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Moments before President Donald Trump announced that talks with Iran were going well and that he would not make good on his threat to bomb one of their civilian power plants, someone dropped about $580 million in the oil futures market. "In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 futures were purchased. This trade was so large it sent the entire index +0.3 percent higher that minute," the independent news site Europa posted on X. "$192 million in oil futures were also sold."It happened five minutes before Trump posted on Truth Social, saying he was de-escalating the situation in Iran.

In 1998, Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez was 15 when she arrived in the United States from Mexico — and 15 years later, in 2013, she was granted protection under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). But during U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, Estrada (who had been living in Sacramento, California) was deported back to Mexico. Now, a federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden is ordering the Trump Administration to bring her back to the U.S. and is highly critical of the way the deportation was handled by the Trump-era U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Politico's Kyle Cheney, in an

An oil executive has been appointed as the newest GOP senator from Oklahoma, and according to The New Republic, a prominent MAGA activist dubbed the "Trump Whisperer" has already lashed out against him.On Tuesday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed Alan Armstrong as the Senate replacement for Markwayne Mullin, who was recently confirmed to replace Kristi Noem as the Secretary of Homeland Security. Prior to this announcement, Armstr

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is sparking questions after comments he made Monday about a plane crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA).An Air Canada plane late Sunday night crashed into the side of a fire truck that was headed across the tarmac to another flight that had declared an emergency. The air traffic controller audio shows the man repeatedly asking the truck to stop, but it didn't. The two Air Canada pilots died. Duffy, at a Monday press conference, said reports that there was only one air traffic controller in the tower were inaccurate. "This airport has a target of 37 controllers at LaGuardia," Duffy said, ac

A new bridge spanning the Mississippi River will likely be named after President Donald Trump after the full Louisiana state house approved the bill to build the bridge, which could cost as much as $3 billion, WWL radio reported Tuesday. State Rep. Jeremy Lacombe said that they're hoping that they can get federal funding for the bridge to be built, and that naming if after Trump might help. “We need this bridge more than anything," he said. "We need the bridge for hurricane evacuations; we need the bridge so that our people can have a way of

According to a new report from the Libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, the Trump administration has presided over what researcher Austin Kocher called “the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system,” collecting over $1 billion in application fees before refusing to process the applications. The situation is a direct result of the various travel bans and other anti-immigrant policies enacted by President Donald Trump over both

As his war in Iran continues to spiral and cause havoc for the global economy, a new report from the New York Times revealed that President Donald Trump is getting dragged in opposite directions by foreign leaders with conflicting priorities in the Middle East.In a report published Tuesday, the Times revealed that Mohammed bin Salman, the prince and "de facto leader" of Saudi Arabia, has been "pushing President Trump to continue the war against Iran," as other reports indicate that Trump

In Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco — a Donald Trump supporter and former Oath Keepers member who is running for governor of California as a Republican — recently announced that his department had seized 650,000 voting ballots cast in a 2025 election. Bianco, at a late March news conference, told reporters, "This i

President Donald Trump on Monday claimed Iran has been desperately trying to reach out to make a deal with the United States to end the war. Iran's prime minister called this "fake news," but on Tuesday, that changed. CNN reported that the U.S. initiated contact and Iran is willing to listen to “sustainable” proposals to end the war. “There has been outreach between the United States and Iran, initiated by Washington, in recent days, but nothing that has reached the level of full-on negotiations,” the source told CNN. “Messages have been received through various inte

When Joe Biden was elected president, he frequently asserted that “America was back” and collaborating with allies again. But the fact that the United States would elect Donald Trump once was enough to make the world skeptical of that claim, and as the New York Times columnist Carlos Lozada writes, not only was that mistrust “vindicated with Trump’s return to the White House, but his second term has marked the emergence of a “post-America world” from which there may be no recovery.As evidence of this, Lozada cites the recent words of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who