Politics ·
Darline Graham has won the Republican nomination for the US Senate in South Carolina to fill the seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, while Alaska incumbent Senator Dan S Sullivan faces a November election featuring a same-party challenger with a nearly identical name.
World ·
President Trump is leveraging American dominance to challenge both allies and enemies, but nations such as Canada and Iran have found ways to fight back.
World ·
Growing doubts surrounding the United States security umbrella are driving new strategic calculations across East Asia, highlighting shifts in the regional order in light of Donald Trump's Korean gambit.
World ·
The United States has threatened Iran's partners with secondary sanctions, an economic measure where third-party countries that engage in trade with a sanctioned nation face penalization themselves.
World ·
Iran is calculating that global economic fallout combined with concerns from Republicans facing midterm elections will pressure United States President Donald Trump into a political retreat.
World ·
Donald Trump has announced that all mines have been cleared from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway that Iran closed at the beginning of the conflict, causing wild fluctuations in global oil prices.
Politics ·
Political newcomer Sen. Darline Graham defeated longtime Congressman Ralph Norman in a South Carolina special election primary runoff for the U.S. Senate, delivering a major win for President Trump who endorsed her.
Politics ·
Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, the wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier, was deported to Honduras on Monday following a rollback on military family protections under Donald Trump's second presidency.
World ·
Vatican envoy Paul Gallagher met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow to discuss avenues for peace in Ukraine, as international leaders lobby the US for Patriot missiles and a US military plane landed in Russia.
Politics ·
The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to lift an injunction on President Donald Trump's executive order targeting mail-in voting, though a second injunction keeps the policy's implementation ahead of the November midterms uncertain.
Sports ·
Hundreds of spectators, including US President Donald Trump, gathered on Sunday to watch an IndyCar race through the streets of Washington DC.
World ·
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed proposed US economic sanctions as a desperate move, while President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged that the Iranian public faces significant hardships from Washington's economic pressure.