WASHINGTON / LONDON, May 1, 2026 — Brent crude oil surged past $126 a barrel in early trading Thursday — the highest price since July 2022 — as the Iran war entered its tenth week with no ceasefire extension in…
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2026 — What Changed — and Why It Took This Long For most of Medicare’s history, weight-loss drugs were explicitly excluded from coverage. Congress wrote that exclusion into law when Medicare Part D was created in 2003.…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, 2026 — The number that landed Wednesday morning — a 0.3% annualized contraction in US gross domestic product for the first quarter of 2026 — is simultaneously the most alarming economic headline in three years and a…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, 2026 — The Supreme Court delivered one of the most consequential voting rights decisions in a generation Wednesday, striking a new blow to the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines that legal scholars…
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2026 — Every Limit That Changed — Side by Side Account Type 2025 Limit 2026 Limit Change Traditional IRA (under 50) $7,000 $7,500 +$500 Traditional IRA (50 and older) $8,000 $8,600 +$600 Roth IRA (under 50) $7,000…
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2026 — The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady Wednesday in what may have been Chair Jerome Powell’s final meeting at the helm — but the vote was anything but routine. In what officials described…
NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 2026 — Tuesday’s NBA playoff triple-header was the best single night of basketball since the playoffs began. Three games, three distinct storylines — a dynasty in the making getting its first series win, a historic comeback…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 29, 2026 — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two consolidated immigration cases that could give the Trump administration the authority to strip Temporary Protected Status from more than 350,000 Haitians and roughly 6,000 Syrians living…
ABU DHABI / WASHINGTON, APRIL 29, 2026 — For 55 years, the United Arab Emirates participated in one of the most powerful economic arrangements in the world. OPEC — the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — was the mechanism…
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 — Why These 10 Drugs Were Chosen — and Why They Matter Medicare drug price negotiation did not start with cheap generics or obscure specialty medications. It started with the drugs that cost the most and…
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 — Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for a second time by the Justice Department on charges of threatening President Trump — this time in a new case filed after a federal judge dismissed…
NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 2026 — Monday night’s NBA playoff triple-header delivered exactly what the first round needed — a sweep, a potential upset of the season’s best team, and the greatest player in the world refusing to let his…