President Trump signed an agreement that Iran said gave it control of the waterway — and global energy supplies. Now, Iran’s military is violently asserting authority.President Trump at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. He recently said the memorandum of understanding reached with Iran was “over.”
The renewed hostilities posed fresh risks to ships seeking to navigate the Strait of Hormuz.Ships at the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.
He consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas. The Washington, D.C., medical examiner said he died of an aortic dissection, a tear in the body’s main artery.Senator Lindsey Graham speaking in Spartanburg, S.C., on June 30.
In an interview on Sunday, President Trump recounted his last conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham, hours before his death. Mr. Graham sounded “perfect,” he said.President Trump with Senator Lindsey Graham during a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., in 2020. Mr. Trump said he spoke on the phone
Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday night, a day after returning from Ukraine and four months before he was to face re-election.Senator Lindsey Graham during an appearance at the BMW manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, S.C., last month.
Facing threats from Russia and China, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is breaking with World War II-era limits on security.Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Group of 7 summit in France last month. Ms. Takaichi wants Japan to do more to protect state secrets and vital technologies and more aggressiv
Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.The Aeroflot office in Toranomon Kotohira Tower in Tokyo. Japan’s weak espionage laws and flourishing high-tech industry have made it a crucial base for the Russian war effort
A previously unreported encounter last summer set the stage for a rapprochement between the president and his former fixer, who has so far avoided the diatribes and prosecutions that President Trump has directed at other critics.Michael Cohen outside a Manhattan courtroom in 2023. He testified in Mr
Key Republicans on the Judiciary Committee could push for concessions from Todd Blanche, in line to be attorney general, though they did not appear in revolt.It would take just a single Republican no vote to deadlock the Senate Judiciary Committee, effectively sinking the confirmation of Todd Blanch
The Republican senator denied that he had suffered a heart attack and said he had left the hospital and moved to a physical rehabilitation center. He did not give a timetable for returning to Capitol Hill.Senator Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill earlier this year.
The Netherlands has been trying to figure out what to do with manure it can no longer use thanks to environmental rules. Volatile fertilizer costs may help.
Many say communication was chaotic and even nonexistent as flames tore through the area, taking 12 lives in one of the deadliest wildfires on record in Spain.
For out-of-work factory workers in Kunshan, a region made rich by electronics manufacturing, a park is the only place to go.Men looking for daily gigs in Kunshan, the heart of China’s manufacturing industry. As the country pivots toward automation, lower-skilled workers are finding fewer steady oppo
When other countries cut ties, Americans pay.
Something is wrong if vice is all them and virtue is all you.
