"Doom Loop" Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame

Trump Complained About Big Oil Profits, But Dumped Exxon Stock On Ceasefire Day By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, President Donald Trump’s investment accounts sold between $500,000 and $1 million of ExxonMobil stock on April 7, the same day Trump announced a ceasefire in the Iran war and hours before Exxon shares opened 6.5% lower, according to financial disclosures reviewed by CBS News. Exxon closed at $163.91 on April 7 before Trump announced the ceasefire that evening and opened at $153.52 the following morning. The transaction was one of hundreds of thousands of...

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hospitalized In Critical Condition Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, remains in critical condition in a hospital in Zanjan, northwestern Iran, after collapsing in prison last week with severe cardiac distress. She was transferred by ambulance to the local hospital’s coronary care unit on Friday, May 1, 2026, following repeated episodes of loss of consciousness, extreme chest pain, and blood pressure fluctuations, the NY Times reports. Narges Mohammadi poses in an undated photo provided by her family. The Nobel...

US Measles Cases In 2026 Highest In 35 Years The number of measles cases this year has become the highest since 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 24. Forty-five states have confirmed 2,318 cases through July 23, the CDC said this week. That’s up from 2,289 cases in 2025 and the highest since 1991, when 9,643 cases were recorded. Outbreaks are ongoing in central Virginia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As Zachary Stieber reports for The Epoch Times, some doctors said the jump in cases stems from lower numbers of people...