I still remember fondly the time I got an A- on my 8th grade earth science paper. It was one of my proudest moments as a student.

Meanwhile, as MIT boasts, some folks are, well, a bit beyond that.

Physics is riddled with paradoxes: Think of how information leaks from supposedly inescapable black holes or how the conventional laws of physics break down at the quantum scale. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski ’13 believes that within these apparent contradictions, new discoveries await.

Ah yes, “how the conventional laws of physics break down at the quantum scale.” I think about that often!

Well, apparently Ms. Pasterski thinks about it quite a bit. In fact, her entire life story seems to be just one long exercise of thinking.

Born in Chicago, some of Pasterski’s earliest accomplishments include:

Building her own Zenith aircraft starting from age 12.

Attending the prestigious Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Holding an internship at the space tech company Blue Origin at age 16.

Working as an aeronautical engineer at Boeing Phantom Works by 18.

Not a bad rap sheet for someone under 20!

She subsequently attended MIT, during which she did work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (no biggie). She eventually graduated from the prestigious institution with “a 5.0 grade point average.” (I was not aware GPAs went that high.)

These days Pasterski’s engaged in a little light research, nothing too strenuous:

She and her colleagues are working to unite general relativity, which describes gravity and the macroscopic world, with quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles. It’s a field of physics research known as quantum gravity.

If Pasterski helps solve this problem that has vexed scientists for decades, the result will be the holy grail of physics: a fundamental theory of nature that characterizes pretty much everything. One day there may be engineering applications. “If you understand how things work,” she says, “you can do things with that knowledge.” But she’s in this to solve an existential puzzle — to reveal what she calls “the source code of the universe.”

If all of this makes you feel rather small, don’t worry: Pasterski “estimates there are probably only a couple of thousand people in the world with whom she can meaningfully converse about her work in physics.” It’s a small club!

She has pushed back against the moniker of “the New Einstein,” however, stating that in her hunt for the universal source code she is just “happy to be a part of this legacy that our field is building.”

Okay but we’re still gonna call you Einstein, lady!

The implications of the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais overturning race-based voting districts are far more profound and far-reaching than anyone has yet realized.

This week, the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, ended decades of race-engineering in how congressional districts are drawn. The opinion is likely not only to benefit Republicans by increasing their representation in Congress, but it also should end racial engineering in a multitude of local institutions, to the benefit of all. It signals the beginning of the end for progressive governance, begun by President Woodrow Wilson (ironically, a segregationist), whose vision conflicts with the Constitution.

Thirty-one years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that racial gerrymandering — defended as a means for ensuring proportional electoral results according to race — should not continue.

In my view, our current practice should not continue. Not for another Term, not until the next case, not for another day. The disastrous implications of the policies we have adopted under the Act are too grave; the dissembling in our approach to the [Voting Rights] Act too damaging to the credibility of the Federal Judiciary. The “inherent tension” — indeed, I would call it an irreconcilable conflict — between the standards we have adopted for evaluating vote dilution claims and the text of the Voting Rights Act would itself be sufficient in my view to warrant overruling the interpretation of § 2 set out in Gingles. When that obvious conflict is combined with the destructive effects our expansive reading of the Act has had in involving the Federal Judiciary in the project of dividing the Nation into racially segregated electoral districts, I can see no reasonable alternative to abandoning our current unfortunate understanding of the Act.

It did, however, continue until this week.

Iran’s regime lost the war the moment American force and economic pressure exposed its bluff; what remains is the slow collapse of a terror state running out of money, options, and time.

By Roger Kimball

May 3, 2026

Some nearly stochastic notes on Iran. I begin by singing the same song I have been crooning since President Trump announced the ceasefire and naval blockade in mid-April. The war is over. If this were a novel, we’d be in epilogue territory where we tie up some loose threads in the plot and learn about the fates of various characters.

First, let’s talk about money, or rather Iran’s lack thereof. On February 28, the US and Israeli militaries unleashed Operation Epic Fury (“Roaring Lion” in Israel). Despite what you hear from the Left (and from the Iranian propaganda mill), that was one of the most successful and also one of the quickest military operations in history. But the inventory of ships sunk, air defenses obliterated, drones and ballistic missiles incinerated, arms manufacturing infrastructure exploded, and regime leaders eliminated tells only part of the story. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined another current of the narrative in his ongoing description of Operation Economic Fury.

