Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in regional waters found their navigation systems going haywire, erroneously indicating that vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant, or even on Iranian land.

Democrats Iran Senate Democrats are threatening to disrupt chamber proceedings and force votes on war powers resolutions unless Republicans agree to hold public hearings explaining the Trump administration’s decision to strike Iran.

President Donald Trump said the US will consider striking areas and groups in Iran that were not previously targeted.

Weaving Taiwan into existing frameworks to create a stronger US-led regional defense architecture is crucial to deterring Chinese aggression.

Ottawa and Tokyo find themselves on the same page amid intensifying great-power rivalry.

Qatar’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, warned in an interview with the Financial Times that the war could “bring down the economies of the world.”

Military investigators have confirmed that US forces were responsible for an air strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said an American submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

US President Donald Trump has said the country’s navy will protect ships in the Middle East “if necessary” in a bid to stop the energy supply crunch sparked by the US-Israel war with Iran.

A Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Malta after it was hit by explosions and a fire.

A bipartisan resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war in Iran has failed in the US Senate as the strikes continue.

US President Donald Trump claims his country has a “virtually unlimited supply” of key weapons, while Iran’s defense ministry says it has “the capacity to resist the enemy” for longer than the US had planned.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has chosen its new supreme leader.

The Justice Department has finally posted online three FBI memos describing interviews related to sexual assault allegations against President Donald Trump that had been missing from the trove of Epstein files previously released.

Saudi Arabia strongly condemned Iranian attacks on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan, all of which host US military, air force, and naval forces.

President Donald Trump on social media fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and named Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her.

Former NBC newsman Chuck Todd has declared Vice President JD Vance’s chances of securing a promotion in 2028 “dead.”

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has delivered a strong rebuttal to US President Donald Trump’s threat to end trade with Spain by restating his opposition to war and what he called the “breakdown of international law.”

As the United States commenced Operation Epic Fury—its sweeping military campaign against Iran launched in partnership with Israel—the financial toll on American taxpayers is coming into focus for budget watchers in Washington and academia.

Within hours of the joint US and Israeli strike on Iran, Ali Vaez, who directs the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group (ICG), warned that the war could escalate.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer told reporters that it is “very possible” his panel will compel Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to give testimony regarding his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can, for now, share data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that could make it easier to identify and deport people in the country illegally.

The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off alone at a coffee shop, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days.

The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled against a private prison company facing a lawsuit alleging that immigration detainees were forced to work and were paid only $1 a day in Colorado.