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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright appears before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy hearing on the Trump administration’s 2027 budget request for the Department of Energy, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2026. Nathan Howard | ReutersEnergy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday said gas prices may not drop below $3 until next year, as the U.S. war with Iran and closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to wreak havoc on energy markets. “I don’t know, that could happen later this year, that might not happen until next year, but prices have likely peaked,” Wright said on…

The prime minister said he was “staggered” to find out last week that civil servants in the Foreign Office withheld information from him. Source link

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, before boarding Air Force One on his way to Virginia, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., April 10, 2026.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersA U.S Navy guided missile destroyer fired on and disabled an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman before Marines boarded and seized the vessel, President Donald Trump said Sunday. Trump said that the USS Spruance intercepted the Iranian ship, the Touska, and “gave them fair warning to stop.””The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in…

And yet, in the deluge of documents already published there is an email sent to Lord Mandelson at the beginning of February of last year, when he was beginning in the role, saying, on page 76, that the job “requires DV+STRAP” and so “a new STRAP application form will need to be submitted as STRAP clearance is role specific”. Source link

FBI Director Kash Patel gestures while he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 16, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersFederal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said Sunday he will sue The Atlantic magazine for defamation over a new article reporting that he frequently drinks alcohol to excess.Patel said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that he would file the lawsuit Monday.”We are not going to take this lying down,” Patel said. “You want to attack my character? Come at me, bring it on.…

The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs. Source link

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 16, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersFBI Director Kash Patel on Monday morning filed a lawsuit seeking $250 million in damages from The Atlantic magazine for what he claims is a defamatory article that alleges he abuses alcohol.Patel, over the weekend, had vowed to sue The Atlantic for the article that was published on Friday.The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. In addition to The Atlantic, the civil complaint names…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday laid out his game plan for the week ahead after what he called one of the most “remarkable” rallies he’s ever seen.”If you didn’t believe we could have still one more week where we’d rally 3%, you’d be right,” Cramer said. “We actually rallied 4% thanks to today’s gigantic moves as peace seems to be breaking out in the Middle East.”The major averages surged on news of Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz during the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon — a critical artery for global oil transport. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 869…

Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange registered in Kyrgyzstan, said it’s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by “western special services” hackers. Researchers from TRM, which has confirmed the theft, put the value of stolen assets at $15 million after discovering roughly 70 drained addresses, about 16 more than Grinex reported. Neither TRM nor fellow blockchain research firm Elliptic has said how the attackers slipped past Grinex’s defenses. Grinex said it has been under almost constant attack attempts since incorporating 16 months ago. The latest attacks, it said, targeted Russian users of the exchange. Damaging “Russia’s financial…

You can call it a comeback. Stocks rocketed to record highs last week on hopes of a peace deal with Iran, with the S & P 500 closing above 7,100 for the first time and the Nasdaq completing its longest-winning stretch since 1992 — 13 days of gains. For the week, the broad-based S & P jumped 4% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 1.7%. It capped a rare and dramatic turnaround for the stocks. As Barclays strategist Venu Krishna pointed out in a note to clients, the S & P 500 went from…