US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Arrives in the Caribbean Amid Threats of War Against Cuba

Two Emirati Ships Sink In Hormuz In Under 24 Hours As IRGC Claims 5-6 Vessels Targeted Nightly Update(1240ET): While dozens of ships have come under attack by Iran in the Hormuz Strait and nearby areas since the war began, resulting in damage and fires aboard vessels, it remains much more rare for a tanker to sink at a total loss. However, the WSJ has confirmed Wednesday that two have completely sunk in the last 24 hours, the first of which we reported on below. Here are the further details via WSJ: Two...

California Has Gay-Certification Program To Tap Into $633 Million For "LGBT" Businesses Authored by Christopher F. Rufo & Austen Hufford via City Journal, Americans are used to handouts for favored groups. Affirmative action in university admissions, corporate “diversity” initiatives, and minority-owned contracting requirements direct opportunities, resources, and contracts to supposedly “oppressed” groups, such as women, Native Americans, blacks, and Hispanics. In California, state Democrats have embraced another kind of favoritism: contracts for state-certified gay-owned businesses. The scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities...

Who Whacked Jensen Huang? The CIA Wasn't Convinced - So Rubio Reworked Their Memo The classified memo whose leak set off Jensen Huang's fall at Nvidia was Marco Rubio's work, and Rubio built it from a CIA report that he recast "in his own more assertive terms," according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post for a report published Friday.According to the report, CIA officials are "not yet convinced" that the intelligence gathered on Alice Huang - including intercepted communications - show she was...