Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a gap narrower than the English Channel. Iran has blocked it. The U.S. just declared a naval blockade. Here is everything you need to understand about the most important waterway on Earth.
President Trump is pairing his Iran blockade with a sales pitch: Countries squeezed by the Strait of Hormuz — especially China — should buy more oil from the U.S. instead. Why it matters: The U.S. rise to become the world's largest oil and gas producer — and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas
Justice Sotomayor called AI prediction of Supreme Court rulings 'a very bad thing.' She's right — but the real problem isn't that the court is predictable. It's what that predictability proves about whether law or ideology is driving the decisions.
Who profits from Sudan's conflict — and why voluntary frameworks, veto power, and supply chain opacity are features of the system, not failures. Part 3 of a six-part investigation.
Environmental racism describes how pollution and toxic waste are systematically concentrated in Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities — a pattern created by policy, not accident.
From the EU's AI Act to China's algorithmic controls, governments worldwide are racing to regulate artificial intelligence. Here's where AI regulation stands in 2025—and what's coming next.
The Trump administration transferred Social Security records covering 500 million Americans to Elon Musk's DOGE operation. No statute authorized it, no public notice was filed, and the transfer cannot be undone.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot more than six times by ICE agents during a traffic stop. The gang member label, his attorney says, came after the bullets — not before them.
A New York Times investigation by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals that Trump was the most hawkish voice in his own administration on Iran — overruling his CIA director, his vice president, and the Joint Chiefs to launch a war on a gut feeling.
The Maine Wire presents itself as grassroots local journalism. Leonard Leo's donor network bankrolls it — and it has spent years targeting Maine's Somali community. The Intercept's reporting exposes a template for converting megadonor money into local ethnic hostility.
Nearly 20,000 mariners are stranded in the Persian Gulf as Iran asserts toll control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's demand they stop reveals Washington has no enforcement mechanism short of resuming a war it already agreed to pause.
Since October, the U.S. has admitted 4,499 refugees. 4,496 are white South Africans. Three are from everywhere else on earth. That ratio is not administrative drift — it is the architecture of the policy.
The First Lady's rare public statement contradicts her husband's own Justice Department, puts survivors in legal jeopardy, and arrives at the most suspicious possible moment. A closer look at why none of this makes sense.
Vice President Vance’s new role as fraud czar will “primarily” focus on Democrat-led states, President Trump announced Friday morning. “We will call him the ‘FRAUD CZAR,’ and his focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in Californ
Surpassing 1 million deportations this year hinges on worksite enforcement — which would enrage farm and construction groups (and possibly voters).
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.