Author: Claire Carter, Washington Examiner

Cuba is preparing to allow Cuban nationals living in the United States to invest in private businesses on the island, a possible shift in economic policy as the communist-run country struggles through one of the deepest economic crises in decades. Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said Havana is open to having a “fluid…

The United States will release 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the request of President Donald Trump as part of a coordinated international effort aimed at stabilizing energy markets amid the war in Iran. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the drawdown follows an agreement among 32 member nations…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted his colleagues for failing to pass a resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s military campaign in Iran.  The Kentucky Republican made the remarks in an opinion column published on Fox News a day after the Senate rejected a measure that would have required congressional authorization for continued U.S. military…

Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) office gave an expletive-laced response on Monday to a reporter who asked about the governor’s dyslexia diagnosis and backlash over allegedly racist comments.  During the press interaction, a reporter asked the governor’s communications team a follow-up question about Newsom using the diagnosis to hit back at critics and whether or not…

With control of Congress and several key governorships at stake, the 2026 midterm elections are already shaping up to hinge on a relatively smaller number of battleground states.  With hundreds of seats on the ballot across the country this November, certain House, Senate, and gubernatorial races could flip seats and state control. Here’s a look…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of intentionally trying to “drag out negotiations” and stalling progress as a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks concluded Wednesday with no breakthrough toward ending the nearly four-year war. Peace efforts aimed at halting the conflict that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 have stalled repeatedly. “Yesterday’s…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that the country’s nuclear industry is “our undeniable right,” issuing a fresh warning to the United States as fragile negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program are set to take place in Geneva.  In a series of posts on X, Khamenei defended Iran’s uranium enrichment and broader nuclear infrastructure, a…

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission opened an investigation Tuesday into Elon Musk‘s X and its artificial intelligence tool Grok for producing sexualized images, including images of children. The inquiry, announced by Ireland’s privacy watchdog under section 110 of the Data Protection Act of 2018, targets X Internet Unlimited Company, the Dublin-based entity that manages X’s operations…

War Department officials said Monday that U.S. military forces seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker that Indo-Pacific Command tracked down from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean. “The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean,” the War Department posted on X. “It ran, and we…

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he has chosen Colin McDonald to serve as the inaugural head of a newly created Department of Justice division focused on combating fraud nationwide. In a Truth Social post, Trump said he was pleased to nominate McDonald, a longtime federal prosecutor, to head the department he created “to catch…