Drone Kills Lebanon Man Minutes After Trump Said Israel Prohibited From Striking

CENTCOM Says Hormuz Naval Blockade Ends As Gulf Energy Flows Reboot Summary: U.S. CENTCOM says U.S. Naval Blockade on Hormuz has been "Lifted"  Kuwait Petroleum CEO says Energy Production to Ramp in a Week  Iran Media says Southern Ports Traffic Begins Normalizing  Hormuz Normalization Begins As Saudi Supertankers Exit And A Flood Of Persian Gulf Oil Heads For Asia The roughly two-month U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has officially ended, according to U.S. Central Command on X. This marks a major de-escalation in the Gulf region, as early signs point to the...

Russia Think Tank Tells Chinese Media That U.S. Endgame In Iran Is To "Achieve Market Monopoly" In Logistics, Energy Russian military blogger Mikhail Zvinchuk, the operator behind the Rybar Telegram channel, recently surfaced in an interview with the Chinese outlet Guancha, offering a non-Western assessment of the ten-week U.S.-Iran war. The interview is notable given that Washington has targeted the private Russian think tank, with the State Department's Rewards for Justice program offering up to $10 million for information related to Rybar-linked foreign election interference operations. The main topic of the...

Iryna Zarutska's Accused Killer Found Incompetent To Stand Trial In Charlotte Stabbing In a development that has reignited outrage over North Carolina’s handling of violent repeat offenders and the mentally ill, the man accused of savagely murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light-rail train - saying "I got that white girl" - has been declared “incapable to proceed” with his state murder trial. Decarlos Brown Jr., a 35-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history and diagnosed schizophrenia, was evaluated at Central Regional Hospital on December 29, 2025. Court...