TodayThe Day: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 (#123)
World leaders open the UN General Assembly. The Iran conflict's seventh month. And a space telescope built to last ten years that will apparently run for twenty-two.
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TodayThe Day: Friday, September 12, 2026 (#117)
Houthi forces take the island. August tied the record. The Alzheimer's drug now comes in a form you can take at home. It was that kind of week.
TodayThe Day: Thursday, September 11, 2026 (#116)
The nation marks twenty-five years. The accounting is incomplete and the questions aren't finished.
TodayThe Day: Wednesday, September 10, 2026 (#115)
The nation prepares for the 25th anniversary of September 11; Trump says the Iran war ends after the midterms as oil crosses $100 a barrel.
TodayThe Day: September 9, 2026
Brent crude touched $99 a barrel Tuesday after the U.S. destroyed five IRGC tankers. The IEA has declared Hormuz the largest oil supply disruption in history.
TodayThe Day: Monday, September 8, 2026
The AfD won 44 percent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday. Germany's chancellor says he's deeply shocked. I'm not sure that's the right emotion.
TodayThe Day: September 3, 2026
Trump says the renewed Iran clashes won't last long. Iran's security chief says Washington will see a new strategy. And in Norfolk, a farmer left a field alone for twenty-one years.
TodayThe Day: September 2, 2026
The strikes resume near the Strait. Congress keeps the lights on. And a disease that once threatened 1.5 billion people is quietly losing its war.
TodayThe Day: Tuesday, September 1, 2026 (#110)
The Army loses its civilian secretary. Venezuela's oil deal comes into focus. Iran signals an opening.
TodayThe Day: Friday, August 28, 2026 (#109)
Floods kill 400 on the Nepal-Tibet border. March on Washington turns 63. And four astronauts stand in Houston.
TodayThe Day: Thursday, August 27, 2026 (#108)
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TodayThe Day: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (#107)
Today's news, in plain language.
TodayThe Day: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 (#106)
Today's news, in plain language.
TodayThe Day: Wednesday, August 13, 2026 (#99)
Rescue operations enter their final phase in Colombia on day three; Iran and the White House dispute who controls the Strait; and in eastern Congo, one town's outbreak stopped.
TodayThe Day: Monday, August 11, 2026
A 7.4 earthquake tears through western Colombia, the Mecca pact shifts the Hormuz perimeter without moving it, and tomorrow the moon's shadow crosses Spain for the first time in twenty-seven years.
TodayThe Day: Friday, August 8, 2026
Friday was the deadline everyone had named for a Hormuz deal. Friday came.
TodayThe Day: Thursday, August 7, 2026
Iran and Oman have agreed in principle on a new Hormuz shipping framework, but Thursday ended without a signed deal.
TodayThe Day: Wednesday, August 6, 2026
Hiroshima marked its 81st anniversary Wednesday morning as the mayor urged world powers to step back from nuclear deterrence, Iran's Hormuz deal remained unsigned, and Russia killed at least 15 people in an overnight strike on Kyiv.
TodayThe Day: Tuesday, August 5, 2026
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Tuesday, sending oil prices falling sharply and raising the prospect of an end to the standoff that has crimped global energy supplies for weeks.
TodayThe Day: Monday, August 4, 2026
President Trump called off Iran strikes over the weekend after Gulf states intervened, then Tehran said Monday there are no new talks planned, leaving the Strait of Hormuz standoff roughly where it began the week.
TodayThe Day: Thursday, July 31, 2026
The death toll from Japan's Kumamoto earthquake climbed to 35 on Thursday as 15,000 remained in shelters, an Iranian drone reached Egypt, and a Russian missile fell in Poland.
TodayThe Day: Wednesday, July 30, 2026 (#89)
Rescue crews in Kumamoto searched through rubble for survivors Wednesday, three days after an earthquake killed at least 23 people and left more than 10,000 in shelters.
The Day: Tuesday, July 29, 2026 (#88)
Iran fired ballistic missiles at U.S. forces; the U.S. and Saudi Arabia struck back with joint operations in Iraq; wildfire evacuations in Spain and France reach 330,000.
The Day: Tuesday, July 28, 2026 (#87)
Zelenskyy arrives in Washington for Graham's memorial and a White House meeting; wildfire evacuations across Spain and France pass 300,000; July's heat toll goes largely uncounted.
TodayThe Day: Friday, July 25, 2026 (#86)
Oil crosses $100 as the Houthis open a second maritime front; wildfires force 200,000 from their homes across Spain and France; Kyiv observes a day of mourning.
TodayThe Day: Thursday, July 24, 2026 (#85)
Iran rejects the ceasefire proposal carried by Iraq's prime minister; Spain declares its first wildfire national emergency; Ukraine's new commander issues his opening statement.
TodayThe Day: Wednesday, July 23, 2026 (#84)
The Hormuz ceasefire sits unanswered for a fourth day; Sicily, France, and Spain lose three firefighters to simultaneous wildfires; Ukraine changes its top commander.