India Rescues 24 Crewmembers From Stricken Tanker Off Oman After US Airstrike

Uranium Supply Crunch Worsens Amid Kazakhstan’s Plan For Strategic Reserve Drawing further attention to the global uranium supply-demand mismatch that we've been pounding the table on since 2020, Kazakhstan has outlined plans to accelerate exploration and create a strategic reserve for the nuclear fuel.  We've repeatedly emphasized that the US is not moving fast enough if it hopes to secure fuel for its reactor fleet… US Is Rapidly Expanding Its Nuclear Supply Chain: It's Not Nearly Fast Enough https://t.co/gly9hVAKnr — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 19, 2026 More countries are likely to announce strategic uranium reserves...

Xi Hosts Taiwan Opposition Leader In Rare Meeting: 'We Will Not Become A Chessboard For External Intervention' All eyes remain fixated on the impending US-Iran talks in Islamabad, but big things are also happening Friday in Beijing, and they have direct impact on another potential global flashpoint: Taiwan. While Washington potentially gets bogged down in another Middle East quagmire (if talks don't go well and there's no offramp), Chinese leader Xi Jinping has welcomed the leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party for a rare direct meeting in the Chinese capital. The symbolism of the timing...

The House on Wednesday approved a three-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives the federal government the power to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans. The extension passed in a vote of 235-191, a day before its previous extension expires. The bill, in its current form, may not make […]