Feds Nab Alleged Member Of "Sprawling" Cuban Communist Subversion Network Linked To Hasan Piker's Havana Trip

Vance Suggests Iran Conflict Could Drag Through Midterms, But At Least We're Not Calling It A War The White House has returned to its prior talking point that the war against Iran shouldn't be called a war. In earlier stages of the conflict President Trump had applied various monikers that stopped far short, from an "excursion" to a "little detour" to a "stopover" to a mere limited "military operation". A full five months ago he had proclaimed, "We had to take a little detour. Won’t be long." Various phrases like this have been repeated on...

Russia's Oil Windfall Vanishes As Urals Crashes To $42 A Barrel By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Russian crude oil prices have fallen back to where they were before the Middle East war, with its flagship Urals averaging just $41.66 a barrel during the first three days of July. The drop wipes out the revenue boost Moscow received from the conflict and pressures a federal budget that assumes oil prices of about $59 a barrel.  Urals had averaged more than $59 a barrel every month since March and climbed to $60.92 in June after...

With Commercial Real Estate Still Challenging, Lenders Offload Troubled Loans At A Loss Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While leasing activity and vacancy trends suggest the U.S. commercial real estate market is stabilizing, office values are still well below post-pandemic peaks, recent reports show. The San Francisco skyline on Jan. 20, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images As owners scramble to make payments on under-occupied office buildings, many lenders are reluctant to foreclose to avoid the headache of taking ownership and reselling the properties, according to David...