11 months into negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran “has not and will not back down on any… red lines” in the negotiations, per the semi-official Fars news agency in Iran. According to Fars, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian had a similar message in a phone call…

Vladimir Putin has led Russia as Prime Minister and President for more than two decades. Putin has marked much of his time in the Kremlin as a thorn in the side of many Americans. “The bad guys in the world will begin to do precisely what you are seeing Vladimir Putin do today,” former Secretary of…

Drivers across the country are feeling the sticker shock as the average price per gallon of gas soared above $4 this weekend for the first time since 2008. On Monday, the national average of $4.065 stood just five cents shy of the national record for regular unleaded, and the price at the pump is 62…

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, border officials are encountering a growing number of Russians and Ukrainians seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. Between October and January, officials ran into 6,400 Russians. That’s more than the 4,100 Russians who were apprehended during the entirety of fiscal year 2021, which ended a month…

Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is now in its second week. The rage that swept the Western world — particularly acute in Europe — has not abated, with all talk about how to punish Moscow more thoroughly. New sanctions are under discussion. Goals range from gutting Russia’s oligarchic class to starving the Kremlin of income…

Russia’s state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor announced it has cut access to Facebook and Twitter. Roskomnadzor has previously accused Twitter of failing to delete content banned by Russian authorities. Friday’s move, executed in line with a decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office, is one of several moves made by Russia to limit the information Russians…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised international questions about President Vladimir Putin’s objectives. Some world leaders believe Putin has his sights set on the Baltic states and is trying to re-establish the former Soviet Union. Biden: Putin aims to re-establish USSR “He [Putin] has much larger ambitions than Ukraine,” President Joe Biden said during a…

According to the Labor Department’s February jobs report, the United States added 678,000 jobs last month. That number is well above the roughly 400,000 jobs many analysts had been predicting. “We now have recovered more than 90 percent of the jobs lost at the onset of the pandemic,” Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said in a…

Russia’s economy is already buckling under crippling Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. On top of those losses, the country is facing cancel culture, with a staggering number of businesses and industries waging their own economic war. Here are five of them in this week’s Five For Friday. #5: Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson is suspending business…

The latest weekly unemployment claims report from the Labor Department shows initial claims dropped by 18,000 to 215,000 last week. That’s the lowest numbers since the turn of the new year. The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, fell by 6,000 to 230,500. While Thursday’s Labor Department report indicates a low number…