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NEW - Iran seizes second oil tanker in a week — US Navy(Navy Video Of It In Link Below)https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1653709518247698437

A court in China has evicted an American woman from her house in Beijing even as the Chinese authorities refuse to allow her to leave the country, despite public appeals and private lobbying from the United States.

TRUMP 410 vs BIDEN 128 Actual Electoral Votes From The Server Seized By The Military From Germany. https://twitter.com/bbusa617/status/1328520875721809921?s=21 and the One Amercian News Report. You see the map at the 28 second mark. https://twitter.com/isamisis/status/1328613514223656960?s=20

Hillary Clinton’s email scandal has become a grave situation for her legal team, according to Judge Andrew Napolitano. Clinton said yesterday that had directed her aides to turn over her personal email server to the Department of Justice following a report that it contained top secret emails. FoxNews.com reported: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said two emails that traversed Clinton's personal system were deemed "Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information" — a rating that is among the government's highest classifications. Grassley said McCullough had reported the new details about the higher classification to Congress on Tuesday. The State Department...

Live now, FBI seizes server, had Top Secret documents at the time.

Egyptian security forces uncovered a munitions stockpile, including anti-aircraft missiles, destined for Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the weapons stockpile was found in an abandoned warehouse in the middle of the desert in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has increased as of late, with Israel targeting smuggling tunnels in response to increased rocket fire from militants in the strip. Israel fired missiles at three suspected smuggling tunnels on the border between Gaza and Egypt on Friday.

Customs officers in southern Italy have seized six to seven tonnes of high-grade explosives en route from Iran to Syria, the Italian ANSA news agency said on Tuesday, quoting sources. Investigators said the RDX explosives, found at the port of Gioia Tauro in the Calabria region, were hidden in a container transporting powdered milk.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy. After an opening statement and declaring, "This isn't about me, it's about you," Obama took up a microphone and strolled the ornate East Room, .. .. On Tuesday Obama held a nationally televised news conference, .. calling on an unusual mix of reporters in an apparent...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Sunday seized control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae (FNM.N) and Freddie Mac (FRE.N), in what could be the biggest federal bailout in U.S. history in a bid to support the U.S. housing market and ward off more global financial market turbulence. "Our economy and our markets will not recover until the bulk of this housing correction is behind us," U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said at a news conference. "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are critical to turning the corner on housing." The two companies, publicly traded but also serving a government...

How popular is global warming as a political issue? So popular that even conservative state lawmakers are getting into the act, using the issue to sell everything from building dams and nuclear power plants to thinning forests. The arguments are simple enough: Higher temperatures reduce mountain snowpack, so more dams are needed to capture winter precipitation that falls as rain. Nuclear power plants produce few greenhouse gases, the leading cause of manmade warming. Forest fires, on the other hand, send plenty of gases into the air -- so why not encourage timber companies to clear more brush to reduce fire...

Mugabe seizes black farms to drive his maize economy By Daniel Pepper in Zhampali, Zimbabwe (Filed: 28/05/2006) For years, Zimbabwe's white farmers have felt the wrath of Robert Mugabe, as they have been thrown off their land to make way for soldiers and ruling party cronies. Now, black farmers have also become the focus of his unwelcome attentions. Lot Dube's crops of onions, tomatoes and sweet potatoes were growing nicely when soldiers marched into Insiza district, in the south of the country, set up camp and declared that all crops other than maize would be destroyed. Robert Mugabe has ordered...

USS GETTYSBURG, At sea (NNS) -- While on patrol in the western Caribbean Sea, USS Gettysburg (CG 64), with its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment, completed a major drug interdiction in January. Assigned under the operational control of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, Gettysburg is deployed as part of a Joint Inter-Agency Task Force conducting counter-narcoterrorism operations in the Western hemisphere. The operation resulted in the seizure of approximately 1.5 tons of cocaine and eight suspected drug traffickers. After boarding and thoroughly searching the vessel, Gettysburg discovered and seized 50 bales of narcotics. Following the seizure, the narcotics...

US seizes 'al-Qaeda drug boat' The US navy has made a series of arrests on the region's seas The US navy has intercepted a boat carrying drugs near the Gulf in what it says is a suspected al-Qaeda drugs trafficking operation. Fifteen people on board the vessel were arrested and the navy said it had found hashish with a street value of $11m hidden in compartments on board. It is at least the third drug-smuggling boat to have been seized in two weeks in or near the Gulf. A number of arrested sailors are being questioned, the Pentagon said. US...

Venezuelan navy seizes tankers as protests continue Navy troops have seized two oil tankers from strikers as Venezuelans took to the streets in protest and to search for money and food as a strike aimed at ousting President Hugo Chavez deepened. There are indications the government might be making headway in ending the impasse. Politicians on both sides of the crisis say they will consider a new proposal for elections next year. The government says an oil tanker is being loaded and long lines at petrol stations disappeared, indicating distribution networks are being rebuilt. "We are overcoming the crisis," Mr...