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Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday — one landed inside Emirati waters — and the Gulf's answer was not a strike but a ledger: the UAE has cut off all trade, commerce and financial transactions with Iran indefinitely. Dubai handles roughly a third of everything Iran imports. Tehran calls the attack a false flag. Then, on our beat, something we've spent a month a...

The sixty-day clock ran out yesterday, and the president says he won't restart it — while floating the idea of simply declaring the Strait of Hormuz American territory. Iran answered by shifting to what one official calls a "fully offensive" posture, giving Washington a few weeks, and sending drones into Iraqi Kurdistan to hit the office of a prime minister. Oil closed near ninety-one. Then: three...

The sixty-day clock the United States and Iran set for themselves ran out this weekend — and produced nothing. No deal, no extension, no formal collapse; Tehran now says the deadline never existed at all, and what it offered this morning is a map of a shipping route, not an open strait. Meanwhile twelve ships a day cross a waterway that used to carry a hundred and thirty. Then home: the new attorn...

The new attorney general was sworn in Monday — and his first act, hours later, was a legal memo extending executive privilege to the president's *private* advisers, the kind of move his own confirmation promises were supposed to fence in. In the Red Sea, six people died on a cargo ship — the first shipping deaths there in more than a year — while a Navy helicopter put two Hellfire missiles into a...

The Senate confirmed a new attorney general at four o'clock in the morning — and we have a correction to make, because on Friday we told you he was going down. Todd Blanche survived 50 to 49, on written promises two Republicans extracted, that critics say may be unenforceable. Then the Senate went home for five weeks. Meanwhile Iran answered talk of a deal with seven demands, replaced the man who...

Washington is trying to leave for a five-week recess, and two fights are blocking the door: the president's attorney general nominee — his own former personal lawyer — is sinking as a second Republican defects, and a Senate committee voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt and hand the case straight to the Justice Department. Then the war: the Hormuz deal is stuck for a fifth day, no longer on a t...

For a fourth straight day the president says an Iran deal is "tomorrow" — and today we learned what's actually holding it up: not the nuclear program, a toll. A fight over what percentage Iran gets to charge ships to use the Strait of Hormuz — three, or seven, or nothing. A war that's killed thousands, down to a haggle over a fee. Then, at home, a Washington emptying out for August tries to finish...

For the third day running the president says an Iran deal is coming "tomorrow," and his Treasury secretary says the Strait of Hormuz could open "today or tomorrow" — while Iran denies any talks and, overnight, another ship burned in that strait and a cargo vessel sank off Yemen. Then, because the whole world doesn't stop for one war, we take you around it: what China, Russia, and NATO are actually...

Yesterday the president said an Iran deal was "imminent" — talks happening "right now," the Strait of Hormuz reopening within a day. Overnight, a cargo ship was set on fire by a missile in that same strait, and one of its crew is missing. That's the distance this morning between what's being said and what's being done — as Trump talks openly about "decapitation" and Iran insists no talks exist at...

Over the weekend, the Iran war blinked. At Camp David the president called off a major strike — Gulf allies talked him down — and now says a deal is "imminent," with talks starting today. Tehran says no such talks exist. Oil fell seven percent anyway, and for the first time both parties in Washington started questioning the war out loud. Then, our beat: this was the weekend AI was finally supposed...

The Iran war didn't go deeper this week — it went sideways. After the US struck Iran directly, Iran spent the last day hitting its neighbors: a worker killed in Kuwait, ships burning at an Egyptian port, drones over the Gulf — while, strangely, the price of oil fell, because the markets are betting the big escalation isn't coming. Then, our beat, and it's a mirror held up to this show: after OpenA...

"It's our turn." That's the phrase President Trump attached to the Iran war on Wednesday as it escalated again — oil back above ninety dollars, Iran rejecting the deal that was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon quietly changing how it counts its own dead. Then, our beat, and it's a heartbreaker: a Senate hearing on the "AI deception machine" — the voice-clones and deepfakes...

