French Consumer Confidence Tanks As Bond Crisis, Far-Left Riots Deepen Gloom

Gearing Up For Artemis II: NASA's High-Stakes Test Run Around the Moon NASA is gearing up for Artemis II, its first crewed mission to the moon since the Apollo era—but this one is more of a high-speed dress rehearsal than a landing, according to KSL.com. Four astronauts will take a roughly 10-day trip that loops around the moon and comes straight back, with no orbiting or moonwalks. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—marks a few firsts: the first woman, first person of color, and first non-American assigned...

Gulf Oil Is Available Again, But Asian Refiners Balk At Soaring Tanker Rates Iran and the US have a peace deal? check (for 60 days, allegedly).  Strait of Hormuz open? check (for 60 days, allegedly). Ships transiting freely? check (not really) Massive build up of Gulf oil desperate to reach Asian refiners? check. All great news, which means that oil should now flow freely and in huge amounts, right? Wrong: two of Asia's largest refiners, PetroChina and Indian Oil, failed to secure very large crude carriers to lift Iraqi Basrah crude in late June, Reuters reported, while...

Updated on June 30, 2026, at 3:40 pm EST The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted down a War Powers Resolution to end US support for Israel’s war in Lebanon, which continues despite the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding stating it must end. The bill failed in a 189-235 vote, with just two Republicans — Reps. […]