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Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Get creative this week, and name something new after something you love. I’m a little bit sorry for going on a rant about sports, antitrust law, and federal enforcement—but not that sorry. Enjoy the ride. There are some thoughts about golf when you get to the end. But first, a quick congratulations to Sage Timoteo, the winner of our men’s bracket challenge. He beat out eight other participants who had Michigan winning, and finished in the 99th percentile of ESPN’s many brackets. Congratulations, Sage! Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell…

Vice President J.D. Vance is interviewed by “Special Report” with host Bret Baier. Vance discussed Iranian peace talks in Pakistan, President Donald Trump’s naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and more.BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: You also campaigned for Viktor Orban in Hungary and he lost that race, defeated after 16 years in power. Your thoughts about whether it was worth it to go support Viktor Orban in that race considering he lost significantly and he’s one of the only European leaders who supports Vladimir Putin.VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE: Well first of all, Bret, I think that Viktor Orban is…

Peace talks and a leaky blockade: Following the failure of U.S.-Iranian peace talks in Pakistan to produce an agreement to end the war, U.S. negotiators say they are eager to try again. The Associated Press, citing four anonymous sources, including two from the U.S., reports that preliminary talks to restart peace negotiations are underway. President Donald Trump likewise said on Monday that the Iranians have been calling and “want to work a deal.” The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. Per The New York Times, the U.S. is…

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received over two-hundred complaints from American troops that their commanders used the Book of Revelation to frame the Iran War as a “Holy War” in which President Donald Trump was chosen to ignite “The End Times” as part of “God’s divine plan.” When I decided to make this series about the “Four Horsemen of New Zionism,” I meant it purely metaphorically. It seems some of our top brass have a more literal interpretation (welcome to the End Times). The Horseman, or rather Horsewoman, we will be spotlighting in this article is none other than…

Photograph Source: Megaphone – CC BY 4.0 In the Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defines peace as a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.  The Israeli version of a ceasefire might be defined as a moment of war deceptively halted to enable conflict to continue. War as cosplay and camouflage.  Under such fragile conditions, military objectives can still be pursued with a ruthlessness offensive to international law, custom and common sense. Seeing as Israel was a central, if not the central power in pushing the crime of aggression on February 28 against Iran, wooing with seductive voice and lurid promise a deranged egoist…

U.S. producer prices rose in March less than economists expected, despite energy costs surging as a result of the war with Iran. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday that the annual producer price index for final demand increased 4 percent. Despite beating projections, this hike remains the largest annual increase since February 2023. The index is up 0.5 percent last month against an expected hike of 1.1 percent; the increase matches the 0.5 percent increase in producer prices in February. Goods prices jumped 1.6 percent, led by an 8.5 percent increase in energy and a 15.7 percent surge in…

For the mainstream media, a horrific murder in Florida is horrific only because the president called attention to it. Source link

In his new memoir, Changpeng Zhao reveals he signed the FTX letter of intent as a formality and calls Caroline Ellison’s $22 floor price offer a “fatal mistake.” What to know: Zhao says he never seriously considered buying FTX, describing SBF’s approach as “indirect and wishy-washy” and the LOI as a pure formality to assess whether users could be protected. He identifies Caroline Ellison’s public offer to buy FTT at $22 as the moment FTX was doomed, arguing that it gave professional traders a floor price to short. A Signal group called “Exchange Collaboration,” set up by FTX’s Zane Tackett,…

Turning Up the Economic Heat on Iran Source link

U.S.-Iran Talks Falter as Logic of Escalation Is Taking Hold Source link