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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new economic war against Iran dubbed Operation Economic Outcast. “At President Trump’s direction, the United States Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers,” Bessent said on Monday. “In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran.” The Treasury Secretary explained the economic war will use sanctions in an effort…
Image by Levi Guzman. Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate, New York Times, June 24, 1988: On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist Dr. James E. Hansen testified before the U.S. Senate, stating he was “99 percent certain that human-induced global warming had begun.” Over the intervening 38 years, Dr. James Hansen has proven to be climate science’s most reliable academic voice expecting a climate-disruptive future. Now, it’s officially here and it’s a rising star on nightly news broadcasts across the world, if it’s not wildly burning, it’s flash-flooding. The leadership of the world has failed the science. Yet, today’s…
Darializa Avila Chevalier-upper Manhattan’s new congressional candidate, backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and endorsed by Mamdani-is shaping up to be one of the most dangerous students… Source link
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A US aircraft carrier packed with 5,000 sailors is not supposed to become a story about empty shelves, broken plumbing, and desperate messages to families. We start there because the USS Abraham Lincoln reports don’t just raise moral alarms, they raise a strategic one: if extended deployments are pushing crews to the edge, what does that say about America’s ability to sustain a long pressure campaign and naval blockade tied to the US-Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz? From that human reality, we widen the lens to the region’s shifting center of gravity. We dig into the Mecca Agreement…
Leslie Groves, Manhattan Project director, with a map of the Far East – Public Domain In quick succession, three things happened in early August 81 years ago that fundamentally changed the world and the course of human history: We start with 8:00 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when three gleaming, silvery four-engine B-29 Superfortress bombers, larger than any other flying machine in the world, soared at 31,000 feet over Hiroshima, just shiny specks in a clear blue sky, high enough that their four throbbing engines were scarcely audible from the ground. Many of the city’s residents, as WWII ground towards…
As Democrats are fighting among one another and trying to correct the record on ‘Woke 1,’ Republican extremism is actively destroying the country. Source link
A small clinical trial presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s NUTRITION 2026 meeting suggests that limiting daily food intake to an eight- to nine-hour window may modestly improve cognitive function in older women with overweight or obesity, beyond effects from weight loss alone. The pilot study – presented July 26 in National Harbor, Maryland – followed 47 women aged 50 to 79 over six months. Lead researcher Dr. Sue Shapses, a professor at Rutgers University and Rutgers-RWJ Medical Center, reported that participants who ate within a restricted daily window showed greater improvement on tests of spatial planning and problem-solving skills compared…
A governor’s race, a Senate contest and enough congressional contests to swing control of the House are all in play in Ohio, where voters of all stripes express a deep sense of powerlessness. Source link
US Southern Command announced it conducted a strike on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and killed two people suspected of trafficking narcotics. “Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific,” SOUTHCOM posted on X Monday. “Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed two narco-terrorists.” Last year, President Donald Trump authorized the Department of War to conduct lethal attacks against suspected drug boats in Latin America. SOUTHCOM conducted dozens of attacks on vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean…