13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (278+ words) “An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, and Tehran postponed a plan to brief neighboring countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait,” the…...

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (202+ words) “Yemen is the latest domino to fall in the chain of instability set off by the U.S. war with Iran, a development that deepens the risk to global energy supplies and complicates efforts to find a diplomatic off-ramp to the…...

16+ hour, 14+ min ago   (138+ words) CBS News: “There has never been such a dizzying pardon economy as there is in Washington right now — a Wild West of clemency populated by MAGA-connected brokers and influencers — where the old norms have been largely tossed aside.” “Previously, those…...

16+ hour, 39+ min ago   (282+ words) “An American diplomat accused of possessing child abuse images was secretly seized from his London home and flown out of Britain by U.S. officials without British police being told,” the Daily Mail reports. Think You Know Politics? A new game…...

17+ hour, 14+ min ago   (206+ words) “Leaders of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, installed by President Donald Trump, say the center is on the brink of bankruptcy and argue that putting the president’s name on its facade — and thus ensuring his fundraising…...

21+ hour, 58+ min ago   (278+ words) “President Donald Trump said he would remove U.S. tariffs on Irish whiskey, announcing the move Sunday as he attended a golf tournament at his family’s course in western Ireland,” Bloomberg reports. Think You Know Politics? A new game every day....

1+ day, 46+ min ago   (122+ words) “President Trump on Sunday called on his Ukrainian counterpart to halt strikes on Russian refineries, saying the attacks are causing a shortage of diesel,” CBS News reports. Said Trump: “Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking…...

1+ day, 52+ min ago   (134+ words) “President Donald Trump defended his remarks calling for the unification of Ireland as ‘fairly routine,’ standing by comments that have sparked a controversy in Northern Ireland,” Bloomberg reports. Said Trump: “I’ve always loved the people of Ireland, and it just…...

1+ day, 44+ min ago   (149+ words) “President Donald Trump said he is not worried that Chinese President Xi Jinping will cancel a highly anticipated visit later this month,” Bloomberg reports. Said Trump: “No, I’m not worried about that. We have a great relationship. He wants to…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (128+ words) “Al-Qaeda’s plans for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took root in dusty, mud-walled compounds in Afghanistan that served for years as terrorist training camps,” the Washington Post reports. “A quarter-century later — despite decades of U.S. military and counterterrorism operations aimed at eradicating…...