Even as the war in Iran drives oil prices to $100 per barrel, U.S. oil companies are unlikely to increase their domestic production.  High oil prices have hit consumers’ wallets with a 90-cent increase per gallon of gasoline in the past month. But the high price is also a boon to oil companies. A barrel […]

Not a press release, a formal announcement or even a Truth Social post. President Donald Trump did not endorse either candidate seeking the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Texas before the deadline to remove candidates from the ballot.  That leaves incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton locked in a bitterly […]

The fate of the rapper Afroman, accused of defaming seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies, now rests in the hands of a jury. The deputies claim Afroman — whose real name is Joseph Foreman — intentionally and maliciously harmed their reputations when he released a music video that featured footage of them raiding his home in Winchester, […]

Events honoring the late civil rights leader Cesar Chavez are being canceled around the country over a report that he abused and molested young girls and women in his farmworkers labor movement for decades before his death in 1993. The New York Times documented Chavez’s misconduct in a lengthy investigative story published on Wednesday. In […]

Want it this week? Tomorrow? How about between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.? Consumers don’t think twice about ordering something online and expecting to find it on their doorstep within days — or sometimes hours. Behind that convenience lies one of the most complicated problems in modern logistics: delivering over the last mile, the final […]

Iran has launched missile attacks on Israel after confirming the killing of senior security official Ali Larijani in an Israeli strike, with Israel also saying it has now killed Iran’s intelligence minister in a separate attack. Israel is now hitting targets across Iran and Lebanon, with U.S. forces striking Iranian military sites near the Strait […]

The Senate has now opened debate on President Donald Trump’s election bill, setting up a prolonged fight over voting rules in the U.S. Senators voted 51 to 48 to take up the House-passed “SAVE America Act,”  a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID to vote. Republicans […]

Iran fires missiles into Israel after the killing of a top security official. Strikes hit near Tel Aviv, killing civilians as Iran vows more attacks. Plus, the SAVE Act heads to a prolonged Senate fight as Republicans move it forward without the votes to pass. And a meteor streaks across the eastern sky. The explosion […]

With a U.S. blockade of Cuba, talks of forced regime change and increasing tensions between the two countries, this could be 1962. History doesn’t always repeat itself, but often it rhymes. Sixty-seven years after Fidel Castro’s Communist government took hold just 90 miles south of Florida, the Trump administration is trying what so many other […]