The naval blockade, which interdicts shipping to and from Iranian ports, is costing the regime some $500 million per day. The current exchange rate is nearing two million Iranian rials for one US dollar. Iran’s effort to circumvent the blockade via land routes from Pakistan will never amount to much. Bessent summarized the status quo for regime leaders who might be puzzled:

It is very difficult for rats in a sewer pipe to know what’s going on in the outside world. Some color for the Iranian leadership as they literally sit in the dark:

1.   The United States has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz.

2.   There is a hard currency, i.e., U.S. dollar, shortage.

3.   Food and gasoline rationing are in place.

4.   The entire international community has turned against you.

5.   The BLOCKADE will continue until there is pre-February 27 Freedom of Navigation.

Many of the thugs running Iran and enforcing its terror regime have retirement accounts and other assets outside the country. The US Treasury knows all about them. “The retirement funds they thought they had outside of Iran, we are freezing. Same with their villas in the South of France. We are going to track them down, and we are going to continue the economic pressure as well as the blockade.”

According to a bulletin posted by CENTCOM on May 1, the US Navy has so far encountered 45 commercial vessels attempting to evade the blockade. All were forced to turn around. Even The Wall Street Journal, no friend of President Trump or the war in Iran, has acknowledged the success of Operation Economic Fury. “Iran Is Grasping for a Solution to an American Blockade It Can’t Break,” reads a headline from April 30.

Tehran thought it was gaining the upper hand after the war started in February as it attacked ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz, shutting down commercial traffic and blocking a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies. Six weeks into the conflict, the US responded by blockading shipments from all Iranian ports.

That shut down Iran’s network of shadow ships, which for years defied US sanctions on Iran’s substantial oil exports by going dark at sea before clandestinely transferring their cargoes to China. The tankers have been unable to breach a cordon of US warships that have chased them all the way to the Indian Ocean.

How do you spell “desperation”? How about deploying mine-laying dolphins to harass maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz? That’s one of the regime’s latest tactics, suicide dolphins, along with sundry threats to cut internet cables and telecommunications infrastructure that cross the Strait.

The situation on the ground for ordinary Iranians is dire. There is a stream of reports about the regime torturing and executing protesters. Recently, notices have been plastered on city streets announcing that cell phones, Starlink hardware, satellite dishes, and VPNs are illegal. One brave Iranian using Starlink issued a harrowing story about a young father who used Starlink to get the news:

They are openly hunting us for daring to seek truth.

And they just proved they mean it.

This innocent Iranian father [second image] was using Starlink—just like me—to get real news for his family in the middle of the blackout and get the censored information out to the world. They arrested him. They tortured him. They beat him to death.

A father. A husband. A man who only wanted to protect his children from the regime’s lies.

I am using Starlink right now to write these words to you. Every single day, the regime’s agents threaten me. Every single day I know I could be next. My heart is shattered. My soul is on fire. The fear is real, and it never leaves.

But I will not stop. My country is on the line. My people are on the line. 90 million Iranians are suffocating in this 47-year nightmare.

That’s one part of the story. The other part involves ordinary citizens smashing into regime sympathizers with their cars, killing them, or members of the Iranian diaspora happily reporting on an explosion that eliminated 14 IRGC leaders. Biggest understatement of the moment: the Iranian regime is collapsing before our eyes. President Trump gave an update a few days ago:

We don’t even know who the hell we’re talking to. We call, and Mohammed picks up, the cousin of the brother-in-law of the barber . . . and I tell them: Are you the leader? We’re looking for a REAL LEADER, not a scared duck! . . .

Whoever grabs the job lasts less time than a kebab in my hand. They’re like a headless duck team: they quack, they flap . . . and in the end, one always ends up fried.

Tehran’s current line is that they will stop their attacks in the Strait of Hormuz—piddly little expostulations that they are—if the US ends the war, lifts the blockade, and postpones talk about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Trump’s answer? Forget it. And by the way, he noted, he doesn’t want Iran to abandon its nuclear program for 5 years, 10 years, 20 years. Iran may never acquire nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, as the clock ticks and Iran’s economy slips into drain-swirling oblivion, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper has just briefed President Trump on “final blow” strike options, including “Iran’s remaining military equipment and installations, regime/IRGC leadership, and other infrastructure.”

