The midterm election officially launches with Tuesday’s primaries in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina, with some of the nation’s most highly publicized battles happening in the Lone Star state.
It's not just crude oil and LNG that move through the Strait of Hormuz. One fourth of the world's nitrogen fertilizer supplies come from the Middle East, and that supply is vital to modern global agriculture. The conflict in Iran threatens to drive up those prices, along with other petroleum products.
China helps promote astroturfed far-left protests against the U.S. strikes on Iran through a financial network in league with infamous radical-left financier and multi-millionaire Neville Roy Singham. China has a lot at stake in the outcome of the conflict.
Senior officials say the U.S. is not aiming to enforce regime change, but wants to set the stage for the Iranian people to overthrow the Islamic Republic themselves. That's a delicate balancing act for President Trump, who campaigned against "endless foreign wars."
“If justice remains a locked door in Washington, then let our state be the battering ram. Let Illinois lead the way. Other states will follow,” League of Women Voters Chicago activist Jane Ruby said.
President Trump said the U.S. will retaliate after an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia and honored six service members killed in a military operation against Iran. NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer has the latest from the White House.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the private sector needed more autonomy, as the island confronts a U.S. oil blockade that has deepened a humanitarian crisis.