In April, senior U.S. officials predicted that a naval blockade would fill Iran’s oil storage tanks within days and force the country to shut in its wells. Four months later, Iran is still producing roughly 2.5 million barrels per day. What happened between the prediction and the outcome is a case study in how a...
France’s ban on unsolicited telemarketing calls takes effect Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, replacing the country’s opt-out registry with a rule that requires businesses to obtain a consumer’s consent before dialing. Individuals who place illegal calls face fines up to €75,000 (about $87,000) per call. Companies face up to €375,000 (about $435,000) per call. The law,...
On July 14, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the world on notice. Writing in the Wall Street Journal and following up with a State Department declaration of a “whole of government” offensive, he vowed that the United States would “dismantle the ICC — brick by brick, if necessary.” The International Criminal Court, he...
It has become a reflex in much commentary on the Palestinian economy to trace its condition to a single source: Israeli occupation, closures, and control over borders, water and movement. Those factors are real, extensively documented, and central to any honest account. But they are not the whole account. Some of the deepest wounds to...
Picture a trench somewhere along the eastern front in Ukraine. It’s dark, it’s cold, and the soldiers in it have done everything right dug in deep, parked under tree cover, stayed quiet. For most of military history, that would have been enough to stay hidden for a night. Then a faint buzzing drifts in overhead,...
Aboriginal Title and the Public Markets: How British Columbia’s Land Tenure Crisis Reaches the Listed Mining and Oil & Gas Sector Part Two of a NexfinityNews series. An analysis of who actually owns British Columbia’s minerals and oil and gas, the publicly traded miners and drillers exposed to unresolved Aboriginal title, the securities disclosure obligations...
Federal agents detained 28 cruise ship crew members at the Port of San Diego in late April 2026 and arrested 23 the following day in what officials have since identified as part of Operation Tidal Wave, a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement push targeting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Of those interviewed, 27 were found...
For most of the last decade, the headline narrative in international finance has been the slow decline of the US dollar. BRICS expansion, central bank gold buying, China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, the Saudi-China petroyuan flirtation, and the weaponization of sanctions all fed a single storyline: the world was building exits from the dollar. By...
MADD Says the “Kill Switch” Is a Hoax. The Real Story Is Worse. The federal government doesn’t enforce drunk driving laws. So who actually flips the switch in your car — and who gets the data afterward? Mothers Against Drunk Driving sent supporters an email this week defending Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment...
Why Do Immigrants Appear to Get Preferential Treatment in American and British Courts? An Investigative Analysis | NexfinityNews Any serious discussion of “two-tier justice” eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable question, and most commentators retreat before they ask it out loud. We will not retreat. Across two of the oldest common-law democracies in the world...