Double-Tap Bombing Rips Through Damascus Near French President Macron's Hotel

After "Fantastic Day" With Xi, Trump Touts 200-Jet Boeing Deal As China Offers Hormuz Help Summary:  Trump says Boeing Secured a 200 'Big' jet order from China Trump says President Xi wants Hormuz reopened, won't give Tehran weapons  Trump, Xi Put Hormuz, Iran, Trade, Taiwan At Center Of Historic Beijing Summit Boeing-China Jet Deal A highly anticipated Boeing jet deal appears to have materialized after the first day of President Trump's summit with President Xi Jinping.  Fox News reports that Trump said Boeing secured an order for 200 "big" jets from China. He said the order...

Senate Unanimously Votes That Sam Bankman-Fried Should Never Get A Pardon Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday stating that Sam Bankman-Fried should “under no circumstances” receive executive clemency, a rebuke of the FTX founder’s request that President Donald Trump commute or pardon his sentence. The measure, S. Res. 772, cleared by unanimous consent, a procedure that adopts a resolution when no senator objects. It expresses the sense of the Senate that Bankman-Fried should receive neither a pardon nor a commutation, and it affirms the chamber’s commitment to...

An Iranian official on Wednesday suggested that Yemen’s Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, could close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, if the US launches ground operations against Iran. So far, the Houthis, who govern an area of Yemen where most of the population lives, have […]