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149 articles · Started 2026-06-12 · Last updated 2026-07-28
Five months ago, the Trump administration sold America a war against Iran that was going to wrap up in a matter of weeks. It has not wrapped up. What it has...
Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in...
The United States has paused its military strikes on Iran, and the man now helping steer the diplomatic fallout is Jared Kushner. Yes, that Jared Kushner. The...
Benjamin Netanyahu didn't exactly stroll through Ben Gurion Airport with his carry-on like a normal person. The Israeli Prime Minister flew out of a military...
After 13 consecutive nights of US airstrikes on Iran and a tit-for-tat exchange that killed four American soldiers and dozens of Iranians, Donald Trump paused...
One hundred and fifty days into a hot war with Iran, the United States is claiming the Strait of Hormuz is open while Iran is literally firing warning shots at...
One hundred days out from the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on CNN and said the quiet part loud: Republicans have nothing to run on...
The Pentagon has apparently decided that if the law doesn't work for you, you just chop the war in half and pretend you have two shorter ones. According to The...
Donald Trump spent a decade branding 'America First' as his personal political property, and now Democrats are walking out of the store with it. A progressive...
Five months into a war that Congress never authorized, two-thirds of Americans want the United States to end the conflict with Iran right now. President Trump...
Mike Waltz, the man who got fired as National Security Advisor and was immediately rewarded with a UN ambassadorship, went on television Sunday to explain that...
House Republicans spent their final week before a five-week summer vacation passing $95 billion in Iran war spending, a $1.15 trillion military budget, and a...
The Trump administration has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, giving the kingdom access to American nuclear technology and expertise...
For thirteen consecutive days, the United States bombed Iran. Then, on Friday, Donald Trump told the military to stop. Whether that means a ceasefire is...
Iran launched drone strikes against American military facilities in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq on Friday, capping off 13 consecutive nights of U.S....
Oil hit $100 a barrel this week, and if you've been blaming inflation or OPEC or whatever villain is trending, here's the more honest answer: drones. Cheap,...
The United States Senate, that great deliberative body best known this year for partisan screaming matches and performative walkouts, may actually be about to...
The Pentagon published an official list of American service members killed in the Iran war. Then, quietly, four names disappeared. Those four soldiers had...
Oil just cracked $100 a barrel for the first time since May, the Middle East is on fire, and Marco Rubio has decided the Iranians just aren't dealmaking...
The United States is now on its 12th consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, 18 Americans are dead, and the Senate just voted to keep going without ever...
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to order Donald Trump to end the war with Iran, which is exactly what the House already did last month, which Trump...
A Saudi oil tanker called the Encelia is on fire in the Red Sea right now, Houthi rebels are bragging about it, and Brent crude just crossed $100 a barrel for...
House Republicans have decided that the best time to try banning mail-in ballots nationwide is while simultaneously funding a $95 billion war and writing...
The United States is currently fighting a war with Iran, in part, to stop Iran from enriching uranium. This week, the Trump administration signed a deal that...
Twelve straight nights of U.S. airstrikes on Iran, two maritime chokepoints now under active threat, oil up 50% since January, and the president is out in...
On Wednesday, Trump stood at Dover Air Force Base and saluted four flag-draped transfer cases carrying Americans aged 19, 25, 28, and 30 years old, all killed...
The House of Representatives just passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill with voting restrictions buried inside it, in the middle of an unauthorized war...
Pete Hegseth walked into the Senate, announced that the US-Israel war on Iran has already cost $37.5 billion, and then asked for $88 billion more. Three...
Pete Hegseth walked into a Senate hearing on Tuesday to defend a war that has now dragged past 80 days, cost $80 billion, and produced no exit strategy, and...
On election night 2024, Donald Trump told the country, 'I'm not going to start wars.' On February 28, 2026, he bombed Iran. Five months, $37.5 billion, three...
Mike Johnson looked a Fox News reporter in the eye on Monday and said, with the full confidence of a man who has never once successfully herded his own caucus,...
Congress hasn't even finished cleaning up the last reconciliation bill and Senate Republicans are already quietly floating a third one. The reason: the Iran...
Ten consecutive nights. That's how long the United States military has now been bombing Iran, and it just launched another round. Iran, for its part, is...
A 19-year-old private from Carrollton, Texas and a 25-year-old lieutenant from Hawaii are dead, killed at a Jordanian air base by an Iranian attack that the...
Iran's president announced Monday that his country is in a 'full-scale war' with the United States, which is roughly the sentence you never want to read before...
