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This article was originally published by Sterling Ashworth at Natural News.  The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States climbed back above $4 on July 20, 2026, according to American Automobile Association data. The average stood at $4.0030, marking a return to a level that analysts describe as a politically sensitive threshold for American consumers. [6] The increase followed a week of renewed hostilities in the Middle East, including Iranian attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and nine consecutive nights of U.S. military strikes against Iran. [8] Brent crude futures rose more than 3% on the day, pushing above $90 a barrel, as the conflict disrupted tanker traffic through the strategic waterway. [8] Reasons for the Price Increase Crude oil prices surged 16% in the past week, the largest weekly jump since April, according to market data. [8] The Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global oil supplies transited before the war, was effectively closed again after a brief reopening in late June, cutting off shipments from the Persian Gulf. [3] The closure has been described as the largest supply disruption in recorded history, with the International Energy Agency releasing…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have a lot in common.Both have long spells of absences from Capitol Hill due to health.Kean was out for months this winter and spring. But until he returned in June, no one knew exactly what was going on. Neither Kean nor his office or family said a word about why the congressman was AWOL. Upon his return, Kean announced he endured a lengthy hospital stay for depression. McConnell’s absence is similarly cryptic.His office simply declared in June that the Kentucky Republican was hospitalized and receiving “excellent care.” Yet it took weeks to learn that McConnell was hospitalized for a fall and then pneumonia. The dearth of information fueled conspiracy theories about whether McConnell was even alive. It prompted a letter of inquiry from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) as to the senator’s well-being.He told SiriusXM he hadn’t “heard a thing. Not an email. Not a letter. Not a call.”But that’s not where the similarities between Kean and McConnell end.During Kean’s absence, hardly a day went by when someone didn’t ask me about how they could potentially fill his seat. The same has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck’s mom has died following a battle with cancer.According to an obituary published in The Boston Globe on Friday, Christopher Anne Affleck, died peacefully in her sleep on June 2 at the age of 83.The Hollywood Reporter reported she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2025, and was given six months to live.”Her greatest wish after her diagnosis, however, was to live to see her grandson graduate high school,” the obituary reads. “She did so, attending with her family on May 31, 2026. She died peacefully, in her sleep, two days later.” HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO DIED IN 2026Born in 1942 in New York City, Chris proved to be a great activist, teaching “literacy classes in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War, and reveled in 1960s counterculture.”She went on to become “one of the first Radcliffe women” to graduate from Harvard, and spent 35 years as a public school teacher.”Every student, whether just arrived from Haiti or Cambridge upper crust, was a cherished citizen of her classroom republic, equal to each other and to herself,” the obituary states.After working as a teacher for over three…

At her age, race activist Alveda King wasn’t the least bit surprised by the Caitlin Clark opinion piece penned this week by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour.”I’ve seen every kind of race-baiting that you can imagine. I’m 75 years old,” the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told OutKick on Friday. Armour’s column relating the murder of Emmett Till to Caitlin Clark putting black and lesbian WNBA players in physical danger didn’t come as a shock to a woman who has seen so much over her lifetime. King, a Fox News contributor, says this playbook by the left-wing media is all too predictable.”What people have learned to do, is to throw out inflammatory, emotional phrases that will make people emotional and forget how to think. There was no reason to throw Emmett Till’s name out there. And so, that’s called race-baiting,” she continued.King’s advice to Americans is simple: Don’t be “misled by emotional turmoil without examining the facts.”What are the facts here?NANCY ARMOUR’S DISASTROUS CAITLIN CLARK ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES WHY SPORTSWRITING AND SPORTS MEDIA IS FAILINGAs OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske has written this week, Armour has used Clark as a race-baiting target in the past. In 2024, the USA Today…

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Summer is in full swing in South Florida, but if you’ve been down here at any point in the last few months or you own a thermometer, you’re probably aware of that.With the calendar rapidly approaching the last week in July, it’s easy to get down about summer coming to an end, but it also means we are closing in on the most wonderful time of the year.No, I’m not talking about Christmas. It’s spiny lobster mini season here in the Sunshine State.TWO REGULAR JOES WILL COMPETE WITH PROS FOR $3.25M PURSE AT INAUGURAL ‘THE CHAMPIONS’ BASS FISHING TOURNAMENT If you’re unfamiliar with mini season, it’s basically a time where commercial fishers aren’t allowed to catch any lobsters so that anyone who does so recreationally can have first dibs.It happens the last Wednesday and Thursday of July every year, and every hotel along the Florida Keys braces in anticipation for the mass pilgrimage of both natives and visitors who will make the trek down to participate.For those who wish to partake in the wonders of mini season, there are some rules you must follow.You are limited to 12 lobsters per person per day, unless you are diving in Monroe County…

Over 5,000 enlisted medical students at a Texas military base are being relocated due to “foundational defects” with the construction of their current barracks.Around 5,200 Army, Navy and Air Force enlisted students assigned to the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston are being moved to on-base temporary housing, the San Antonio Express-News was first to report. Their barracks face construction failures, which is forcing them to be demolished and ultimately reconstructed, a base spokesperson told Military Times.Instead of normal wear and tear, “systemic infrastructure failures” rooted in their construction are causing the need to tear down the METC dormitories. The spokesperson said that the facilities have experienced persistent issues with their climate control systems, and the structural flaws in the building cannot be permanently resolved through routine maintenance or ongoing repairs.“It has been determined that a complete teardown and transition to traditionally built facilities is the most responsible course of action,” the spokesperson said.The METC dorms finished construction in 2014 using modular building methods meant to enhance efficiency and reduce onsite labor requirements to boost the project timelines.The construction cost $140 million for each 1,200-person dormitory, according to the construction company tasked…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Graham Platner’s lead campaign strategist, Morris Katz, admitted on Friday that the controversies that came out about the ex-Maine Democratic Senate candidate early on should have been enough to disqualify him from running.Katz told The New York Times that the anger and frustration surrounding Platner’s campaign was valid. He said he often criticizes establishment Democrats for not learning from their mistakes, and said, “I think there are things here, many of the critiques that have been made, that are incredibly valid and things to learn from.”Platner ended his Senate campaign in July after Jenny Racicot alleged the Senate candidate had raped her when the two were in a relationship in 2021, which was first reported by Politico. NEW EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATION ROCKS PLATNER CAMPAIGN STILL REELING FROM RAPE ACCUSATION”That being said, in hindsight, knowing what we know now, the Reddit posts alone probably should have been enough — or should have been enough. The tattoo should have been enough. The initial New York Times story on troubling behavior should have been enough,” Katz said.Katz’s remarks drew some derision online, as those who felt Platner was problematic at the time were roundly dismissed and…