NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Monday night in Oklahoma City, the basketball world got what it came for. Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs walked into the home arena of the defending NBA champions, played two…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that he has called off a planned military strike on Iran that was set for Tuesday morning, after the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The most consequential corporate deal in American energy history arrived quietly Monday morning, buried beneath Iran war diplomacy and Wall Street’s digestion of the Moody’s credit downgrade. NextEra Energy, the Florida-based giant that…
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Monday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the five unions representing Long Island Rail Road workers have reached a contract agreement, ending a three-day strike that was the…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — The most common reason Americans give for not having adequate life insurance is that they cannot afford it. Research has now quantified exactly how wrong that belief is — and how much it is costing…
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…