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The Iran war is now in its seventh week, and President Trump has ordered a naval blockade of Iran. The blockade is scheduled set to start at 10am ET today. Get the latest on the Iran war and the countdown to the start of the naval blockade of Iran in our live breaking news coverage. …
He also shared this. The guy lost his fucking mind. pic.twitter.com/eAJ4nfreTJ — Rude Awakening ✝️ 🇺🇸 (@RudeAwakeningHQ) April 13, 2026 HOLY WAR Pope hits back at Trump after president blasts him as ‘terrible & weak’ over Iran war & posts AI pic of himself as Jesus POPE Leo XIV has hit back at Donald Trump …
Latest updates at the top: FINRA has proposed eliminating the $25,000 Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule and replacing it with risk-based intraday margin requirements, potentially lowering the effective threshold for margin day trading to around $2,000. The SEC’s decision deadline is April 14–16, 2026, with the change not yet finalized or effective. US blockade of …
By Peter Reagan If there is one thing that the CEO of the fifth largest bank in the world should know something about, it’s what is going on in the economy. Not the numbers in government reports that don’t connect to the reality that everyday Americans live in. Abstractions like GDP and consumer sentiment. What we’re interested in is …
by Michael I think that almost everyone in the western world is underestimating how angry China has become. The war in the Middle East involves one of their closest allies, and it is directly affecting their core national interests. If the flow of oil and natural gas from the Middle East is cut off, the …
by Michael Where do we go from here? Peace talks with Iran have totally failed, and there appears to be no hope that the gaps between the demands that the U.S. is making and the demands that Iran is making can be bridged. There are several key issues that both sides are not willing to …
As we were passing through a Haitian street market in the Dominican Republic, we noticed a bag of rice from USAID. USAID has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Haiti. We now know that this food is not used to feed the hungry, but is instead sold for profit, at the expense …
JUST IN – Elon Musk says Soros Organization has taken over Hungary after election results pic.twitter.com/tNfK4KcbFN — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) April 12, 2026 *Soros Organization has taken over Hungary — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2026
With talks between the US and Iran falling apart, there will be renewed focus this week on the Strait of Hormuz, getting it open and restoring traffic. Nearly all the focus so far as been on the energy part of the trade equation, the amount crude oil being able to transit the bottleneck. But there …
During the war, the U.S lost one of its most advanced spy drones over the Strait of Hormuz: a $200 million MQ-4C Triton. It dropped from 50,000 to 10,000 feet in seconds after sending a distress signal, then vanished from radar. Why it matters: This thing is packed with America’s most classified radar and surveillance …
The whole of Europe is watching as Hungarians head to the polls on Sunday, April 12, to elect 199 MPs to the National Assembly. The vote is seen as a pivotal election not just in the 10-million-strong Central European nation of Hungary but also throughout Europe. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conservative Fidesz party has been …
The Israeli military said its air force hit infrastructure of the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon and was continuing to support its ground forces operating in southern Lebanon. The statement came as Teheran was pressing for a halt to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in three-party talks that began Saturday afternoon between Iran and the US …
President Donald Trump is considering resuming limited military strikes on Iran following the collapse of US-Iran talks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials and people familiar with the deliberations. According to the report, the option under discussion would involve targeted strikes rather than a broader military campaign, aimed at increasing pressure on Tehran. The …
By Peter Reagan The U.S. dollar has been the world’s reserve currency (as the petrodollar) for decades now, but the current conflict in the Middle East seems to have accelerated the dedollarization trend. Now, I’m not talking about an immediate radical shift in how the world approaches the dollar. But I am talking about a clear …
The vaccine dosage was obviously too high and done too many times. I had the original Wuhan virus before there was any vaccine and it was much like any other cold/flu. Bad, but not terrible. But my second vaccine shot almost sent me to the hospital. Felt like I was dying. The vaccine dosage was …
John Carlin, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the state of cybersecurity stocks amid potential AI disruption.
High virus levels detected in wastewater WastewaterSCAN, run by Stanford and Emory, reports elevated national levels for HMPV, rotavirus, influenza B, RSV, norovirus, and COVID. From February to early April, HMPV rose 11% and rotavirus 29%, while COVID dropped 46% overall but the Cicada variant increased 4%. Influenza A fell sharply into medium range, but …
I built http://CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually …
Latest updates at the top: After 16 years in power, Viktor Orban loses in landslide. Buzzfeed is searching for (secret) conservative women. IDF gearing up for renewed conflict with Iran according to multiple Israeli outlets including Ynet, Channel 12, and Kan This surfaces hours after Vance’s exit from Islamabad with no deal reached European officials …
Authorities in Union Township are investigating a mass shooting that unfolded at a busy restaurant Saturday evening, leaving at least one person dead and multiple others injured. According to preliminary information, the incident occurred around 8:40 p.m. at a Chick-fil-A location along Route 22, where a barrage of gunfire erupted inside or near the crowded …
Programs like this don’t just appear out of nowhere, they get built quietly over time. If it’s being talked about now, it’s probably been running longer than anyone thinks. Your entire browsing history, private messages and financial details could be released for ANYONE to read: TOM LEONARD reveals crisis talks over Armageddon new program – …
@seanhannity, it's against UN and international law to recommend the assassination of a foreign official. You might want to mention it to morons like @LindseyGrahamSC& @AmbJohnBoltonthe next time they're on @foxnews. https://t.co/OUlmGPVWwN — Babotrip17 (@Babotrip17) April 12, 2026 🚨🇵🇰🇮🇱⚡️ BREAKING: Pakistan issues nuclear warning “If Israel uses a nuclear bomb, Pakistan will respond with a …
Cracks in the US private credit market are widening: Investors requested a record -$14.0 billion in redemptions from private credit funds in Q1 2026. This is up +146% from -$5.7 billion in Q4 2025 and +278% higher than the -$3.7 billion in the full year 2024. Meanwhile, just… pic.twitter.com/wBJ3bUSW1X — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April …
The top 20% of Americans now own the majority of US real estate: The top 1% of US earners hold a record $6.1 trillion in real estate, followed by the next 19% who hold $21.0 trillion, an all-time high. This means the top 20% own a combined $27.1 trillion, or 56.4% of total US real …
Your father killed black People in. South Africa. You are always quick to divide or to speak for White People. You never say anything about White people committing crimes. pic.twitter.com/CwbRQHed96 — Melo (@POFFADER) April 11, 2026 Yeah, because they broke into his house in South Africa and tried to kill him and my kid sister, …
The world’s most powerful predators are back behind closed doors at the ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference. With no press, no minutes and no accountability. Just bankers, billionaires, warlords, tech tyrants, and media gatekeepers deciding your future while you’re not invited. The agenda for Bilderberg 2026 has been released: •AI•Arctic Security•China•Digital Finance•Energy Diversification•Europe•Global Trade•The Middle East•Russia•Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial …
The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit, the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC. “J. Doe is …
Israel’s campaign in Iran is “not over yet,” Netanyahu said during remarks tonight. The prime minister reiterated that Israel attacked Iran because it “was very close to obtaining nuclear weapons.” “All of this happened because we initiated it, we acted, we attacked,” Netanyahu said about the war with Iran. Netanyahu maintained that Israel has “made …
Ten days after lifting off traveling farther than any human has traveled before and witnessing parts of the far side of the moon never seen by the human eye, the Artemis II crew has returned to Earth. h/t b4its2l8