Asia Begins Pricing US Oil Against Brent As Dubai Volatility Spikes

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday backed President Trump’s suggestion that any deal with Iran could be tied to expanding the Abraham Accords, the diplomatic deals under which the UAE and Bahrain normalized relations with Israel in 2020. But the idea of normalizing relations with Israel has very little support among the Gulf Arab countries that […]

Burnham Blows Up Britain's Tech Ministry, Mails The Bureaucrats To The Culture Department, And Keeps AI For Himself While Westminster was still digesting the BritCard cancellation, Andy Burnham also abolished the department that was supposed to build it. Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is gone, its functions split three ways across Whitehall, and AI policy has landed in the prime minister's own office. Ten days on, the civil servants who build and run the government's digital services are still working out which building they...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Thursday that the chances of reaching an “agreement that’s peaceful” with Cuba are “not high,” comments that come after the US indicted a former Cuban president, setting up a pretext for a potential attack. “They’re not going to be able to wait us out or buy time,” […]