The DayThe Day: Thursday, November 5, 2026 (#159)
Mississippi Senate still uncalled; Trump keeps Hegseth, says Iran war cost the GOP; Pennsylvania measles hits 1,467 cases; all 69 Spain crash victims identified; Greenland approves security deal.
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Howard Fenn's daily news column. What happened today, told in plain language by a reporter who has watched the world for forty years.
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The DayThe Day: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 (#158)
Democrats win both chambers; Trump announces end of $4 billion in Israel aid; Russia strikes Ukraine aid site, 31 dead; Karl Bushby finishes his 28-year walk.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (#157)
Election Day: 53 million early votes already cast; DOJ sends 1,000 monitors to polls nationwide; Iran talks stuck on nuclear demands; Russia-Ukraine peace talks move to Abu Dhabi.
The DayThe Day: Monday, November 2, 2026 (#156)
Election eve: House strongly favors Democrats as Senate stays close; a Democrat crosses to the Republican in Michigan; nine killed in a Florida Learjet crash; Germany's youth protests turn violent.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, October 31, 2026 (#155)
G20 leaves Atlanta without a joint statement as Europeans refuse to stand with Lavrov; Russia declares Oleshky mission complete; Wall Street's worst session since June.
The DayThe Day: Friday, October 30, 2026 (#154)
Spain's second deadly high-speed rail crash this year kills 68; Iran claims four more tankers mined in the Hormuz; Oleshky evacuation begins its first day.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, October 29, 2026 (#153)
The Oleshky ceasefire holds into its second day as evacuation buses prepare to move; Israel's count settles at 53-48 with no coalition path clear; five days to the midterms.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 (#152)
Israel's election ends in stalemate with neither bloc at 61; Bolsonaro contests the Brazilian result; El Salvador deploys special forces to rescue soldiers captured in Haiti; six days to the midterms; Oleshky is hours away.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (#151)
Israel votes with record early turnout and no result yet; Serbia's student movement defeats a fourteen-year strongman; Lula wins a fourth term in Brazil as Bolsonaro rejects the count; seven days to the midterms; Oleshky scheduled for a ceasefire Thursday.
The DayThe Day: Monday, October 26, 2026 (#150)
France's second protest Saturday ends with half the arrests of the first; Russia and Ukraine agree to a local ceasefire in Oleshky; Israel votes tomorrow with neither bloc at 61; eight days to the midterms.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, October 24, 2026 (#149)
France deploys 70,000 police for the Yellow Vests' second Saturday; Russia hits Ukraine's power grid and knocks out 500,000 households; and a super typhoon that had 23 million people in its path turned north.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, October 22, 2026 (#148)
Russia strikes Kyiv overnight as Moscow signals readiness for talks; the Pentagon has finalized plans for a possible return to fighting in Iran; and the Yellow Vests call a second round of protests for Saturday.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 (#147)
Witkoff lands in St. Petersburg with an updated Ukraine peace proposal; Rubio says an Iran deal is 'extremely difficult'; four Canadian soldiers are killed in a training fire; France extends its curfews with no end date.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 (#146)
France declares curfews in Paris, Bordeaux, and Nice as protests spread to Italy; Houthis kill 53 at a Yemeni training camp; North Korea threatens the border; the Supreme Court leaves independent agency protections overruled.
The DayThe Day: Monday, October 19, 2026 (#145)
France's cost-of-living protests leave nearly 1,800 arrested and a 140-year-old town hall burned. Iran offers a 7-day ceasefire in the Hormuz. Fifteen days from the midterms, three polls put Trump's approval at a second-term low.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, October 17, 2026 (#144)
A 16-year-old kills three children and a teacher at a Bend elementary school. Trump waives Russia sanctions before they take effect. A supertanker catches fire in the Strait of Hormuz on day 232 of the Iran war.
The DayThe Day: Friday, October 16, 2026 (#143)
Trump rules out nuclear weapons in the Iran war as Tehran warns U.S. pressure won't force surrender. Federal agents search a congressmember's home 19 days before a midterm. And in the Florida Panhandle, the trucks from Cincinnati keep coming.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, October 15, 2026 (#142)
Russia fires 39 missiles and 120 drones at Ukraine overnight. September inflation hits 3.7 percent. And two teams of physicists, working on separate continents, built the same clock.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, October 14, 2026 (#141)
Houthi drones reach the Aramco headquarters region. Treasury imposes a record OCC fine on Bank of America. And a rover built to drive 12 miles crosses 28.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 (#140)
The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to two Americans for work on stabilization policy. The Justice Department opens an antitrust investigation into five television networks. And in southern France, two stolen Renoirs come home.
The DayThe Day: Monday, October 12, 2026 (#139)
A Houthi missile kills 13 at Riyadh's main airport, including an American. Panama's magnitude 7.7 earthquake collapses a cathedral tower. Pope Leo XIV announces lung surgery.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, October 10, 2026 (#138)
Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin at 8:30 p.m. Friday. President Trump waives sanctions to buy Russian diesel. A New York City ICE officer fires seven rounds into a car with a five-year-old in the back seat.
The DayThe Day: Friday, October 9, 2026 (#137)
Hurricane Isaias bears down on the Gulf Coast tonight. The Army sets a December execution date for the Fort Hood shooter. And Oslo awards the Peace Prize to a woman who spent her career making atrocities answerable to law.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, October 8, 2026 (#136)
The Fed's minutes meet a weak jobs report. Hurricane Isaias strengthens toward the Gulf Coast. And two chemists win a Nobel for unraveling one of life's oldest puzzles.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 (#135)
Three years since October 7. The first anniversary with all the hostages home. Hurricane Isaias tracks toward the Gulf Coast. And in southern Israel, a kibbutz is rebuilding.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 (#134)
Brazil's election goes to a runoff. Taxpayer money paid for Trump's television ads. Pennsylvania records its fifth measles death. And a Nobel Prize for the science of turning brain cells on and off with light.
The DayThe Day: Monday, October 5, 2026 (#133)
The IEA released a record 325 million barrels of oil. Justice Alito says he has thought about retiring. And the United Nations did something it almost never does: everyone agreed.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, October 3, 2026 (#132)
Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike failed. The last American troops left Iraq. And four people from three countries are on their way to the space station.
The DayThe Day: Friday, October 2, 2026 (#131)
The September jobs report comes in far below expectations. A co-pilot attacks his captain mid-flight. And Morocco makes history.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, September 30, 2026 (#130)
Tennessee executes Christa Pike. Polo's remnants flood the Southwest. And an eighty-seven-year-old woman gets to go home.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 (#129)
Tennessee's first scheduled execution of a woman in two hundred years. RAF Fairford suspects on bail. And two thousand years of unread words may be about to speak.
The DayThe Day: Monday, September 28, 2026 (#128)
UK arrests five on suspicion of plotting against an American-used airbase. Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz offer. A global bond benchmark crosses 4 percent for the first time since 2007.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, September 26, 2026 (#127)
Trump turns down Iran's seven-day ceasefire offer. Hurricane Nolo stalls south of Hawaii. The Greenland defense deal is signed. Iraq closes three border crossings with Iran. Argentina releases grim poverty numbers. And a wildlife bridge in Colorado is doing its job.
The DayThe Day: Friday, September 25, 2026 (#126)
The Trump-Xi summit winds down with tea and no communique. Bond yields hit multi-decade highs. Zelenskyy opens the door to Turkey peace talks. Netanyahu addresses a near-empty UNGA hall. A judge rules on White House press access. Denmark warns of Russian threats. And a new pope heads to France.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, September 24, 2026 (#125)
Xi Jinping at the White House for the first time in eleven years. Ukraine proposes an energy ceasefire. A federal judge hears arguments on the White House press ban. Hurricane Polo sets records off Mexico. Long COVID and the brain. A conviction at The Hague.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (#124)
The United States and Iran held three hours of direct talks in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The Nasdaq 100 hit a record. India installed more solar capacity in six months than most countries have ever built.
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.
The DayThe Day: Saturday, September 19, 2026
A security deal over Greenland, elections in occupied Ukraine, the Houthis at the strait, a rate hike, a climate signal from Italy, and four footprints from sixty-six million years ago.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, September 18, 2026 (#121)
Trump says the Iran war is nearly over. A UN panel says it may have included war crimes. The last US troops prepare to leave Iraq.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, September 17, 2026 (#120)
The Graham sanctions bill goes to Trump. Kosovo erupts over a 25-year war crimes sentence. Russia strikes another September night.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, September 16, 2026 (#119)
China calls AI safety warnings fearmongering. A Maduro ally pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate. Iowa's harvest begins in the rain.
The DayThe Day: Monday, September 15, 2026 (#118)
The leaders of three rival AI companies agree the race needs to slow down. The president of the United States says it doesn't.
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.
The DayThe Day: Monday, August 24, 2026 (#105)
The U.S. announces its largest-ever financial offensive against Iran. US-Canada trade talks collapse. Ukraine marks 35 years.
The DayThe Day: Friday, August 21, 2026 (#104)
The UN says the Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading faster than the response can contain it, with more than 2,500 dead.
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.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, August 12, 2026 (#98)
Colombia's rescuers still can't reach the epicenter on day two; Peggy Flanagan wins Minnesota's Senate primary; and tonight, the moon's shadow crosses Spain.
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.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, July 22, 2026 (#83)
Tehran hasn't answered the 10-day ceasefire proposal; Kyiv takes a missile and drone strike; Britain has its seventh prime minister in a decade.
The DayThe Day: Monday, July 21, 2026 (#82)
A 10-day ceasefire proposal reaches Tehran as US-Iran strikes enter a ninth consecutive night and the Strait of Hormuz handles barely 7 percent of normal traffic.
The DayThe Day: Friday, July 18, 2026 (#81)
Iran strikes enter a seventh night as Hormuz shipping falls to near zero; DRC Ebola jumps to 2,181 cases in its fastest-spreading outbreak on record; Ukraine protests Zelenskyy's firing of the drone-program architect.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, July 17, 2026 (#80)
US strikes Iran for a sixth consecutive night as Iran attacks Qatar, its own mediator; a WHO warning on the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record; and Sunday's World Cup final takes shape.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, July 16, 2026 (#79)
US forces struck targets near Tehran for the first time as Iran hit Kuwait and Jordan again; the World Cup final is Argentina against Spain, Sunday at MetLife.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, July 15, 2026 (#78)
US forces struck Iran for a fourth consecutive night while the IRGC hit American military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. A new heat emergency is building.
The DayThe Day: Monday, July 14, 2026
Three nights of US strikes on Iran as the Hormuz blockade resumes. The Fontainebleau forest burns on Bastille Day. And the Secretary of State announces he will dismantle the world's war crimes court.
The DayThe Day: Friday, July 11, 2026 (#76)
Trump posts '1,000 Missiles Locked and Loaded' while Qatari mediators work Tehran. Srebrenica marks thirty-one years. And a bridge opens.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, July 10, 2026 (#75)
Iran reaches out to Washington after two nights of CENTCOM strikes. The Strait of Hormuz is carrying five ships where it carried forty-five on Monday. Germany buys cruise missiles.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, July 9, 2026 (#74)
The Iran ceasefire breaks down as both sides exchange strikes for a second day, shutting the Strait of Hormuz to nearly all traffic. Khamenei is buried in Mashhad. NATO issues its Ankara declaration.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, July 8, 2026 (#73)
The June ceasefire is in open question after U.S. forces struck more than 80 targets inside Iran. NATO opened in Ankara as Kyiv was hit for the third time in a week.
The DayThe Day: Monday, July 7, 2026 (#72)
Heat killed 25 in New Jersey. The jobs report missed by half. Khamenei's successor hasn't been seen in four days.
The DayThe Day: Friday, July 4, 2026 (#71)
America turns 250 under a heat advisory. Iran opens its supreme leader's funeral on the anniversary. The ships sail into New York Harbor.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, July 3, 2026 (#70)
Russia hits Kyiv with one of the war's largest single-night strikes. The June jobs report disappoints. Iran warns oil tankers in the Strait. And a security guard named Hernán comes out of the rubble.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, July 2, 2026 (#69)
A heat dome covers 160 million Americans going into the Fourth of July. Trump declines to extend North American trade. New federal loan caps take effect for graduate students.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, July 1, 2026 (#68)
The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship and strikes campaign finance limits. Russia admits fuel shortages from Ukrainian strikes. Ebola crosses 1,100 cases in Central Africa.
The DayThe Day: Monday, June 30, 2026 (#67)
Trump says the U.S. and Iran are meeting in Doha today. Tehran says no. Venezuela's death toll passes 1,700. The Supreme Court hands down two major rulings. Pakistan strikes three Afghan provinces.
The DayThe Day: Friday, June 27, 2026 (#66)
The U.S.-Iran ceasefire faces its first real test. Venezuela's death toll reaches 920. Ukraine's largest drone assault. Five million drop ACA coverage. Bolton pleads guilty. And Lorraine Kessler.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, June 26, 2026 (#65)
Venezuela's death toll climbs as international rescue teams arrive. A federal judge blocks the president's mail voting order. And a birding piece that will make you want to go outside.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, June 25, 2026 (#64)
Twin earthquakes devastate Venezuela in the country's worst seismic event in more than a century. The Senate's war powers rebuke gets complicated. The IAEA and Iran disagree about what their deal says.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, June 24, 2026 (#63)
Trump formally declares the Iran ceasefire. France records its hottest day in history. The House passes the housing bill, sending it to the president's desk.
