The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz caused immediate shocks to the world oil market, but analysts are also afraid that rising food prices and fertilizer shortages could increase the risk of famine in struggling nations.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) said Americans expect leaders to take public safety seriously, in contrast to his votes of “Nay” on two House measures tied to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding during the longest shutdown of any U.S. federal agency in history.
Cubans in nearly two dozen churches of different denominations nationwide joined a global prayer effort on April 26 calling on God to bless the island and free it from communist tyranny.
The Cuban communist Castro regime this week published a strange, presumptively staged photo of 16-year-old political prisoner Jonathan David Muir Burgos playing a piano in what has been denounced as an attempt to dismiss concerns over the minor’s state and health.
President Donald Trump issued a letter to Congress on the Friday deadline to keep in line with the War Powers Resolution, notifying lawmakers that “the threat posed by Iran to the United States and our Armed Forces remains significant,” so the U.S. military will continue to “update its force posture” in the Middle East.
Pakistan on Thursday sent representatives to the Chinese port city of Sanya for a ceremony to commission the first of eight Hangor-class attack submarines Islamabad plans to purchase from Beijing.
“No unilateral Iranian arrangements can be trusted following its treacherous aggression against all its neighbors,” the UAE warned
The United States on Thursday conducted its first direct commercial flight with Caracas, Venezuela, ending a seven-year interruption and restoring the direct flight route between both countries.
Communists and socialists celebrated their “May Day” holiday on Friday with parades, marches, and proclamations around the world.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared in conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae on Thursday that his country is ready for new negotiations to end hostilities with the United States – provided Washington drops its priority issues.
The Senate has unanimously voted to pass Sen. Bernie Moreno’s (R-OH) bill banning senators and their staffs from using prediction markets.
Russia is set to increase its military presence in Nicaragua after its parliamentary upper house, the Federation Council, ratified its cooperation agreement with the communist Ortega regime on Wednesday — a deal that Nicaraguan dissidents denounced turns their country into a “Russian military base.”
Canada’s economic policy of mass migration is causing diverse ethnic and sexual conflicts within Canada’s army, according to a leaked military report.
Satellite images revealed this week that the Azerbaijani Muslims who conquered the Nagorno-Karabakh region in September 2023, and ethnically cleansed its Armenian Christian residents, have begun demolishing churches and cathedrals.
Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on Thursday welcomed Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani for talks on developing stronger ties between Iraq, Kurdistan, and the UAE — which is looking for new friendships after announcing its departure from the OPEC cartel on Monday.
The Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah, long noted for their ability to conceal rocket launchers in civilian areas and launch huge swarms of missiles at Israeli civilians, are reportedly developing increasing proficiency with drones, and using them to launch more carefully-targeted attacks against Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.
The Chinese Communist Party announced on Wednesday that it had dramatically expanded the scope of the country’s known oil and gas reserves, claiming to have found 225 “large and medium-sized crude oil and natural gas fields” between 2021 and 2025.
Maritime logistics and intelligence company Windward AI published a report on Wednesday that claimed Iran has slipped up to $800 million worth of crude oil past the U.S. Navy blockade by electronically disguising its tankers as Iraqi ships.
Congress on Thursday passed legislation that would restore funding to key parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, which ends a record 76-day shutdown of the department.
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, accused Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro of allegedly “driving” a guerrilla incursion.
Nigel Farage said Iranian embassy in London had been “just a whisker away” with paramilitary call-to-arms and this shouldn’t be tolerated.
The U.N.’s top nuclear energy official dismissed the possibility of using the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, as a basis for any new agreement in comments at a press conference on Wednesday.
The alleged, but missing, “supreme leader” of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly issued a written message on Thursday declaring that his country will impose a “new legal framework and management system for the Strait of Hormuz” that will result in a future “free of America” in the waterway.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that next week’s annual Victory Day parade will be conducted without tanks, missiles, or other heavy military equipment, due to the “current operational situation” in Ukraine.
A report from Axios on Sunday claimed Israel deployed its famed Iron Dome defense system to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early in Operation Epic Fury, and the system was able to intercept many of the missiles and drones Iran launched at its neighbor.
North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un celebrated the untold numbers of his citizens dying in battle to support the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine in remarks on Monday, especially acknowledging soldiers who committed suicide to avoid capture.
Over 300 people marched against mass migration and undocumented immigrants in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.
Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado confirmed she intends to run for president in an eventual free and fair election.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday announced new sanctions against “35 entities and individuals that oversee Iran’s shadow banking architecture and facilitate the movement of the equivalent of tens of billions of dollars.”
The United States and several U.S.-allied Latin American and Caribbean nations on Tuesday released a joint statement in support of Panama amid the Chinese regime’s ongoing retaliatory campaign after Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison lost control of two key Canal ports.
The shots that rang through the ballroom at the Washington Hilton last week bounced off the same walls as when President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed 45 years ago. But the reaction to the two events shows how much our culture has degraded.
Secretary of War and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, April 29.
A poll released on Tuesday found that incumbent President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would trail his top challenger, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, by 0.3 percent in a runoff between them, without enough support in the first round of voting to prevent a runoff.
The United States strenuously objected when the United Nations gave Iran a vice-presidential role in a nuclear non-proliferation conference.
Greek police said on Tuesday that an 89-year-old man has been taken into custody for a mass shooting in Athens that injured five people.
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae on Monday inaugurated a panel to review Japan’s defense posture in a time of growing threats from China, North Korea, and Russia.
The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) on Monday filed a complaint with the FCC over late night television host Jimmy Kimmel’s remark that First Lady Melania Trump would be an “expectant widow.”
CNN reported on Tuesday that the Justice Department has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time.
A Wisconsin teacher who made disturbing online comments about presidential assassins after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday has been placed on leave.
Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is upping his rhetoric against President Donald Trump, referring to the duly elected commander-in-chief as “America’s chief insurrectionist” just days after yet another failed assassination attempt.