The United States carried out a wave of military strikes against Iran this weekend as the conflict between the two countries continued to escalate, according...
Congratulations, America. Gas is $4 a gallon again. The national average crossed that threshold today, per AAA, right on schedule with the Trump...
Six years after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump gave a primetime televised address blaming China for rigging it against him. Pennsylvania...
A U.S. service member is dead in northern Iraq after a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone went catastrophically wrong. He...
A Republican operative connected to Donald Trump's political operation just told Axios, out loud, using their actual mouth, that the party's entire 2026...
Two American service members are dead, one is missing, and four more were medevaced to hospitals after Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles and attack...
The United States has been at war for more than 20 of the past 25 years, fought three massive conflicts in the same region, and has essentially nothing to show...
The United States bombed Iran for the seventh night in a row on Friday. Not a typo. Seven consecutive nights of American airstrikes against a sovereign nation,...
A Greek maritime CEO who monitors one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints just said, flatly, "nobody is willing to move." Six consecutive nights...
The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
The United States is currently fighting a rebooted war with Iran, and the Secretary of Defense's big strategic innovation is mandatory testosterone screening...
Donald Trump is holding a primetime address Thursday night that he has described as "really big news" and possibly one of the most important speeches of his...
While you were wincing at the gas pump after the U.S.-Iran war sent oil prices through the roof, the world's top 100 oil and gas companies were quietly banking...
An American citizen named Dena Karari is free after being trapped in Iran since December 2024, which is genuinely good news. The slightly surreal part is that...
The United States is now on its fifth consecutive day of airstrikes against Iran, a ceasefire that lasted less than a month is dead in the water, and the...
On Tuesday, more than 300 flights were delayed and at least 126 were outright canceled at Reagan National Airport because the Iraqi prime minister's security...
Donald Trump declared himself guardian of the world's most critical oil chokepoint on Monday, slapped a 20% fee on every ship that passes through it, and then...
For one brief, shining moment on Tuesday morning, the economic news was actually good. Then, roughly in the same news cycle, Donald Trump announced he was...
The U.S. military sent a small fleet of autonomous robot boats into an Iranian naval base and blew things up, and somehow that sentence is not from a Tom...
Donald Trump went on Truth Social Monday morning to announce that the United States would 'probably run' the Strait of Hormuz and charge foreign ships a 20%...
Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and begin collecting tolls from ships passing through one of...
Iran looked Qatar in the eyes, made a promise, shook hands on it, and then fired a missile at Qatar. That's the situation right now in the Persian Gulf, where...
India's foreign minister was at the United Nations on Monday, formally launching a campaign called SHANTI, which means peace, when Iran's Revolutionary Guard...
The United States military bombed Iran for the third consecutive night, hitting targets across the country's entire southern coastline while Iranian missiles...
The United States bombed Iran overnight, Iran responded by setting two tankers on fire and lobbing missiles at Bahrain and Jordan, and Donald Trump announced...
The United States and Iran are both claiming control of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the kind of sentence that used to appear only in Tom Clancy novels and...
Saudi Arabia bombed an international airport on Monday because it did not want a plane full of Houthi officials landing there after they attended a funeral....
Three weeks ago, Marco Rubio stood in Bahrain and told the entire world there would be zero tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, that the president had made it...
A former senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps went on record this weekend to say Iran could assassinate Donald Trump inside the White...
Donald Trump has announced a naval blockade of Iran and, in what can only be described as a bold new frontier in unhinged foreign policy, declared that cargo...
Donald Trump took to his social media platform Saturday to announce that 1,000 missiles are "Locked and Loaded" and pointed at Iran, ready to fire...
The United States bombed 140 targets inside Iran on Sunday morning after Iran set a container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it in the Strait of...
Global oil demand just posted its first annual decline since the darkest days of COVID-19 lockdowns, the International Energy Agency reported this week. China...
Mourners at a dead supreme leader's funeral waved signs calling for the sitting U.S. president to be killed, and the sitting U.S. president responded by going...
The United States signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran three weeks ago, apparently under the assumption that Iran would, at minimum, stop shooting at...
Iran's government privately walked up to Trump's team, hat in hand, and said the quiet part out loud: "We screwed up. We made a mistake. Let's keep talking."...
Before the United States started a war with Iran in late February, you were paying $2.98 a gallon for regular gas. This Friday, according to AAA, that number...
Delta CEO Ed Bastian went on CNBC Friday and said the quiet part loud: even if oil prices fall, he expects high airfares to stick around. The average domestic...
The United States launched airstrikes on 90 targets inside Iran on Thursday, including, per the Revolutionary Guard, two bridges on the route to Mashhad where...
