War with Iran

American B-1 and B-52 bombers have taken off from RAF Fairford for operations during the Iran conflict.

Despite Trump’s public comments rejecting a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Araghchi said Iran had not yet had an official response to the proposal.

Iranian officials had made an offer after indirect talks between the two countries on the sidelines of this week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The ship, which supported the U.S. war with Iran, was at sea for nearly 300 days without a port call.

President Donald Trump called on other nations to join the war in Iran during his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, though he said the conflict would end after the midterm elections.

President Trump asked the Pentagon for military options on Thursday and later ordered strikes before calling them off, sources say.

The financial cost is just one measure of the impact of the Iran war, which also is affecting oil prices and the stock market and has led to deaths and injuries of American troops.

The international fact-finding mission on Iran said its findings focused on airstrikes, including one on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab.

The U.S. service member publicly recounted his ordeal in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday.

There was no immediate comment by the U.S. military, which has struck Iranian-flagged vessels during its blockade of Iranian ports.

Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket.

They’re the latest tit-for-tat strikes as Washington and Tehran lurch back toward fighting during more than six months of war.

A gallon of gas is nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012, according to AAA.

Trump noted that U.S. strikes on Iran are now “intermittent” and seemed to downplay the intensity of a war that’s cost U.S. taxpayers more than $37.5 billion and left 18 U.S. service members dead.

The USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand on Wednesday after a record-setting deployment in the Middle East.

About 5,000 U.S. sailors and Marines are stopping in the resort city of Pattaya for a “rest and relaxation” break as they return home from a record-setting deployment in the Middle East.

The U.S. and Iran are both seeking control over the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran’s coast through which 20% of the world’s oil normally flows.

The U.S. military last week completed clearing sea mines from the strait’s international shipping routes.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a wave of new sanctions aimed at isolating Iran, after threatening the Islamic Republic with “an economic D-Day.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Operation Economic Outcast, a set of secondary sanctions against groups and individuals that do business with Iran.