President Trump may very well choose to redeploy the kinetic option. We’ll see. Either way, the regime is finished. Let’s leave the last word to Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

We’ve learned two things from our conflict with Iran:

1.   If you turn the other cheek with Iran, they’ll stab you in the neck.

2.   President Trump has oranges the size of beach balls.

The U.S. national debt exceeded the total amount of output from the entire economy as of March 31, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The country’s publicly held debt was $31.265 trillion, while the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the total value of goods and services in the economy, was $31.215 trillion. The ratio of GDP to Debt was 100.2%, up from 99.5% in September 2025, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The government now spends $1.33 for every dollar it collets in revenue, with budget deficits running consistently at around 6% of GDP. That figure will continue to rise unless drastic spending reductions are made — which seems unlikely given the lack of serious budget cut proposals making their way through Congress.

Unfunded liabilities including Social Security and Medicare will increase as baby boomers continue to retire, further straining the federal budget. These mandatory spending programs account for approximately 50% of federal spending. Future unfunded liabilities could total as much as $193 trillion, according to a March report from Open the Books.

In 2027, the Congressional Budget Office projects that mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, plus interest on the debt, will permanently exceed federal tax revenue, according to a Boyd Institute report. That means every dollar of discretionary spending on programs ranging from defense to research to federal agencies will be completely financed using borrowed money, according to the report.

A decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate is expected to further strain the already bloated federal budget, with the rate dropping to its lowest level since 1977 in March, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The U.S. already spends more on interest payments on the debt than it does on defense spending, according to the Boyd Institute report. This issue will be exacerbated if interest payments the government pays to its debt holders increase.

Profligate government spending prompted former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to warn on April 16 that the federal government needed to craft an emergency plan to address a potential crisis in the market for U.S. Treasury bonds — which investors buy and are used to fund the government’s spending deluge.

Paulson warned that as the federal government continues to rack up more debt, investors will demand higher interest rate yields to compensate them for taking on the risk of purchasing Treasury notes as the likelihood that the government can make all its payments on time declines. This in turn would cause the interest the federal government pays to finance its debt to rise, thus making insolvency more likely, a term economists have termed a “doom loop.”

“We need an emergency break-the-glass plan which is targeted and short term on the shelf, so it’s ready to go when we hit the wall,” Paulson told Bloomberg during its Wall Street Week event. “When you hit the wall and you’re trying to issue Treasurys, and the Fed is the only buyer and the prices of the Treasurys are down and interest rates are up, that’s a dangerous thing.”

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon also warned of a looming bond crisis caused in large part by the government spending deluge during a Tuesday investor’s event in Norway. “The way it’s going now, there will be some kind of bond crisis, and then we’ll have to deal with it, Dimon said.

“I just think maturity should say you should deal with it, as opposed to let it happen,” Dimon added, according to CNBC.

Except for anticipation of what comes next, it is not. 

Minnesota, California, Colorado, Illinois and New York sued Jan. 8, right after the Trump administration announced it was shutting off child care funds. The states argue that the executive branch cannot cancel payments already appropriated by Congress. 

The New York federal judge on the case, Arun Subramanian, granted a stay until this Friday, which means states can draw down from the federal funds it has until then. Subramanian will hear arguments from both sides on Friday, at which point the judge may make a more lasting ruling or issue another temporary stay.

In the “vast majority” of Trump administration funding freeze cases, courts have ruled against the administration, said Peter Larsen, an assistant professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

However, Larsen added, the Trump administration could defy the court order as it has in cases involving National Institutes of Health grants and Consumer Finance Protection Bureau funding, among other subjects. 

If the court ruled for the Trump administration, Minnesota would surely appeal the decision, Larsen said, but the state would probably be out of federal child care funds in the interim. 

DCYF informed providers Jan. 9 that it can finance child care assistance for “several months” without additional federal funding. But DCYF has not answered weeks worth of questions from providers (and reporters) about when it last drew down from federal funds and how much reserves it has on hand. 

“We are just getting told to sit tight,” Herod said. 

Robert

It was a real snoozefest.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris put a saxophonist to sleep on stage Wednesday during a rant against the Trump administration at an awards dinner.

