Trump Says US Will ‘Guide’ Ships Out of the Strait of Hormuz Starting Monday Morning

Korea Picks A $22 Billion Texas Gas Plant As First Down Payment On Its $350 Billion Pledge To Trump Ten months, one tariff threat and several "sleepless nights" later, South Korea has finally found somewhere to put the first piece of the $350 billion it promised to invest in America. The winner is a gas-fired power complex in Encinal, Texas (population 540, where real estate is about to ballistic), and it is built to feed the one thing Washington can never get enough of: electricity for data centers and chip fabs. According...

A US strike in southern Iran on Tuesday hit a residential building where a wedding reception was taking place, according to local Iranian officials and the Iranian Red Crescent. Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of Iran’s Hormozgan Province, told Iranian media the strike hit a home in the city of Kuhestak in Hormozgan’s Sirik county […]

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday that he would not approve a massive US-funded $2.8 billion transfer of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel that the Trump administration is planning to advance. “I remain firmly committed to Israel’s security and its ability to defend itself against serious […]