WASHINGTON / TEHRAN, April 24, 2026 — Iran has begun collecting tolls from commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, officials in Tehran confirmed Thursday, in a move that analysts say could generate up to $20 million a day in…
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2026 — What Does Medicare Currently Cover — and What Gap Does This Bill Target? Medicare covers hospital stays, surgery, physician visits, outpatient procedures, lab work, and durable medical equipment. What it has never covered is food.…
MENLO PARK, April 24, 2026 — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, confirmed Thursday it will lay off approximately 8,000 employees — 10 percent of its global workforce — beginning May 20, while simultaneously closing 6,000 open…
LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2026 — What Google Announced at Cloud Next 2026 Google’s annual cloud conference, held this week in Las Vegas, was not a product reveal. It was a declaration of intent. Two days of announcements stacked from…
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — How the Strait of Hormuz Became Every American’s Problem Americans do not live near the Persian Gulf. But their wallets do. The closure — and now the controlled, contested partial reopening — of the Strait…
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 — A second round of direct U.S.-Iran negotiations — which could determine whether the fragile Middle East ceasefire holds or collapses — remains in a state of suspension Thursday, with Vice President JD Vance’s…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 23, 2026 — Most Americans know they should contribute more to their 401(k). Most don’t. The gap between knowing and doing is not usually laziness — it is a combination of not understanding the numbers, not knowing the…
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, APRIL 23, 2026 — The Justice Department indicted one of America’s most prominent civil rights organizations Tuesday, charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering — alleging that the…
PITTSBURGH, APRIL 22, 2026 — The NFL Draft is the league’s second-biggest event of the calendar year, and the 2026 edition — set in Pittsburgh, the city where football history lives in the steel girders — arrives with more than…
CUPERTINO, APRIL 22, 2026 — The morning Apple announced that Tim Cook was stepping down, the company’s stock barely moved. That relative calm is itself a story — a measure of how thoroughly Cook transformed Apple from a company whose…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 22, 2026 — Hours after Trump announced an open-ended ceasefire extension, Iran fired on a container ship and seized two vessels near the Strait of Hormuz — a direct escalation that immediately tested the truce that had just…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 22, 2026 — GLP-1 drugs changed medicine. That is not hyperbole. Since semaglutide — sold as Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss — reached mass prescription levels, the conversation around obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease has…