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The U.S. and Iran have agreed to “stand down for now” and allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz after renewed fighting in the past few days, a U.S. official told The Hill on Sunday. “Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” the official said, referring to the memorandum of understanding signed by both sides earlier this month. The war against Iran, which started four months ago on Sunday, has stressed the global economy, raised gas prices in the U.S. and strained America’s relations with Israel and traditional European allies.

The Southern United States is growing population-wise at break-neck speed, while other areas have not experienced such a boom. Every age group in the southern portion of the country grew faster than any other region over the course of several years, Vintage 2025 estimates showed, per the U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement Thursday: New data released today for all counties in the United States and Puerto Rico provide a closer look at what age groups were driving the growth of U.S. counties across different stages of life: childhood (0-17), young adulthood and higher education (18-24), early work and family-building years (25-44), midlife (45-64), and retirement (65 and older).

Even in deep blue Maryland, the five county sheriffs who backed ICE, then sued the state to allow them to cooperate with federal officials, and ultimately ran for reelection on strict enforcement of immigration won their GOP primaries this week, according to poll results. Each of these sheriffs faced challengers who ran as soft on crime and immigration but won despite political opposition to their immigration policy stances, according to the Baltimore Sun. The Sheriffs who won their primaries include Harford County’s Jeff Gahler, Carroll County’s James T. “Jim” DeWees, Worcester County’s Matthew Crisafulli, Wicomico County’s Mike Lewis and Frederick County’s Chuck Jenkins.

truism of leftist revolutions is that the Old Guard is never sufficiently pure for the younger generation that it trained. More scarily, the younger generation is usually willing to engage in mass slaughter to carry on the pure form of the revolution, whether with or without the help of select Old Guard members willing to save their own skin by embracing the slaughter. Right now, we’re witnessing a few in the Democrat Old Guard who suddenly feel the revolution’s claws scraping at their jugulars. We can only hope that normal Americans stop the madness before the blood really flows.

Zohran Mamdani has a plan to seize private property and take over the apartment-housing business in New York City, and it's not exactly rocket science. He even ran for office on a platform of doing so, although he didn't describe it in exactly those terms. It's pretty simple, really, and doesn't require men with guns knocking on doors and putting landlords up against the wall, as his good friend Hasan Piker likes to fantasize about. While Piker screams on Twitch about capitalist blood and guts running in the streets, Mamdani and his housing czar, Cea Weaver, are following the tried and now true DSA method of using the existing

Gavin Newsom has, until now, opposed wealth taxes, or so-called "Billionaire" taxes. No longer. Joining Ro Khanna, Elizabeth Warren, and the more radical left-wing in his party, he is jumping on board the crazy train, calling for an "economic reset" by seizing a fraction of the wealth—almost all of which is unrealized capital gains, and hence the ownership of companies and not actual cash money—and transferring to the government to spend on...whatever. Making the world poorer but "fairer." While I know you think of Newsom as a Lefty-Democrat, he is the archetypal Organized Crime Democrat, who mouths

Yes, I DO know that "moderate" and "Democrat" really don't belong in the same sentence (although I continue to insist that there is a cohort of moderate Democrat voters, although very few moderate Democrat politicians of any note). That's why I have taken to distinguishing the two factions at war in the Democratic Party as being the "Organized Crime Democrats," who use the party as a tool to grab money and power to further their own interests, and the "Bolshevik" Democrats, who want to seize everything in what amounts to a Communist, mostly bloodless coup. The OCDs helped build up the Bolsheviks, seeing them as committed

Beijing — A small aircraft appeared to have struck the tallest building in China’s capital on Friday afternoon, in a shocking incident in one of the world’s most fortified cities. Dramatic footage from Beijing posted on social media showed debris falling from the 109-story CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, as well as a tail section of the plane and a broken window of a taxicab on the ground. A CNN journalist witnessed people evacuated from the skyscraper gathering on the streets near the entrance, along with firetrucks, police cars and an ambulance.

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to mishandling classified information during his time in the Trump White House. When a judge asked whether he was guilty during a hearing on Friday, Bolton responded: “I am, Your Honor, and sorry for it.” The Justice Department is seeking a five-year sentence for Bolton, who also previously served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He has also agreed to pay a fine of $2.25 million. Bolton is scheduled to be sentenced on October 28.

The U.S. economy grew at a significantly swifter pace than previously estimated during the first three months of the year. Gross domestic product, the government’s broad economic scorecard, rose at a 2.1 percent annual rate in the January through March period, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The figure is seasonally and inflation-adjusted. The upward revision, the government’s third and final monthly adjustment to the estimate of economic growth, stemmed from a lower estimate for imports. Imports are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP. Consumer spending growth was also revised lower

The interim “president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez issued several statements on Wednesday thanking the government of the United States for offering aid following a devastating earthquake in her country — a dramatic reversal from her previous stance of actively discouraging starving Venezuelans from accepting American aid. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela late on Wednesday about 104 miles from the national capital, Caracas, crippling entire neighborhood blocks of buildings and substantially damaging the capital’s main airport. Local outlets reported at least ten collapsed buildings in the capital and fears of many people trapped under rubble, as well as dangerous situations involving electrical wires.

Well, well, well. The Supreme Court learned the meaning of "Temporary" in "Temporary Protected Status." And, in an even more stunning decision, they also said that Mexico is not "The United States of America," so it's not correct to say that a person in Mexico who tries to enter the United States has "entered the territory of the United States" and is protected by the rights of a person who is already here. Shocking, I know. Water is wet, too. And the decision reaffirming that will be 6-3 as well, with the liberal justices declaring that we have to ask the water whether it identifies as wet.