Aluminum (Al) metal is lightweight—strong and it does not rust. It is used in beverage cans, commercial airplanes, car parts, window frames, industrial parts, etc. President Trump imposed tariffs on US Al imports in February 2025.

So-called “Democratic Socialists” are winning elections in America (New York City and Colorado). I’m sure that no one who either is running on a socialist platform or who voted for a socialist candidate has ever visited a real socialist country.

The Israeli president joins Milei in pushing a pro-Israel axis of states in the Americas. (With the US leading the way, of course.)

“Conservative leader Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president Tuesday after winning the June election by fewer than 50,000 votes.”

Fauci hid key facts from Congress and the public in order to relentlessly promote himself. 

The year was 2016. I was deputy commander of a Military Police battalion in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of the capital of Pará—one of the poorest and most violent states in Brazil. At 3:40 in the morning, the radio broke into an intense exchange of dispatches, unusual for a Wednesday. The operations center gives me the picture: a sequestro relâmpago in progress, the “lightning kidnapping”: criminals take over the victim’s car at a traffic light and force cash withdrawals from ATMs. I head to the scene. It looked like a movie—negotiators, press, ambulances.