#iran-war

#iran-war

Prices for food eaten at home rose 2.9% in April compared to the same month a year earlier, according to government figures released Tuesday. That was the highest year-over-year inflation rate for the category since August 2023. Prices at restaurants, fast-food chains and other places to get prepared meals also increased, putting overall food prices up 3.2% in the last year, the Labor Department's consumer price index showed.

During a phone call on a warm day in August 2002, the two of us came to an unmistakable conclusion: This bastard is going to take us into war with Iraq! The "bastard," of course, was then President George W. Bush, who was in the midst of an aggressive propaganda campaign about the alleged danger posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons program.

As Hegseth gave his opening statement, a woman suddenly stood up behind him and began shouting. The nearest security guard quickly approached her as she continued shouting. In response, Hegseth simply stopped reading his statement and continued looking forward. He did not turn around to see the commotion. The woman was then escorted out of the chamber.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche warned reporters to expect subpoenas on Tuesday, one day after The Wall Street Journal reported that it had been subpoenaed in connection with criminal investigations launched by the Department of Justice. President [Donald] Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter, prompting an aggressive push at the Justice Department to pursue those investigations, reported the Journal.

“Any dishes coming out from the [Sadaf] kitchen with rice, there is layer of saffron on the top of it,” said Mahmoud. He explained that before the Middle East war he was buying saffron at about 1,200 per kilo, but now his supplier told him the cost has risen to about 2,000 to 2,100 per kilo. “It's quite a lot,” he said.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to US-Israeli attacks, restricting passage through a key artery of global energy transport. China has said that it wants to see the war end and hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arraghchi last week. At the same time, Beijing has refused to recognise Washington's unilateral sanctions on Iran's oil sector. Disruptions stemming from the war have disrupted the global economy, with Asian states that depend on imports from the Middle East especially hard hit.

America's employers a delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war. Hiring was better than the 65,000 forecasters had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.3%.

Marcos said the United States-Israeli war on Iran had been felt through higher living costs and threatened livelihoods both in our homelands and amongst our nationals in the Middle East. Marcos said ASEAN, an 11-member bloc that includes the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, should strengthen coordination and pursue practical collective measures to safeguard a stable energy supply and improve interconnectivity.

SCOTT: Mr. President, you are here against the backdrop of the war in a Iran. Why focus on all these projects right now with gas prices soaring? TRUMP: You know why? Because I wanna keep our country beautiful and safe. Beautiful also. This place was a disgusting place. It was Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and we had a terrible, disgusting you probably don't see dirt. But I do. And you walked down this pond. If you would've walked down they'll tell you better than anybody. They had to take 11 or 12 truckloads of garbage out of that lake, out of that water. And it sat there for years like that. And that's not what our country's about. Our country's about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people. Not a filthy capital.

They are facing real catastrophic destruction to their economy, generational destruction to the wealth of their country imposed on themselves by the actions they are taking. They should check themselves before they wreck themselves in the direction that they're going in.

Trump graphically described Iranian protesters being shot 'between the eyes' by snipers, providing a stark and somewhat gory look into the Iran war.

"Maven met its moment across real world events in Q1 ... When the stakes are highest, when failure is measured in lives and readiness. This is where we are uniquely positioned."

I was a Federal government whistleblower, revealing the failure of Iraq's reconstruction at a time when everyone from President Barack Obama to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was praising it as the solution to America's nation-building expedition.

"People have been feeling glum about the economy for a really long time. The conditions created by the war in Iran, such as the effects on the global oil market, are not the set of economic priorities you want to be sending before you go to the midterms."

SIRIUSXM HOST MEGYN KELLY: By the way, I just want to correct myself. That was yesterday. Today, they've already gone off another 10 cents to $4 and almost 40 cents a barrel. It's 4.39 that the average gallon is costing.

Hegseth isn't the architect of this conflict - that might be Benjamin Netanyahu - but he's the chief cheerleader, the face of the chaos and carnage. He's been unrepentant about the U.S. blowing up an Iranian school, and he refused to walk back a statement that the American military would allow 'no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.'

Despite President Trump's claims of a successful military operation, the Iran War has not ended, and the conflict remains unresolved with ongoing threats from Iran's military capabilities.

The Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Center (MICA center) detects any form of bombardment and immediately sends nearby ships an encrypted message, sharing the nature of the event, its context and exact position.

Svein Tore Holsether, the chief executive of Yara International, stated that world leaders need to guard against soaring prices and shortages of fertiliser causing a de facto global auction that would leave the poorest countries scrambling for supplies they could ill afford.