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4 days ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
With the Federal Reserve chairman preparing to testify on Capitol Hill this week and facing blistering attacks from the president who gave him his job, the new vice chairwoman of supervision at America’s central bank says July could be a good month to cut interest rates since the inflationary spike forewarned by some analysts from President Trump’s new tariff rates have not emerged.
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5 days ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
A Republican lawmaker’s flirtation with MAGA reached its final demise Sunday afternoon after he criticized President Trump’s decision to drop bunker buster bombs on Iran’s nuclear installations, prompting a combative Truth Social post from the president and the announcement of a full-on primary challenge to be coordinated by the president’s chief election gurus.
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5 days ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
Oil prices are expected to rise further following Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to America’s surprise bombing early Sunday of three Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran’s Parliament voted unanimously on Sunday to cut off traffic in the strait, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply flows.
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6 days ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
America’s military dropped 75 precision-guided weapons on Iran’s nuclear facilities early Sunday morning in what Defense Secretary Hegseth is calling a flawless operation that took “months and weeks” of preparation in anticipation of President Trump’s call. American pilots pounded three Iranian nuclear sites — Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow — with 14 30,000-pound GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators, better known as bunker busters, in what was the first operational use of this weapon.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
After a weekend of criticism that he was going soft on his “America First” agenda by ordering immigration agents to skip roundups of farm and hotel workers, President Trump reversed course again late Sunday and said he will now turn his focus to deporting illegal immigrants from what he calls the “Democrat Power Center” — America’s largest sanctuary cities.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is catching the wrath of supporters of President Trump’s deportation agenda, getting razed by critics for her perceived role in persuading the president to keep some illegal farm and hotel workers in the country. President Trump changed his tune last week about deporting illegal workers in the agriculture and tourism industries after being lobbied by his agriculture secretary and some of his supporters in the leisure industry, according to The New York Times.
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1 week ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
The manhunt for the suspect accused of murdering the Democratic House leader of Minnesota and her husband and shooting a state senator and his wife has expanded to South Dakota as federal officials are assisting state police and offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, is wanted for the murder of House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the attempted murder of a state senator, John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
Trade officials from two of the world’s largest economies will meet this week to try to hammer out a tariffs regime that has left critical exports stuck in dry dock on both sides of the Pacific Ocean and markets worldwide skittish over global economic growth.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
While Americans use dog-walking as a common form of exercise and companionship, in Iran dog-walking is now classified as a safety and mental health violation akin to other so-called “Western behaviors.” Taking Tehran’s lead, which banned dog-walking in 2019 — though it is not evenly enforced, at least 17 cities in Iran announced this week that they also are banning dog-walking in public.
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2 weeks ago | 
nysun.com | Sharon Kehnemui
Israel’s Defense Minister says their troops are preparing to reroute a boat carrying a group of activists attempting to violate a maritime blockade around Gaza and will arrest everyone on board. The boat, carrying 12 activists led by Greta Thunberg, is expected to arrive in the off-limits water on Monday night or Tuesday morning, and will be redirected to Ashdod, on the coast north of Ashkelon. The group, which left Sicily on June 1, is traveling aboard the Madleen.
