BLACK GOLD: The Trump administration reached a deal to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, almost as much as all the proven reserves in the US, the world’s biggest oil producer.   President Trump crowed on his social …

AFTER THE FLOOD: Several hundred people are dead and as many as 1400 missing after that massive flash flood that swept through rivers bordering China and Tibet.  In Nepal, about 900 people including 500 foreign visitors … Americans among them … …

CATASTOPHIC: An enormous fragment that broke off a glacier yesterday and fell into a river between Nepal and Tibet is being blamed for the flash flood that appears to have killed hundreds of people, including Americans, and left hundreds more missing. …

TRADE WAR !!!: Canada announced retaliatory tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products, following the collapse of trade talks that triggered punishing tariffs levied by the Trump administration.   Canada says it will collect tariffs of 50, 25, …

MAILING IT IN: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority voted to allow the administration to proceed with plans to enforce President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting as the country moves toward the mid-term elections and a lawsuit to block the order …

WRITTEN IN PENCIL: Trade talks between Canada and the US broke down over the weekend triggering stiff new tariffs on Canadian goods, causing Prime Minister Mark Carney to say Canada is “at war” with the United States and that his country …

THE WAR ROOM: Unable to bring Iran to its knees with bombing and threats of further bombing to send it back to the Stone Age, President Trump now says he will impose nuclear economic sanctions on the country he can’t defeat. …

PROGRESSIVE PROGRESS: Notch more wins for the Democratic Socialists and progressives. The Democrats may be having their Tea Party moment similar to when a Republican breakaway movement took their party to the far right.   In the contest for Senate, Florida State …

THE WAR ROOM: The so-called truce with Iran in which the gunfire never stopped expired yesterday, leaving President Trump with a war he’s claimed to have won without being able to end it.   Trump is fighting for control of the Strait …

GUILTY AS CHARGED: Twenty-eight-year-old Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges of interstate stalking resulting in the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who Mangione admitted shooting with a gun he made on a 3-D printer.   “I shot Mr. …