Category: World

US-Iran War Roars Back as Tankers Burn, Missiles Fly and Oil Tops $100

Daily Caller News Foundation
Trump and Iran

The U.S.-Iran war has erupted into another major round of fighting after weeks of relative calm, with American forces destroying Iranian oil tankers as Tehran launches ballistic missiles at U.S. forces and attacks commercial shipping across the Persian Gulf.

The latest exchange represents the largest declared wave of attacks on shipping by Iran and the U.S. since the war began roughly six months ago. The renewed fighting has already pushed Brent crude above $100 per barrel and again threatened shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Commentary: We Are in World War Xi

American Greatness
Putin and China

As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Americans may blame Russian leader Vladimir Putin for starting “World War III.” It is correct that World War III has started, but its cause is the People’s Republic of China (PRC), not Russia.

The war did not start with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 or with the appeasement of Russia in the years before Putin’s foolish aggression. It started with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP has been at war with the U.S. since coming to power in 1949 and has employed many fronts in this war to undermine America and the West. The CCP’s May 2019 declaration of “People’s War” against the U.S. was CCP leader Xi Jinping’s call for a maximal effort against America. Not coincidentally, the COVID-19 outbreak soon followed. The CCP lied about COVID’s origins, refused to share information with the world, and used Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), as its willing accomplice. Another front is CCP election interference.

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Commentary: Trump’s Blockade Could Break the Iranian Regime

American Greatness
Trump and Iran

Pundits on cable news keep insisting that President Trump’s economic strangulation campaign against Iran cannot work. Sanctions, they say, have never brought down a regime. They note that Iran has survived decades of economic sanctions due to weak compliance and selling discounted oil through a shadow fleet, mostly to China.

That argument misses what is happening now. After the Iranian regime rejected President Trump’s diplomatic offers—including a generous Memorandum of Understanding and the substantial financial incentives that accompanied it—he turned to a different strategy. This is not another round of paper sanctions. It is a naval blockade, backed by asset seizures and targeted strikes. It does not merely ask governments and banks to comply. It stops tankers. That is why the campaign has a realistic chance of forcing a political rupture in Tehran that sanctions alone cannot produce.

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Trump-Kim Talks Could Return as South Korean Intelligence Reportedly Spots Signs of Dialogue

Daily Caller News Foundation

South Korean intelligence officials believe the U.S. and North Korea are showing signs of moving toward renewed dialogue, raising the possibility of another meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told South Korean lawmakers Tuesday that a U.S.-North Korea summit should be considered possible “at any time,” although the agency has not confirmed concrete talks between Washington and Pyongyang, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing Democratic Party Rep. Youn Kun-young and People Power Party Rep. Yoo Yeong-ha. The assessment arrives after Trump publicly pushed to revive his personal diplomacy with Kim while scaling back U.S. military exercises with South Korea.

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Chevron Drills Deeper into Trump’s Venezuela Oil Push

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chevron

Oil giant Chevron is expected to expand its operations in Venezuela as the Trump administration deepens its push into the country’s vast oil sector, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on Tuesday.

Chevron officials and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are expected to travel to Venezuela on Wednesday, where the company’s new investment is expected to be formally announced, according to the AP. Chevron is currently the only major U.S. oil company with a significant presence in Venezuela.

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Ratcliffe in Moscow Trip Warned Russian Intelligence Officers Not to Attack NATO Countries: Reports

Just the News
John Ratcliffe

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s personal visit to Moscow this week saw him warn Russia against any strikes on NATO nations, multiple outlets have reported.

Ratcliffe visited Russia this week and met with intelligence officials, but not President Vladimir Putin. The meeting came amid reported concerns from Washington that Russia could attack one of the Baltic States, all of which are in NATO, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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U.S. Military Assisted Transporting 660 Million Barrels of Oil Through Strait of Hormuz: CENTCOM

Just the News
Strait of Hormuz

The U.S. military’s assistance of oil tankers has allowed more than 660 million barrels of crude oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since early May. 

Approximately 1,300 vessels have sailed through the strait with the U.S. military’s assistance in that time, U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, a Central Command spokesperson, told CNBC. 

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New Student Visa Rule Stops ‘Endlessly Enrolling in Classes,’ Expert Says

The College Fix

Student visa fraud will be reduced under a new Trump policy limiting how long foreigners can attend college, an expert told The College Fix.

