The USS Spruance fired. The Marines boarded. The Touska went quiet in the Gulf of Oman. And now, a nearly 900-foot Iranian cargo ship sits in U.S. military custody — raising a legal question that American courts have not been asked to answer since the Civil War: can the United States keep it? The answer,…
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Iran wrote the peace proposal. Trump called it “workable.” Both sides shook hands in Islamabad. Then Israel bombed Lebanon. A tanker was seized. The IRGC halted Hormuz shipping. And the ceasefire that was supposed to end 38 days of war is now being pulled apart from every direction simultaneously — with 72 hours left on…
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The six-hour standoff ended the same way Trump had promised it would. The USS Spruance fired several rounds from its 5-inch MK 45 naval gun directly into the engine room of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship Touska in the Gulf of Oman on Sunday — disabling the vessel, stranding its crew, and triggering the most volatile…
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A ship seizure in the Persian Gulf has pushed the already-fragile US-Iran ceasefire to its breaking point. Tehran is vowing revenge. The Islamabad talks are stalling. The April 21 deadline is three days away. And oil markets are pricing in exactly what traders feared most — this ceasefire was never as solid as the headlines…
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John Yep helped elect Donald Trump. He ran Catholics for Catholics, one of the most active conservative Catholic organizations in the 2024 campaign, and he delivered. Trump won 55% of the Catholic vote that November — a 12-point margin over Kamala Harris, with white Catholics breaking for him at nearly 60%. Yep was part of…
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No president in American history has sued the agencies he controls for a $10 billion payout while simultaneously overseeing the officials who will decide whether taxpayers foot the bill. Donald Trump is attempting to do exactly that — and his lawyers are now asking a federal court for 90 days to quietly work out a…
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In February, the Pentagon declared Anthropic a national security threat — the first American company in history to receive that designation. In April, the White House Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary sat down with its CEO and called it “productive.” The model that changed everything is called Mythos. And it found zero-day vulnerabilities in…
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The ceasefire is holding — for now. The Strait of Hormuz is technically open. The Dow has had its best week of the year. Oil dipped below $90 a barrel for the first time since early March. On the surface, the worst appears to be receding. But ask economists, energy analysts, and global institutions what…
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The adviser did not mince words. “We need a message,” he told colleagues inside the West Wing. “Right now, everything’s on hold until the war’s over.” It was a rare moment of candor from an administration that has spent seven weeks trying — and repeatedly failing — to get ahead of the most consequential economic…
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Benjamin Netanyahu launched 100 airstrikes on Lebanon within hours of Trump’s Iran ceasefire. Now Trump wants those strikes to stop. It is the same movie as January 2025 — a US president forcing an Israeli PM’s hand against his own coalition’s wishes. The difference this time is that Netanyahu may not survive the deal. JERUSALEM…