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.
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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.