Set to go into effect on September 15, the “duration of status” rule will now set a fixed, four-year limit on student visas or shorter, depending on the normal length of the program. Prior to this change, students could stay here as long as they were enrolled in school.

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Trump Demands Iran Compensate U.S. for Americans Killed over Decades

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Trump and Iran

President Donald Trump on Monday reacted to the Iranian demand that the U.S. compensate Tehran for the damage it sustained in the ongoing Iran war by demanding that Iran, in turn, pay restitution for the Americans they killed over many years.

“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!” he posted on Truth Social.

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China Picks Up Pace in Global Race to Unlock Limitless Energy

Daily Caller News Foundation
fusion power

As the world continues its search for power sources to feed an ever-expanding technological boom, China is racing to develop its own “artificial sun.”

China’s Institute of Plasma Physics completed and tested a 582-ton doughnut-shaped superconducting magnet in Hefei, on June 27, clearing a key hurdle in the country’s push to have fusion power by 2030, Forbes reported Tuesday. Manufactured entirely in China, the magnet is the largest ever built for a fusion reactor, highlighting the country’s diminishing reliance on the West for key technological developments.

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Following ‘Very Unfortunate’ Supreme Court Decision, Trump Issues New Executive Orders on Birthright Citizenship, Birth Tourism Enforcement

Christina Botteri
Expecting in Customs

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing the Departments of State and Homeland Security to halt “birth tourism,” the practice of foreign nationals entering the United States on temporary nonimmigrant visas primarily to give birth on U.S. soil and secure citizenship for their children.

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Spanish Immigration Crisis Exposes Cracks in European Union, Opportunity for Right-Leaning Parties

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Cueta, Spain

The Spanish immigration crisis has exposed cracks in the European Union and an opportunity for right-wing leaders heading into elections next year in Spain, Italy and France.

Last week, tens of thousands of migrants poured over the Spanish border at Ceuta, a North African exclave ruled by Spain since 1580. The small coastal city is situated on a narrow peninsula on the southern edge of the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco — the only place where a European border touches Africa.

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Commentary: The EU and the Iron Law of Oligarchy

American Greatness
EU meeting

Along, long time ago—27 years, to be exact—my boss (the inimitable Mark Melcher) and I predicted that the European Monetary Union would be the death of the EU. The Euro, we wrote for our clients at a now-defunct big brokerage house, would be a disaster and would destroy everything that the post-war Europeans had spent the previous several decades working to build. Specifically, we wrote:

Psst! You wanna know a secret? The Euro, and the mess it represents, is going to be a social, economic and political catastrophe. Indeed, we think it is probable that the adoption of the Euro will be to 21st century Europe, what the killing of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to 20th century Europe; i.e., that point in time when history will record that the unraveling began in earnest.

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Italy Suspends Free Travel with Spain amid Migrant Surge

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Italy leader

The Italian government on Friday announced the suspension of free travel with Spain amid the storming of the country’s African exclaves by migrants from Morocco.

Tens of thousands of people have overrun the borders between Spain and Morocco and Melilla and Ceuta this week, with footage of violent riots going viral. Italy, which has sought to curb illegal immigration to Europe, previously warned that it could suspend freedom of movement if Madrid failed to deal with the situation.

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CCP Intel-Associated Official Converted Taxpayer-Funded Facility by U.S. Military Bases into Massive Illegal Weed Grow

Daily Caller News Foundation
weed farm

A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the head of a U.S. taxpayer-funded facility in the Mojave Desert where authorities dismantled a massive illegal marijuana operation, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Police seized over 15,000 marijuana plants and arrested 14 people — including eight Chinese nationals — while conducting a July 2022 raid on a 75-acre Barstow, California facility owned by China-based quartz slab manufacturer American Quartz Inc. (AQ), which secured a multimillion-dollar Sunshine State grant earlier that year with support from Treasurer Fiona Ma and remains operational, according to the criminal complaint and state records.

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CIA File Released Claims China Used Influencers, Media Allies, and American Businesses to Sabotage Trump Administration

Tom Pappert
Trump and China

Intelligence community files released by the White House claim that China paid American journalists, social media influencers, and leveraged relationships with American businesses in order to sabotage President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, with a CIA document claiming the foreign government went as far as to pay journalists to print negative articles.

