"I Want Guns": Bill Maher Blasts California's "Ridiculous" Self-Defense Laws

Oil Tanker Makes Red Sea U-Turn After Houthi Threats, Reroutes Around Africa In Costly Transit ING's Singapore-based head of commodities, Warren Patterson, was asked during a recent webinar what it would take for Brent crude to exceed $120 a barrel. His answer was "not much," warning that prices could soar well into triple-digit territory if the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked through August and threats to Red Sea shipping intensify. Patterson's warning about disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait echoes concerns voiced across commodity desks...

A 10-year-old boy died in Gaza on Wednesday of wounds sustained in an Israeli attack days earlier, as the Israeli military continued launching strikes across the besieged Palestinian territory. The boy, identified as Abdul Rahman Khalil Awad, was hit by an Israeli drone strike in Gaza City on October 19. Footage from Gaza on Wednesday […]

Oman Is Playing Word Games On Iranian Tolls Through Strait: 'Service, Environmental Fees' Iran has remained on message in the last several weeks despite a few serious flare-ups in tit-for-tat fighting and missile and drone exchanges with US forces, also including Iranian strikes on at least two foreign shipping vessels which refused to heed Tehran's 'rules'. Hormuz will not return to its pre-war status, Iranian officials insist, even as negotiations are still happening, but are stalled in terms of direct interactions with the American delegation led by Witkoff and Kushner in...