The royal war of attrition just went NUCLEAR! Prince Harry is BACK in the UK — but this is NO reconciliation tour. Paula is joined by Editor at Large at The Daily Mail, Alison Boshoff to break down the most EXPLOSIVE royal week in years! King Charles declares Harry & Meghan "PRIVATE CITIZENS" — and the Sussexes are FURIOUS they didn't get to "edit" the King's statement! Harry drops a BELLIGERENT statement on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death AND Prince George's first day at Eton — coincidence?! Uganda PUBLICLY pulls out of Invictus, blasting the "Harry and Meghan nonsense" — is this the beginning of the END for Harry's beloved games? The SHOCKING £60 MILLION price tag for Birmingham 2027 — and the injured veteran…
White House Envoy Steve Witkoff met last weekend with the national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates to discuss next steps on Iran, according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting. Why it matters: The talks, which weren't announced by the White House and haven't been reported until now, took place amid the Trump administration's push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while choking Iran economically. Witkoff met with Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed al Nahyan (TBZ) on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. - The UAE has been the key partner in the U.S.-led operation to reopen and guide oil tankers through the strait. It is also critical to the success of the U.S. economic pressure campaign against Iran. - TBZ is one of the UAE's…
President Trump's "economic D-Day" for Iran came and went Monday with little of the shock or awe it promised, amounting instead to yet another extended ultimatum. Why it matters: Operation Economic Outcast will unfold not like the Allied invasion of Normandy, but as a sweeping, slow-burn sanctions campaign that could eventually lock Iran's foreign enablers out of the U.S. financial system. Zoom in: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kicked off the operation by blacklisting more than 60 Iran-linked targets and widening the reach of secondary sanctions. "Every country has a defined timeline to shut down activities we have identified," he said. - Bessent declined to name specific countries or deadlines, saying the administration preferred…
President Trump has declared "economic warfare" on Iran and threatened "economic D-Day." Meanwhile, 10 Trump-endorsed candidates have lost their primaries so far this year. MS NOW Contributor Inzamam Rashid has the latest updates from Dubai. MS NOW Capitol Hill Reporter Kevin Frey, Semafor Politics Reporter Dave Weigel and Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Jeff Mason join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss more.
The Emirates has long been a major trading hub for Iran, and analysts say it has been key to Iranian efforts to evade international sanctions, which the country denies.
Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing Michigan Senate candidate who campaigns as a champion of the working class, disclosed a rental property in Dubai and up to $100,000 in debt to a luxury real estate developer, days before the state's primary election. El-Sayed released his 2026 financial disclosure Monday afternoon, just hours before his final primary debate […] The post Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed reveals Dubai rental property and debt to luxury Emirati developer appeared first on American Almanac .
Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing Michigan Senate candidate who campaigns as a champion of the working class, disclosed a rental property in Dubai and up to $100,000 in debt to a luxury real estate developer, days before the state's primary election. El-Sayed released his 2026 financial disclosure Monday afternoon, just hours before his final primary debate against Congresswoman Haley Stevens. The timing was no accident. El-Sayed had previously requested an extension that would have pushed the filing past the August 4 primary, keeping voters in the dark until after ballots were cast. He said the disclosure was "complicated" because "my wife and her family own property abroad." Complicated is one word for it. The disclosure, first reported by…Open
A Dubai-based logistics giant unveiled a deal with the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday to develop a new port system that would bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
