WASHINGTON, May 6, 2026 — Twenty-four hours after launching Project Freedom — the U.S. military operation to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz — President Trump announced Tuesday evening that he was pausing the operation to give Iran…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 5, 2026 — The second day of Project Freedom — the U.S. military operation to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz — has produced the most violent 24-hour period of the Iran…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 5, 2026 — The first direct military exchange between U.S. and Iranian forces since Trump’s ceasefire declaration occurred Monday in the Strait of Hormuz, as American naval vessels escorting commercial ships under “Project Freedom”…
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2026 — President Trump announced Sunday that the United States will begin helping stranded commercial vessels navigate through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning — a statement that has sent shipping companies, insurance underwriters, and oil…
WASHINGTON / MUSCAT, May 4, 2026 — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a direct telephone conversation Sunday — the first direct diplomatic contact between a U.S. Secretary of State and an Iranian Foreign…
FORT LAUDERDALE / NEW YORK, May 3, 2026 — Spirit Airlines ceased all operations at 3 AM Eastern on Saturday, canceling every flight it had scheduled, shutting down its customer service lines, and locking its ticket counters — ending 34…
WASHINGTON / WEST PALM BEACH, May 3, 2026 — In back-to-back statements less than 16 hours apart, President Trump suggested Friday night that the United States might be better off not reaching a deal with Iran — then walked that…
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2026 — President Trump sent a formal notification to Congress on Friday declaring that hostilities with Iran have been “terminated” — a legally significant communication delivered precisely on the 60-day War Powers Resolution deadline — even as…
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2026 — Friday marked a legally significant moment in the U.S.-Israel war against Iran — the 60-day deadline under the War Powers Resolution by which President Trump was required to either end the fighting, obtain congressional authorization…
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, 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 — 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…