WASHINGTON, May 18, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The United States government has not had a perfect credit rating from all three major agencies since August 2011. It still had one from Moody’s — the oldest and, in some ways, the…
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2026 — The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern on Sunday — its second-highest level of global alarm — after the…
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, May 18, 2026 — Two United States Navy EA-18G Growler jets collided in midair Sunday afternoon during an aerial demonstration at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, destroying both aircraft…
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2026 — The IRS raises retirement contribution limits most years. The numbers get slightly bigger, workers adjust their payroll deductions if they remember to, and most of the change passes unnoticed. That is not what happened in…
LAUREL, Md., May 17, 2026 — Napoleon Solo was not supposed to win. He had finished fifth in his last two races. The Kentucky Derby winner was not even in the field. The race was not at Pimlico, where the…
NEW YORK, May 17, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Tonight in Detroit, one franchise’s season ends and the other’s dream gets bigger. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons have been grinding each other to splinters for three weeks. The Pistons won…
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The promise was precise. Tariffs would shrink the trade deficit. Manufacturing would come home. American workers would win. That was the argument Trump made when he unveiled his sweeping Liberation Day tariff package…
DUBAI, May 17, 2026 — A drone struck an electrical generator on the outer perimeter of the United Arab Emirates’ only nuclear power plant early Sunday morning, setting it ablaze and sending the world’s most fragile ceasefire one step closer…
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2026 — The housing market has spent two years punishing anyone who tried to time it. Buyers who waited for rates to fall watched prices climb. Sellers who waited for rates to rise before listing found buyers…
BATON ROUGE, May 17, 2026 — Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is done. The two-term Republican — a former physician, chairman of the Senate Health Committee, and one of the most accomplished legislative minds in the upper chamber — finished…
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The fireworks have long faded. The bill Trump signed on the Fourth of July 2025 — the one he called the greatest legislative achievement of his presidency — is now an operational reality…
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2026 — President Donald Trump announced late Friday that American and Nigerian forces had killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki — the second-in-command of ISIS globally and, in Trump’s words, “the most active terrorist in the world” — in a…