Israeli Strike on Vehicle in Gaza City Kills Three

The Senate on Tuesday night advanced a sweeping Russia sanctions bill as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky watched the vote from the Senate gallery. Zelensky was in town for the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, after whom the legislation was named. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 would also extend sanctions […]

Cuba Is Negotiating Deal With US, Trump Says Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump said March 8 that the Cuban government is negotiating a deal with him and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Speaking at his “Shield ​of the Americas” gathering of Latin American leaders in Miami, ​Florida, Trump said that Cuba is “at the end of the line” due to Venezuela cutting off oil deliveries after the U.S. capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we’re also looking forward...

Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.  What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.  It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth...