Futures on Brent crude (BZ=F), the international pricing benchmark, had jumped by roughly 2.9% to close above $72.80 on Friday, while those on US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CL=F) had moved up by a slightly smaller 2.8% to trade above $67 by Friday's close.

Without signs of deescalation over the weekend, prices could surge upward by as much as $10 to $20 per barrel when the market reopens Sunday night, Jorge León, head of geopolitical analysis at Rystad Energy, told Yahoo Finance.

"Given the scale of retaliation, most of the strategic initiative now lies with Iran," León said. "How Tehran chooses to respond over the next 24-72 hours — especially toward energy infrastructure or regional shipping — will be the primary driver of near-term oil market dynamics."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-strikes-in-iran-could-see-oil-prices-jump-10-to-20-or-more-with-no-deescalation-khamenei-reportedly-dead-143847074.html

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-strikes-2026/card/iran-state-television-confirms-that-khamenei-is-dead-ZodTidFpbX5YYfgyh83n

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/ilhan-omar-guest-arrested-state-union

A guest of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was arrested by Capitol police during the State of the Union address.

Omar had invited Aliya Rahman, a US citizen and Minneapolis resident who in January was removed from her car and dragged by immigration agents in the city as part of the Trump administration’s increased efforts to arrest and deport alleged undocumented immigrants. The officers had been shouting at her to move.

“I’m disabled, trying to go to the doctor up there. That’s why I didn’t move,” Rahman told officers as they pulled her from the car at the time. The officers caused her shoulder injuries, she later said.

During Donald Trump’s speech, Rahman “started demonstrating”, which violated rules for the event, according to the Capitol police.

“The guest was told to sit down, but refused to obey our lawful orders,” the police said in a statement. “It is illegal to disrupt the Congress and demonstrate in the congressional buildings.”

Rahman was arrested for unlawful conduct and disruption of Congress, the police stated.

Rahman told the Democracy Now broadcast on Wednesday that she had been standing silently before she was arrested.

Neonazi socialists are literally imploding and the negative news that 2/3 of Americans believed the policies laid out in trumps SoTU address will move the country in the right direction.

https://dailytorch.com/2026/02/poll-64-of-state-of-the-union-viewers-say-trump-policies-will-move-country-in-right-direction/
Poll: 64% Of State Of The Union Viewers Say Trump Policies Will Move Country In Right Direction

64 percent of Americans said the policies proposed by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24 would move the country in the right direction, compared to 54 percent who said the same thing prior to watching the speech, according a CNN poll taken before and after the speech among speech watchers.

That included 56 percent of independents who said the President’s policies would move the country in the right direction, compared with 39 percent prior to the speech, a 17-point swing.

And 16 percent of leaning-Democrats after the speech, compared with 6 percent before the speech, a 10-point swing. And 92 percent of leaning-Republicans after the speech, compared with 88 percent before the speech, a 4-point swing.

Similarly, 54 percent after watching the speech said he had the right priorities, compared to 44 percent before the speech. That included 45 percent of independents after the speech, compared to 27 percent before the speech, an 18-point swing.

Overall, 62 percent of speech-watchers said the President’s policies on the economy — he spoke of his tax cuts, increasing domestic production, electricity generation and retirement savings while fighting to lower costs — would move the country in the right direction, including 90 percent of Republicans, 54 percent of independents and 16 percent of leaning-Democrats.

https://apnews.com/article/jesse-jackson-dies-43abb84d2ffc76d967f9a5596ebd0be1

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 84.

As a young organizer in Chicago, Jackson was called to meet with King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before King was killed, and he publicly positioned himself thereafter as King’s successor.

Santita Jackson confirmed that her father, who had a rare neurological disorder, died at home in Chicago, surrounded by family.

The prices businesses pay to each other took a sharp turn higher in January, new data showed Friday, indicating that more tariff-related price increases could be still to come.

The Producer Price Index rose 0.5% last month, a pickup from December’s 0.4% rate, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annual rate of inflation nudged down to 2.9% from 3%.

Economists were expecting wholesale inflation to increase by 0.3%, which would have resulted in a 2.6% annual rate.

US stocks moved sharply lower Friday morning, with investors fearing the hotter-than-expected inflation report could signal a recession. “Tariffs are being passed through along the supply chain,” Michael Reid, US economist at RBS Capital Markets, told CNN on Friday. “And so, our worry is that this is not the end of the pass through. We have not yet seen the full impact on consumer prices in the goods space.”

