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Conservative radio host Mark Levin claimed Wednesday that the Iranian regime may have targeted him with a cyberattack. The claim came a day after he was widely mocked for complaining that he’d been locked out of his AOL email account.“My wife and I were warned yesterday by the appropriate federal agency that we might be targeted by the Iranian regime. Specifically, by a possible cyber attack,” Levin wrote on X. “Well, that appears to have occurred.”Levin did not name the agency, say what had been targeted, or say whether the incident was connected to his email trouble.“That said, my brilliant staff is working around it,” he wrote. “And this ‘boomer’ will not be intimidated or silenced, to the great chagrin of the Woke Reich neo-fascists.”Levin opened the post with a shot at Tucker Carlson, a fellow conservative media figure and frequent critic of Levin’s push for war with Iran. “We all know the Iranian regime is a great fan of Tucker Carlson’s America-hating videos, which air from time to time on their government run propaganda platforms,” Levin wrote. “In my case, the Iranian regime has a different approach.”He signed off with “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” a phrase Trump often uses to end his Truth Social posts.On Tuesday, Levin said he had spent “literally the entire day” trying to get AOL to unlock his email, calling himself “one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL.” Critics across the political spectrum piled on. Some joked about dial-up connections and fax machines, and others tied his influence to Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran.

Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceansBritain should not be permitted to act as a 17th-century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal.Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans. Continue reading...

A month after President Donald Trump announced a controversial deal with Vladimir Putin to bring Russian diesel to the U.S., not a single barrel has arrived, the Wall Street Journal reported, as tankers headed for American ports turned around due to a lack of willing buyers.Trump pitched the Russian fuel as a way to bring down soaring diesel prices, which pushed up consumer costs ahead of the midterm elections. But "U.S. oil companies are reluctant to handle the cargoes of Russian diesel because of the potential legal and reputational consequences," industry executives and lobbyists told the Journal.Lawmakers from both parties have called Trump’s exemption of diesel from Russia sanctions illegal, the paper reported. Companies also worry about violating international sanctions, since the U.K., the European Union and Switzerland still ban Russian fuel imports.“There are political, compliance and enforcement challenges,” Michelle Wiese Bockmann, a senior analyst at the maritime intelligence firm Windward, told the Journal.Trump announced the deal on Oct. 9 in a Truth Social post, saying Moscow had agreed to “immediately” supply diesel to the U.S. and global markets after a “highly successful discussion” with Putin. According to the report, Russia has since resumed some diesel exports it halted this summer after Ukrainian drones hit its refineries. According to the Journal, it is now selling to buyers in the Middle East, North Africa and South America, but not the U.S.The latest sign of trouble came Monday, the paper reported. The Agioi Fanendes, a tanker carrying 300,000 barrels of Russian diesel and originally bound for New York, slowed off the East Coast and "started loitering in a zigzag pattern," the Journal reported The ship-tracking service Kpler now lists South America as its likely destination, and the ship’s manager told the Journal its “discharging port is not confirmed yet.”Three other tankers turned back last week, according to Kpler data cited by the Journal. Two are headed to Brazil, and a third has arrived in Egypt. All three had listed U.S. East Coast destinations when they left Russia’s Primorsk port last month. The U.S. doesn’t need the fuel, the Journal noted. Domestic refiners produce more diesel than the country uses and export more than 1.5 million barrels a day. Still, tight global supplies tied to the Middle East conflict have pushed the average price of diesel to $6.16 a gallon, up from $3.75 before the war.After Democrats’ sweeping midterm wins, oil lobbyists told the Journal that companies now fear any involvement could make them targets of investigations by the new Congress.

An American furniture entrepreneur who voted for Donald Trump three times is at his wits’ end trying to keep up with the president’s unpredictable tariff moves, which have put his company in peril.According to the Wall Street Journal, Bruce Krinsky has spent the better part of a decade chasing Washington’s trade policy. His company, TOV Furniture, has moved production from country to country and even tried manufacturing in the U.S., only to end up back where it started.The Journal reported that Krinsky originally relied on Chinese factories to make his couches. When Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term, Krinsky convinced a Chinese supplier to open a plant in Vietnam. When Vietnam came under threat as well, he bought a factory in High Point, North Carolina, a city Trump had promised to restore as a furniture powerhouse.That plant opened in March 2025. According to the Journal, Krinsky believed he had finally escaped the tariff whiplash. Within weeks, Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Krinsky expected the additional 34% levy on Chinese goods, the Journal reported, but was caught off guard by a proposed 46% tariff on Vietnam.His couch had already climbed from $900 to roughly $1,250 because of inflation and supply-chain costs, the paper reported. The new tariff would have pushed it near $2,000.“At $2,000, there’s no reason for us to exist,” Krinsky told the Journal. “There are plenty of companies like Crate & Barrel that already do a great job selling those products.”The North Carolina factory, which local officials had celebrated, shut down after 10 months, cutting about 45 jobs, according to the Journal. The couch is now made in Asia again and sells for $1,500. Krinsky told the paper he isn’t counting on the midterm results to help.“Furniture tariffs are not going to be at the top of either party’s agenda,” he said.Krinsky told the Journal he voted for Trump because he believed he was the strongest pro-business candidate.“What exactly is an American business supposed to do?” he said. “We’re trying to do what the government wants. I came in really hoping that this administration would be really positive for business. I wish they were more in touch with the reality of what is happening on the ground and what people really want.”

