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.
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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: 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.