Looters strike luxury shops around NYC before curfew sets in
Gold prices reversed course to rise on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve’s rate cut, though uncertainty over next year’s policy outlook persisted, while silver hit an all-time peak. Spot gold rose 0.7% at $4,236.57 per ounce. U.S. gold futures for February delivery settled 0.3% lower at $4,224.70. The Fed cut interest rates in another divided…
US forces rappelled from helicopter onto sanctioned vessel off Venezuelan coast Attorney General Pam Bondi released video footage Wednesday of U.S. forces seizing a Venezuelan crude oil tanker, a bold move last ordered more than a decade ago. Video footage showed FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, along with U.S. Coast Guard members, with…
Russian hackers infiltrated Ukraine’s communications giant Kyivstar months before launching an attack that left customers without phone or internet access in December, the country’s cyber spy chief revealed, calling the breach “disastrous.” In an interview with Reuters published on Thursday, Illia Vitiuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, said Russian hackers…
Greetings from Tyler, Israel struck back at Iran, after being warned about the slightest incursion. Where it goes from here, we’ll have to wait and see. News reports say Israel bombed the city of Isfahan, home to a military base and the Natanz nuclear facility. Whether that’s the end of it, we don’t know. Iran’s…
Greetings from Tyler, Everything is happening so fast, you can’t keep up. We awoke to the news that an army helicopter had crashed with a commuter flight, and all were lost. That’s going to be in the back of the mind of everyone flying. It’s a horrible thing to contemplate. You can’t imagine. Try not…
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning that “the more quiet” surrounding yesterday’s US-Putin peace talks, “the more productive” they are. Without official comment from the US, and no detail about what – if any – proposals have been accepted, things certainly are quiet. But they don’t appear to have been very productive. Peskov…