With Assad Challenged, a Push to Cut Syria’s Ties to Iran Grows More Unlikely Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance with Tehran. Rebels’ shock advance has dampened those hopes. 12/4/2024 - 3:25 am | View Link
Defeat the Iranian threat by empowering the people of Iran Those U.S. sanctions are already on the books, but Biden stopped enforcing them on day one of his administration, allowing Iranian oil sales to skyrocket form 400,000 barrels per day in January 2021, ... 12/4/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
US deepens sanctions on Iran's 'shadow' oil fleet The Biden administration on Tuesday ramped up sanctions on Iran, targeting 35 entities and vessels it said carried illicit Iranian petroleum to foreign markets as part of what the U.S. Treasury ... 12/3/2024 - 7:53 pm | View Link
Exclusive-US, UAE discussed lifting Assad sanctions in exchange for break with Iran, sources say By Maya Gebeily, Parisa Hafezi and Alexander Cornwell BEIRUT/GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. and the United Arab Emirates have discussed with each other the possibility of lifting sanctions on ... 12/2/2024 - 12:29 am | View Link
Iran to "substantially increase" uranium enrichment capacity over IAEA rebuke led by U.S. and allies A rebuke of Iran led by the U.S. and its close allies at the global nuclear watchdog agency has drawn a vow by the Islamic republic to further ramp up uranium enrichment. 11/21/2024 - 11:35 pm | View Link
“President-elect Donald Trump has named one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent conservative investors, donors and media personalities to help oversee American tech policy,” the New York Times reports.
“David Sacks, a venture capitalist and an early executive at PayPal who launched a hit podcast, will be the ‘White House A. I.
“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent over a quarter of a billion dollars in the final months of this year’s election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, federal filings revealed on Thursday,” the New York Times reports.
“The sum is a fraction of Mr. Musk’s wealth. But it is nonetheless a staggering amount from a single donor, who poured the cash into allied groups and is now playing a role in helping shape the next administration.”
“President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday night announced a new round of nominees and appointments to tackle his aggressive immigration and homeland security agenda,” Politico reports.
“Trump said he was nominating Rodney Scott as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Scott served for almost three decades in the Border Patrol, and as the chief of the agency during the last year of the Trump administration and beginning of the Biden administration.
“Donald Trump has selected former Georgia Sen. David Perdue to serve as ambassador to China,” Politico reports.
“Perdue has significant business experience in Asia, including China, something he ran on during his Senate election in 2014. As the former CEO of Dollar General and a top executive at Sara Lee and Reebok, Perdue was responsible for significant corporate restructuring and global expansion, and has lived in both Singapore and Hong Kong.”
Aurora’s dilapidated Edge of Lowry apartments, which earned international infamy and the attention of Donald Trump after a video of armed men in its hallways went viral, are set to close in the coming months as part of a deal reached between city officials and the apartments’ owners.
The proposed settlement was described in Aurora municipal court Thursday, after an attorney who represents the apartment owner agreed not to contest city officials’ efforts to close the troubled property.
Exact details — including when the 60-unit complex will be closed and what happens to the people living in its five buildings — remain unclear.
Protesters took to the US Capitol bathrooms across from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office on Thursday to protest the recently enacted policy banning trans people from accessing bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Just a day after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that may upend gender-affirming care for children and adults across the United States, dozens of trans people and their allies raised banners demanding Congress “stop pissing on our rights” and urging supporters to “flush bathroom bigotry.”
“It was important to show up in a radically defiant way and let the world know, and let our electeds know, that we are not going to allow this disrespect and this disregard for our lives,” Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement and one of the organizers of the demonstration, told Mother Jones.