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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for the fourth time in the past month, as Transportation Security Administration agents are expected to miss their first paychecks this week.
The economic fallout of the US-Israeli assault and Tehran’s retaliation is spreading fast, and pushing the most vulnerable towards disaster
Welcome to our live rolling coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, this Friday March 13.
President Donald Trump is seen in his limousine, known as “The Beast,” for the motorcade to the White House after his arrival on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Christian Jones had 20 points in George Washington’s 66-62 win against Fordham on Thursday in the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament.
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
WASHINGTON — Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of digital chaos that could expand if Tehran's allies join the fray.
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday that US military escorts for oil tankers through the crucial Strait of Hormuz “can’t happen now” but are “quite likely” to be in place by April — as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the waterway closed as a “tool to pressure the enemy”…
The second Trump administration’s surge of interventionism has sent shockwaves across the globe. To Moscow, watching from the sidelines, this is long-awaited confirmation that the era of multilateralism has ended, replaced by the unapologetic return of Great Power politics.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Josh Hawley rolled out long-shot legislation this week to override the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen responsible for the majority of abortions in the US.
NEW YORK — Oil prices have soared since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran, and President Donald Trump is now turning to America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a wider agreement from many of the world’s wealthiest countries to tap into emergency stockpiles.
The CEO of FireEye Kevin Mandia gives a tour of the cybersecurity company’s unused office space in Reston, Va., March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, file)
Eswatini’s King Mswati III speaks during a news conference after talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
Donald Trump has said that it would not be appropriate for Iran’s national football team to participate in the FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States in the summer.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves responds to a reporter’s question during a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her the daily, morning news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, the day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
WASHINGTON — The threat to Americans from international terrorist groups is “higher now than it’s been in decades” as the war against Iran nears the end of its second week, Sen. Ted Cruz has warned.
President Trump is considering waiving the Jones Act to speed up oil shipments as his administration works to bring down gas prices.
Two weeks into Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran, the conflict is beginning to take on a shape that few strategists publicly predicted but many privately feared.
For the past month, US President Donald Trump and his secretaries of state and of war have emphasised a vision of the United States as a white Christian European nation at war with the non-Christian, non-white world.
The U.S. Capitol photographed Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed on a bipartisan basis a bill barring Wall Street investors from buying up single-family homes, sending the legislation back to the House where it faces an uphill battle before reaching President Trump’s desk.
An Illinois-based Costco shopper is suing the big-box retailer for tariff refunds in a possible class-action case after President Trump’s core import taxes were overruled last month.
The Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic because use of its artificial intelligence models would “pollute” the US military’s supply chain, a top War Department official claimed Thursday.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, baja del Air Force One en el base de Andrews, Maryland, el miércoles 11 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Luis M. Álvarez)
The US president says higher oil prices benefit the country as Iran war pushes petrol costs above $100 per barrel
Irans’s players pose for a team photo before an Asian group A qualifying soccer match against North Korea for the 2026 World Cup, June 10, 2025, at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, file)
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The View sounded off on United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the U.S. Department of Defense in the wake of a fatal missile strike at an elementary school in Iran, and also took a moment to call out the Pentagon’s reported spending.
Participation is in question amid ongoing war
President Trump has responded to Iran’s sports minister saying that his country cannot compete at this summer’s World Cup, which the US is co-hosting.
Seattle resident Howard Schultz, the founder and longtime face of Starbucks, has announced that he will be drinking his vanilla soy latte in Miami from now on, driven off by a threatened millionaire income tax in Washington state.
Un grupo de personas visita la exhibición Pasaje Medio del Museo Nacional de Historia y Cultura Afroestadounidenses, en la que se presenta una pieza de madera, izquierda, proveniente del barco negrero São José-Paquete de África, el viernes 6 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Jacquelyn Martin)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the dean of South Carolina’s Democrats, said Thursday that he will run for an 18th House term, a move that could position him as an influential elder statesman in Congress if his party regains the majority in November.
The United States military is “not ready” to accompany oil ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a top official in President Donald Trump’s administration says as Iran continues to block the strategic waterway.
View image in fullscreenMaryland, USDonald Trump speaks to reporters after arriving at Joint Base Andrews on Air Force OnePhotograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APShareView image in fullscreenTehran, IranA woman sits on rubble by a residential building damaged by the US-Israeli bombing campaignPhotograph: Vahid Salemi/…
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is awaiting White House approval for a major drone production agreement proposed by Kyiv last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as countries scramble to modernize their air defenses after the Iran war exposed shortcomings.
In the face of a lawsuit and growing verbal attacks on the campaign trail, Rep. Eric Swalwell — the Democratic frontrunner in the California governor’s race — insists he’s kept a home in the state for nearly nine years while serving in Congress.
California officials say they are aware of information in various news reports that Iran could be targeting the U.S. with drone strikes in retaliation for the ongoing war in Iran but many are downplaying that threat.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks ahead of former President Joe Biden, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)
Four additional men deported from the United States have arrived in Eswatini, a lawyer and prison official confirmed Thursday, as Washington expands its third-country deportation program.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has criticized the US-Israeli war on Iran, branding it part of a dangerous trend “outside international law.” She also condemned a deadly strike on an Iranian school widely attributed to the US.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has criticized the US-Israeli war on Iran, branding it part of a dangerous trend “outside international law.” She also condemned a deadly strike on an Iranian school widely attributed to the US.
FILE -A view of the island of Qeshm, which oversees the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, on Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani has warned that if Washington follows through on its threats to target the country's electricity network, the "whole region will go dark".
China consumes around 90% of Iran’s oil exports, so could be forced to rely on alternative suppliers – particularly Russia
Despite United States President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations of victory in the US-Israeli war on Iran, Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel and US military assets in the region have continued, upending global financial and energy markets.
Palantir is still using Anthropic's Claude as the artificial intelligence startup's clash with the Pentagon plays out, CEO Alex Karp told CNBC Thursday.
FRANKFURT, Germany — German carmaker BMW reported solid profit Thursday despite US tariffs and tough competition in China -- delivering a far better result than the heavy falls reported by rivals Volkswagen Group and Mercedes-Benz.