2026-03-15 20:00:15
It’s not normal for a priest to bring a cell phone into the sanctuary when he is celebrating Mass. But when Father Paul Haverstock heard there were masked immigration agents in the parking lot of his church in January, he said he wanted “a clear recording of me letting the agents know that we’re in the middle of a religious service.”
2026-03-15 20:00:13
With every uptick in the price of oil, the optics for batteries just keep getting better.
2026-03-15 20:00:11
Absent a noble cause, or even a clear rationale, for its war with Iran, the Trump White House has turned to internet slop to sell its unpopular and costly “excursion.” Official administration social media accounts have marshaled fictional heroes, movie clips and video game footage, spliced with real war footage, to create what are essentially hype videos for a war that has already cost billions of dollars and killed over a thousand people, including 13 US troops.
2026-03-15 15:00:02
In the oil industry, fuel oil is known as the bottom of the barrel. It’s typically cheap, unloved and, crucially, comes from the bottom of a petroleum-distillation tower — the tall piece of refining kit where crude gets heated and cracked into multiple petroleum products. But the Iran war has turned the industry upside down. Fuel oil is now an ultra-expensive commodity — and that’s bad news for the global economy.
2026-03-14 20:01:02
Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Best Actor. Best Screenplay. Known as the Oscars’ “Big Five,” these categories garner the most buzz leading up to and during the ceremony.
2026-03-14 20:00:04
It all started, the story goes, with a single pistachio that American botanist William E. Whitehouse picked out of a pile of drying nuts in an orchard in Kerman province on Iran’s central plateau in 1929. The name Kerman stuck to the tree that grew from it at the US Department of Agriculture research station in Chico, California, and the millions that have descended from it.
