Great Global Energy Rewiring Accelerates: UAE To Double Crude Export Capacity Bypassing Hormuz Chaos

U.S.-Iran Deal Doesn't Mean A Swift Return Of Oil And Gas Flows Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A U.S.-Iran agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping and production will not immediately return to normal. More than 10 million bpd of Middle Eastern oil production has been shut in, and some fields may take months to restart fully. Iraq faces a slower recovery than Saudi Arabia or the UAE because its southern exports depend heavily on access through Basrah. The U.S.-Iran deal and the potentially imminent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz...

Audits Spotlight Unusual Trends In Medicaid Spending For Autism Care Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, One in 31 U.S. children has an autism diagnosis. Among Minnesota’s Somali community, that number jumps to one in 12. That discrepancy made headlines last fall when the Department of Justice charged a Somali woman with netting millions in fraudulent autism services. Now, state and federal investigators are putting autism spending in the spotlight. The September 2025 federal indictment alleged that a therapy center—run by 28-year-old Asha Farhan Hassan—recruited Somali children for an autism services program...

Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Santa Fe judge on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43.9 million violations of state consumer-protection law by making misleading statements about Facebook users' data privacy and control. The case, filed in 2021, grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. New Mexico alleged that Facebook, now Meta, systematically misled the public - and New Mexico users - about how it...