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Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click on Book Cover) World & Nation Hostile action is 'highly likely' for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, UKTMO warns The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre (UKMTO) said in a new report issued Friday that the threat environment in the Middle East "remains elevated" for commercial shipping as "no diplomatic resolution has been achieved." It assessed the risks as following: "Strait of Hormuz SEVERE (hostile action highly likely, continued navigation interference and potential mining activity); Gulf of Oman MODERATE (ongoing electronic interference and enforcement activity); Arabian Gulf MODERATE (navigation interference and residual kinetic risk remain present)." In the Strait of Hormuz, “Commercial vessels continue to be targeted on the southern route, with ongoing military activity sustaining an increased risk to maritime operations,” according to UKMTO. Trump vows to hit Iran very hard after hijacking of Israel-bound Flydubai plane President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to "hit" Iran "very hard" after alleging it was connected to the attempted crashing of a FlyDubai flight. The commcercial plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after the flight's co-pilot reportedly stabbed the pilot and attempted to crash the aircraft. The plane bound for Tel Aviv from Dubai had 174 people on board. It lost half of its altitude within a minute before the seriously injured pilot managed to open the cockpit, allowing passengers and crew to regain control. The president did not provide specifics. He added that Iran "will be hit very hard. They know what happened." G7 Nations to Release 100 Million Barrels of Oil The Group of Seven industrial nations said on Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States, where President Donald Trump said the diesel release would happen “immediately." Trump and his Republican Party face pressure to address surging prices ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, and Trump announced the action Friday on social media. The president's approval ratings on the economy hit a new low according to an AP-NORC poll as the Iran war and his trade battles have increased U.S. prices for oil and other goods.
US to Europe: We'll send diesel on one condition Washington is turning up the heat on Europe's diesel reserves, Reuters reports. Citing three sources, the outlet says the Trump administration has warned France and Germany to tap their emergency diesel stocks to help cool global fuel prices—or risk a US ban on diesel exports. The move, tied to efforts to lower US pump prices ahead of November's midterms, marks a sharper phase in US-Europe energy tensions. An EU official confirmed that the European Commission and several member states, including Germany and France, held a call Thursday on whether to release diesel reserves. According to one European source, Washington wants the EU to put as much as 120 million barrels of diesel on the market over the next six months. US officials have been irritated that Berlin and Paris, in their view, have not fully delivered on earlier stock-release pledges. Europe, already more reliant on US fuel after cutting off Russian imports and losing Middle Eastern supplies, offered little public pushback. If the Trump administration does follow through with a diesel export ban, it could mean a serious blow to Texas' economy, reports the Texas Tribune. Texas refineries sell 6.3 million barrels of diesel each day, with roughly a quarter heading overseas. If companies are unable to sell their products, they could downsize operations, leading to less supply and more price increases, insiders say. (This content was created with the help of AI. Read our AI policy.) Iran just handed the world a big clue that the war is nowhere close to ending anytime soon The U.S. and Iran continue to negotiate over the status of the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, reports describe an incident in the Strait this week. According to Reuters, citing the shipping intelligence service Marisks, three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were “struck by unknown projectiles” while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. The report says the ships were moving with their Automatic Identification System transponders turned off, a common practice in recent months as ships avoid detection while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The ships were named as the oil products tanker Al Ruwais, the “Very large crude carrier” Mersin Prosperity, and the Aframax-sized tanker Sinbad. ADNOC Logistics & Services manages the first two, while Anglo-Eastern Tanker Management manages Sinbad. IRGC issues warning to US warships as tensions with Iran rise An Iranian Guard commander, Ali Mohammadi, warned that U.S. warships could be targeted as far away as the Indian Ocean if fighting with Iran starts again in a future war. His comments came during fresh diplomatic strain over the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway where military pressure has already affected commercial shipping and energy markets during the current conflict. Putin's administration outraged by tough US demand over Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration is unhappy that the US is demanding that Russia first resolve the situation surrounding Ukraine and only then restore economic cooperation with Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this, according to TASS. "Unfortunately, the Americans still link this entire process, despite the obvious benefits, to resolving the situation in Ukraine. In other words, they say that a settlement must come first, and only then can the project be implemented. We believe they could avoid waiting. They could already be working for their own benefit," Putin’s representative complained. He also began claiming that Ukraine has still failed to move closer to negotiations with Russia. Against this backdrop, Peskov once again falsely claimed that Europe continues to obstruct the resumption of negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. The sick, online posts that pushed Cornell 7 rape accuser to go to cops: ‘I was a sex doll’ The Cornell University student who accused seven fraternity brothers of drugging and raping her first reported it after seeing online posts bragging about the Chi Phi brothers “gang banging,” according to disturbing records. The young student, only identified as Jane Doe, was initially “in shock” but hopeful that she had a consensual threesome — until the messages online made her realize she’d been “assaulted,” according to newly revealed documents that contained some of the sickening posts in a forum about Greek life. “Are Chi Phi brothers Crips or Bloods because I hear they have been doing hell Gang Banging?” read a key post she cited to cops, according to a review of the docs by the New York Times. “They do drugs and gang r*ped a sophomore,” another user wrote. “Report them.” The young woman cited the posts as pivotal to her reassessing what had really happened to her at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024, the docs show. ‘Deeply disturbed’ Hochul rages at how ‘brave’ Cornell 7 accuser was ‘failed at every turn’ in ‘utterly unspeakable’ ordeal
