Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, claimed credit last week for helping to crash the Iranian economy to foment the deadly protests that swept across the country earlier this year, which the White House tried to use as a casus belli to trigger a war.
A newly released poll found that a majority of Americans – by a small margin – say they believe former President Joe Biden ran the country better than his successor, Donald Trump.
ICE agents who have been deployed to cities around the U.S. in the Trump administration’s effort to round up illegal immigrants do not want to be filmed during their operations so they have cracked down on individuals who record them, which is a clear violation of the First Amendment, critics say.
Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, said last week that troops from NATO will be deployed “instantly” to Ukraine if a peace deal is ever hashed out between Kyiv and Moscow, just as the war approaches its fourth anniversary.
The last remaining nuclear treaty between the U.S. and Russia that put a cap on how many nuclear weapons each country could have in its arsenal expired last week, raising new concerns of an arms race.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to push the Trump administration to force Iran to give up the farm and essentially make concessions to all of Tel Aviv’s demands – or face the wrath of the U.S. military being positioned in the region for war.
Israel has carried out at least 50 air strikes inside Lebanon in January, which is roughly double the number of attacks carried out in December, despite a ceasefire that was agreed upon in November 2024 to end the war between Tel Aviv and Hezbollah, Al Jazeera reported.
The Israeli Defense Forces sat back with glee and watched Israeli invaders (that morons and imbeciles call “settlers”) crash, burn, rob and steal across two West Bank villages, while Palestinians were beaten, had sheep stolen, and property damaged, as conditions in the area continue to worsen, as Israelis carry out these terror attacks without any repercussions.
Coterra Energy and Devon Energy have agreed to merge into one company that will be a leading player in the U.S. shale oil and gas industry and a top producer in the shale-rich Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico.