New deployments place a significant share of America’s deployable air assets across the Middle East, including strategic bombers, fighter squadrons, aircraft carriers, and missile defense systems. The buildup represents one of the largest forward concentrations of U.S. air power in recent decades.
Eight ships went through Hormuz on Tuesday. The prewar figure was about 140 a day, and only one of Tuesday's eight was headed out of the Gulf.
Trump also referenced and claimed compensation from Iran for the October 2000 deadly bombing of the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole at a Yemeni port
Rescue efforts are underway in Colombia after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday.
Zhu served as premier from 1998 to 2003 after years as a senior economic official.
Leavitt is leaving at the end of the month “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Putin toured a fish processing plant, hospital and school on the Russian-controlled island and met Sakhalin regional Governor Valery Limarenko.
Closing the gold window left the US with a pure fiat currency. The results have been disastrous.
