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WTI Maintains Losses After Another SPR Drain, Distillate Stocks At 30-Year Seasonal Lows Oil prices have roller-coastered overnight - higher on new Houthie attacks in the Red Sea and now lower on reports that a draft deal approval in imminent. Up... A Houthi military spokesperson said the group would escalate attacks on Saudi vessels in the northern Red Sea — the latest workaround for the kingdom’s exports to avoid the perilous Bab al-Mandab Strait off Yemen’s coast to the south. Exports from the Red Sea have become a vital lifeline for Saudi...

Newsom Signs 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' To Stop Investigations Into Immigration 'Service' Provider Fraud Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Saturday expanding privacy protections for immigration service workers, despite warnings that the measure could chill investigative journalism and face First Amendment challenges. Assembly Bill 2624, dubbed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" by Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, expands California's Safe at Home program to certain nonprofit employees who assist people navigating the U.S. immigration system. The law will take effect Oct. 1, 2027, after Newsom leaves...

'Why Only Three Rapes In 10 Years?': Russell Brand's Lawyer Turns His Client's Promiscuity Into A Defense Russell Brand's defense lawyer closed his case on Monday by turning the comedian's sex life into an argument for acquittal, asking jurors at Southwark Crown Court, "Why is it that only three rapes in 10 years?"Brand, 51, denies three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of attempted indecent assault, involving six women and spanning ten years from 1999, STV reported. He has pleaded not guilty to all seven charges, which,...