Author: Gary Wilson

On May 5, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood at the White House podium and announced what victory in the U.S. war on Iran now meant. “As President Trump has said,” Rubio told reporters, “the […]

Before sunrise on July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo stepped out of his Houston home, patted his dog goodbye, got into his work van and drove off to pick up his crew. He had made some […]

On July 8, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran “over.” Over the next two days, U.S. warplanes struck some 170 targets across Iran, including railway bridges carrying mourners […]

The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport. A U.S. amphibious warship is docked at its principal port. MQ-9 Reaper drones and combat helicopters fly reconnaissance over Caracas. Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops are […]

In the first week of July 2026, a heat dome settled over the central and eastern United States. Heat indexes reached 115 degrees. More than 185 million people were under heat alerts, and more than […]

The coffin moved slowly. It had to. The funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, set to cross central Tehran on July 6, was rerouted and shortened because the crowds were too dense for it to […]

On June 30, Denver voters ended the 30-year congressional career of Diana DeGette. They gave the Democratic nomination in Colorado’s 1st District to Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old barista, first-time candidate and member of the Democratic […]