Actor and comedian Russell Brand, who later became an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.The sentence comes days after a London jury found Brand, 51, guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, according to Variety. Jurors cleared him of two additional rape charges and an attempted indecent assault charge. Brand had denied all of the allegations.Under British law, rape carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, while sexual assault carries up to 10 years.According to Variety, the judge declined to grant Brand conditional bail after the verdict, and he was taken into custody. Brand showed no visible reaction as the verdicts were read. On his way to the holding cells, he gave his lawyers a thumbs-up and mouthed “I’m OK” and “I’m good,” Sky News reported. His wife, Laura Brand, quickly left the courtroom.The case covered alleged attacks between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutors brought three rape counts, including one of oral rape, along with a 2001 attempted indecent assault charge tied to MTV’s U.K. offices and sexual assault counts dating from 2004 to 2009.According to Variety, Brand could face more charges. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed after the trial that it is investigating new rape allegations from two other women. Brand has been questioned but not charged in those cases.

President Donald Trump outraged some political analysts on Sunday after he blurted out a false claim about military casualties in the Iran conflict. Speaking to reporters at the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump claimed no soldiers have been killed in the conflict, a claim that his own Department of Defense has refuted. In October, the Pentagon raised the official death toll in the Iran war to 23, Stars and Stripes reported. "We won in Iran," Trump said. "It's just a matter of closing it out now. Maybe we'll wait. Some of their neighbors would prefer that we keep it the way that it is." "Again, we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers," he added, comparing America's casualties in Iran with larger conflicts like the war of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Vietnam War. Trump's comments sparked a firestorm of criticism online. Nick Field, a politics writer, described the president's comments as "f------ horrible" in a post on X, reiterating the number of casualties that have been reported. Quentin Ocama, state outreach officer for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, posted on X that Trump's claim was also "wildly disrespectful" to service members. "Wildly disrespectful of the service members who have been killed or injured in this clusterf--- of a conflict," he wrote. "Our crisis with a lack of serious and competent leadership continues…."Journalist Aaron Rupar described Trump's claims in a post on X as "lies." Trump lies that he's "won in Iran" and lies that "we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers." https://t.co/Oiak44fnOx— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 8, 2026

President Donald Trump was brutally mocked Sunday after he revealed what some analysts saw as a sign that he's "collapsing on every front."During an interview with CNN, Trump said it was "highly unlikely" that his administration would launch further strikes against the Iranian regime as long as negotiations about the country's nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz continue to progress. Trump's comments marked a departure from his repeated threats to wipe out the Iranian civilization because of the regime's reluctance to negotiate. The president's comments sparked a wave of mockery on social media. Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo, wrote in a post on X that Trump's comments were quite revealing. "Just collapsing on every front now," Marshall posted. Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall noted that Trump appeared to be trying to reinstate the conditions that existed before the war began. "You mean like we had before?" Marshall posted on X. Maryam Jamshidi, a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute, remarked that Trump's comments didn't reflect the reality on the ground in the Middle East. "The longer this goes, the more likely it is, in my view, that there will be no significant strikes," Jamshidi posted on X. "That being said, the U.S. is still carrying out limited strikes, its blockade is in place, and now it’s claiming to expand it to land routes - so the war is ongoing [and] still illegal."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Trump administration officials about one of their biggest corporate allies' ties to an alleged spy this spring, and was met with silence, according to a new report. The New York Times reported Sunday that Rubio told Trump administration officials about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's ties to an alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, about a year ago, citing "multiple people briefed on the matter." The report was published the same day as Nvidia's board of directors had opened an independent investigation into Huang's ties to the alleged spy. Jensen and Alice Huang are not related. However, Rubio's warnings seemed to fall on deaf ears inside the administration, the New York Times reported. For instance, it said President Donald Trump waved off concerns about Huang because he views the company as central to America's competitive advantage over China in artificial intelligence and a key player in the recent stock market rally. The report also raises questions about some of the policies Huang, whom the report describes as "a pivotal figure in the explosive growth of A.I., remained an influential voice with Mr. Trump over policy on the issue," has lobbied for. "Mr. Huang has opposed calls for more tightly regulating the export of the most advanced A.I. chips and has pushed to be able to sell all but the most recently developed technology to China, the main competitor to the United States in the global rush for A.I. supremacy," according to the report.