China and Russia veto UN resolution on protecting Hormuz shipping

    Updated April 8, 2026, 8:32 a.m. ET China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington’s ambassador to the world body called on “responsible nations” to join the U.S. in securing the waterway….

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      Pakistan and China brokered a fragile Iran ceasefire

      Updated April 8, 2026, 12:44 p.m. ET A knot of defiant nations − three of them talked off a geopolitical cliff’s edge at the eleventh hour.   As Israel, Iran and the United States stood on the precipice of escalating a volatile war,  China and Pakistan − with sharply different motives − emerged from the…

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      I voted for Trump. Release the Epstein files already

      I voted for President Donald Trump, and I support a lot of his policies and politics: Lowering taxes, brokering peace deals and ordering strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. I’ve never supported Trump because he had stellar character, integrity or a squeaky-clean past. I don’t think he does, nor do I even know Republicans who believe he’s a model of…

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