Hochul appoints AG Letitia James to take over ‘Cornell 7’ gang rape probe after losing faith in upstate DA’s investigation Alleged ‘Cornell 7’ gang rape victim said frat members joked about having ‘eightsome’ with her: ‘My reputation is destroyed’ Dramatic new bodycam footage shows moment cops realize they got Luigi Mangione: ‘It’s f—king him’ Dramatic new bodycam footage captures the moment cops realized they had finally caught Luigi Mangione in a McDonald’s after an intense five-day manhunt. A female officer smiled as she pulled a gun magazine that was wrapped in underwear out of Mangione’s backpack, according to a report by CNN. “It’s f–king him dude,” a male cop is heard telling her. Mangione was caught in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Dec. 9, 2024, five days after he shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. France’s teen riots take explosive new turn as government points finger at hard left LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon denies responsibility as intelligence agencies point to hard-left politicians Riot police move in as students set fires and clash with officers during growing unrest. (Video: Reuters.) Violent student unrest intensified across France on Friday as riot police clashed with teenagers in several cities, roughly 400 high schools remained shuttered and authorities said some 2,000 people had been arrested since the protests began — while the government increasingly blamed the country’s hard left. Tear gas filled streets in Strasbourg, protesters fired fireworks toward police lines in Marseille, and garbage bins were set ablaze in Rennes, while clashes also broke out in Paris, Reuters reported Friday. The latest violence marks a sharp escalation from the unrestt reported by Fox News Digital Thursday, when hundreds had been arrested as school blockades and clashes spread across the country. Hero FlyDubai pilot says he was 'fighting for my life' as plane plunged after copilot attack Captain Smit Machchhar recalled saying, 'This is the last push Smit, do it, the door is right there' Capt. Smit Machchhar, the FlyDubai pilot who heroically opened the plane's cockpit door after being stabbed by his copilot in a mid-flight attack, told Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi he was fighting for his life before taking the heroic action. "You are my biggest idol, and I am feeling very proud that you called me and encouraged me. I was fighting for my life in that moment," he told Modi during a Friday phone call.
"It was a moment when I thought, because I had fallen on the floor, I was wounded and fell down. At that moment, I thought if I don't get up, I've been flying for the last 17 years and I have been a captain for the last 11 years, and even if I shut my eyes, I can tell what is happening inside a plane. When I was lying on the floor, I could feel that the aircraft was plunging, and I said to myself while I was getting beaten, 'This is the last push Smit, do it, the door is right there,'" he recalled. "Somehow, I opened the door and everyone came in and everyone else had an equal role (in the rescue). I was trying to save myself, but I also knew that I can't let anyone die," he said. Trump Poised to Test His Powers Again at US Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term on Monday much as it ended its last one, confronted with more cases involving President Donald Trump's far-reaching policies and aggressive uses of power that will keep testing how far the justices will let him expand his authority. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, wrapped up its last term in June, one dominated by legal battles centered on Trump's exertion of presidential powers. The justices gave the Republican president several major wins and a few big losses. Considering the array of new cases that the administration is teeing up for review by the top U.S. judicial body, the new term promises to feel familiar. Already, the court has agreed to hear disputes over two key policies underpinning Trump's hardline stance on immigration and pursuit of mass deportation — mandatory detention without a bond hearing, and the rapid expulsion of deportees to countries other than their own.
Legal trouble for Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax is just beginning By New York Post Editorial Board
Cross your fingers that a state judge’s slapdown of the pied-à-terre tax’s rollout marks the beginning of the end of the whole misbegotten tax. This week’s ruling came in a case challenging the burden the city placed on homeowners to prove they don’t owe the tax, which applies to nonresidents who own co-ops and condos valued $1 million or more or one-, two- and three-family homes worth $5 million and up. Not only did City Hall require homeowners to prove they resided in Gotham for more than half the year, it told 17,000 New Yorkers they may be liable for the tax, and posted a list of 900,000 city properties as potentially ripe for the hit, which the judge ordered removed. I was a Hamas hostage — and I won’t cower from Hasan Piker’s hate By Maya Regev
On Wednesday night, I visited the University of Texas at Austin to address students there — and so did notorious Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. I, a female survivor of Hamas’ brutal terror, came to share my story at the campus’ Chabad student center. On an auditorium stage half a mile away stood Piker, who once said about the day I was shot and taken: “It doesn’t matter if rapes f–king happened on Oct. 7, like that doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much.” He isn’t a fringe character on college campuses; he’s increasingly becoming the mainstream on campus. But his enthusiastic fans are the people who most need to hear my story. |
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