House GOP Sets Up Senate Clash on TSA Funding

President Donald Trump signed a memo directing Transportation Security Administration personnel to be paid, a bid to alleviate disruptions at US airports as Congress battles over how to end the ongoing partial government shutdown. House Republicans on Friday rejected bipartisan Senate legislation t…

DHS Funding Fight, Trump Gives Iran 48 Hours to Open Strait

President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran’s power plants if the country didn’t swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial ship traffic after the passage of oil and gas cargoes was paralyzed. Trump said in a social media post late Saturday that he would “hit and obliterate” Iran’s pow…

US Lifts Sanctions on 140 Million Barrels of Iranian Oil

The US has allowed the sale of Iranian oil and petrochemical products that have been loaded onto tankers, its latest effort to counter rising oil prices due to the Middle East war. This comes as the US military said it has been able to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships moving through the Stra…

Trump Asserts Iran Wants to End War. Tehran Says No Proposal

President Donald Trump said Iran is ready to make a deal to end the war but the US wants better terms, signaling no letup in a conflict that’s brought shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill and upended energy markets. Separately, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sai…

Trump Strikes Iran’s Kharg Oil Hub; War Enters Third Week

The US struck military sites on Kharg Island, from which Iran exports almost all its oil, for the first time overnight, upping the ante in a Middle East war that’s raged for more than two weeks and shows little sign of easing. President Donald Trump said military facilities on the Persian Gulf isl…

Iran Picks New Supreme Leader, War Enters Ninth Day

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republic’s power grid. Tehran didn’t disclose the identity of the new leader.  The chaos that …

Traders Warn of $100 Oil as Iran Conflict Rages On

President Donald Trump demanded Iran capitulate in the war’s seventh day, suggesting a longer timeframe for the conflict even amid energy-market tumult and worries about whether the US has the military stockpiles to carry on the fight indefinitely.  “Today Iran will be hit very hard!” Trump said i…

Khamenei Dead After Airstrikes on Iran, Three Service Members Killed in Action

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran who ruled over the Islamic Republic for more than three decades as it faced off with the West, was killed Saturday after the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran. Iranian media on Sunday confirmed the death, saying Khamenei was killed in hi…

Next Steps in Iran After Death of Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader was killed in US–Israeli airstrikes, a seismic development in a conflict that’s spread to half a dozen countries across the Middle East and threatens to disrupt energy flows. For details, and suggestions of what happens next, 'Bloomberg This Weekend' hosts David Gura and Chris…

US, Israel Attack Iran as Trump Urges Regime Change

The US and Israel began striking targets across Iran, with President Donald Trump urging Iranians to overthrow the government in a conflict that threatens to spiral across the oil-rich Middle East.    “The hour for your freedom is at hand,” Trump said, addressing Iranians in a video posted on Trut…