Marc Polymeropoulos

24 hours after proposing it, President Trump drops his demand for a 20% toll for cargo going through the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, he says, "Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States."

🚨🇮🇱The Netanyahu coalition just passed in the Knesset a law that grants immunity from arrest to tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders. The immunity will be in effect at least until after the October election and shield the voters of Netanyahu's coalition partners

Rubio in June: “There isn’t a nation on Earth that supports having to pay money to go through the straits.” Trump today: the US “as a matter of fairness will be reimbursed at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped.”

Opening the Strait of Hormuz wasn't one of Trump's original war aims because it was already open before the war.

They called her Emma. This is an amazing story how Asma Assad became a warlady, she-oligarch and almost co-president: “In every city, she had people, and the men who ran Asma’s office became known as ‘Rjal Al Sitt’ or the ‘lady’s men’ – the lady being Asma al-Assad.”