The Trump administration lets Anthropic release its most powerful AI model to roughly 100 approved companies and agencies, claiming new authority to decide who gets frontier AI.
Trump threatens immediate 100% tariffs on any country that taxes U.S. tech giants, four months after the Supreme Court struck down his global tariffs as illegal.
The U.S. strikes Iran over a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the first since last week’s ceasefire extension.
The Senate rejects a measure to restrain Trump’s Iran war powers, reversing the bipartisan rebuke it approved two days earlier as Republican swing votes retreat under White House pressure.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard strikes a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz for using the U.S.-approved route, challenging the deal that just reopened the waterway.
France calls for an orderly U.S. military drawdown from Europe, telling Washington to coordinate its troop and weapons pullbacks rather than blindsiding allies as it has repeatedly this year.
Israeli forces kill two Hezbollah fighters and lose a soldier in south Lebanon as the fragile Iran ceasefire frays and Tehran threatens ships crossing Hormuz without its approval.
Iran vows permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz and the right to charge passage fees, rejecting U.S. demands as the ceasefire strains.
Vance says Iran will let U.N. nuclear inspectors back in, but Tehran says nuclear negotiations have not begun.
Trump declares on Truth Social that British Prime Minister Starmer “will resign,” faulting his immigration and energy record as UK media reports his Monday exit.
Trump threatens to hit Iran “very hard again” and seize the Strait of Hormuz as Vance opens the highest-level direct U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland.
Investors tied to Chinese military contractors and the Qatari royal family secretly bought into SpaceX before its record IPO, court records ProPublica sued to unseal show.
Iran recloses the Strait of Hormuz days after signing the ceasefire, blaming Israel’s refusal to leave Lebanon as talks open in Switzerland.
Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
Italian Prime Minister Meloni says she is shocked by Trump’s completely made-up claim that she begged him for a photo together at the G7.
Trump unveils the $400 million jet Qatar gave him as a new Air Force One that will pass to his presidential library when he leaves office.
Israel kills at least 47 in the deadliest Lebanon strikes since the U.S.-Iran deal, then agrees to a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
The State Department will permanently end PEPFAR HIV funding for South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV population, tying the cut to political demands including ending affirmative action.
Defense Secretary Hegseth tells European allies to take the lead on their own defense as the U.S. shifts its military focus toward China.
U.S. forces kill three more in an eastern Pacific boat attack, pushing the campaign’s death toll to at least 211 since September with no trafficking evidence released.
The first U.S.-Iran talks under Wednesday’s ceasefire are postponed as Israel refuses to withdraw from Lebanon and overnight strikes there kill 16.
The State Department conditions billions in African health aid on real-time access to citizens’ medical data, with Uganda granting seven years of system logins.
Poland offers to co-finance a permanent U.S. military base on NATO’s eastern flank as Trump pulls troops from Germany.
Trump signs the 60-day Iran ceasefire into effect and threatens to resume bombing if the deal collapses.
Fired Homeland Security Secretary Noem, still serving as a Trump special envoy, joins a Canadian mining firm’s advisory board as it pursues critical minerals.
Trump arrives at the G7 summit in France facing allies split with him over two wars, the Iran conflict he launched and the Ukraine war they want him to help end.
Iran’s World Cup coach says the team was ordered out of the country hours after its opening match, with staff denied U.S. visas.
The U.S. and Iran sign a 60-day ceasefire memorandum, then clash over frozen funds and whether the deal binds Israel in Lebanon.
Trump declares the Iran war over and lifts the Strait of Hormuz blockade, though the agreement is a 60-day ceasefire to begin nuclear talks.
Trump says the U.S. and Iran will sign a peace deal Sunday, but Tehran says it will not be signed then.
A U.S. military strike kills Tren de Aragua leader Héctor Guerrero Flores inside Venezuela, in a joint operation its government confirms.
Pakistan declares a final U.S.-Iran peace deal text reached as Iran attacks Strait of Hormuz shipping and Trump rejects Tehran’s account of the terms.
Outgoing intelligence director Gabbard rescinds two reports that doubted foreign involvement in Havana Syndrome, reviving the adversary weapon theory a decade after symptoms emerged.
Trump calls off strikes and claims an Iran war settlement hours after vowing bigger bombing, but Tehran denies approving any deal.
U.S. bombs Iran for a second straight night after Trump says Tehran will pay the price for stalling on a deal.
U.S. strikes nearly 20 Iranian targets after Iran downs an Apache helicopter, and Tehran retaliates against American bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Central African Republic agrees to take U.S. deportees from other countries, the latest African deal that rights groups say sidesteps court protections.
Trump weighs buying the British-controlled Chagos Islands and their Indian Ocean military base, months after his Greenland bid collapsed.
Defense Secretary Hegseth uses a D-Day speech in Normandy to denounce an “invasion” of migrants on Europe’s beaches, then skips the main commemoration honoring the Allied dead.
North Korea rejects U.S. denuclearization push and vows to expand its nuclear arsenal a day before Chinese President Xi visits Kim Jong Un.
U.S. strikes Iranian radar sites and downs six attack drones as Tehran accuses Washington of violating the ceasefire.
Trump backs intelligence chief Pulte slashing agency jobs, saying his temporary status leaves him less shackled.
Thousands protest in Albania as a $4.6 billion resort tied to Kushner advances on protected coastal wetlands, with security guards filmed dragging demonstrators off the site.
Trump administration sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel, his family, and the military as Rubio presses for regime change in Havana.
A U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire falters as Hezbollah rejects it and Israeli strikes kill seven in southern Lebanon.
