Futures, Bonds Tumble, Oil Soars After Trump Dashes Hopes For Early End To Iran War

Metal Shock: Gulf's Largest Aluminum Producer Declares Force Majeure A little more than a week after Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the Gulf's largest aluminum producer, halted operations at its Al Taweelah smelter following Iranian missile and drone strikes, EGA has now declared force majeure on parts of its contract book, signaling that supply chain disruptions are spreading beyond energy markets and into industrial metals. Bloomberg obtained new documents showing that EGA invoked force majeure clauses to suspend at least some deliveries after Iranian drone and missile strikes damaged the Taweelah smelter...

Debate: What Should Trump Do Now In Iran? Tonight at 7pm ET on the ZH homepage, we host a debate on the ongoing war with Iran. Joining the discussion: Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, the magazine founded by Pat Buchanan and a prominent voice for the original America First right.   Max Abrahms, Northeastern University professor and widely cited scholar on terrorism and international security. Moderating the discussion is Bret Weinstein, evolutionary biologist and Dark Horse host. Mills follows in Buchanan’s footsteps, who was early to sound the alarm about the United States...

Florida Passes Voter ID Bill Modeled After SAVE Act Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Florida Legislature passed new election legislation modeled after President Donald Trump’s proposed SAVE America Act. House Bill 991, sponsored by state Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, passed along party lines by a vote of 83 to 31. “We are the Election Integrity State!” Persons-Mulicka wrote on X after the vote. Sponsors of the bill moved the effective date to appease critics who feared the new identification requirements would discourage some voters from participating in midterm elections. The new...