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⚡️ North Korea backs Iran’s new supreme leader and condemns US-Israel strikes

North Korea has publicly supported Iran’s decision to appoint Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader while sharply condemning the military campaign launched by the United States and Israel.

According to state media, Pyongyang said it respects Tehran’s leadership transition following the killing of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes at the beginning of the war on February 28.

The Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesperson for North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying the country recognises Iran’s right to choose its own leadership.

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⚡️ Oil markets whipsaw as war signals confuse traders

Oil prices have been swinging sharply as traders struggle to interpret a stream of mixed signals about the impact of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.

On Tuesday, Brent crude — the global benchmark — dropped 17 percent, briefly falling below $80 per barrel. The market then quickly reversed course, rebounding toward $90 after US Energy Secretary Chris Wright posted on social media that the US Navy had escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. The message was deleted shortly afterward.

The rapid sequence of events only deepened the uncertainty already gripping energy markets.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later clarified that there had been no armed escort through the strait. Shipping through the narrow waterway has largely stalled amid Iranian threats and the escalating regional conflict.

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⚡️Controversial hydroelectric project above Miracle Mile earns Wyoming water quality certificate

Wyoming’s top environmental office has approved a water quality certificate for Black Canyon Hydro’s controversial Seminoe pumped water storage project in Carbon County, marking the largest state-level permitting milestone for the $3 billion to $5 billion proposal.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality issued the certificate Thursday, underscoring its intent to maintain the viability of the world-class Miracle Mile trout fishery immediately downstream. The cherished stretch of the North Platte River is designated as an Outstanding Resource Water, requiring “no further degradation from human activity.”

The approval includes stringent thresholds and triggers that could curb the facility’s operations if exceeded, particularly regarding turbidity from daily water flushing operations and potential water temperature increases in the Miracle Mile. Trout are a cold-water species and especially sensitive to warmer temperatures.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Wyoming’s Quiet Mental Health Gap: Why Most OCD Cases Still Go Undiagnosed

Across Wyoming, obsessive compulsive disorder is far more common than official statistics suggest. Yet for most people living with the condition, the healthcare system never registers their struggle. New research from the International OCD Foundation points to a stark reality: the majority of Wyoming residents with OCD remain undiagnosed and without access to effective treatment.

To better understand the scope of the problem, Wyoming Star spoke with representatives of the International OCD Foundation about why the disorder so often goes unnoticed  and what could change that.

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⚡️Pro-Israel Spending Faces Test In Illinois Primaries

Pro-Israel political groups in the United States are pouring millions into local elections as they try to maintain influence at a moment when public opinion — especially among Democrats — is shifting sharply on Israel’s policies.

That effort is now being tested in a set of Democratic primaries in Illinois, where outside spending has become one of the defining features of the races. The contests, centred in the Chicago area, are shaping up as an early indicator of how much sway pro-Israel lobbying networks still hold as the US and Israel remain engaged in a war with Iran.

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⚡️Iran Seeks To Move World Cup Matches Out Of US Over Safety Concerns

Iran’s football federation is exploring a workaround rather than a withdrawal, opening talks with FIFA about relocating its 2026 World Cup matches from the United States to co-host Mexico. The move reflects how quickly geopolitics has begun to shape even the logistical details of the tournament.

The idea is simple on paper: keep Iran in the competition, but shift its games away from US soil. In practice, it underlines a deeper tension between formal tournament structure and the political reality surrounding it.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Why MAHA may not last? Constitutional case behind it

The “Make America Healthy Again” movement has gained traction inside the Trump administration, shaping policy discussions around vaccines, food regulation and federal health agencies. But as legal challenges mount, including a recent court ruling blocking parts of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine overhaul, a familiar problem is resurfacing: how durable these changes really are.

Mark Meckler, president of Convention of States Action, told the Wyoming Star that the movement’s reliance on executive power leaves it fundamentally exposed.

“Executive actions are inherently temporary because they can easily be reversed by the executive actions of a subsequent administration,” he said.


