WASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 2026 — The United States Navy began enforcing a full blockade of Iranian ports Monday morning, sending oil prices above $100 a barrel for the first time since last week’s brief spike — before markets partially recovered…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 2026 — When Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, announced this week that it would close at the end of the current semester, its students did not have the luxury of a long goodbye. They are scrambling…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 2026 — Americans hunting for their first home — or their next one — are stuck in a market that economists have taken to calling the “Great Housing Reset.” It is not a crash. It is not…
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 2026 — Rory McIlroy conquered Augusta National for the second consecutive year on Sunday, winning the 2026 Masters Tournament in one of the most dramatic final rounds the storied course has ever produced — and cementing…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 2026 — The largest overhaul of America’s government health programs in a generation is now fully underway, and the consequences are landing directly on the wallets and medical records of over 130 million Americans who depend on…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 13, 2026 — The United States military began enforcing a naval blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports Monday morning, dramatically escalating the six-week war with Iran just hours after peace talks in Pakistan collapsed…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 12, 2026 — For decades, doctors told aging Americans there was little they could do to prevent dementia beyond eating well and staying active. A landmark new study has changed that conversation — permanently. A 20-year follow-up of…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 12, 2026 — Six weeks into the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, the economic bill is arriving for every American household — not just at the gas station, but on every delivery package, airline ticket, and grocery receipt. And…
ISLAMABAD / WASHINGTON, APRIL 12, 2026 — The most significant diplomatic engagement between the United States and Iran in decades ended in failure Sunday morning, as Vice President JD Vance departed Pakistan without a deal after 21 hours of face-to-face…
WASHINGTON, APRIL 11, 2026 — The U.S. economy sent a deeply conflicting set of signals this week, and for millions of American households, the combined picture is not encouraging. On April 10, 2026, the Bureau of Economic Analysis finalized its…
SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 11, 2026 — At 4:12 AM on Friday, a 20-year-old man walked up to the exterior gate of Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, threw an improvised incendiary device at it, and fled on…
SAN DIEGO, APRIL 10, 2026 — Ten days after launching from Kennedy Space Center on the most ambitious human spaceflight in half a century, the four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission are hours from splashdown in the Pacific Ocean…