Trump 'Optimistic' An Iran Deal Within Reach, After First Non-Iranian Tanker Transits Hormuz Since Ceasefire

French Bond Yields Rise After Le Pen Cleared To Run In 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen can enter the race to become France's next president after judges confirmed her embezzlement conviction on appeal but handed her a reprieve on an election ban. Presiding Judge Michèle Agi confirmed Le Pen’s conviction, saying that she and several others at the National Rally party misused European Union funds earmarked to pay for aides. But the appellate judges reduced her ban to 15 months, thus paving the way for her to lead her party into...

Treasury Uncovers $8 Billion In Suspicious Foreign-Directed Wire Payments: Bessent Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration has identified more than $8 billion in potentially suspicious wire payments directed by foreign agents from 2021 to 2025.The Trump administration has uncovered more than $260 billion in fraud, prevented $72 billion in fraud, and brought enforcement actions against nearly $60 billion in fraud since January 2025, Bessent said during a news conference on Oct. 30 in St. Cloud, Minnesota.He also announced that the administration's...

Patriots Won't Let Communists Take America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,  Meet at the Liberty Tree... This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.” Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.   Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought to justice for conspiring with parts of the Intelligence Community to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  The same Ukrainian and British Intelligence agents who helped orchestrate the first ridiculous...