Overtaken by fatigue, or boredom, the drowsy horn player drifted off right as Harris warned that “people would take to the streets if they tried to cancel elections,” video from the Public Counsel’s William O. Douglas Award Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., obtained by TMZ, showed.

The footage, taken by an audience member, showed the musician had his eyes closed and head down for nearly a minute, all while sitting just a few feet from the failed 2024 Democratic presidential nominee onstage.

“They have had an agenda that has been in place for decades to get to this very moment and beyond, which is to make it so difficult for the people to vote that they won’t,” Harris raged, as the saxophonist snored.

She continued, “Because they know the people are not stupid and see the corrupt, incompetent, callous administration that is in the White House right now, and they are so damn scared of losing the midterms.”

The jazz player roused himself awake, it appears, just in time to play Harris off the stage.

**SNIP**

During the chat, Harris argued that Democrats “need to be ruthless” in countering Republicans.

She also admitted Democratic politicians “dropped the ball in a variety of ways” and urged people to “challenge the status quo and fight the system on behalf of the people.”

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson laughed and seemed to encourage the notion that millionaires could leave the state of Washington while discussing her support for a progressive tax during an interview earlier this month.

“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if — the ones that leave, like, bye,” she said, which prompted cheers and laughter from the audience at the Seattle University event, Seattle University Conversations, which took place on April 14.

Wilson was asked if she believed progressive taxes were an “easy” and “promising” solution to the tax climate in the area. She said she never thought they were easy, but said she was excited about the millionaire tax that passed in the state.

“In general, we still have the very regressive tax system, and my office is doing a lot of work to look at what our options are in terms of progressive taxation,” she said. “We do have more flexibility at the city, at the county, in terms of our taxing authority. And at the same time, I believe what I said before, which is that, it’s not good for Seattle’s business environment, for example, for the cost of doing business in downtown Seattle to be wildly out of step with, for instance, neighboring Bellevue,” she said.

Wilson said that she was looking at progressive tax options that don’t increase the cost of employing people in Seattle.

“We have a large structural budget deficit at the city that we’re going to have to figure out how to deal with in this upcoming budget cycle,” she added. “And my budget office, budget staff are hard at work trying to figure out both how we can use our revenue as effectively and efficiently as possible.”

The real reason America created public schools… had nothing to do with education.” It’s a bold claim—but the truth is more complex, and far more interesting than the headline suggests. 🧠

Public education in the United States began taking shape in the 19th century, especially during the Common School Movement led by Horace Mann. His goal wasn’t to avoid education—it was to expand it. At the time, schooling was inconsistent, often private, and inaccessible to many families. Public schools were created to provide free, basic education to all children, regardless of social class. 🏫

But education wasn’t the only purpose. These schools also aimed to create a more stable and unified society. In a rapidly growing nation with waves of immigration and industrial change, leaders saw schools as a way to teach shared values, civic responsibility, and basic skills needed for work and participation in society. 🌍

Critics often point out that early public schools emphasized discipline, routine, and conformity—preparing students for factory life during the Industrial Revolution. There’s some truth to that. Schools did reflect the needs of the time, including workforce preparation and social order. But that doesn’t mean education wasn’t the goal—it means it served multiple purposes at once. ⚙️

So was it about control, or about opportunity? The answer is: both factors played a role. Public schools were designed to educate, but also to shape citizens, reduce inequality, and respond to economic demands. Over time, the system evolved into what we recognize today. 📈

In this video, we break down the real history behind public education in America, separating facts from viral claims and exploring why schools were created in the first place.

Between the 10th and 13th centuries, the monks at the Great Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, sporadically broke down a 6th century manuscript and reused its pages as binding material and flyleaves for other texts. In time, Codex H effectively disappeared. These new volumes were spread across Europe and it was only through the enterprise of a sharp-eyed 18th century French monk that researchers today have been able to locate the lost folios among libraries in Italy, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and France.

All the same, while the general content of Codex H, which contains a copy of the Letters of St. Paul, was generally known, its layout and precise wording seemed irretrievable. Not so. A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow has now successfully recovered 42 previously lost pages from the important early New Testament manuscript. The tool that has made 1,500-year-old Greek scripture suddenly visible is multispectral imaging, which allowed researchers to identify traces of ink that are virtually invisible to the naked eye.

