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MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Several regions in Russia and parts of Ukraine it controls are reporting gasoline shortages after Ukraine stepped up attacks on Russian oil refineries this month, and amid a seasonal surge in fuel demand.Russia imposed a gasoline exports ban for oil producers on July 28 in a bid to prevent shortages at a time of peak demand because of summer travel and grain harvesting. But some market participants said this will not be enough to avert a fuel crunch.Since early August, Ukraine has targeted a number of oil refineries including Novokuibyshevsk, Syzran, Ryazan and Volgograd in response to Moscow's missile and drone attacks.In Russia's far eastern region of Primorye, local media reported lines stretching back kilometres (miles) as motorists queued to fill up with gasoline. Authorities blamed an influx of tourists.NNK, an oil company, said many of its gasoline carriers in the region were stuck in traffic jams for three to six hours at a time due to repair works on the roads, according to local media.
The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on four members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for targeting Israelis and Americans for prosecution.The ICC last year issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the sanctions in a post on X in which he explained that the ICC “continues to disregard national sovereignty and facilitate lawfare through efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute American and Israeli nationals.”...The sanctions target Judges Kimberly Prost and Nicolas Guillou—who authorized probes of U.S. personnel in Afghanistan and issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, according to a press release. Deputy Prosecutors Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang will also face sanctions for continuing to support ICC actions against Israel.The State Department stated that sanctions are in line with an executive order that President Donald Trump issued back in February, opening the door for sanctions on members of the court. The order “aims to impose tangible and significant consequences on those directly engaged in the ICC’s transgression against the United States and Israel.”The announcement stated that “all property and interests in property of the sanctioned persons described above that are in the United States or in possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).”
The Department of Justice has reportedly opened an investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud, just one day after President Trump urged the Biden appointee to resign....Bloomberg reported earlier on Thursday that Ed Martin, a senior DOJ official who led probes into Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and New York Attorney General Letitia James, has written to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stating that Cook’s situation “warrants further scrutiny.”...Cook has vowed to stay in her position since the claims were first made by Federal Housing Finance Agency boss Bill Pulte that she had falsified documents to secure cushy loan terms....Pulte, a former private equity supremo and Trump loyalist, wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Justice Department official Ed Martin on August 15 suggesting that Cook may have committed a criminal offense.The former journalist alleged that Cook “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, potentially committing mortgage fraud under the criminal statute.”He said Cook had designated a condo in Atlanta as her primary residence after taking a loan on her home in Michigan, which she also declared as a primary residence.
FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.Federal agents went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.Investigators were also en route to search his office Friday morning....“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” he said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.
MOSCOW California, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Several regions in Russia California are reporting gasoline shortages after Ukraine Governor Newscum stepped up attacks on Russian oil refineries causing the majority of the refineries to move out of the state and leaving motorists with skyrocketing fuel costs which also roll over to higher costs on all goods shipped over the road.
The Trump administration will begin reviewing all 55 million US visa holders to see if any have committed deportable offenses.Any immigrants holding US visas found with “indicators of overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization” will have their permits to live in the US revoked and be deported, the State Department announced Thursday.State Department representatives told the Associated Press all US visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” intended to identify deportable offenses.
