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Congress Keeps The Trading Desk Open: Senate Dems Sink Lawmaker Trading Ban 53-47 A midterm messaging bill that was never going to become law just confirmed the only bipartisan consensus that matters: members of Congress still get to play the tape. Senate Democrats just blocked cloture on a bill that would have stopped lawmakers from buying new publicly traded stocks. The vote was 53-47. Sixty were required. But guess what happened? Republicans dropped Voter ID into it so the Dems would nuke it.  The measure was H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act....

USAF Stratotanker Squawks 7700 Emergency Near Doha The fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz flared up Monday and into the overnight hours, with IRGC forces reportedly striking multiple commercial vessels and a UAE oil refinery. The one positive development: with U.S. forces on heightened alert, two U.S.-flagged merchant ships successfully transited the maritime chokepoint as Project Freedom began, marking the first visible move by the U.S. Navy to unfreeze the world's most critical energy corridor. U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said its aerial assets in the Hormuz area...