Federal Government Creating Database of COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf in the coming days, along with maps of a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, as a weekend exchange of strikes on shipping sent oil prices higher on Monday. The new restricted zone will begin from where the U.S. blockade of Iran begins and extend into areas of the Gulf, Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said on Sunday in an interview with state TV. Few details were provided, but Rezaei said any ship entering the new zone would be added to a sanctions list.

A former senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official and his accomplice are facing charges for an alleged bribery scheme in which they accepted nearly $960,000 in exchange for favors in the processing of immigration benefit applications, including citizenship cases. The former official, Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, and his financial accomplice, Adeniyi Akeem Somoye, were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi-year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas. The pair were charged with conspiracy to receive illegal gratuities by a public official.

President Donald Trump announced a lawsuit against the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress after the organization reported that National Guard deployments to several cities had no impact on crime. In a Truth Social post, Trump said a lawsuit was "being drawn now" and that he was "strongly considering adding some of the contributors to this Fake Organization," naming George Soros among CAP's funders. A CAP analysis by Chandler Hall, associate director of public safety, argued violent crime was already falling before Guard deployments and found "no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime," warning extended deployments through end of 2026 could cost taxpayers more than $1.7 billion.