All posts tagged: stops

Kazakhstan Stops Piping Oil To Black Sea After Spate Of Ukraine Drone Tanker Strikes

Kazakhstan Stops Piping Oil To Black Sea After Spate Of Ukraine Drone Tanker Strikes

Published by Jenni Sidey

Update(0803ET): This development certainly isn’t going to help global oil prices stay down… Following a drone attack out of Ukraine days ago on the Caspian ​Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal along the Black Sea Coast, Kazakhstan has newly confirmed a halt crude transfers there. “Kazakhstan is set to stop piping crude to a port on Russia’s Black Sea coast after a spate of attacks on tankers that’s jeopardizing the landlocked Asian country’s ability to produce oil,” Bloomberg reports Tuesday morning. “The CPC Terminal at the Russian port of Novorossiysk will stop accepting piped supplies because tanker companies are too nervous to send their ships to the facility, two people with knowledge of the matter said,” the report continues, describing a developing situation that parallels the ongoing situation of nervous tanker crews who have remained stopped in the Strait of Hormuz, also for fear of being attacked. “The halt is due to begin later on Tuesday,” Bloomberg adds. Additionally, CPC clarified in a statement that “Oil loading ⁠operations were suspended. No oil spill occurred and no ignition of …

When Your Superpower Stops Being Special

When Your Superpower Stops Being Special

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I first started my career, I carved out a little niche for myself as being the online “guru.” At the time, the field of online education was exploding and that skill was incredibly valuable. I became known as the go-to person for online course and program development, instructional technology, trouble-shotting, etc. Job offers, promotions, and recognition came. Then something changed. Not because I got worse. The world shifted. The pandemic hit and suddenly everyone was an “expert” in online teaching and learning. The market became oversaturated and what used to be niche was now mainstream. The important lesson I learned is that possessing a unique skill does not mean the skill will be permanently valuable. It’s a lesson many others have learned as well. Technology changes. Coding used to be incredibly valuable and sought-after. Now AI can generate large portions of code in seconds. Economic conditions shift. During recessions, companies often freeze hiring, reduce spending, or eliminate positions that were once considered indispensable. Organizations reorganize. A new CEO arrives, strategic priorities change, departments merge, …

Trump, Mullin ‘on same page’ about resuming ICE traffic stops: White House

Trump, Mullin ‘on same page’ about resuming ICE traffic stops: White House

Published by Sam Flores

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump is on the same page as Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on resuming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) traffic stops.  “Vehicle stops are continuing. Verbal guidance has been given to all field offices across the country by the Department of Homeland Security,” Leavitt told reporters at… Source link

Trump says ICE can’t give up traffic stops: ‘Important and effective’

Trump says ICE can’t give up traffic stops: ‘Important and effective’

Published by Sam Flores

President Trump on Wednesday said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should continue utilizing traffic stops, calling the tactic one of the agency’s “most important and effective” enforcement tools. “The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, praising the agency’s efforts to… Source link

Todd Blanche; Strait of Hormuz; ICE traffic stops : NPR

Todd Blanche; Strait of Hormuz; ICE traffic stops : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee today as President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department permanently. Blanche is expected to face questions about his handling of the Epstein files, the targeting of the president’s political enemies and the broader politicization of justice. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche listens during a news conference at the Department of Justice building on July 1. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images 🎧 Democrats oppose Blanche’s nomination, NPR’s Ryan Lucas tells Up First. With Republicans holding a razor-thin Senate majority, a handful of GOP defections could be enough to block his confirmation. The hearing begins at 9 a.m. ET. Watch it live here. ➡️ Survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, including Dani Bensky, are speaking out against Blanche’s nomination. Bensky is expected to …

ICE suspends vehicle stops for U.S. immigration enforcement: Reuters

ICE suspends vehicle stops for U.S. immigration enforcement: Reuters

Published by Sam Flores

The victim of a fatal shooting that involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is visible at the scene near the car he was driving when agents shot through the windshield. Gregory Rec Portland Press Herald | Getty Images U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday suspended vehicle stops related to immigration enforcement, two sources briefed on the matter said told Reuters, after agents fatally shot two men in separate incidents six days apart following stops in Texas and Maine. The policy shift came one day after an ICE officer killed a driver in the coastal Maine town of Biddeford, about 15 miles south of Portland. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a statement nearly 12 hours after the shooting asserting that the officer, “fearing for public safety,” opened fire on the driver when he attempted to flee agents trying to pull him over. Officials did not explain how the driver might have posed a threat. While some video footage of the incident’s aftermath has emerged, there is not yet any public video showing …

