Violence is spiking in The Bahamas, Jamaica, triggering travel warning to U.S. citizens

A significant increase in crime in The Bahamas and Jamaica has led the the U.S. State Department to issue travel advisory warnings for the two Caribbean destinations.

In the past week, the State Department has warned U.S. citizens to exercise “increased caution” when visiting The Bahamas, where two killings over the weekend added to an already alarming homicide rate, and to “reconsider travel” to Jamaica.

The warning on Jamaica was updated on Jan. 23, and is now at Level 3, just one level below the strictest “Do Not Travel” advisory.

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Reacting to reports that Donald Trump has given the okay from Iran to start selling oil to the United States, handing the extremist leadership an immediate source of billions of dollars, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle admitted she was dumbfounded.

On her “Money Power Politics" morning show, Ruhle, a former Wall Street executive, reported, “We learned the administration will allow Iran to sell their oil for US dollars. Why is this a big deal? It is a decision that upends decades of US policy that was meant to make it harder for them to develop their nuclear program.”

“Well, now it's on,” she pronounced. “It can export oil to the open market and this time be paid in dollars. According to [Wall Street analyst] Steve Ratner, that could bring in as much as 10 billion bucks for Iran in the next 60 days and, granted it is only 60 days. But do we really believe that these negotiations are going to be done by then, or are they going to be extended? I sure think they are. So the administration is giving Iran one of the things that it has desperately wanted for years and years before Iran has delivered on the number one goal the United States had going into the war: ending its nuclear weapons program.”

Introducing her guests, analysts Ron Insana and RiskReversal Advisors executive Dan Nathan, she prompted them with, “I want to talk about who benefits from this move? First, what are like — it blows my mind that we would offer such a concession.”

“Well, yeah, and Stephanie, if there's also an unfreezing of assets, the total somewhere in the neighborhood $12 to 24 billion in round benefits distinctly by this,” Insana replied. And there are some military analysts and others who are concerned that Iran will use this to reconstitute its military force, build more missiles, build more drones and maybe even maintain a certain portion of its nuclear program going forward.”

“So they're the direct beneficiary of this," he continued before adding, “We are not in any way, shape or form.”

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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce a new detail of the tentative peace agreement between Washington and Tehran.

“The Money and/or Sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing goes into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United States, including Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans from our great American Farmers,” Trump wrote.

“These are things that are desperately needed by Iran. This is a humanitarian crisis, and I feel it is necessary to help, NOW, before it is too late. Talks are going well!”

Despite the President's announcement, the actual 14-point memorandum of understanding contains no such provision.

Point 11 explicitly states, the U.S. would make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU, indicating Iran retains control of its funds.

Legal experts warn Trump's unilateral announcement of terms absent from the signed agreement could jeopardize ongoing peace negotiations with Iranian officials, potentially creating disputes over the deal's implementation and conditions.

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A GOP analyst and former White House insider revealed that as President Donald Trump has shown signs of "dictatorial dementia," energetic "young henchmen" around him are in a hurry to reshape the government — even rushing to conduct mass firings.

Bill Kristol, the editor at large for The Bulwark and a former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, described how 80-year-old Trump has surrounded himself with young men. Acting director of national intelligence Bill Pulte is 38 years old, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is 40, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and FBI Director Kash Patel are all 46 years old. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is 51, and Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought is 50.

"A sense of impending mortality seems to be making our president even more unhinged than ever," Kristol wrote.

Kristol described how Trump might not have "the patience to carry out a thoroughgoing subversion of the rule of law, of our political and civil liberties, or of our elections," or the ability to enact a full authoritarian takeover.

"On the other hand, there’s no doubt he would like to see such a takeover," Kristol wrote.

"And he does have young men with a lean and hungry look in positions of authority and power in the executive branch who are committed to making his dream of power without limits a reality," Kristol wrote.

These men have something in common, Kristol explained.

"They’re young, but they’re as determined as the old man they work for not to hand their positions over to anyone other than fellow loyalists after their terms in office, if they intend to leave office at all," Kristol wrote. "They’re as determined as the old man they work for not to step aside from their powers and allow political opponents to look into what they have done. And like the old man they work for, they aren’t committed to the peaceful and democratic transfer of power after an election, or to the political norms or lawful procedures of a liberal democracy."

"None of these men should be in a position of power and authority in the government of the United States," Kristol added. "Yet here they are, hiring and firing at will, abusing their authority and politicizing their agencies in unprecedented ways."