Trump’s recent threat risks sparking ‘global economic disaster of historic scale’: expert

International security expert Robert Pape issued a dire warning Sunday over President Donald Trump’s most recent threat to Iran, a threat that if made good on, Pape warned, could spark a “global economic disaster of historic scale.” “Overnight, Trump’s threats have shifted the trajectory of this war,” Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, wrote Sunday on his Substack.

Trump invokes emergency powers with $23 billion in Gulf arms sales as Iran war wages on: WSJ report

The Trump administration has approved arms sales valued at around $23 billion to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The U.S. would provide air-defense systems, munitions and radar equipment worth more than $16 billion, as well as an additional $7 billion in weapons to the UAE.

Iran strikes Kuwait refinery for second straight day

March 20 (UPI) -- Iran attacked Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery for the second time in two days on Friday, focusing its military on Persian Gulf energy infrastructure as Israel and the United States pounded Tehran. Fires erupted in several units due to the attack, forcing officials to shut down parts of the refinery, the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said in a statement.

Jeffries tells Trump to keep his 'reckless mouth shut' after president calls Democratic Party 'greatest enemy'

Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that President Trump should keep his "reckless mouth shut" after the president called Democrats America's "greatest enemy" on Truth Social.

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Iran Responds To Trump Power Plant Threat With Oil Warning

Iran’s parliament speaker warned that any attack on his country’s power plants or infrastructure would trigger retaliatory strikes by Tehran on energy and oil facilities across the Middle East. The comments by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf were in response to a warning by President Donald Trump that Tehran had 48 hours to re-open the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. would "obliterate" Iranian power plants.

6,000 Meters Down, Japan Uncovers a Rare Earth Giant That Could Fuel the World for 700 Years

A high-risk deep-sea retrieval near Minamitorishima has put rare earth supply, China dependence, and Japan’s resource ambitions on a collision course.

America Cracking in 2, But It’s Not Missouri’s New Madrid Fault?

There's a new theory that America is splitting in two, but it's not the New Madrid Fault in southern Missouri that is believed to be the culprit. The claim says is a geological disaster waiting to happen, but are there scientific facts to back up this belief?

Two parts of world will be 'spared from nuclear war fallout', ex-CIA spy insists

An ex-CIA agent claimed two regions of the world would be "spared from the nuclear war fallout" as tension over the Iran-United States conflict continues to rise The Iran-USA conflict is escalating nuclear fears (file)(Image: Getty Images) A former CIA operative has suggested two regions across the globe would be spared should a catastrophic nuclear war erupt.

Dome over contaminated nuclear blast site is leaking — expert warns risk from lethal landfill could be ‘devastating’

Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the containment area has sprung a dangerous leak — which could snowball amid rising seas. “We worry the integrity of the dome could be in jeopardy,” Columbia University chemistry professor Ivana Nikolic-Hughes, who witnessed the cracks while measuring radiation levels in 2018, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.