Category: National Security

U.S. officials on Thursday insisted that the economic pressure from the Navy’s blockade of Iranian ports will force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, relieving the global economic pressure that has spiked energy prices over the past two months.

Sternlicht’s Starwood Real Estate Fund Gates Redemptions Earlier this month, when much of the attention was largely focused on private credit, we warned that one of the old, familiar credit market time-bombs, commercial real estate which for many years had been penned as the “Next Big Short”, was deteriorating rapidly: according to the latest TREPP CMBS… Continue reading Sternlicht’s Starwood Real Estate Fund Gates Redemptions

House Unanimously Approves Bill To End 76-Day DHS Shutdown, Sending Measure To Trump Well that was anticlimactic… On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved by voice vote a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, clearing the way to end the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history after 76 days. The… Continue reading House Unanimously Approves Bill To End 76-Day DHS Shutdown, Sending Measure To Trump

‘The Biden DOJ prosecutors knowingly withheld evidence that defense counsel requested to prepare an affirmative defense.’

“CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil” has fallen below 4 million viewers for the third consecutive week, reaching historic lows and raising fresh doubts about the program’s direction under CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.

President Trump pulled his year-old nomination of Dr. Casey Means for surgeon general Thursday and replaced her with Dr. Nicole Saphier as his third nominee for the vacant post.

The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a regulatory overhaul of the federal student-loan system, streamlining the repayment system and pressuring universities to lower costs by setting borrowing limits on graduate degrees based on earnings potential.

Iran’s Ghalibaf Tells Iranians ‘Unify’ As US Blockade Seeks To ‘Make Us Collapse From Within’ Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has since the war’s start and prior assassinations of top leaders including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei become the most visible figurehead representing the Islamic Republic to the world, has continued trolling the United States… Continue reading Iran’s Ghalibaf Tells Iranians ‘Unify’ As US Blockade Seeks To ‘Make Us Collapse From Within’

The final rules also streamline loan repayment.