Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are on the rise after both sides seized oil tankers at sea. First the U.S. confiscated Iranian oil on a tanker said to have violated U.S. sanctions. But Iran doesn’t acknowledge the sanctions the U.S. has put on the country as a deterrent against the country’s nuclear program. As…

A Chinese-owned oil tanker headed to Houston, Texas was captured in the Gulf of Oman on April 27 by masked Iranian navy commandos. Iranian state media claimed they seized the Turkish-managed tanker because it had run into another Iranian vessel, but there was no evidence to support that claim. The commandos descended by ropes from…

Shortly after Fox agreed to pay the largest publicly disclosed defamation settlement in history to Dominion Voting Systems, the network fired Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host. The reasons for his firing haven’t been officially disclosed, but there’s plenty of speculation from both the left and the right. Two days after being dismissed, Carlson…

A third major U.S. bank has gone under in less than a two-month span. The federal government is now stepping in. And five people have been killed in a shooting rampage in Texas. Authorities say they have zero leads as a manhunt for the suspect is now on its third day. These stories and more…

Congress is considering whether to reapprove Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the intelligence community uses to collect information about terrorists, weapons proliferation, cyber-security threats and more. It’s a warrantless surveillance program that evidence shows has been misused and some lawmakers have said they won’t give their approval until they see reforms…

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the largest transportation network in North America that serves 15.3 million people, has announced that it will no longer provide service alerts on Twitter. The MTA operates New York City Transit, the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North, and Bridges and Tunnels. According to a statement from the MTA’s acting chief…

On April 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the debt ceiling and cut trillions in government spending. For the GOP, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023 is seen as an an opportunity to lure President Biden to the negotiating table. According to Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker,…

Black and white Americans have sharply different attitudes about whether descendants of slavery should be repaid in some way. In a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, around three-quarters of Black adults (77%) favor reparations of some kind while only 18% of white Americans say the same. That’s why it was such a surprise in March…