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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operation Epstein Fury Part 4. The Gulf States under Fire.

Within days, a quick in-and-out bombing campaign in Iran had become a Gulf war in all but name: airspace closures, missile interceptions, refinery fires, panicked rerouting of tankers, and a Strait of Hormuz that Reuters says has been effectively shut, trapping roughly a fifth of global oil and LNG flows. The region’s economy got hit with a hammer.

The Gulf states are dealing with all at once: strikes on energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait; evacuation warnings for petrochemical complexes; fire reports at refineries; shutdowns in LNG production; and maritime traffic that has slowed so sharply that the IMO is now discussing a corridor to get stranded seafarers out.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operation Epstein Fury Part 5. The Iran War Comes Home.

The Iran war is dragging itself across the ocean and landing in the United States as a casualty list, a fuel shock, a budget fight, a media war, and a political headache for Donald Trump that keeps getting harder to spin away. The Strait of Hormuz is choked, oil is expensive, American troops are getting hit, and Washington is starting to look less like the author of a clean military campaign and more like the captive audience for one.

The easiest lie to tell about a foreign war is that it stays foreign. This one never had much chance of doing so. The US military has already counted at least 13 killed and about 200 wounded, with injuries spread across Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, and Israel. Reuters says most of the wounded have returned to duty, but that is not the point. The war has reached the American force posture in the region and has started to chew on it.

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⚡️OPINION: Where Americans Keep More Of Their Year

The affordability crisis is usually framed through percentages, indexes, and inflation charts. But for most workers, the more useful question is simpler: how much of your life do basic expenses actually take?

An 18-year analysis by InvestorsObserver, based on wage and living-cost data from 2007 to 2025 across all 50 U.S. states, tries to answer exactly that. Instead of measuring affordability in abstract dollar terms, it looks at time, specifically, how many eight-hour workdays a person needs each year to cover three basic costs: rent for a one-bedroom apartment, groceries, and saving for a used car.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operations Epstein Fury Part 6. Other Fronts Of The Iran War

The war against Iran was never going to stay inside Iran. That much was obvious from the opening strikes – precision bombardments framed as limited, leadership decapitations marketed as strategic clarity, and diplomacy that looked increasingly like theater. What was less obvious, at least to policymakers publicly insisting on containment, was just how quickly the conflict would metastasize. Not through a single dramatic escalation, but through a series of smaller, overlapping fronts – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine – each carrying its own logic, each feeding the others.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Consulting lost its focus, companies are paying the price

For companies deciding where to expand, relocate or build, the stakes have rarely been higher. Site selection now sits at the intersection of geopolitics, labour markets and industrial policy, and the quality of advice guiding those decisions is under growing scrutiny.

Tom Stringer, a corporate location advisor with almost three decades of experience across major accounting and consulting firms, told the Wyoming Star (WS) that something fundamental has shifted inside the industry meant to guide those choices.

WS: You’ve described large consulting and accounting firms as having ‘lost their way.’ From your perspective, what has structurally changed inside these firms over the past decade, and how does that affect the quality of advice companies receive on site selection and economic development?

Tom Stringer:

Many firms have taken on significant outside third party private equity investments or financed ESOP transactions with third parties. Often to the financial benefit of small groups of partners in leadership and not the broader line partners/ directors in the firms. Those loans are due every month. The repayment obligations are often ominous and either firms get there by growing the top line or cutting at the bottom line. That’s firm managements focus, not on client needs.


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⚡️China’s Factories May Be Creeping Back to Growth – But the Recovery Looks Fragile

China’s factory sector might finally be edging back into growth. Just barely.

A Reuters poll of economists points to the country’s official manufacturing PMI ticking up to 50.1 in March, from 49.0 the month before. It’s a small move, but an important one – the 50 mark is the line between expansion and contraction.

Cross it, and technically, factories are growing again.

That said, no one’s calling it a strong rebound.

