Since the ceasefire on April 8 and Trump’s apparent capitulation to Iran, it appears the Iranians will levy a toll on all oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The details are still unclear, but according to The Hill citing the Financial Times, the Iranian Republic will levy $1 per barrel of oil to be paid in…
Who ya gonna call? Apparently, a brand-new team of Ghostbusters. Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation have officially unveiled the first details for Ghostbusters: Night Shift, an all-new animated series set within the beloved supernatural franchise. Alongside the announcement came the first concept art, a logo reveal, and an official story synopsis that teases a fresh…
Paddington Bear has returned in a new stage musical as a fun Christmas distraction from the drear and gloom elsewhere. Critics love it – “imaginatively staged, immaculately performed and utterly winning”; “funny, feel-good, family-friendly musical that looks set to run and run”. It brings ” the stowaway bear gorgeously to life”. Paddington, star of…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Residents of Staten Island are fuming over news that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to build a large homeless shelter for men in a residential area on their island. Staten Island is much more politically conservative than Manhattan and people who live there are convinced that this is…
When Trump ordered the first wave of strikes in this ongoing war with Iran last month, he did so while his administration was engaged in active negotiations with the Iranian government. That echoed the situation last June when Israel launched a bombing campaign days after Trump scheduled new talks with Iran—a move Trump later claimed was a…
Trump speaks to CBS’s Tony Doukopil in Detroit, Michigan White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sternly warned a CBS crew last week that Trump would sue the network if it did not air a recent interview in its entirety, unedited. “We’ll sue your ass off,” she told them. While President Trump was visiting Detroit, Michigan,…
Roomies, Blueface and his boo Nevaeh Akira have revealed their baby’s gender! The big moment comes just a few days after the duo previously announced that they are expecting their first child together. RELATED: Baby OTW! Blueface Seemingly Confirms His Boo Nevaeh Akira Is Pregnant After Test Reveal (VIDEOS) Blueface & Nevaeh Akira Are Having…
Roommates, it looks like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using the holiday season to push its deportation goals. The agency wants undocumented migrants gone, and it’s offering a $3,000 holiday stipend to any qualifying person willing to make it happen by the end of the year. And, the White House is cosigning the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM “Just stop overthinking” is advice that tells you nothing useful about how to actually follow it. The mind that automatically converts “they haven’t texted back” into “they must be furious with me” isn’t doing so out of weakness. It’s doing its job, badly but earnestly. What makes overthinking so…
Christianity Today announced the hiring of “Reverend Doctor” Nicole Massie Martin as their next president and CEO, marking the continued liberal drift of the evangelical publication. A news release published Nov. 19 on the Christianity Today website said that Martin, who has “more than 25 years of nonprofit, academic, ministry leadership, and church engagement experience,”…
