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Monday was the most consequential day for US markets since the Iran war began on March 1, and it started not with a policy announcement or a diplomatic breakthrough, but with a Truth Social post. Trump wrote that the US and Iran had held talks, that strikes on power plants were being postponed five days,…
Three weeks of air strikes, thirteen American military deaths, over 230 wounded, and a $200 billion funding request sitting unanswered at the White House — and still no formal congressional vote authorising any of it. The Iran war has entered a phase where the political architecture around it, carefully constructed by the administration through party…
A key document explains your rights and responsibilities as a federal student loan borrower in the US. When you take out a federal student loan, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with the U.S. Department of Education. Most borrowers sign the paperwork, accept the funds, and move on without fully understanding what they…
In the world of federal information security, few resources are as essential yet as poorly understood by the general public as the ISOO CUI Registry. For government agencies, contractors, and anyone who handles sensitive but unclassified federal information, understanding what the ISOO CUI Registry is and what purpose it serves is not optional. It is…
The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down since February 14, and the practical consequences are no longer limited to the policy debate in Washington. At airports across the country, TSA officers are quitting or calling out rather than work without pay, and the lines at security checkpoints are growing longer by the day….
President Donald Trump has spent the better part of fourteen months trying to push Jerome Powell out of the Federal Reserve, deploying every tool available short of the one he does not legally possess: the power to fire him. The irony now developing at pace is that the Justice Department investigation Trump encouraged into Powell’s…
The Third Amendment protects US citizens from being forced to house troops, and it was especially pertinent at the time of it being ratified. Of all the amendments in the Bill of Rights, one stands out for being the least litigated, the least controversial, and — to modern eyes — perhaps the most historically distant:…
Acting IRS commissioner Scott Bessent has announced a “gigantic” tax refund for millions of Americans due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Millions of Americans filing their 2025 federal tax returns this spring are receiving significantly larger refunds than in previous years, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting what he called a…
The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold its benchmark interest rate in the 3.5% to 3.75% range on Wednesday was the most anticipated non-event of the year — until Jerome Powell started talking. What followed his opening remarks sent traders scrambling for the exits in a session that turned a routine hold into a full-blown risk-off…
Three weeks after Iranian missile and drone strikes forced the closure of Qatari airspace and grounded virtually the entire Qatar Airways fleet, the airline is attempting a partial return to operations this week, beginning with a limited scheduled service to dozens of destinations that started on March 18 and runs through to March 28. It…