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A weekend of shipping attacks and a second day of U.S. strikes nearly shattered the two-week-old U.S.-Iran ceasefire before both sides agreed to stand down and talk in Doha, leaving the constitutional question of who can order American forces back into combat unresolved.

Washington is dismantling, on paper, a sanctions architecture four decades in the making, but its hardest layers were written by Congress and cannot be undone by a president alone.

More than a billion dollars has been staked on U.S. military operations this year, and a soldier who helped capture Maduro now faces charges for betting on his own raid, exposing a freshly legalized market the law was never built to police.

John Bolton admitted to a single count of unlawfully retaining national defense information, resolving an 18-count indictment, as the plea reignited a long-running debate over whether classified-document cases are prosecuted evenhandedly.

The Fed's preferred inflation gauge rose to 4.1% in May, its highest in three years, driven largely by a war-fueled gasoline spike, leaving new Chair Kevin Warsh and a divided Fed unsure whether the next move on interest rates is up, down, or nowhere.

Iran says it hit U.S. military sites in the Gulf, Bahrain reports a drone attack and a tanker is struck in the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington and Tehran each accuse the other of breaking a ceasefire signed only days earlier.

To understand why officials in 2026 keep describing a U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework as "the first step" and "the beginning of the beginning," it helps to start with a fact that surprises many newcomers to the…

A 7-2 ruling found that federal pesticide law bars state failure-to-warn suits, ending most of the litigation over whether Roundup causes cancer, even as two scientific bodies still disagree.

A slate backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani ousted two sitting House incumbents and the city froze the rent on a million stabilized apartments, moving the Democratic Socialists of America from insurgent faction to agenda-setter inside the Democratic Party.

Colombia narrowly elected far-right outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, ending the single term of its first leftist president and confirming a rightward wave across Latin America that Washington has openly encouraged.