But first, I begin with the the U.S./Israel vs Iran War. Israel has attacked Lebanon recently. Despite ongoing ceasefire talks and fragile truces mediated by the United States , Israeli drone and air strikes have continued to target multiple areas across southern Lebanon, including Nabatieh, Tyre, and the Bint Jbeil district. Israel continues to occupy between 220 and 234 square miles of Lebanon. The Strait of Hormuz is not totally closed . A trickle of marine traffic continues. Many ships take the extreme southern route away from Iran. Insurance costs are very high. A container ship was struck by an Iranian drone yesterday , Technical talks in Switzerland about that MOU are occurring daily, but there has been no announcement when any high level discussion will next be held. The U.S. House this month passed a resolution directing the President to end hostilities, while the U.S. Senate also passed the same measure on a 50-48 vote. But a concurrent resolution is only a symbolic re...
To start, though, from the New York Times this morning: Details about these grand public undertakings have dribbled out rather un-grandly. The government’s finance wizards have revised and re-revised, and in some cases re-re-revised, their cost estimates. It’s all about as clear as the algae-clouded water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. NYT also reported: After weeks of speculation over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding plans, clues suggest that it might be at Madison Square Garden over the July 4 weekend . Back-to-back earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude rocked the region of Morlon, Venezuela last night, killing nearly 200 people and injuring more than 1500. The first quake of 7.2 hit west of Moron, about 105 miles west of Caracas. A minute later, a larger one, 7.5, struck a region southwest of Moron. Buildings as far as Brazil's Amazon, more than a thousand miles away from Caracas, were damaged. Venezuela is the country from where former President Nicola Maduro...