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Trump’s ‘guardian’ fee: How much would a supertanker have to pay to cross Strait of Hormuz?
Trump, after threatening a renewed US naval blockade, has said that ships will be allowed safe passage via Hormuz for a 20% toll. (AP Photo)
Adding to transit cost uncertainty, US President Donald Trump has proposed imposing a 20% reimburse…
Dems now the chief antisemites, close the surrogacy loopholes and other commentary
Eye on hate: Dems Now the Chief Antisemites
“If I’d told you in 2015 that the focal point of antisemitic sentiment in the U.S. in 2026 would be inside the Democratic Party, you would have thought I was insane,” posits John Podhoretz at The Free Press….
US market today: Stock futures slip as West Asia tensions lift crude prices
US stock futures traded lower on Monday, July 13, as renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran rattled investor sentiment, pushing oil prices higher and weighing on technology shares ahead of a crucial week of inflation data and corporate…
India Rejects ‘Misleading’ Report of Stalling US Trade Deal, Confirms ‘Balanced, Commercially Meaningful’
India’s Commerce Minister, Piyush Goyal, has refuted a report suggesting India is holding out for a better deal in U.S. trade talks.
In a post on X on Monday, Goyal labeled the report as “completely false, baseless and misleading.”…
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Wall Street mixed and oil prices jump after Iran. US trade attacks
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT, AP Business Writers
Oil prices jumped and early trading on Wall Street was mixed Monday after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated.
Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.3%, futures for the Dow Jones Indu…
The Chinese graduate accused of becoming Mexico’s ‘fentanyl king’
Anthony Zurcher: From Trump critic to ally, Lindsey Graham was a political survivor of the Maga era
The senator’s career was marked by a willingness to adapt to America’s dramatically changing political climate, writes the BBC’s N…
Uruguay’s Offshore Oil Province Could Be Bigger Than Vaca Muerta
Uruguay’s Offshore Oil Province Could Be Bigger Than Vaca Muerta | OilPrice.com
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Tsvetana Paraskova is an energy and commodities journalist who has contributed to Oilprice.com for nearly a decade, c…
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The PAC behind Zo & his radicals, Ukraine’s lessons on war and other commentary
Conservative: The PAC Behind Zo & His Radicals
American Priorities, a new super PAC is “behind the surge of radical leftist candidates” in New York, reports Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz. “The group’s two largest donors,” Omer Hasan and Mohammad Waqas J…
The future of the Republican Party and the American project
Donald Trump. Photo: © Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock
How is it possible that the Republican Party, at the peak of American power and at the new dawn of the country’s 250th anniversary, became a cult of personality around a leader they know to be a felon…