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A Dozen Red States Join Trump's SCOTUS Vote-By-Mail Shadow-Docket Push The Supreme Court fight over President Trump's mail-in voting order picked up reinforcements this week: twelve Republican-led states, with Alabama at the front, filed Tuesday in support of the administration's emergency application, and the procedural clock now compresses the whole dispute into roughly the next two weeks - with the midterms 96 days out. As we detailed Tuesday, the administration went to the high court Monday seeking to lift the injunction blocking Executive Order 14399 - the March directive ordering DHS...

Trump Unloads On 'Duplicitous' Iran, Claims Secret Talks Despite Tehran's Public Rejection Summary Trump claims Iran wants talks; Tehran again denies any US negotiations. Trump says Gulf allies halted planned US strikes in favor of diplomacy. Iran says Hormuz talks with Oman are progressing, but US actions remain the obstacle. Oil prices still falling on optimism over Hormuz negotiations & uptick in transit. Tehran is betting it can outlast Trump by raising the costs of confrontation. Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027? Yes 21% · No 80%View full market & trade on Polymarket *  *  * Trump:...

From Leverage To Liability: The Hormuz Strait Is Now Iran's Biggest Weakness Authored by Daniel Lacalle, For half a century, the Strait of Hormuz was Iran’s weapon. Today, it is its noose. The mathematics of energy have flipped, and with them the balance of coercive power in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s implicit deterrent was geographic, spanning from the tanker wars of the 1980s to the sanctions standoffs of the 2010s. Almost 20% of global seaborne oil, and a similar share of liquefied natural gas, passes through the Strait. The formula was simple:...