Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign revealed on Tuesday that she has raised $100 million since announcing her presidential bid on Sunday. The Harris campaign declared that this substantial fundraising effort took place between Sunday afternoon and Monday night. All eyes are on Harris as she holds her first-ever campaign rally this Tuesday in Milwaukee. Earlier, …
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United States Vice President Kamala Harris said that she’s “looking forward” to formally accepting the Democratic nomination “soon,” Axios reported, citing an emailed statement. Her comments came after a survey conducted by the Associated Press showed that she had surpassed the benchmark number of delegates needed to become her party’s presumptive nominee. “Tonight, I am proud to …
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy detained a container ship managed by the UAE and flew the flag of Togo, approximately 61 nautical miles away from Bushehr, Iran. According to the British security firm Ambrey, the IRGC intended to confiscate around 1,500 tonnes of gas oil and apprehend the ship’s crew in a “counter-smuggling …
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Crude oil prices for front-month deliveries pulled back on Monday as geopolitical woes fueled up concerns about the commodity’s demand. The downturn may be attributed to the alleged progress made in ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas and the anticipation that the Federal Reserve will initiate a reduction in interest rates during its September meeting. Investors …
The odd details from the July 13, 2024, attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump just keep piling up. We keep learning more about what happened, but it still isn’t making any sense.
Tensions in the Middle East ratcheted up again this weekend with Israel and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen trading strikes and attempts at strikes. In the early morning trade in Europe, both major oil benchmarks, WTI Crude and Brent Crude, were trading slightly higher. Over the weekend, the crisis in the Middle East escalated …
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Former United States President Donald Trump took to Truth Social after US President Joe Biden dropped out of the country’s presidential race, to state that if Biden “can’t run for office, he can’t run our country.” “Who is running our Country right now? It’s not Crooked Joe, he has no idea where he is,” Trump wrote. He also …
For the first time since the Israel–Hamas war erupted last October, the Israeli military has deployed fighter jets to strike Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. This action follows an incident where the rebels penetrated Tel Aviv airspace with a kamikaze drone (also for the first time) on Friday, resulting in the death of one civilian. Houthi …
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Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Yemen’s Houthi rebels’ politburo, said on Saturday that Israel will “pay the price” for targeting “civilian facilities” in Yemen. The rebel group’s spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam called the Israeli airstrikes on Al-Hudaydah port “a brutal Israeli aggression against Yemen that aims to deepen people’s suffering, and to pressure Yemen to stop supporting …
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Doron Kadosh, a correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, shared on Sunday in a social media post that the Al-Hudaydah port in Yemen, which Israel struck earlier as a response to Houthis’ attacks on Tel Aviv, was still burning with the fire expected to “continue in the coming days as well.” Meanwhile, mentioning the results of an initial …
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