The DayThe Day: Monday, June 23, 2026 (#62)
Britain's prime minister resigns. The United States and Iran complete their first day of nuclear talks in Switzerland. Alan Greenspan, who ran the Federal Reserve for nineteen years, dies at 100.
The DayThe Day: Friday, June 20, 2026 (#61)
The Switzerland nuclear talks are called off on their opening day. Israel and Hezbollah agree to a new ceasefire. The Senate moves toward housing affordability legislation.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, June 19, 2026 (#60)
The US and Iran sign a peace agreement in Switzerland. Tornadoes cut through the Midwest. The Obama Presidential Center opens on Juneteenth.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, June 18, 2026 (#59)
Five charged in a White House drone plot. The Pentagon names eight. England opens the World Cup.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, June 17, 2026 (#58)
Switzerland sets the signing for Friday. The Fed holds. Georgia picks a Senate nominee.
The DayThe Day: Monday, June 16, 2026 (#57)
Ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in weeks. The Federal Reserve begins its June meeting. The World Cup plays on.
The DayThe Day: Friday, June 13, 2026
Pakistan says the Iran-US peace text is final; Belfast's anti-immigrant violence enters its fifth day; the US men's team opens the home World Cup with a record 4-1 win.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, June 12, 2026 (#55)
A surveillance program set to lapse for the first time in its history, the Iran war's reach into the economy, and a guilty plea in a politically motivated killing.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, June 11, 2026 (#54)
Iran declares the April ceasefire meaningless after new overnight strikes. The World Cup opens in Mexico City. The Senate blocks the voter ID bill for the third time.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, June 10, 2026 (#53)
The Pentagon confirms an Iranian drone downed an American helicopter. US and Iran trade direct strikes on each other's military assets. The House funds border enforcement for three years. Belfast burns. Congress holds a rare hearing on the Colorado River's uncertain future.
The DayThe Day: Monday, June 9, 2026 (#52)
Israel and Iran pull back from direct strikes. Global conflicts at their highest level since World War II. A federal judge throws out a $100,000 visa fee. Sweden takes phones away from students.
The DayThe Day: Friday, June 6, 2026
Eighty-two years since the beaches of Normandy; Ukraine hits Russia's naval heartland; Iran suspends talks after Kuwait airport attack; a UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon; and the May jobs number lands.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, June 5, 2026
The IAEA wants into Iran's nuclear sites; Ukraine's drone factories are running at scale; the World Cup is six days away.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, June 4, 2026
Diplomatic talks with Iran continue as the 60-day War Powers clock runs; China marks June 4 by declining two requests for accountability at once.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, June 3, 2026
Iran fires missiles at Kuwait's airport and Bahrain; the Supreme Court allows Alabama's redistricting map; Iowa's primary produces a surprise.
The DayThe Day: Monday, June 2, 2026
U.S. airstrikes hit Iranian radar and drone sites after Iran shoots down an American drone. Iran answers with missiles at Kuwait.
The DayThe Day: Friday, May 30, 2026
Trump says he'll make a final determination on Iran. A federal judge orders his name off the Kennedy Center. And 70,000 Massachusetts ride-share drivers certify the biggest union vote since 1941.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, May 29, 2026
US and Iran have the makings of a deal but neither side has signed it, and a Russian drone struck a NATO apartment building in Romania overnight.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, May 28, 2026
Israel struck more than 100 Hezbollah sites overnight as the April ceasefire holds only on paper and direct peace talks are two weeks away.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, May 27, 2026
Russia warns diplomats to leave Kyiv as Moscow prepares a new wave of strikes following the weekend's hypersonic missile attack.
The DayThe Day: Monday, May 26, 2026
The country pauses for Memorial Day at Arlington as US strikes in the Strait of Hormuz test a fragile Iran ceasefire.
The DayThe Day: Friday, May 22, 2026
Iranian missiles over Fujairah, a Palestinian diplomat under pressure, Cuba goes dark, and a global Ebola emergency.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, May 21, 2026
Trump gives Iran one last shot. Barney Frank dies at 86. Capitol officers sue to block a DOJ fund. California burns. The Ebola emergency widens.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Putin visits Xi in Beijing days after Trump's summit. A wildfire forces 43,700 from Simi Valley. Trump backs Ken Paxton to unseat a sitting senator in Texas.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Trump calls off an Iran strike and says he can restart it 'at any moment.' Four Navy pilots survive an Idaho air show collision. And Alzheimer's researchers report the biggest expansion of the treatment pipeline in a decade.
The DayThe Day: Monday, May 18, 2026
Drone strikes a Gulf nuclear plant, Ukraine hits Moscow, and Amnesty reports the world executed more people last year than in any year since 1981.
