Facing a US naval blockade, Iran’s layered sea-denial strategy – combining anti-ship missiles, naval mines, submarines, and alternative overland trade routes through Russia and China – gives Tehran multiple options to sustain its economy, raise the costs of enforcement, and ultimately pressure Washington into retreat.

Pentagon fires the editor-in-chief, publisher, and a top reporter of the Stars and Stripes newspaper on Friday over “insubordination.”

Canada has vowed to retaliate dollar-for-dollar against new US tariffs on Canadian goods as trade negotiations with Washington collapse.

California lawmaker Aisha Wahab is elected to the US Congress after defeating her opponent funded by pro-Israel groups.

Any war-ending deal with Iran must include a binding and enforceable US commitment to non-aggression and no future threats against Iran or its allies; without which any deal or understanding is merely a lull before another storm.

The US has defended a self-described “race realist” academic who accused late Black Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism.

The US army secretary is preparing to leave the Trump administration after what a new report has described as months of tension with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.