US Intercepted Fresh Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Overnight As Tehran Blasts 'Ceasefire Violations'

China Dismisses Report Of Top Chipmaker Aiding Iranian Forces As "Fake News" Beijing moved into damage-control mode on Friday, with its foreign ministry dismissing a Reuters report that cited two senior Trump administration officials alleging that SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, had sent chipmaking tools to Iran, as "false information." Asked about the report at a regular news conference in Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said he was "not familiar with the situation" and added, "What I can tell you is that recently, some media have been keen on releasing...

Europe's Looming Jet Fuel Crisis: Hormuz, Policy Failure, And A Self-Inflicted Supply Shock Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Politics has established a new routine. Right at 12 noon, prices at German gas stations now rise day after day. The government’s pricing decree, a hastily assembled mechanism, acts like an accelerant in an already dramatically strained fuel supply situation. Anyone with rudimentary economic understanding already knew that this form of price regulation would amount to political posturing with fatal consequences. The market is reacting as expected. Gas station operators anticipate general price increases and indirectly...

San Diego State Now Offers A RuPaul's Drag Race Course To Study "Queens Of Color" Authored by Veronica Webber via The College Fix,San Diego State University currently offers a course in which students will examine "race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and trans/nonbinary politics" in a drag-race competition show.In "RuPaul's Drag Race - Media, Markets, and Power," students will analyze "the framing and reception of queens of color and debates around trans inclusion," the course description states.This is "an upper-division course for undergraduates, [that] introduces students to the TV show featuring...