WASHINGTON — The United States military said Friday that its forces disabled the Comoros-flagged merchant tanker M/T Lavine in the Gulf of Oman after the vessel repeatedly attempted to breach a US-imposed blockade of Iran’s ports. US Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said the crew received warnings but did...
Iran launched a coordinated barrage of drones and missiles against United States military facilities across Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq, in what Tehran described as a punitive response to sustained US airstrikes on its forces. The operation, carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian Army during...
A coalition of 25 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island against the Trump administration, naming FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security as defendants. The lawsuit challenges updated policy guidance for the...
NEW ORLEANS — Fired former “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega has publicly alleged that CBS News executive Bari Weiss pushed for political interference in her reporting and attempted to alter fundamental facts in her stories. Speaking on Thursday at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference in New Orleans, Vega...
Miami, Florida — Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has contributed $10 million to U.S. Representative Byron Donalds’ campaign for Florida governor, a sum described as instantly transforming the financial contours of the race. Griffin, the CEO of Citadel and one of the country’s most influential Republican donors, has aligned...
NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Justice has withdrawn grand jury subpoenas that sought testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists over their reporting on President Donald Trump’s use of an older presidential aircraft after a NATO summit. The subpoenas stemmed from articles detailing that Trump chose...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order enacting a one-year moratorium on construction of new hyperscale artificial intelligence data centers across the state, making New York the first U.S. state to legally restrict AI infrastructure growth. Hochul cites the enormous electricity demand and millions of gallons of...
U.S. President Donald Trump said in an Axios interview Thursday that he is close to deciding on a new large-scale military attack on Iran, potentially exceeding the scope of the earlier Operation Epic Fury launched on February 28. He said U.S. forces are already set for the operation, while acknowledging...
Washington, United States – The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected a Democratic-led war powers resolution that sought to bar further military action against Iran without explicit authorization from Congress, voting 49–47 against advancing the measure. The vote, which saw Republican Senator Susan Collins side with Democrats and Democratic Senator John...
The White House on July 23, 2026, formally accused Chinese artificial intelligence laboratory Moonshot of violating United States export control regulations in the development of its advanced Kimi K3 model. Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, alleged in a public social media statement...
