Oil Dips As Pakistani Army Chief Travels To Tehran As Rubio Touts 'Slight Progress' On Talks

Cuba Crisis: Assessing The Claims Against Havana By Patrick Pillow Via The Libertarian Institute When President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security in a January 2026 Executive Order, the designation was accompanied by a series of sweeping claims. Among them were accusations that Cuba “provides support” to Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, that it “supports terrorism,” and that the Cuban government supports actors who “seek to destroy the United States.” What began as a discussion over Cuban intelligence capabilities has now expanded into a much broader narrative...

Iran Says 35 Ships Exited Strait Of Hormuz As Rubio Condemns Tolls The US blockade of the Iranian blockade is looking increasingly more porous. Iran said 35 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours in coordination with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Iranian state broadcaster reported on Friday. The navy had already reported on Wednesday that 26 ships had passed through the strait within 24 hours. On Friday, the data provider Kpler confirmed only 10 passages on Wednesday. This represented an increase from the four passages...

The State Department announced a “whole-of-government” effort to systematically dismantle the International Criminal Court’s ability to target Americans with war crimes charges.  “Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to US sovereignty,” a statement released by the State Department on Monday explained. “The […]