Iranian Authority Says Strait of Hormuz Remains Closed as US Continues Strikes

Female Bomber Kills At Least 3, Injures 21, At Upscale Moscow Restaurant A bomb ripped through a central Moscow upscale restaurant mid-evening on Saturday in what authorities are calling a "brutal terrorist act" - which left three people dead and wounded at least 21. "Yesterday, a brutal terrorist act was committed in Moscow that claimed human lives. The victims are currently in the city’s hospitals, where they are receiving all necessary care," Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated Sunday. via BBC The location was at Kudrinkskaya Square outside an Italian restaurant, in one ⁠of Moscow’s seven...

NY AG James Orders Hospital To Resume Gender-Transition Treatment For Minors Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, In a rare and controversial move, New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered a Manhattan hospital to resume offering gender-transition treatment to transgender youth. NYU Langone had discontinued such treatments after funding threats from the Trump administration. It is now caught between the proverbial rock (HHS) and a hard place (NYAG). Last year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” seeking to restrict gender-transition treatment for...

Futures Rise, Oil Drops As Market Prices In Iran Deal For Yet Another Day Futures rebounded from the post-FOMC selloff, and oil prices fell as Trump signed the Iran MOU two days early to end the war in the Middle East (in the symbolic Palace of Versailles of all place) and some energy shipments began to transit the Strait of Hormuz. As usual, tech led the parade higher. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were up 0.6%, but off overnight session highs, partly unwinding a more than 1% decline after Kevin Warsh signaled the...