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…
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2026 — The number that defines American household finance in 2026 is not the inflation rate or the unemployment figure or the Dow Jones average. It is $1.277 trillion. That is the total credit card debt load…
OMAHA, May 16, 2026 — A rare and deadly outbreak of Andes hantavirus — a pathogen with no approved treatment and a fatality rate as high as 40% — has spread from a luxury Antarctic cruise ship to at least…
LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2026 — Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed twice, teased endlessly, and guarded by Rockstar Games with the kind of secrecy normally reserved for state secrets. Then a Best Buy promotional email apparently went out…
NEW YORK, May 15, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Something enormous is building beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Most people cannot see it yet. By late summer, they will feel it. A massive pool of warm water — driven…
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The promise was straightforward. Pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, put money back in American wallets through the largest tax cut in U.S. history, and watch the consumer economy reward the administration…
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2026 — The Supreme Court on Thursday indefinitely extended its freeze on new restrictions that would have required women to see a doctor in person before receiving the abortion pill mifepristone — keeping the drug accessible by…