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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered a pointed warning to Oman on Thursday, escalating tensions over the critical waterway known as the Strait of Hormuz. The warning came after President Trump publicly stated that Oman should “behave or we’ll have to blow ’em up,” raising the stakes in an already tense diplomatic standoff. Bessent took to…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending legislation, cleared Congress earlier this year after one of the most tense legislative sessions in recent memory, passing the Senate on a 51-50 vote only after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking ballot to force it over the line. The three…
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) broke ground on a new Munitions Production Center in Troy, Alabama on May 21, adding 87,000 square feet of production space to support Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors and work on the Next Generation Interceptor programme. The facility represents one element of a broader plan by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)…
Beijing has issued a stern warning to Washington over its arms sales to Taiwan, with the Chinese Embassy in the United States urging the Trump administration to exercise restraint as a multibillion-dollar weapons package remains under consideration. Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Congress.net that Beijing’s position on the matter leaves no room for ambiguity….
A new Congress.net poll of 1,142 registered Republican voters shows President Donald Trump retaining majority support within his own party, with 57 percent expressing approval of his performance, even as soaring oil prices and the resulting inflation crisis emerge as the defining anxiety across the Republican base. The survey, conducted this week, puts Trump’s standing…
BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), the mid-cap nuclear technology and government services firm, has attracted renewed analyst attention following a combination of strong first quarter 2026 results, over $1.4 billion in freshly awarded naval contracts, and a Deutsche Bank upgrade that lifted the bank’s price target to $255 from $203 while moving the stock from Hold…
The diplomatic impasse between the United States and Iran over nuclear enrichment shows partial signs of movement, with Pakistan serving as the central mediating channel between the two sides and Qatar’s prime minister adding public support for the mediation framework that has kept both countries at the table despite persistent mutual distrust. Iran’s foreign minister…
US markets opened cautiously on Monday as investors absorbed the implications of Moody’s stripping the United States of its top-tier triple-A credit rating for the first time in the agency’s history. The downgrade, announced on Friday, lowered the country’s rating by one notch to Aa1, bringing Moody’s into line with S&P Global, which cut its…
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana became the first sitting senator to lose a regularly scheduled Republican primary since Indiana’s Richard Lugar in 2012, eliminated from the race for a third term after Trump-backed congresswoman Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming outpolled the two-term incumbent on Saturday night. Letlow, who carried Trump’s “complete and total…
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) climbed 4.2% to $502.63 after the company secured a $113.8 million contract from the United States Navy to support the Military Sealift Command’s integrated business systems. The agreement could extend through October 2031 if all available options are exercised, making the total potential value of the relationship substantially higher than the…