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⚡️US hammered by Belgium as World Cup concerns resurface

The United States suffered a heavy 5-2 defeat to Belgium in a friendly that exposed familiar weaknesses just weeks before cohosting the 2026 World Cup, while Mexico and Portugal played out a tense goalless draw overshadowed by a fatal incident in the stands.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side started brightly in Atlanta, with Weston McKennie giving the hosts an early lead in front of 67,000 fans. But the advantage did not last. Belgium, ranked ninth in the world, responded quickly and took control, scoring through Zeno Debast, Amadou Onana and Charles De Ketelaere, before substitute Dodi Lukebakio added two more.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Soft Skills Over Diplomas: Why Gen Z Is Missing The Hiring Signal

A growing share of hiring managers say the problem with early-career candidates isn’t what they know, it’s how they show up.

New data from ResumeTemplates.com, based on a survey of 1,000 U.S. hiring managers, points to a clear shift in hiring priorities. Soft skills: communication, professionalism, work ethic, are now outweighing technical qualifications in many decisions. More than half of respondents say Gen Z candidates lack soft skills, while only 22% point to gaps in hard skills.

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⚡️US Weighs Limited Ground Raids In Iran As Military Buildup Continues

The Pentagon is preparing options for limited ground operations in Iran, according to US officials cited by The Washington Post, as Washington expands its military presence in the region without committing to a full-scale invasion.

The plans under discussion would involve targeted raids rather than a broader occupation. They could include operations on Kharg Island, a key Iranian oil export hub, as well as coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has capabilities to threaten shipping.


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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operations Epstein Fury Part 7.2. Houthis Join The War. The Follow-Up.

The war with Iran was already stretching across borders, economies, and political narratives. Now it’s stretching across water. The entry – formal or not – of Yemeni Houthis into the conflict threatens to transform an already volatile situation into a full-scale maritime crisis centered on one of the world’s most critical shipping arteries: the Red Sea.

This new development is a continuation of a pattern that has been visible for years, only now amplified by the scale of the Iran war. As US strikes deepen and Israeli operations persist, Tehran’s network of regional allies is doing what it has long been structured to do – expand the battlefield without matching conventional force with force. The Houthis are the most effective piece of that network when it comes to maritime disruption.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operations Epstein Fury Part 7.2. Houthis Join The War. The Follow-Up.

The latest phase of US engagement in Latin America is increasingly defined by security cooperation, and the political trade-offs that come with it. Nowhere is that tension more visible than in Ecuador, where closer ties with Washington are unfolding alongside mounting concerns over democratic backsliding and civil liberties.

The backdrop is hard to ignore. Ecuador has moved deeper into a security-first model under President Daniel Noboa, expanding emergency powers, increasing military deployment and pursuing joint operations with the United States. At the same time, the political environment has tightened, with opposition forces facing legal and institutional pressure, including the recent suspension of the country’s largest opposition party during a key electoral window.

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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Operation Epstein Fury Part 8. Is It Finally Over?

Iran’s UN Ambassador in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, warned that continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon would have “some consequences. What that means is anyone’s guess. But the threat is real. If Israel keeps bombing, Iran could pull out of the talks. The two‑week clock is already ticking.

Imad Salamey, Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Political and International Studies of the Lebanese American University, the author of The government and politics of Lebanon,’ sees a calculated Israeli strategy behind the escalation:

“What we are seeing should be understood as part of a broader regional recalibration. Israel views the proposed talks with Lebanon as an opportunity not just for diplomacy, but to initiate a pathway toward Hezbollah’s disarmament.


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⚡️EXCLUSIVE: Perfectly Perfect – Quiet Fight Against Childhood Perfectionism

In a media environment where even young children absorb curated images and subtle hierarchies of beauty, Dr. Tiffanie Tate’s Perfectly Perfect positions itself less as a simple picture book and more as an early intervention.

In an interview with the Wyoming Star, Tate frames the issue in direct terms:

“The ‘perfect trap’ is a public health issue.”


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