President Trump Bets Big on Venezuelan Crude.

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President Trump announced a deal Friday that hands the U.S. majority control over Venezuela’s oil — 65 billion barrels of proven reserves — and he’s promising it will bring gas prices down. The timing isn’t subtle. Gas is averaging $4.08 a gallon nationally, up from $3.20 a year ago, as the Iran war keeps squeezing global energy markets. Here’s the deal: a new private company will manage output from 17 Venezuelan oil fields, and the U.S. gets a 55% cut of whatever comes out of the ground. Washington also gets to buy Venezuelan crude at cost — a real advantage,

Soros, SPLC, CAIR: The Bill Finally Comes Due.

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Washington is about to test an old question: what happens when the tax code stops looking the other way. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS are drawing up plans to strip the tax-exempt status of three of the left’s most influential nonprofits — George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Three sources familiar with the internal deliberations told the New York Post that audits are already being prepared. Call it a reckoning, or call it overdue. Either way, it’s coming. The rationale isn’t complicated. These are groups that have functioned

On Her Way Out, Leavitt Is Still Working the Trump Beat.

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She’s leaving the podium, but not the conversation. In her final sit-down as White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt let slip Thursday that she’s been quietly counseling President Trump on who should replace her. “Of course, we’ve spoken about it,” she told “Fox & Friends,” with the easy candor of someone who’s earned the right to speak plainly. The line of applicants, she said, is long. “There is no shortage of applications. There’s a lot of people who want this job, a lot of capable people who want this job.” Leavitt wouldn’t name names. She didn’t need to. Instead, she

Meta Pays Up, Admits Nothing, Changes Everything.

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Mark Zuckerberg built an empire on the attention of children, and on Wednesday he agreed to pay $16.7 billion to make the lawsuits about it go away. That’s the number in the court filing. Meta will hand over the money in installments over ten years to settle claims from a coalition of states — California included — that Facebook and Instagram were built to hook kids and keep them scrolling, whatever it cost their mental health. Twenty-nine states brought the case in federal court. A trial had been underway. Now there won’t be one. Meta says it did nothing wrong.

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