Tag: Iran

Vice President JD Vance speaks with Andrew Kolvet at a Turning Point USA tour stop at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)

Vance heckled at TPUSA event over US action in Middle East: ‘You’re killing children!’

David Zimmermann · April 14, 2026 7:44 pm

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Treasury threatens foreign banks aiding Iran with ‘Economic Fury’ sanctions

David Zimmermann · April 14, 2026 5:31 pm

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Banking Committee, tells reporters that it would be a mistake for President Donald Trump to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, during a vote in the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

Energy and Environment

Thom Tillis slams Trump’s proposal to impose tolls on ships in Strait of Hormuz

Emily Hallas · April 14, 2026 5:05 pm

DOEDOE

Daily on Energy

Daily on Energy: Oil price relief, demand destruction, and a new GOP effort to speed up nuclear projects

Callie Patteson, Maydeen Merino · April 14, 2026 3:07 pm

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Trump says ‘clean’ FISA extension needed ‘especially’ amid Iran war

Christian Datoc · April 14, 2026 2:57 pm

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Mark Carney announces summerlong pause of federal taxes on gas and jet fuel after securing Liberal majority

Claire Carter · April 14, 2026 2:08 pm

Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Pope Leo attacked Trump first, on several occasions, not the other way around

Christopher Tremoglie · April 14, 2026 12:50 pm

Collage of President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Pope Leo XIV.

Meloni voices support for pope in Trump feud: ‘Unacceptable’

Brady Knox · April 14, 2026 12:34 pm

Collage of the Strait of Hormuz, pro-Hezbollah protesters in Lebanon, and President Donald Trump.

IMF warns of global recession risk if Iran war escalates

Molly Parks · April 14, 2026 12:12 pm

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf.

China calls US Hormuz blockade ‘dangerous and irresponsible’

Mike Brest · April 14, 2026 11:55 am

Sharon Simmons with DoorDash, gets a $100 tip after delivering McDonald's to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Washington Secrets

How Trump spiked his own guns in the information war around Iran

Rob Crilly · April 14, 2026 11:45 am

Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly on the Megyn Kelly Show.

Trump ‘desperate for attention’ in AI photo: Megyn Kelly

Britta Miller · April 14, 2026 11:00 am