In a Thursday speech delivered to the nation, Trump cited a CIA document that showed the agency determined, beginning in 2019, China “sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him,” adding that the adversarial government “wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.

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Andy Burnham to Become UK’s Next Prime Minister

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Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham will become British prime minister Monday after the ruling left-wing Labour Party formally declared him its new leader on Friday.

Burnham ran unopposed, with 379 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament backing his bid, according to CBS News. He replaces deeply unpopular outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who faced weeks of pressure to quit after Labour’s disastrous showing in May’s local elections.

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Trump Agrees to Renewed ‘Talks’ with Iran, but Says Ceasefire Still ‘Over’

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Donald Trump

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Iran had sought to resume peace talks with the United States and that he had agreed to do so, but would not halt combat operations in the interim.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he posted on Truth Social.

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Tidal Waves of Drones Coming to Battlefields Across the Globe

Daily Caller News Foundation
war drone

Manufacturers around the world are leveraging AI to create drone swarms that could change the reality of war forever.

Both defensive and offensive drone swarm systems are going to be hitting battlefields across the globe soon. As companies such as Swarm Defense create new systems that will launch tidal waves of drones at targets, other companies like XCaliber Technologies are rapidly working to build a wall of drones and other defensive systems that can defeat the new offensive threat.

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Texas Hospital Near U.S.-Mexico Border Marketing Birth Tourism Packages

Kaitlin Housler
Mission Regional Medical Center

A South Texas hospital has been openly advertising maternity services directly to pregnant women living outside the U.S., encouraging them to travel across the border to give birth at its facility.

Mission Regional Medical Center, located in Mission, Texas, has been promoting maternity packages to international patients, including through reported Spanish-language billboards targeting families in Latin America.

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U.S. Military Strikes Iranian Missile, Drone Storage Locations

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Trump situation room

The United States Central Command said Friday that it has struck Iranian drone and missile storage locations in response to Iran’s attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday evening.

Iran’s strike Thursday came just hours after the Iranian military warned that ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz require their authorization. Those that don’t comply, it said, “will be dealt with.”

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Trump Threatens 100 Percent Tariffs on Countries with Digital Services Tax on U.S. Firms

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Trump at rally

President Donald Trump on Friday warned European nations that they would face a 100% tariff on their goods if they imposed a digital services tax on American companies.

“Numerous European Countries have been discussing the imminent implementation of a Digital Services Tax on American Companies,” he posted on Truth Social. “Some of these Countries are close to actually doing this. Please let this statement serve to represent that any Country that imposes such a Tax will immediately be met with a 100% TARIFF on any and all Goods sent to the United States of America.”

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Iran Warns Ships Must Work with Tehran for Safe Passage Through Strait of Hormuz

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Strait of Hormuz

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on Friday warned that ships seeking passage through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Tehran, in accordance with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) it signed with the U.S.

“Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, with ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes, or decision-making outside of Iran’s considerations as the coastal state, cannot be guaranteed,” he posted on X. “Any credible framework must be based on coordination with Iran and the provisions of paragraph five of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding. Otherwise, the outcome will be the suspension of the designated parallel route.”

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Analysis: Rockets, Feathers, and Trump’s DOJ Probe Into Gas Prices

The Daily Torch
Gas Station at night

“The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping like a rock! In other words, customers are being ‘gouged.’ I have instructed the DOJ to immediately start looking into this. Gasoline prices better start going down a lot faster than what I’m seeing!”

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Latin America Continues to Shift Right as Trump-Backed Candidate Declares Victory in Colombia

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Colombia president

Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative political newcomer backed by President Donald Trump, declared victory Sunday in Colombia’s cliffhanger presidential election as Latin America continued to shift to the right during the American president’s second term.

De La Espriella captured 49.7% of the vote, with liberal Iván Cepeda taking 48.7% in a runoff seen as a verdict on outgoing President Gustavo Petro and a stagnant economy ridden by crime.

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British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer Resigns as Labour Support Collapses

American Greatness
Keir Stramer

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign as leader of the Labour Party after losing the confidence of his parliamentary colleagues, but said he will remain in office for months while the party selects a successor.

The announcement marks the end of a turbulent period for Starmer, whose government has faced mounting political pressure and poor electoral results. Rather than stepping aside immediately, Starmer said he would stay on as caretaker prime minister until a leadership contest concludes after Parliament returns from its summer recess.

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