2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (292+ words) The Republican Party kicked off its first-ever midterm political convention on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas. At least 33 House Republicans and several others locked in tight Senate races opted to skip the two-day event, which comes with President Trump’s approval ratings…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (379+ words) In Yemen, fighters with the Iran-backed Houthi movement have seized a strategic port city on the Red Sea after routing government forces in a lightning offensive. The city of Mokha is less than 50 miles from the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (434+ words) Iranian media is reporting several explosions rang out early this morning in coastal areas of southern Iran. The apparent U.S. attacks came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would target oil tankers docked in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (209+ words) U.S. forces bombed five Iranian tankers Tuesday, including one near Iran’s main oil export terminal, Kharg Island. Iran retaliated by firing missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan. Jordanian forces say they intercepted nearly all of them. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards also claimed…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (451+ words) Mustafa Hawi: “My son, here he is injured. We just came back from the clinic. They did a scanner imaging for him. He had a shrapnel — glass, pebble or shrapnel — in his kidney, so thank God. The same for me,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (188+ words) On Monday, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced that Tehran is planning a maritime “exclusion zone” outside the Strait of Hormuz where it intends to stop vessels attempting to transit the waterway without Iranian permission. Mohsen Rezaei: “We are making…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) Officials in Iran say at least 11 people are dead, and dozens more wounded, after the U.S. launched a wave of attacks across southern Iran. Among the alleged victims are five people killed when a U.S. bomb fell on a house during a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (378+ words) We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. “Because it’s only been going on for a few months, the impact on the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (769+ words) The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine months after the U.S. military abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a raid on Caracas…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (251+ words) The Washington Post is reporting that several conservative veterans with big online followings have been given secret Pentagon jobs, where they promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s agenda and attack the Trump administration’s critics. Those involved include Rob Maness, a retired…...