Q4 check-in: September added just 29,000 jobs, CPI rose to 3.7%, the 10-year sits near 5.2% and mortgage rates hit 7.4% as the Fed eyes one more hike.
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State Weighed Telizhenko’s Visa a Month Before Kyiv Pulled It
Declassified emails show State weighed pulling Andriy Telizhenko’s visa a month before Kyiv revoked it in 2020, and what Treasury’s sanctions rested on.
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How Yellow Blocks Nobody Wanted Became A Quiet Crisis
Hormuz and a wave of export bans left the world short – squeezing fertilizer, nickel and copper. While Alberta holds the world’s biggest stockpile.
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Rubio Asks Cubans to Partner With the CIA, and Havana Mocks It
Rubio urged Cubans to seek a “discrete partnership with the CIA,” and the agency posted contact steps. Its last Cuban recruits mostly worked for Havana.
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Iran Plots Against U.S. Staff Are ‘Advanced,’ Intel Chief Warns
DNI Clayton’s memo to Rubio warns Iranian plots against Americans are advanced, and the intel behind it is too classified for most staff at risk to see.
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U.S. Orders Diplomats Out of Saudi Arabia, Denies Wider Gulf Pullout
The U.S. ordered non-emergency staff and families out of Saudi Arabia over Houthi attacks. The State Dept. calls a Gulf-wide pullout report inaccurate.
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Did Musk Ordered Ukraine’s Starlink Cap? WSJ Says; Rubio Shifts
The WSJ says Musk ordered the Starlink cap on Ukraine’s fast drones. Rubio now calls it SpaceX’s decision under a private contract the public hasn’t seen.
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Leipzig Drone Plot Opened Putin’s Sabotage Push, U.S. Intel Says
U.S. intelligence says Putin ordered the sabotage push behind the Leipzig drone plot. In 1999, Congress was told GRU sabotage caches were the blind spot.
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Alberta Voted to Stay. Its Other Nine Answers Go to Ottawa.
About 76% of Albertans voted to stay in Canada. Nine other questions on immigration and the Constitution mostly passed, shaping Smith’s talks with Carney.