Treasury bars Egypt’s second-largest bank’s UAE branches from the US financial system for aiding Iran at the war’s 6-month mark, as Trump hedges on sanctioning Chinese banks.
UAE’s national security adviser backs a 49% stake in the Trump family’s new federally chartered crypto bank as the administration eases AI chip sales to his firm, the Journal reports.
Trump signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” a week after Canada trade talks collapsed, and floats renaming the Atlantic or Pacific next.
Trump rejects new Iran talks as the war hits 6 months, while Iran and Oman agree on a Hormuz corridor requiring the US to lift its blockade.
China rejects US sanctions over Iran and vows countermeasures as Washington holds off enforcing measures softer than markets expected.
US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean kills 4, pushing the campaign’s toll to 227 as Hegseth claims 3 nations approved land operations.
CIA Director Ratcliffe flies unannounced to Moscow as the US tells Ukraine to suspend strikes, the first US spy chief visit to Russia since 2021.
Trump submits an unusual, fully classified Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress, starting a 90-day clock that approves it without a rejection vote.
Trump floats renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” and denies Carney’s account that US demands to weaken Quebec’s French-language rules sank trade talks.
Canada details counter-tariffs up to 50% on C$27.6 billion in US goods for September 8, as Trump threatens 50% on Canadian cars and steel in 2027.
Treasury Secretary Bessent says Chinese banks financing Iran’s oil face sanctions in his “economic asphyxiation” campaign, as Beijing vows countermeasures.
Vance calls Canada a “state” at a Maine event, claiming a Freudian slip, as Trump says Canada “couldn’t survive” without US money.
State Department moves to sell a Kehinde Wiley painting of Dominicans it commissioned in 2013, after officials called the Obama portraitist’s work “woke.”
Treasury Department launches Operation Economic Outcast, threatening to cut any entity trading with Iran from the dollar system, as the rial hits a record low.
US envoy to Syria walks back saying Israel occupies the Golan Heights, restoring Trump’s 2019 recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory.
Iranian hackers shut a UK power plant for 4 days in an unprecedented strike timed to US water cyberattacks.
Canada sets dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs for September 8 after talks collapse, with Carney saying US demands asked too much and offered too little.
Iran declares any country joining US sanctions an enemy it will harm, as China rejects the demand that all nations isolate Tehran.
US tells Congress it plans to pay the UN $725 million of the $4 billion owed, short of what saves its voting rights in January.
Canada vows to match US tariffs dollar for dollar as the 50% duties on $20 billion in goods take effect after trade talks collapse.
Iran finalizes a trade deal with mediator Oman and opens Hormuz to Iraqi tankers as China rejects Bessent’s demand that every nation join US sanctions.
ICE emails show Iranian officials edited US deportation manifests, adding cases at the embassy’s request while the administration urged Tehran’s evacuation during the war.
First deportation flight since Haitian TPS ended lands with 161 people, as the US plans to return 250 weekly to a country the UN calls very dangerous.
First 20 deportees land in Liberia under the deal to send 1,200 people, the largest of 35 third-country arrangements the US has struck.
US sanctions 9 Cuban state firms and detains American citizens returning from Castro centenary events, seizing their phones at the Miami airport.
Vance declares the Iran war in a new phase of economic pressure as Tehran calls the threats cover for US military failure.
Trump declares economic warfare on Iran and threatens any country offering a lifeline, a day after saying no talks are underway or scheduled.
Rubio sanctions ICC President Tomoko Akane and a senior trial lawyer as the State Department pursues its declared campaign to dismantle the court.
Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 US deportees, most of whom won court protection after judges found they risked torture at home.
Trump pauses 50% Canadian tariffs for three days after announcing a trade deal with terms neither government has detailed.
Trump says no Iran talks are underway or scheduled nearly six months into a war he predicted would last six weeks.
Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it obstructs reopening the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Iran announced a shipping route agreement with the Gulf state.
Trump orders Hegseth to scale back military exercises with South Korea, citing his relationship with Kim Jong Un and the ally’s refusal to join the Iran war.
Iran’s army offers $30,000 bounties for killing or capturing US troops, doubling the reward for women who carry out attacks.
Over 170,000 Canadians petition Parliament to expel US ambassador Hoekstra for normalizing annexation threats and US diplomatic interference in Canadian unity.
Israeli airstrikes kill 11 in southern Lebanon, the deadliest since June’s truce, as Iran hits a seventh UAE oil tanker in Hormuz.
Trump vows to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory after defeating Iran, telling voters he’ll never apologize for $4 gas.
UAE blames Iran for drone attacks on two of its state oil company’s tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the sixth such ship struck in about a week.
A covert CIA program was behind the drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos that left eight men missing, the Washington Post reports.
Iran’s military rejects Trump’s claim of total Hormuz control as lies while Bessent threatens economic isolation surpassing anything the world has seen.
Hegseth says Colombia’s new president requested joint U.S. military operations against cartels as he urges 19 Latin American nations to abandon the ICC.
Trump claims total U.S. control of the Strait of Hormuz and says America may keep it as daily traffic falls to 8 ships from 130.
Four human rights groups sue over Trump’s ICC sanctions, calling them an unconstitutional attack on justice weeks after Rubio vowed to systematically disable the court.
U.S. helicopter fires Hellfire missiles into a Panama-flagged cargo ship CENTCOM says ran the Iran blockade, as Pakistan calls a peace deal near.
State Department announces 175,000 visa revocations since January 2025, including some for social media posts and 100 at one embassy over birth tourism.
Trump demands Iran pay compensation for the USS Cole and 52,000 war dead after Tehran conditions reopening the Strait of Hormuz on U.S. damage payments.
Iran demands the U.S. end its blockade, withdraw from the region, and pay war damages as Netanyahu rejects a U.S.-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan.
Iran strikes a UAE tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, then demands the U.S. never threaten it again and pay war damages to reopen the strait.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan sign a mutual defense pact in Mecca a day after Houthi strikes killed 58 Yemeni government troops.
Iran and Oman near a deal routing ships through the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran insists the strait stays shut until the U.S. lifts its blockade.
