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Top Gulf aluminum producer EGA halted smelter after Iran strike

Top Gulf aluminum producer EGA halted smelter after Iran strike

Bloomberg reports: Emirates Global Aluminium, the Middle East’s top producer of the metal, halted operations at its Al Taweelah smelter after the site was struck by Iranian missiles and drones over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter. The smelter on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi lost power due to the strikes and smelting facilities known as potlines were forced into an uncontrolled shutdown, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t…

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UAE wants to force Strait of Hormuz open and is willing to join the fight

UAE wants to force Strait of Hormuz open and is willing to join the fight

The Wall Street Journal reports: The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, Arab officials said, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant, after being hit by Iranian attacks. The U.A.E. is lobbying for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would authorize such action, the officials said. Emirati diplomats have urged the U.S. and military powers in Europe and…

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Angered by SCOTUS, Trump brands U.S. as ‘STUPID’ for allowing birthright citizenship

Angered by SCOTUS, Trump brands U.S. as ‘STUPID’ for allowing birthright citizenship

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump abruptly exited the Supreme Court on Wednesday after some of his own conservative justices did not appear convinced by his bid to upend birthright citizenship in America. Trump made the unprecedented decision to sit in on oral arguments, staring down the court’s nine justices as they quizzed his lawyers on one of the most consequential constitutional questions they face this year: whether all children born in the United States can continue to automatically receive…

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Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents

Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents

Washington Examiner reports: The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees who spoke with the Washington Examiner. Banks “bragged” to colleagues while in his previous management role at Border Patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand over the course of a decade. Banks’ behavior was said to have been…

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The new era of militia influencers

The new era of militia influencers

Wired reports: Just over a week into the US and Israel’s war with Iran, Eric Roscher, an Air Force veteran, published a YouTube video on what he describes as the “very real concerns surrounding sleeper cells and terrorist threats” in the US. The video, titled “Credible DOMESTIC Threat? FBI warns of attack—Drills/Considerations for the Prepared Citizen,” was produced by Roscher’s Florida-based company Barrel and Hatchet, which runs military-style training, sells branded merchandise and tactical gear, and produces online content. In…

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Iran threatens to start attacking major U.S. technology firms on April 1

Iran threatens to start attacking major U.S. technology firms on April 1

Wired reports: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Tuesday that it plans to begin attacking more than a dozen American companies across the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for the killing of Iranian citizens in the ongoing war with the US and Israel. The list of companies includes Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Tesla, and Boeing, which the IRGC accused of enabling United States military targeting operations. The IRGC urged employees of the US firms to evacuate and civilians…

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Israel to destroy ‘all houses’ near Lebanon border, defence minister says

Israel to destroy ‘all houses’ near Lebanon border, defence minister says

Reuters reports: Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the ‌border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday, vowing to inflict Gaza-like destruction in the area. Israel Katz reiterated Israeli plans to establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon, saying that it would maintain control over a swathe of territory up to the Litani River once the war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah…

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Trump is trying to override our voting system

Trump is trying to override our voting system

Sen. Mark Warner writes: In the decade since President Vladimir Putin of Russia directed a sweeping campaign of hacking and social media messaging to try to tilt the 2016 presidential election toward his preferred candidate, the United States has rightly focused on shoring up our elections against foreign meddling. But I fear that foreign interference is no longer the most pressing danger to our elections. It is increasingly evident that the greatest threat now comes from inside our own government….

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John Eastman: The man behind Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship

John Eastman: The man behind Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship

Politico reports: Long before John Eastman helped devise Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, he had another pet cause: ending birthright citizenship. The idea was once relegated to obscure articles in right-wing journals and little-noticed debates before conservative groups. But Trump ushered it into the limelight on his first day back in office last year by issuing an executive order purporting to upend the well-established understanding that virtually everyone born on U.S. soil gets American citizenship. Now, Eastman…

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Trump’s Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration

Trump’s Justice Department dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration

By Ken B. Morales and David Armstrong This story was originally published by ProPublica In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused…

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Kristi Noem ‘blindsided’ by cross-dressing husband who put her at risk for blackmail

Kristi Noem ‘blindsided’ by cross-dressing husband who put her at risk for blackmail

The Independent reports: Ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was “blindsided” by a report alleging that her husband has been posting photos of himself cross-dressing online. National security experts said that Bryon Noem’s alleged activities could have put his wife at risk while she served in President Donald Trump’s cabinet, according to a bombshell Daily Mail report published Tuesday. Kristi Noem, who was fired earlier this month by Trump, is said to be “devastated” by the report, which detailed how…

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The underground bankers who reshape the flow of global money

The underground bankers who reshape the flow of global money

Miles Kellerman writes: The global financial system is a colossal factory containing an endless web of information assembly lines. Every time you tap your card on a payment terminal, whether it’s for a coffee on the way to work or a new vacuum cleaner, you are sending a new informational signal to that factory. Like raw material, that signal is then loaded on a conveyor belt where it is checked and modified by your bank, the seller’s bank, a payment…

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Danny Citrinowicz: Why Trump’s war has made Iran more dangerous

Danny Citrinowicz: Why Trump’s war has made Iran more dangerous

  What did Trump and Israel get wrong in their war with Iran, and can the remaining elements of the regime hold out? We speak to Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iran branch in the Research and Analysis Division in Israel Defense Intelligence and now Senior Researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies. Citrinowicz says one of Trump’s “biggest mistakes” was assuming the regime would fall as soon as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed – when…

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The many ways Trump is already threatening the midterms

The many ways Trump is already threatening the midterms

Wired reports: President Donald Trump’s rhetorical war on elections has seemed to only get more serious with time. Over the past couple of months, he’s told podcaster turned FBI deputy director turned podcaster Dan Bongino that Republicans “should take over the voting” in 15 places and “ought to nationalize the voting.” He told Reuters that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.” And he told NBC he will only accept the midterm results “if the elections…

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Welcome to a multidimensional economic disaster

Welcome to a multidimensional economic disaster

Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel write: The global economy has become dependent on the AI industry. Trillions of dollars are being invested into the technology and the infrastructure it relies on; in the final months of 2025, functionally all economic growth in the United States came from AI investments. This would be risky even in ideal conditions. And we are very far from ideal conditions. Much of the AI supply chain—chips, data centers, combustion turbines, and so on—relies on key…

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Trump’s order on birthright citizenship would harm millions, including citizens

Trump’s order on birthright citizenship would harm millions, including citizens

Scott Titshaw and Stephen Yale-Loehr write: On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on one of the most consequential immigration cases in decades. At issue is whether President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship can stand. The stakes could not be higher. If the court sides with Trump, the damage will ripple far beyond undocumented immigrants. It will affect legal visa holders, green-card holders and even U.S. citizens. It would also create an underclass of American-born children, some…

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