Donald Trump declared the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding dead, ordered two rounds of airstrikes, and announced the ceasefire was 'over.' Now, according...
The United States is actively bombing Iran, and the President of the United States is posting memes about it. According to Axios, while fresh American strikes...
The Secret Service advised President Trump to leave Turkey on the old Air Force One instead of his shiny new Qatari-gifted jet, because the $400 million plane...
So while the U.S. and Iran were busy blowing each other's proxies up across the Middle East, Tehran apparently found the time to quietly park 300 kamikaze...
The United States hit the area surrounding Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday, Iranian state media reported, while President Trump told the...
Donald Trump bombed his way into an accidental climate policy. Four months into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, countries across Asia and Africa are abandoning...
The United States bombed Iranian military targets for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, and this time the strikes were bigger. Bandar Abbas. Sirik....
Three weeks. That's how long it took for Trump's historic Iran peace deal to go from signed memorandum of understanding to 'they're scum.' The New York Post...
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is disintegrating at speed, and both sides are now taking turns blowing things up while insisting the other...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spent Tuesday firing missiles at ships and sending drones into a liquefied natural gas tanker, setting it on fire and...
The Trump administration allegedly took the personal files of Iranians fleeing persecution, including details about their pro-democracy activism, their...
The U.S. Navy searched 14,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea for more than 102 hours and still couldn't bring one of its pilots home. On Sunday, they stopped...
Iran buried its Supreme Leader on America's birthday while Donald Trump stood in front of Mount Rushmore bragging about bombing the country. Mourners in Tehran...
The Trump administration launched a war in Iran over Saudi Arabia's explicit objections, ignored Saudi calls to end it, watched Iran attack Saudi Arabia...
Iran spent the early months of 2026 turning the Strait of Hormuz into a parking lot for the global oil supply. Now, with a shaky ceasefire in place, Tehran is...
A Panama-flagged oil tanker carrying over two million barrels of crude oil took a drone strike to the hull at 4:30 in the morning, and that was the second...
The Senate voted 50-47 on Wednesday to let Donald Trump keep his unchecked war-making authority over Iran, and they did it the day after four of their own...
A Liberian oil tanker called the Stoic Warrior sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday using a new route hugging Oman's coastline, while Iran's...
The Pentagon told Congress the Iran war cost around $29 billion. Now it wants $80 billion. That's not a rounding error. That's not a miscalculation. That's the...
Vice President JD Vance walked out of nuclear talks in Switzerland on Monday and told reporters that Iran had agreed to let UN nuclear inspectors back into the...
Mike Pence, the man who spent four years nodding along to everything Donald Trump did, has found his spine — and he's using it to say Trump went too soft on...
Keir Starmer is out as British Prime Minister, JD Vance is sitting across a table from senior Iranian officials in Switzerland, and the United States Congress...
Four months ago, the United States started bombing Iran. Now, according to a Brown University estimate cited by NBC News, Americans have spent an extra $33...
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Saturday that it was closing the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of the world's...
The United States and Iran have now signed the same peace agreement at least twice, possibly three times, in three different locations, and as of this week the...
Benjamin Netanyahu walked into the Oval Office and told Donald Trump that one more push would collapse the Iranian regime like a house of cards. Four months...
A US missile struck a school in the Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the war, killing 168 people, including 110 children. That was February 28th. It...
Two days. That's how long it took for the deal Donald Trump signed with Iran to functionally fall apart. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday...
Barack Obama sat down with the Today show to open his presidential center and ended up delivering the most devastating four-sentence summary of the Iran war...
The ink on the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Israel killed at least 18 Lebanese civilians in overnight airstrikes, prompting Iran...
A Hezbollah drone blew up a tank in Southern Lebanon overnight, killing four Israeli soldiers including a battalion commander, and somehow managed to also blow...
Donald Trump spent months bombing Iran and demanding "zero enrichment," then walked out to a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and said, actually, Iran can have...
The Vice President of the United States walked up to a podium at the White House, looked into the cameras, and said the quiet part so loud it rattled windows:...
For the first time in 110 days, major commercial ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz again. That's the good news. The bad news is that Benjamin...
Donald Trump went into a war demanding unconditional surrender. He came out with a memorandum of understanding. And when Axios asked him what he'd learned...
The United States has lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports, kicked off a 60-day negotiating countdown, and told the world's oil tankers to get moving...
Pete Hegseth flew to Brussels, stood in front of America's closest military allies, and called them shameful. Not for anything they did to us. For not letting...
