War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage War

Hard Evidence: Prosecutor Accused Of Having Romantic Relationship With Illegal Immigrant Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A prosecutor in Missouri had a romantic relationship with an illegal immigrant being prosecuted for sexual assault, Missouri's attorney general said on July 16. A gavel in a file photograph. Demetrius Freeman/Pool/Getty Images Ray County Prosecutor Camille Johnston at one point lived with the man, a citizen of Mexico who has been in the United States illegally since 2019, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said in court filings. Johnston allegedly declined to disclose the whereabouts...

Big Tech Is Funding Space Solar And Fusion While Running On Gas Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, Meta signed a deal with startup Overview Energy to develop up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power, though a pilot satellite won't launch until 2028 at the earliest -- and commercial viability remains years away. Despite clean energy ambitions, Big Tech is still heavily dependent on natural gas: Meta is funding 10 new gas plants for its Louisiana data center campus, and Google is building a major gas facility in North Texas. Google admitted...

Saudi Arabia Reroutes Oil Exports As Houthi Strikes Target Yanbu Satellite images gathered by Bloomberg show supertankers with capacity for 14 million barrels at Saudi Arabia's Gulf export terminals over the weekend, the highest tanker count observed since at least June, according to data compiled from the European Union's Sentinel-2 satellite. Source: Javier BlasHowever, as OilPrice notes, overall Hormuz traffic kept falling over the same weekend, nonetheless. Just a dozen commodity vessels crossed the strait, down from 35 a week earlier, and Thursday's crossings totaled four tankers against a 10-day moving average of...