In Iran, Saturday is a working day. Schools are open. Streets are full. At that precise moment — chosen, investigators later concluded, with deliberate awareness of the morning school rush — the skies over the Islamic Republic split open. In the first twelve hours of what the United States designated Operation Epic Fury and Israel…
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It began with 900 strikes before breakfast. It ended with a phone call from Islamabad and 126 words on Truth Social. Between those two moments: 38 days, 1,497 deaths, $144 oil, a closed strait, and the most consequential geopolitical crisis of the 21st century. Here is the complete story. WASHINGTON / TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD —…
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Thirty-eight days of war. 1,497 dead. Oil at $144. The Strait of Hormuz closed for the first time in history. Then one Truth Social post — and it was gone. Not resolved. Not won. Just paused. And the clock is already running on the most consequential 14 days in modern Middle East history. ISLAMABAD /…
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The ceasefire was announced at 6:30 p.m. EDT on April 7. By dawn on April 8, oil had crashed 16% and global stocks had surged trillions. By April 9, Iran was accusing the US of breaching the deal. Israel was bombing Lebanon. The IRGC had halted Hormuz shipping again. So — what exactly happened? And…
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Trump’s Second Term Hits Its First Serious Wall For an administration that has governed with relentless forward momentum — executive orders, tariff announcements, institutional challenges — the past week delivered something unfamiliar: resistance that forced Trump’s second term agenda to visibly retreat. Not once, but twice, in the same seven-day period. The twin reversals —…
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President Donald Trump’s Trump Davos speech at the World Economic Forum 2026 was nothing short of a geopolitical earthquake. In a 70-minute keynote that left global elites visibly unsettled, Trump delivered an unapologetically antagonistic address that challenged the foundational pillars of international cooperation — from trade agreements to military alliances and climate policy. Speaking directly…