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Trump said US controls Straits of Hormuz

Which is strange because Iran attacked ship in today for going a route that wasn't the designated route they say you have to go
And heard toll authority you have to pay some toll or fee.
Which if in this 60 days is direct violation of toll free for 60 days though never promised wouldn't charge ships after that.

 The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran was behind the attack. Tehran had warned earlier Thursday that ships must use its designated corridors through the strait, rather than the more southerly route backed by the U.S.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the attack or IMO’s decision to suspend the evacuation. The U.S. benchmark crude price, which has been steadily falling since the agreement, jumped more than 2 percent Thursday afternoon.

Nearly 50 vessels transited the waterway Wednesday, the highest single day since the conflict began, according to maritime intelligence firm Windward. It reported, however, that at least five vessels traversing the southern corridor had turned back as of Thursday morning after Iran issued the new threat.

Dominguez had announced the IMO campaign Tuesday, aiming to end “months of hardship and distress” for more than 11,000 seafarers who have been stuck in the strait since the war began. It said the effort was backed by the U.S., Iran, Oman and other Gulf countries.

Mamdani delivers promised rent freeze on 1 million rent-stabilized apartments
The mayor-appointed Rent Guidelines Board voted Thursday to approve a freeze, but the move could spark a legal challenge.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/25/mamdani-delivers-promised-rent-freeze-00977449

 The plaintiff  sued Monsanto in 2019, alleging that two decades of Roundup use had caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. A jury sided with him in 2023, awarding him $1.25 million, but the Supreme Court took up the case on appeal. The Trump administration backed Bayer’s petition. The Biden administration had taken the opposite stance in a previous Roundup-related case against Bayer, urging the Supreme Court to reject its appeal.

In a 7-2 ruling Thursday, the court said Bayer cannot be sued in state courts because federal regulations have found that a cancer link to Roundup is unlikely and does not require a warning label.

EPA determined in 2020, during the first Trump administration, that glyphosate is unlikely to be a human carcinogen. Environmental groups sued, and a federal appeals court ruled that the EPA had not adequately explained its analysis. The EPA agreed to update its evaluation, though it has not published a new version yet.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate in 2015 as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

Time to go house and get ready watch soccer at 10

In 1893, the city of Chicago was preparing to host the greatest spectacle in human history: The World's Columbian Exposition.

The fair was meant to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas. But across the ocean in Norway, a group of sailors took offense to this.

They wanted to prove to the entire world that Columbus wasn't the first European to cross the Atlantic. They believed their Viking ancestors had beaten him by five hundred years.

But nobody believed them. Historians argued that ancient Viking ships were simply too fragile to survive the brutal, violent waves of the open ocean.

So, one stubborn Norwegian captain decided to prove the experts wrong the hard way.

His name was Magnus Andersen.

He and his team built an exact, full-scale replica of a recently excavated ninth-century Viking ship. It was seventy-eight feet long, made entirely of oak, and featured a single square sail.

Most terrifyingly, it had a completely open deck. There was no cabin, no shelter from the freezing rain, and no modern navigation equipment.

In the spring of 1893, Captain Andersen and a crew of eleven brave men pushed the wooden boat into the freezing Atlantic Ocean and set sail for Chicago.

The newspapers called it an absolute suicide mission.

For weeks, the twelve men battled horrific storms, freezing temperatures, and crushing waves that threatened to swallow the open boat whole. They slept on the wet wooden deck, completely exposed to the violent elements.

But the ancient Viking design was a masterpiece of engineering. The wooden hull actually flexed and glided over the massive waves instead of shattering against them.

They successfully crossed the Atlantic, sailed up the Hudson River, navigated through the Erie Canal, and pushed through the Great Lakes.

On July 12, 1893, the battered wooden ship finally sailed into Chicago.
A massive crowd of roaring locals lined the shores of Lake Michigan to welcome them. Captain Andersen and his crew had survived the impossible journey, proving once and for all that the Vikings could have easily discovered America.

But after the World's Fair ended, the city didn't know what to do with the massive wooden boat.

For decades, it sat abandoned outdoors in Lincoln Park, rotting away in the brutal Chicago winters. It was eventually moved to a local zoo, slowly decaying and largely forgotten by the public.

Thankfully, a dedicated group of preservationists stepped in to save it from turning to dust.

Today, this exact same wooden ship that conquered the Atlantic Ocean is sitting under a protective canopy at Good Templar Park in the suburb of Geneva.

Next time you are in the western suburbs, take a second to visit this incredible 130-year-old artifact and remember the twelve crazy sailors who risked their lives just to prove a point to Chicago.