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Iran is considering charging up to $2 million per ship to allow passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

How long will Iran make money off of other countries' oil?

Attorney General Pam Bondi is out.

Yeah, Bondi made history as attorney general, going to exceptional lengths to make the Justice Department subservient to the political whims of her boss.

Federal prosecutors spent tax dollars seeking indictments of the president's political opponents, and they were repeatedly accused of misleading judges or defying court orders.

But there was at least one way that Bondi displeased the president.

Iran is asserting control over the waterway through which about a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes.

It's a side effect of the U.S.