Qatari LNG Tanker Transits Hormuz As U.S. Awaits Iran's Response To Peace Deal

Watch: Bessent Teases 'Series Of Announcements' To Stabilize Oil; Says Trump's 15% Tariff Will Kick In This Week Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s 15 percent global tariff will take effect sometime this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Following the Supreme Court’s rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy last month, Trump imposed a 10 percent global tariff, invoking Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. A day later, Trump pledged to raise the rate to 15 percent. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before...

Leftist Party Wants Voting Rights For All Foreigners Who've Lived In Germany For 5 Years Via Remix News, Germany’s Left Party is pushing for a major overhaul of the German electoral system by proposing that foreign residents without a German passport be granted voting rights after five years of legal residency. To achieve this, the Left faction in the Bundestag has submitted a formal application demanding that anyone residing legally in the country for at least five years be permitted to vote in federal elections, irrespective of their nationality. The move would serve...

From Trucks To Tanks: Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America's Arsenal With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage push to convert underused civilian industrial capacity, including struggling auto production lines, into wartime manufacturing hubs. The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report...