The DayThe Day: Friday, May 15, 2026
Trump and Xi close a summit with a framework but few signatures. Russia launches the war's largest drone barrage. Snack bags in Japan lose their color.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, May 14, 2026
Xi quotes Thucydides in the Great Hall of the People. A classified report measures what China has gained from the Iran war. South Carolina empties a murder verdict. The Senate opens a 309-page cryptocurrency bill.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Trump lands in Beijing for his first China visit since 2017. Inflation hits 3.8 percent. The Senate clears the next Fed chair. The FDA commissioner resigns over flavored vapes.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Trump says the Iran ceasefire has a one percent chance. Hungary hangs the EU flag back up. A three-digit phone number is saving lives.
The DayThe Day: Friday, May 8, 2026
Tennessee splits Memphis into three districts eight days after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act. David Attenborough turns one hundred.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, May 7, 2026
A one-page memo could end the war with Iran. Ted Turner, who built a network for moments like this, is dead at eighty-seven.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Ukraine's ceasefire begins at midnight. Russia struck its power grid hours before.
The DayThe Day: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Two U.S. Navy destroyers transit the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian fire. Neither is struck.
The DayThe Day: Monday, May 4, 2026
The U.S. military begins guiding commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. The last time America tried this, it was 1987.
The DayThe Day: May 1, 2026
The Iran war crosses the War Powers Act's 60-day threshold. Congress left town without acting.
The DayThe Day: Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court narrows the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling that reshapes redistricting law.
The DayThe Day: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
The UAE leaves OPEC after fifty-nine years of membership, effective May 1.
The Day: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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The DayThe Day: Monday, April 27, 2026
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The DayThe Day: Saturday, April 25, 2026
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The DayThe Day: Friday, April 24, 2026
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The DayThe Day: April 21, 2026
The blockade is eight days old. China has entered the conversation. And in the Coral Sea, scientists found more than a hundred species nobody knew existed.
The DayThe Day: April 20, 2026
The U.S. Navy is blockading Iranian ports. Both sides are heading back to Islamabad. The ceasefire expires tomorrow.
The DayThe Day: April 17, 2026
The Islamabad talks enter their second week. The ceasefire expires in five days. The last time American and Iranian officials sat across from each other was 1981.
The DayThe Day: April 16, 2026
Iran mined the Strait of Hormuz and then lost track of where it put the mines. The ceasefire demands their removal. Six days remain.
The DayThe Day: April 15, 2026
The Iran ceasefire reaches its halfway point. The Strait of Hormuz hasn't reopened. At the pump, the war costs four dollars and sixteen cents a gallon.
The DayThe Day: April 14, 2026
Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors sit down at the State Department. In Islamabad, the clock on a two-week ceasefire keeps ticking.
The DayThe Day: April 13, 2026
The United States and Iran held their first direct, face-to-face talks since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The ceasefire expires April 21.
The DayThe Day: April 6, 2026
Four astronauts aboard Artemis II are approaching the moon on day five of their mission, the first humans to travel this far from Earth since Gene Cernan left the lunar surface in December 1972.
The DayThe Day: April 3, 2026
The Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, ruling the law regulates speech based on viewpoint, in a decision that could undo similar bans in more than twenty states.
The DayThe Day: April 2, 2026
Iran strikes a Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai as the war expands into the shipping lanes of America's Gulf allies, and the price of the conflict arrives at the gas pump.
The DayThe Day: April 1, 2026
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether all children born in the United States are citizens, the first time the justices have taken up the question in 128 years.
The DayThe Day: March 31, 2026
Oil hits $116 a barrel after President Trump tells the Financial Times the United States could seize Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal.
The DayThe Day: March 30, 2026
Pakistan offers to host direct talks between Washington and Tehran, but nobody has confirmed they're coming. The DHS shutdown hits day 45. A California law on corn tortillas could prevent birth defects.
The DayThe Day: March 29, 2026
Diplomats gather in Pakistan to discuss ending the war in Iran while the fighting continues, the DHS shutdown breaks the American record, and students in Amsterdam study to Pachelbel.
The DayThe Day: March 28, 2026
The Houthis fire their first missiles at Israel, the Iran war marks one month with objectives unfulfilled, and the DHS shutdown becomes the longest in American history.
The DayThe Day: March 27, 2026
An Iranian missile wounds American troops at a Saudi base, Tehran formalizes its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, and markets close their worst week since the war began.
The DayThe Day: March 26, 2026
Israel says it killed Iran's naval commander as the war enters a new phase and diplomacy runs on a parallel track.