Stellar 3Y Auction Stops Through Even As Yields Hit 1 Month High

Stellar 3Y Auction Stops Through Even As Yields Hit 1 Month High

Published by Jenni Sidey

With yields blowing out today as they followed the sharp increase in oil prices after Iran struck no less than 3 ships crossing the Hormuz Strait (with a Trump response sure to follow), we doubt there was much focus on today’s 3Y auction. Which is unfortunate because despite the selloff in the secondary market, the auction itself was quite solid.  The sale of $58BN in 3 Year paper, the week’s first coupon auction, priced at a high yield of 4.179%, down modestly from 4.192% in June which was the highest since Feb 2025. It also stopped through the When Issued 4.185% by 0.6bps, and followed two tailing auctions. The bid to cover was 2.600, down from 2.645 and below the recent average of 2.645 although as shown in the chart below, the BTC for the tenor appears to have flatlined between 2.5 and 2.7 over the past 6 years.  The internals were stronger, with Indirects awarded 67.5% of the auction, up from 63.71% last month and the highest since April (also well above the recent …

When A Woman Starts To Value Herself, She Stops Accepting 11 Specific Things

When A Woman Starts To Value Herself, She Stops Accepting 11 Specific Things

Published by Jenni Sidey

Women often worry that they’re too much: too loud, too opinionated, taking up too much space, and society is more than happy to reinforce that to keep us quiet. Often, they apologize just for existing.  But once they know their value, a woman can stop tolerating things that feel inauthentic to who she really is. This realization will finally set a woman free.  11 things a women stops tolerating once she truly starts to value herself 1. Being interrupted JohnnyGreig from Getty Images Signature Women who don’t know their worth often have a hard time standing up for themselves. They stay on the sidelines of group discussions and allow other people to talk, even when the people talking are wrong or less knowledgable. When someone interrupts, they go quiet. Once a woman knows her worth, she stops tolerating being interrupted in the middle of a conversation. Self-assured women advocate for their right to speak in a kind yet assertive way. They have no problem saying, “I’m not finished talking.” They know that what they say …

Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep

Halo Stops Bedtime Scrolling so You Can Go the F to Sleep

Published by skeptic

I had every intention of reading when I got into bed, but my e-reader wouldn’t power up. Instead, I launched Instagram because I’m Gen X and that’s where we watch TikTok. After 20 minutes, I was nearly done, except the last video wasn’t funny enough, so I needed one more. By the time my gaze shifted two centimeters up to check the itty-bitty clock on my screen, a full 65 minutes had passed. Like everyone else on the planet, I was deeply disappointed in my lack of restraint against ye mighty smartphone and pledged to leave it in another room every night thereafter, which I did precisely zero times. A few weeks later, a little white puck arrived in the mail. A representative from ScreenZen had sent me Halo, a $49 app-blocking device that creates a geofence (or “halo”) around any space you choose. Halo is the device, and ScreenZen is the app used to manage it, as well as the name of the company. The app is free with no upsells and no subscription …

Over Your Dead Body review: This blackest of black comedies never stops surprising you

Over Your Dead Body review: This blackest of black comedies never stops surprising you

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 3 out of 5. You know how it goes. You plan a nice weekend break with your wife so you can murder her, but things don’t quite go as planned. If there’s one thing you can say about this blackest of black comedies, it’s that it never stops surprising you as it lurches from an intimate tale of a dysfunctional marriage to an unhinged bloodbath of Sam Raimi proportions. It’s difficult to reveal much about the plot without spoiling those surprises, because they start early, and escalate rapidly. Much of the fun of the film is trying to guess how it’s going to wrong foot you next. But for what it’s worth Dan (Shrinking’s Jason Segel) is a failed film director now slumming it shooting inane adverts, who’s married to struggling actress Lisa (Samara Weaving). The relationship is severely on the rocks, and they communicate almost exclusively in snide remarks. So Dan plans to kill for the insurance money while they’re staying in a remote lakeside cabin, and make it look …