There Is No Property-Rights Case for Birthright Citizenship

A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when the other side shoots back. We sit down with Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski to parse Trump’s threat to interdict ships tied to Iranian […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran is not engaged in ongoing negotiations with the US. He confirmed that Tehran has received messages from Washington.  “I receive messages from [US special envoy Steve] Witkoff directly, as before, and this does not mean that we are in negotiations,” Araghchi told Al Jazeera in an interview […]

Software CEO Convicted In Massive $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting Seniors In a verdict hailed by federal officials as a major blow against one of the most egregious health care fraud operations in Florida history, a jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, 42, of Johnson County, Kansas, on multiple conspiracy charges related to a sprawling scheme that bilked Medicare and other federal programs out of more than $1 billion. Brett Blackman / Credit: Department of Justice Blackman, the founder, owner, and CEO of HealthSplash, was found guilty...