“These are all things that consumers pay for, directly or indirectly,” Reid said.

When excluding food and energy, the core PPI gauge (which provides a measure of the underlying inflation trend) picked up sharply. Prices rose 0.8% versus 0.6% in December to bring the annual rate to 3.6%, the highest in 10 months.

Other details in Friday’s report further corroborated the idea that President Donald Trump’s steep and sweeping tariffs continued to drive prices higher for US businesses, which in turn eventually leads to higher prices for consumers, Reid said.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/economy/us-ppi-wholesale-inflation-january

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https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/media/canadian-school-trustee-hit-with-750k-penalty-for-trans-policy-facebook-posts/

Canada school trustee ordered to pay $750K over trans-policy Facebook posts

A former trustee of the Chilliwack Board of Education in British Columbia has been ordered to pay $750,000 following a ruling by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal over his public comments opposing transgender policies.

In a decision issued Feb. 18, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Barry Neufeld, a former Chilliwack Board of Education trustee, to pay $750,000, “to the members of the Class, comprised of CTA members identifying as LGBTQ between October 2017 through 2022, for injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect.”

The decision says Neufeld was first exposed to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) called “SOGI 1 2 3” in the decision, in 2017 when he attended an “information night” about SOGI, hosted by Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, described as a television personality.

According to the ruling, on Oct. 23, 2017, Neufeld posted on Facebook describing SOGI, as a “‘weapon of propaganda,’ which instructs children about the ‘absurd theory’ that ‘gender is not biologically determined, but a social construct.’”

He said “‘allowing’ children to ‘change gender’ was child abuse.’”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bill-clinton-house-epstein-probe-rare-testimony-former-president-rcna260436
Former President Bill Clinton is set to face questions Friday from members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, making him the first sitting or former president to testify before members of Congress in over 40 years.
Clinton will be deposed in a closed-door setting one day after the committee questioned his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for around six hours about what she knew about Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

Committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., said Thursday that he expected the former president's deposition to take "even longer." The meeting is taking place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons have a house.

The Clintons told the committee in sworn declarations last month that they had “no personal knowledge” of any “criminal activities” by Epstein or Maxwell.

Hillary Clinton has said she has no recollection of ever having met Epstein, but Bill Clinton has acknowledged he flew on his plane in 2002 and 2003 while he was traveling internationally for the Clinton Foundation. In his declaration, Clinton said Epstein "offered a plane that was big enough to accommodate me, my staff and my U.S. Secret Service detail, in support of visiting the Foundation's philanthropic work."

While President Donald Trump has accused Clinton of having taken dozens of trips to Epstein's island in the Caribbean, Clinton said in his declaration that he was never there. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in an interview with Vanity Fair last year that Trump “was wrong about that.”

Emails by Epstein the Justice Department released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act also indicated that Clinton did not go to the island, and Maxwell said in an interview with a top Justice Department official last year that he had never been there.

Trump has nearly eliminated Irans navy. Iranians have been marching in the street celebrating the death of their supreme leader and thanking Donald Trump for liberating them from a despot.

The White House is celebrating by playing YMCA at gatherings
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/persian-crowds-celebrate-nationwide-after-us-israel-strikes-on-iran-president-donald-trump-prime-minister-netanyahu-bibi-supreme-leader-khamenei-white-house-dc-los-angeles
Celebrations erupt nationwide as Persians react to Iran strikes

(TNND) — Hundreds of Persians were seen celebrating across America on Saturday after the news broke that the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, with video showing demonstrators waving American and Iranian flags and cheering.

Independent reporter Raheem J. Kassam described the atmosphere as "crazy" in Washington, D.C., as the song "YMCA" played in the background at the White House and people gathered to "celebrate the ouster of the Iranian Islamic regime."

President Donald Trump later confirmed that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the airstrikes.

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/01/trump-us-sinks-9-iran-warships-strait-of-hormuz
Trump says U.S. destroyed 9 Iranian warships

President Trump said Sunday the U.S. military destroyed nine Iranian warships and is in the process of destroying the rest of Iran's navy.
Why it matters: The U.S. strikes target Iran's ability to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's oil supply flows.
What he's saying: "I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important. We are going after the rest. They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also! In a different attack, we largely destroyed their Naval Headquarters. Other than that, their Navy is doing very well!" Trump wrote on on Sunday.
A U.S. defense official confirmed Trump's post.