Oil companies are making billions. In the U.S., calls to tax their windfall are growing
Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall prof...
U.S. Strikes Hit Greater Tunb Island in Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had attacked Iranian cruise missile storage and launch sites on Greater Tunb, one of several small islands in t...
Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Exchange Strikes for Fifth Straight Day
The United States launched new attacks against Iranian targets on Wednesday, hours after Iran targeted American military sites in the region. Neither ...
U.S. hits dozens of Iranian targets as Trump demands renewed negotiations
The president’s threats of further military strikes underscored his rising frustration over the collapse of a preliminary truce agreement and Tehran’s...
U.S. and Iran standoff over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies
Iran threatened to block all oil exporting routes in the region on Wednesday in response to the U.S. maritime blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait ...
He Has a $25 Million Bounty on His Head, But Is Also a U.S. Partner in Venezuela.
A list of alleged crimes has not prevented Diosdado Cabello, and other Venezuelan officials, from working with a U.S. government that once hounded the...
U.S. Presses China to Free American Seismologist Accused of Spying
President Trump has urged Xi Jinping to release the scientist, Youlin Chen, the man’s family says. Dr. Chen studied the detection of North Korean nucl...
Jeffries Says He Will Oppose Proposal to Cut Off U.S. Aid to Israel
The House Democratic leader said he would not seek to persuade other Democrats to vote against the measure, which has divided the party amid a deep ri...
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginnin...
The two countries slid back to open war over the waterway, as the U.S. planned to reinstate a blockade on Iranian ports on Tuesday. Iran said it had a...
U.S. to instate Strait blockade. And, states sue to stop Paramount-Warner Bros merger
The United States plans to reinstate a blockade over the Strait of Hormuz today. And, several states are suing to stop the massive Paramount-Warner Br...
The U.S. is set to reinstate a blockade over the Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military announced it will begin its blockade of Iranian ships over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, as Iran vowed to assert its own control ...
Trump Reimposes Naval Blockade, as U.S. and Iran Escalate Strikes
After several days of attacks, Tehran and Washington have effectively reverted to the state of open conflict that existed before the United States and...
Trump says the U.S. will reinstate its blockade on Iran and charge a toll on ships
The move comes after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire for the third weekend in a row, raising the specter of a return to all-out war after a shaky cea...
Vatican hits back at U.S. claim that Pope Leo speaks as a politician
President Donald Trump's ambassador had sought to portray the pontiff as the political leader of the Holy See. The Vatican swiftly said he is “proclai...
Iran has claimed control of the Strait of Hormuz and declared it closed, imperiling negotiations that the Iranian Foreign Ministry says are continuing...
Live Updates: Iran Targets Gulf States After Night of Intense U.S. Strikes
U.S. Central Command said it had hit about 140 targets in Iran overnight after Tehran attacked a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s military said it...
What to know about the cyclosporiasis outbreak hitting more than half of U.S. states
A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and nausea has been detected in 31 states, according to federal health authorities, bu...
A Bible passage is at the center of a debate over how the U.S. should treat immigrants
A debate over the Bible verse Matthew 25 is pitting mainline pastors, Black protestants and the pope against evangelical politicians put on the defens...
U.S. launches strikes after Iran fires on civilian vessel in Strait of Hormuz
Iran says it again considers the Strait of Hormuz closed after its military struck a ship using an "unauthorized route." In response, the U.S. militar...
