US Military Hasn't Identified A Single Confirmed Mine In Strait Of Hormuz, Officials Tell NBC

On Sunday, British Royal Marines boarded and seized an oil tanker in the English Channel that the UK says is part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a term Western countries use to describe vessels that ship Russian oil despite US and European sanctions. According to ship-tracking data, the tanker Smyrtos was sailing under the Cameroonian flag, […]

America's Hiring Map Has Flipped Since 2020 America’s hiring recovery has split into sharply different regional stories since 2020. Some states, including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, continue seeing elevated hiring demand years after the pandemic. Others, particularly across parts of the West Coast and Mountain West, have experienced steep declines in job openings. The map below, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, shows how job openings changed in every state between February 2020 and January 2026, based on data from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The contrast is especially striking in the Mountain West....

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father as the new supreme leader of Iran, issued his first statement on Thursday, where he said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed and vowed Iranian attacks on US bases in the region would continue. “Certainly, the leverage of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must also continue […]