Oil fell 2 percent on talk of a Hormuz corridor
Brent was near $86.80. Washington is leaning on sanctions and maritime pressure while mines and one tanker hit still cloud the strait.
Read →Bessent calls Monday an economic D-Day against Iran
The Treasury secretary promised the toughest sanctions on record. Tehran says that would be an act of war, and that Hormuz could stop.
Read →Rezaei warns the Gulf: join the US squeeze and Hormuz stops
Bessent is due Monday with a new sanctions plan. Rezaei says Gulf help would stop oil leaving the strait.
Read →Chief Justice Roberts let Trump keep building the White House ballroom hours before a stop-work order would have bitten
Two lower courts said the East Wing project needs Congress. The administration says it is 65 percent done, and now calls it a military complex.
Read →A Russian double-tap strike on a Kryvyi Rih mall killed 16 people
Zelenskyy's hometown. A second drone hit about 30 minutes later, while rescuers were already there.
Read →Kyiv is in mourning after a Russian barrage killed at least 17 people
A children's hospital and a school were hit. Zelenskyy says the interceptors for Patriots have not been replaced, and debris crossed into Moldova and Romania.
Read →Israel's military admitted it fired on the car that killed five-year-old Hind Rajab
It has opened a criminal investigation. It will not investigate the World Central Kitchen strike.
Read →The US and South Korea will end Ulchi Freedom Shield on Friday, five days into an 11-day drill
Trump ordered the cut after Seoul declined to join the Iran war, and after citing Kim Jong Un.
Read →The 60-day Iran deal deadline passed on Monday, and the two sides are further apart
Trump says he does not want an extension. He also told Fox News he would bomb Oman if it "gets in the way" of US control of Hormuz.
Read →Russia says Ukraine flew 822 drones overnight, calling it the largest attack of 2026
Moscow's governor said about 600 were aimed at the capital. A Wildberries warehouse caught fire. Officials reported deaths on both sides.
Read →Melting Antarctic ice is leaking stored mercury into the Southern Ocean
A PNAS study of peninsula sediment cores, written up on 14 August, found mercury accumulation up 160 percent since industrialisation. Releases driven by ice melt are up about 550 percent. Antarctica is starting to act as a source, not only a sink.
Read →Genetic work has split a Madagascar baobab into a new, endangered species
University of Wisconsin researchers showed that trees long filed as Adansonia za are a separate northern species, Adansonia bozy. Naming it may unlock conservation money. It also makes the old species smaller than anyone thought.
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