Real-time traffic monitoring of the Strait of Hormuz shipping crisis. Ship transits, vessel map, oil prices, stranded vessels, global trade impact, and crisis timeline.

Senate Republicans' plan to grill former special counsel Jack Smith next week could backfire on them, according to legal analyst Michael Popok.Smith is set to testify Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), at a hearing Republicans have titled "Oversight...

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Democrats sounded the alarm Friday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration's overhauled voter citizenship database, with some predicting "chaos" just weeks before the midterms.In an unsigned emergency order, the court lifted a lower court's block on the Department of Hom...

Newly resurfaced audio shows Texas Republican congressional candidate Brandon Herrera suggesting COVID-19's death toll wasn't severe enough because the virus failed to disproportionately kill overweight Americans, comments he made years before launching his current campaign.The remarks surfaced from...

The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled. The system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens and a lower court found it violated federal privacy protections.

An ad running on Fox News and Newsmax showing images of President Donald Trump and calling for the defeat of communism was paid for by the U.S. government.

​"Weirdest way to violate the Hatch Act, ever."

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

Among the misspending was nearly $3 million to erect tents at Guantanamo Bay that were never used, $20 million to maintain purchased warehouses that are now being sold without having housed a single d...

WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...

The immigrant remains in federal custody after a second hospital visit, with a bullet still lodged near his neck, his lawyer said. Immigration officials contested his assertion that he has been denied...

Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on ​Wednesday after Israel's military uprooted them with bulldozers, days ahead of the annual ‌olive harvest, normally a sour...

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