The breakthrough arrived when the team, led by the divinity and biblical criticism professor Garrick Allen, realized that at one point in time the manuscript had been re-inked. This meant that chemicals in the reapplied ink had been transferred onto neighboring leaves. These left what researchers called “ghost impressions” that created a mirror image of the original text.

“In partnership with the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library (EMEL), researchers used multispectral imaging to process images of the extant pages, in order to recover ‘ghost’ text that no longer physically exists, effectively retrieving multiple pages of information from every single physical page,” researchers wrote in a statement. “To ensure historical accuracy, the team also collaborated with experts in Paris to perform radiocarbon dating, confirming the parchment’s 6th-century origin.”

Although the text of the Letters of St. Paul itself is already known, the version revealed through multispectral imaging is organized differently from modern counterparts. It features the earliest known use of the Euthalian apparatus, a complex system of prologues, chapter lists, and quotation markers that allowed the reader to find their way before the advent of page numbers or indexes. Furthermore, the inclusion of corrections and annotations shows how monks at the Great Lavra Monastery interacted with manuscripts, modifying them over time, rather than simply copying them down.

Though only fragments of Codex H are salvageable today, the scholars believe the original manuscript may once have contained hundreds of pages, many of which were reused and repurposed as they fell into disrepair. While 19th century collectors in Europe bemoaned this practice, seeing it as barbaric, it has inadvertently led to the survival of texts such as Codex H.

“Codex H is such an important witness to our understanding of Christian scripture,” Allen said in a statement. “To have discovered any new evidence, let alone this quantity, of what it originally looked like is nothing short of monumental.”

U.S. and Iranian forces are both interdicting ships as the two countries grapple with control of the flow of maritime traffic through the region, leaving the shipping industry ‘paralyzed,’ experts say.

In the past week, the U.S. interdicted three ships – two in the Indian Ocean and one in the Strait of Hormuz – while Iran went after three ships, seizing two. There are reports that the third ship was able to continue its journey.

The U.S. and Iran also continue to trade barbs, over social media, about the effectiveness of their efforts to wrestle control of the Strait of Hormuz as the two countries weigh resuming negotiations during the now indefinite ceasefire. For this shipping industry, it means watching, and waiting and more confusion, Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade said during a Thursday webinar.

“As Washington and Tehran trade claims and counterclaims, shipping is left remaining largely unchanged, paralyzed in the [Persian] Gulf,” Meade said. “…The consequences [amplify], the disruption ripples through the global supply chains, and this is where we are.”

The Pentagon announced Thursday that U.S. forces, launching from an expeditionary sea base, interdicted sanctioned vessel MT Majestic X (IMO: 9198317) overnight Wednesday in the Indian Ocean. Majestic X is the second vessel this week that U.S. forces interdicted in the Indo-Pacific region due to their sanctions for Iranian ties.

The U.S. conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of MT Tifani (IMO: 9273337) late Monday, according to a Pentagon post on X. Tifani sails a Botswana flag, while Majestic X sails a false Guyanan flag. The International Maritime Organization considers both ships to be stateless.

On Tuesday, following the Monday interdiction of Tifani, Iran said it fired upon and seized two ships – MV Epaminondas (IMO: 9153862) and MV MSC Francesca (IMO: 9401116). MV Euphoria (IMO: 9235828) was also damaged on Wednesday near Iran, although it is unclear whether Iran also targeted the ship for seizure.

The U.S. has right-to-visit stateless ships under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, although the U.S. has not signed the majority of the document, meaning it is not a party to it.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters Friday that U.S. military and law enforcement forces were part of securing Tifani, arriving via rotary wing platforms. A U.S. Navy control team took over the ship once it was secured.

Securing Majestic X was similar, Caine said.

“Both ships – Tifani [and] Majestic X – and their crews remain in U.S. custody. We will continue to conduct similar maritime interdiction actions and activities in the Pacific and Indian oceans against Iranian ships and vessels of the dark fleet,” Caine told reporters.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on X that her office provided warrants for Majestic X and Tifani.

The Iranians are attempting to match the U.S. seizure for seizure, Chris Newton, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, told USNI News on Thursday. Iran has not yet responded to the U.S. seizure of Majestic X.

