Trump Blames ‘Unpatriotic’ Republicans for Making It Difficult to Negotiate with Iran

China's Car Sales Slump As Gasoline Demand Craters Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Chinese car sales in China fell by 21.5% in April, driven by lower demand for gasoline-powered vehicles amid higher fuel prices. EV demand failed to offset the drop in internal combustion engine vehicle sales, as well. According to Bloomberg data, total car sales in China last month hit 1.4 million. This was the lowest since 2022, when China was still in the grip of Covid lockdowns. Internal combustion engine car sales suffered a decline of over 30%, while EV and...

More Than 40 Mexican Mafia Members And Associates Indicted In California: DOJ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A total of 43 alleged members and associates of the Mexican Mafia prison gang were arrested this week on multiple charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the central district of California said on April 23. The Department of Justice in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the total includes individuals already in custody, with 25 of them being arrested in Orange County, California,...

Feds Charge Sinaloa's Governor, Senator, Mayor, & Other Top Officials With Running A Narco-State Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, Federal prosecutors in New York have charged ten current and former senior Mexican government officials — among them the sitting governor of Sinaloa, a sitting federal senator, the mayor of the state capital, and the state’s former secretary of public security — with conspiring to protect the Sinaloa Cartel’s most powerful faction in exchange for millions of dollars in drug money, in what may be the most sweeping corruption indictment ever...