Showdown to succeed term-limited Ron DeSantis is set; Florida Democrats, for second time in a row, choose former Republican as candidate for state’s highest officeSign up for the US Breaking News emailPresident Donald Trump posted an image of a map of the strait of Hormuz on his social media platform Truth Social, with a circle around the strait and the words “New US Territory” as the title on Tuesday morning.This follows comments made on Friday at a speech at a police academy on Long Island, New York, where Trump said “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States. … Essentially, that’s what it is.
We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.” Continue reading…
