz has operated as a National Park Service tourist site since 1973, after the federal...

SoftBank Credit Risk Rises As Firm Mulls $20 Billion Bond Sale For OpenAI Stake SoftBank Group's 8.5% notes due 2036 fell as much as 2.5 cents to about 98 cents on the dollar after Bloomberg reported that Masayoshi Son's conglomerate is considering a $10 billion to $20 billion bond offering, prompting traders to price in additional leverage and supply risk as the investment firm plans to refinance the massive bridge loan backing its OpenAI investment. Sources familiar with SoftBank's plans said the potential bond offering could be denominated in dollars and...

Yemen’s Ansar Allah, known as the Houthis, took credit on Monday for attacks targeting oil infrastructure in eastern Saudi Arabia while Riyadh blamed the incident on Iraq’s Shia militias. Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said that “a number of sensitive sites and points related to the supply and transport of crude oil from eastern […]