Bessent Says He’s Not Sure How Iranian Officials Will Get Home From UN Due to US Airline Sanctions

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that he heard from diplomats from other countries that no one expected Iran to be able to “resist” the US in the way Iran has done in the war the US and Israel launched on February 28. “I have heard this many times from foreign ministers and […]

China In Talks With Iran For Safe Passage Through Hormuz, As WH Scrambles To Contain Rising Energy Prices Summary: House votes against war powers: The US House of Representatives has rejected an effort to curb President Donald Trump's ability to wage war in Iran, a day after a similar bid collapsed in the Senate. House rejected in a 219-212 vote along party lines - was largely ceremonial and was unlikely to survive an expected veto from the president: BBC. Unconfirmed: Iraqi police say a US fighter jet crashed in southern Basra province, with the pilot ejecting...

First Andreessen, Now Goldman CEO Shuts Down AI Job-Apocalypse Doomerism Narrative Amid the flood of AI doomerism, from Pope Leo XIV's Monday warning that AI and the digital transformation of the economy could unleash "new forms of slavery" and mass job losses, to Bernie Sanders and unhinged socialists calling for a halt to data centers buildouts, a move that would conveniently cede compute power to communists in Beijing, a growing and emerging chorus of dystopian futurists is now trying to frame the AI boom as an existential labor-market crisis rather...