A focal point of the Iran war is increasingly about who controls the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway that for decades was a relatively safe transit route for Middle East oil and natural gas supplies
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CNN's Dana Bash presses Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on why settler violence in the West Bank hasn't ended.
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One person has been killed in a shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state’s speaker of the house. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
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US Capitol Police arrested at man at the Capitol’s north barricade who they said had a firearm, which is prohibited on Capitol grounds.
July 13, 2026
President Donald Trump is reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah
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The U.S. military’s official tally of deaths in the Iran war has risen to 14 service members, with the death of a Navy pilot in a helicopter crash in early July in the Arabian Sea
July 14, 2026
Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, on Monday said she had tapped the nation's envoy to the U.S. for a new post dealing with foreign relations and trade abroad.
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July 14, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that the U.S. would take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he warned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.
July 14, 2026
A United Nations official has said Palestinian militant group Hamas was disrupting aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, placing further hardship on its civilians already
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Brown-Forman CEO and President Lawson Whiting has decided to retire, the company said on Monday, but did not provide a timeline for his departure.
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The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him
July 13, 2026
President Donald Trump said Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the Strait of Hormuz and America would charge a 20% toll on other countries’ eligible cargo, escalating tensions after weekend of attacks by both nations to assert control of the critical waterway
July 13, 2026
The U.S. has announced a new round of strikes on Iran, hours after President Donald Trump said the United States is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and, in a seeming policy reversal, will charge other ships for safe passage
July 13, 2026
Lindsey Graham played a role in the Senate that won’t easily be filled
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Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has named Darline Graham Nordone as her late brother Lindsey Graham’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate
July 13, 2026
Darline Graham Nordone has been appointed to fill the Senate term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, who died over the weekend
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Voters in one of the most conservative U.S. states will decide whether to roll back the state's abortion ban
July 14, 2026
Canada's federal banking regulator warned the country's largest financial institutions about the risks of Anthropic's Claude Mythos and other advanced AI
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A person was fatally shot on Monday during an encounter with U.S. immigration agents in Maine, a top state lawmaker said, days
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Democratic senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand called on Monday for President Donald Trump's administration to disclose within the next
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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred presidential hopeful Senator Flavio Bolsonaro from visiting his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, for
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A wildfire tore through a historic forest near Paris on Monday, forcing highway closures and mobilising water-bombing aircraft, while
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FACT FOCUS: A look at US and Iranian claims of control over the Strait of Hormuz
Trump's to give speech about foreign interference in 2020 election, MS Now reports
Trump says the US will take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran
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Trump reduces the size of 2 national monuments in Utah as Republicans reshape land management
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