🇺🇸 Trump at 5:00 PM: "You will find out soon what I have decided as punishment for the Canada wildfires."
🇨🇦 Carney at 6:00 PM: "We are ready. We don't care about your illegal punishment. We're ready to double our non-U.S. exports. We'll defend our workers and farmers." 🔥
Canada didn't blink. It made it clear it was prepared to move beyond Washington if necessary.
Many Canadians are now praising Mark Carney's firm stance.
🚨 NEW: Donald Trump has directed contractors to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad, frustrated with its appearance and questioning whether the slope of the White House lawn needs to be changed
🚨 NOW: President Trump has endorsed Stacy Garrity for GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA to unseat Josh Shapiro (D) this November
Garrity is the current PA State Treasurer
FLIP PENNSYLVANIA RED! 🔥
"It was my Great Honor to welcome Highly Respected and very popular Pennsylvania State Treasurer, Stacy Garrity, into the Oval Office. Stacy is running to be the next Governor of the GREAT Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She has my Complete and Total Endorsement. She will do a fantastic job!"
🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi hit the brakes hard on the Houthi fight.
After the Yemeni group blocked their ports and hit oil facilities, everyone expected bigger retaliation.
Instead Saudi paused the airstrikes after only two days and quietly restarted talks through Oman.
They’re walking a tightrope. Their economy already shrank almost 5% last quarter because of the wider Iran war and oil export chaos.
Another full scale campaign against the Houthis would wreck what’s left of their Red Sea shipping routes and suck them deeper into a regional mess they’ve spent years trying to stay out of.
The Houthis know this, and that’s why they’re pushing for money and open access as the price of calm.
The U.S. is also telling Saudi to keep it cool, nobody wants Bab el-Mandeb closed on top of Hormuz.
Saudi is betting that limited pressure plus quiet diplomacy can contain the fire without burning their own house down.
It’s a high stakes gamble, and the whole energy market is watching to see if it holds.
🇮🇷🇴🇲 Iran's state media Press TV is pushing its own version of the Hormuz standoff, and in this one Tehran holds all the cards.
The claim: Iran and Oman are close to a deal on a brand new "central corridor" through the strait, and once it opens, both the old northern and southern routes get scrapped for good.
Press TV frames the whole thing as defensive, a way to stop the U.S. using one of the world's most important waterways as a launchpad to hit Iran.
Then comes the spin: an anonymous Iranian official claims Washington has no standing in the talks and is only "obstructing" so Trump can fake a foreign-policy win for voters back home.
Just remember who's doing the talking. This is Iranian state media, so treat it as Tehran's narrative rather than neutral reporting.
"It was my honor to welcome now Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (sister of the late, great Lindsey Graham!) into the Oval Office.
I asked Darline, for the good of our Nation, to run for the U.S. Senate in the Special Republican Primary on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.
She accepted."
Wild to think South Carolina could have a Sen. Graham for another decade or two... though she has said her focus will not be on foreign policy to the same extent it was for her late brother.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Oil is still finding ways through the U.S. backed Hormuz corridor despite the Iranian blockade....
Tracking data continues to pick up evidence of "dark flow" and ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman along the U.S.-supported southern route.
Gulf producers are sweetening the deal with a bit of "hazard pay," premiums as high as $15 a barrel for any tankers willing to put the lives of their crew at risk.
The combination of high rewards and ongoing covert transfers shows that, even under pressure, significant volumes of crude are still leaving the region.
Is this what's kept oil prices as low as they've been? 🤔