The ceasefire we parsed yesterday didn't survive the night. Iran fired ballistic missiles at American troops in Jordan — all intercepted — and the United States and Saudi Arabia struck back inside Iraq, killing at least twenty. The intermission is over, even as back-channel messages keep moving through Oman. Then, our beat: a second AI lab reveals its model found something no human had — a crack i...

The pause is holding — but the two sides can't agree on what it is. President Trump says the US halted its bombing at Iran's request and talks are underway; Iran's foreign ministry says flatly, "We have no negotiations with the United States," and vows it will never let Washington set the timing of war and peace. Two governments, two stories, one fragile quiet — as Trump meets Netanyahu and Zelens...

For the first time in nearly two weeks, the guns went quiet: the US did not strike Iran, and the administration says the pause may let talks progress. But read it carefully — the likely reason isn't peace, it's that America may be running low on missiles, and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed while Iran vows "a war of attrition that will not end." And here's the strangest turn of a strange war:...

Oil broke a hundred dollars a barrel — the war's first crossing of that line — after Houthi fighters attacked two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, opening a second chokepoint while ships already flee the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump says he's weighing a "massive attack" on Iran, "bigger than ever before," and refuses new talks: "they need more of the same." Then the squeeze at home — new tariffs...

The war's dead came home: President Trump stood at Dover as the bodies of four American service members returned, on a twelfth straight night of strikes — while he vowed to bomb a bridge or a power plant for every ship Iran touches, and threatened Iran's secret nuclear mountain. The contradiction of the week: America is bombing Iran to stop it enriching uranium, and in the same days agreed to let...

The war with Iran reached for the one target that changes everything — Iran's nuclear mountain. President Trump said the US will hit the secret Pickaxe Mountain enrichment site "pretty soon, and very heavily," on a tenth straight night, while Iran set Kuwait's power and water on fire and the Houthis moved to blockade Saudi Arabia. Defense Secretary Hegseth told the Senate the war has cost $37.5 bi...

The war with Iran crossed a line this weekend and then another: the American death toll reached seventeen, and US strikes moved from military sites to Iran's bridges, railways, and water — while Iran says roughly three thousand of its people, many civilians, are dead. Then, at home, the Justice Department told election officials in every state they could be criminally prosecuted if a noncitizen vo...

The war with Iran came home in caskets this weekend: the American death toll reached seventeen, with two service members killed at a base in Jordan — the first U.S. troops killed by Iranian fire since March — as the United States struck Iran for a ninth straight night and oil broke ninety dollars. The President spoke of the fallen returning from the World Cup final. Then: Trump orders the Justice...

In a twenty-five-minute primetime address, the President declassified intelligence he said proves "shocking vulnerabilities" in America's elections — reviving his oldest grievance and pushing a stalled elections bill, even as reviews under both administrations found no foreign government ever altered a vote. We separate what's documented from what's claimed. Then: the Iran war crossed its sixth st...

The blockade stopped being a threat and started being a trigger. The US Navy disabled its first tanker — a ship trying to slip oil out of Iran's Kharg Island terminal — on a fifth straight day of American strikes. The strange part: oil barely moved, stuck around $85, because with only about twenty ships a day braving the strait, the market has already priced the fear. Trump quietly dropped his 20%...

It's real now. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the US Navy began blockading the entire Iranian coastline — every port, every oil terminal, every ship regardless of flag — the first American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in decades. The 20% "protection toll" Trump floated a day earlier is already dead, killed inside 24 hours by global outrage and the UN's own maritime agency. Oil sits at $85 and...

The Strait of Hormuz turned lethal. Iran struck two Emirati oil tankers with cruise missiles inside Omani waters, killing an Indian crew member — the first shipping death of this phase — as the US pounded Iranian coastal defenses for a third straight night. Now President Trump says the US will reinstate a full naval blockade of Iranian ports at 4 PM Eastern today and start charging tolls to cross...

A brutal weekend. Iran's Revolutionary Guard attacked a Cyprus-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz — a crew member is missing — then declared the world's most important oil chokepoint closed. The US answered with its heaviest strikes in months, roughly 140 targets, while insisting the strait is still open and Iran doesn't control it. And in Washington, Senator Lindsey Graham — the Senat...