This is the first time that Iran has seized a ship in the strait in the current conflict, opting earlier to assert their power by making ships transit through a passageway nicknamed the “Tehran Tollbooth,” Newton said. Now, they have used the fast attack craft to seize ships as the U.S. takes ships in the Indian Ocean.

Men with guns on these small boats can do a lot of damage, Newton said, referring to the effectiveness of the Somalian pirates and some of the Houthi attacks.

Using the fast craft, which have not been seen in the conflict until now, indicates that Iran is escalating to match the U.S. seizures, Emma Salisbury, a senior fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, told USNI News on Thursday. The presence on the IGCN fast attack adds another layer of danger for commercial ships, on top of the potential of mines and projectiles.

Because the Strait of Hormuz is one of the sticking points for negotiations, the recent actions by both countries could be an effort to make their positions stronger, Salisbury said.

“Essentially, it all looks to me like each side is trying to bolster its position so that they’re in a strong position when they go into the negotiation side of this,” she said.

The tensions between Iran and the U.S. are likely to continue into next week. Newton told USNI News that he will be watching to see if the U.S. continues to interdict ships with an emphasis on where those interactions take place.

What kind of ship is targeted will also be of interest given the U.S. has now seized two tankers but started with a containership, he said.

According to Salisbury, her eyes will be on how many ships pass through the blockade, adding that it could encourage others to attempt a run.

It is hard to predict what will happen with the strait, Salisbury said. If the U.S. blockade fails, it is possible that the Trump administration will turn back to airstrikes, she said.

Both President Donald Trump and Hegseth have said they will strike the fast attack craft with Hegseth saying Friday they will treat them like the alleged drug boats in U.S. Southern Command.

At the middle of the Strait of Hormuz crisis are seafarers. There are still about 20,000 mariners stranded because of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, Newton said, and there have been approximately a dozen seafarers and port workers killed, Meade said.

“And I think we must keep that front and center when we are having these discussions of ships being seized and [trade] being interrupted,” Meade said. “There is a human cost behind these things as well.”

The 34 ships, oil rigs and tugs that have been damaged are:

• Sanctioned ship Skylight, near Kumzar, Oman
• MT MKD VYOM, near Muscat, Oman
• MT Hercules Star, near Mina Saqr, UAE
• MV Ocean Electra, near Sharjah, UAE
• MT Stena Imperative, in port in Bahrain
• MV Gold Oak, near Fujairah, UAE
• MT Libra Trader, near Fujairah
• MV Pelagia, in the Gulf of Oman
• MV Safeen Prestige, near Oman while transiting the strait
• MT MSC Grace, near Dubai, UAE
• MT Sonangol Namibe, near Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait
• Tug Mussafah 2, assisting Safeen Prestige, near Oman
• Oil rig Arabia III near Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia
• MV GH Kahlo, near Abu Dhabi
• MV Mayuree Naaree, in the strait, north of Oman
• MV ONE Majesty, near Ra’s al Khaymah, UAE
• MV Star Gwyenth, northwest of Dubai
• MT Zefyros, off the coast of Al Basrah, Iraq
• MT Safesea Vishnu, off the coast of Al Basrah
• MV Source Blessing, north of Jebel Ali, UAE
• MT Gas Al Ahmadiah, off the coast of Fujairah
• Offshore tug Halul 50, off the coast of Ras Laffran, UAE
• MV Ocean Pretty, in the Strait of Hormuz
• MV Sunny 77, off of Duqm, Oman
• MV Express Rome, off the coast of Ras Laffan
• MT Al Salmi, off of the coast of UAE
• MT Aqua 1, off the coast of Ras Laffan
• MV Qingdao Star, off the coast of Kish Island
• MT Sanmar Herald, off the coast of Kumzar, Oman
• MV CMA CGM Everglade, off the coast of Kumzar, Oman
• MT Touska, off the coast of Chabahar, Iran
• MV Epaminondas, off the coast of Oman
• MV Euphoria, off the coast of Iran
• MV MSC Francesca, in the Strait of Hormuz

About 20 percent of the world’s oil flows through strait. Brent crude oil price is at $113.25 a barrel as of April 23, according to the Energy Information Administration. The Brent crude oil price was $71.32 on Feb. 27, the day before the U.S.-Israel offensive in Iran.