Donald Trump launched an illegal war against Iran demanding unconditional surrender, the total eradication of its ballistic missile program, regime change, and...
The U.S. military probably killed more than 170 people, most of them children, when it struck an elementary school in Iran on the first day of the war. Nearly...
The Trump administration signed a framework deal with Iran on Wednesday and, in the same breath, told reporters they fully expect Iran to violate it. That's...
While you were going about your Wednesday, Donald Trump was at a gala dinner at the Palace of Versailles signing a preliminary agreement with Iran that...
The United States has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that lifts sanctions, unfreezes billions in Iranian assets, and reopens the Strait of...
Jet fuel prices have fallen more than two dollars a gallon since their April peak, which is genuinely good news for the airline industry. Whether any of it...
Donald Trump stood at a G7 podium in France on Wednesday and declared a massive win over Iran. The actual text of the deal he was celebrating, however, is a...
The Trump administration has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran that immediately lifts oil export sanctions and dangles a $300 billion...
The President of the United States stood in France on Wednesday and told the world that if Iran doesn't hold up its end of a deal whose text nobody has...
The Vice President of the United States is boarding a plane to Switzerland to put his signature on an agreement with Iran, and the American public has almost...
Donald Trump flew to a luxury resort town in France this week to tell European leaders about his big Iran win, remind everyone that Benjamin Netanyahu needs to...
The United States may have burned through more than half of its inventory of four critical munitions fighting Iran, including Tomahawk missiles, and the...
The United States has been at war with Iran for over 100 days under a legal justification the administration refuses to explain publicly, pursuing a deal whose...
Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to personally authorize the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and invite the ships of the world to start their...
Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to end a war, set a ceremonial signing date in Geneva for Friday, and apparently forgot to tell...
The world's largest synthetic motor oil production facility got hit by an Iranian missile in March, motor oil prices have more than tripled since the war...
Donald Trump flew into a French spa town this week to discuss ending a war in Ukraine that he swore he'd fix in 24 hours, fresh off wrapping up a different war...
Donald Trump launched a war with Iran in February over its nuclear program, and on Sunday he announced a deal to end that war — without actually resolving...
After weeks of bombing runs, a war that reshaped Iran's military, and months of Trump insisting a historic agreement was perpetually two weeks away, the United...
The CIA Director walked into a room with the President of the United States and told him, based on actual intelligence gathered by actual spies, that Iran...
A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress -- a nuclear-capable strategic bomber that has been actively flying bombing raids on Iran -- crashed shortly after takeoff...
Donald Trump stood next to Emmanuel Macron in France on Monday and announced that a memorandum of understanding with Iran is 'all signed,' which is either a...
The U.S. and Iran announced a major nuclear deal on Sunday, and by Monday morning the two sides were already telling completely different stories about what's...
Nothing focuses the mind of an American political party quite like $5-a-gallon gasoline heading into an election year. Oil prices dropped more than 4% on...
The United States and Iran have apparently agreed to stop shooting at each other, which is good. They have not, however, agreed on what exactly they agreed to,...
Iran's national soccer team landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday afternoon to play a World Cup group stage match, which would be a perfectly...
On Sunday morning, while the Israeli Defense Forces were bombing Beirut's southern suburbs and Hezbollah was firing rockets into northern Israel, Defense...
On Sunday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on CBS and told the country that a US-Iran memorandum of understanding was basically a done deal....
You know a president is in trouble when the New York Post letters section starts sounding like the resistance. Trump's latest proclamation that Iran has agreed...
Iran looked at a pending peace agreement requiring it to surrender its enriched uranium stockpile and apparently thought: what if we just buried it under a...
An Iranian hacker group says it broke into California's water infrastructure as payback for US airstrikes that allegedly left 20,000 Iranians without drinking...
Iran has announced that the state funeral for assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin on July 4 — the exact same day the United States throws its...
After nearly three months of backroom diplomacy involving four separate mediating countries, the United States and Iran are reportedly ready to stop shooting...
The Trump administration handed American farmers a $12 billion relief package in December to ease the pain of its own trade war. Then, two months later, Trump...
Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, and U.S. forces had to shoot them down. This happened while...
Donald Trump spent Thursday celebrating a potential Iran nuclear deal he said could be signed as soon as this weekend. Then Iranian state media went ahead and...
Benjamin Netanyahu spent years betting that a war with Iran would end with the ayatollahs gone and a new Tehran rising from the rubble. What he got instead was...
Donald Trump, the man who torched the last Iran nuclear deal as the worst agreement ever negotiated in human history, is now apparently days away from signing...
