The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us  —  Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s and threatening the global economy  —  The chairman of oil producer DNO was flying from New York to Oslo early …

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows  —  The evidence contradicts President Trump's claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.  —  A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit …

3/9/26☀️ AM: … The Senate is in this week, the House is out.  —  House Republicans are in Doral, Fla., at the Trump National Doral for their annual legislative retreat.  President Donald Trump will be speaking to House Republicans this evening in, where else, the Donald J. Trump Ballroom at his club.

Trump to Times of Israel: It'll be a ‘mutual’ decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends  —  US president clarifies he'll make final call to end operation ‘at right time’; says in phone interview that he and PM ‘worked together’ against Islamic Republic: 'We've destroyed a country that would have destroyed Israel'

After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring  —  The hiring push is unfolding under new rules designed to give the White House greater influence over the government's 2-million person civilian workforce.  —  A year after Elon Musk and his Department …

A wartime presidency defined by Trump's unique political style  —  Trump has devoted time to directing the conflict with Iran — but also to attacking rivals, posting online and leaning into the political instincts that carried him to power.  —  MIAMI - Just more than a week into the fight with Iran …

Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales  —  Powerus says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone tech to sell to the U.S. military  —  Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., the president's sons, are backing a new drone company that is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon …

Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel strikes, sources say … - The IDF claimed in a statement that the fuel depots “are used by the Iranian regime to supply fuel to different consumers including its military organs.”  — An Israeli military official said the strikes were intended …

Billionaires Made 19% of Federal Election Campaign Contributions in 2024  —  Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections.  Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.

Oil Prices Are Barreling Toward All-Time Highs  —  U.S. oil futures have followed their biggest weekly rise ever by surging as much as 20% in Sunday evening trading, vaulting above $100 a barrel for the first time since war in Europe rattled energy markets in 2022.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined  —  A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.

Explosion at US embassy in Oslo investigated as possible terror act  —  Police have no suspects in the blast, but are treating it seriously in light of attacks on other American diplomatic sites.  —  An explosion that rocked the U.S. embassy in Oslo early on Sunday morning could have been terrorism …

Kamala Harris Is Buying Time — But Democrats Are Looking Ahead … Harris has now been selling her memoir for far longer — 166 days to be exact.  —  She has not been on tour all that time.  Yet as the former vice president touched down at recent stops in Madison and Oakland …

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community  —  Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.  —  Last June, two teenage brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates traveled to Capitol Hill.

‘Nobody Could Have Seen This Coming,’ Says Blindfolded Administration  —  The Trump administration can't foresee straight.  —  ∙ Paid  —  The hard-working staff here at Drezner's World has written previously and repeatedly about the Trump administration's inability to think coherently about grand strategy.

Sen. Chris Murphy Says Democrats Need to Block Legislation Until There's an Iran War Authorization Vote  —  The Democratic senator from Connecticut says his party “should not just pretend like this is normal.”  — Copy  —  Sen. Chris Murphy says Democratic senators should block or delay …

Feds leading probe of IED tossed at Jake Lang at Gracie Mansion anti-Islam protest  —  An improvised device thrown at Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang at an anti-Muslim protest he organized outside Gracie Mansion was a potentially deadly explosive, with the FBI now heading a probe of two teen suspects expected …

Trump Org Files Trademarks to Put the President's Name Front and Center at ‘America 250’  —  In one filing submitted on Friday, a “Trump 250” image was trademarked to be used on a variety of merchandise.  — Copy  —  The Trump Organization filed several previously unreported trademark applications …