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A highway gas station price totem at dusk displaying regular gasoline at 4.08 and diesel at 5.43 per gallon, with a pickup truck refueling under the canopy behind it

Record August Gas at $4.08 Is a Refining Story, Not a Crude One

The national average for regular gasoline hit $4.08 on Friday, a price no mid-August…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

A US presidential Boeing 747 on a wet floodlit ramp with an airport catering truck raised to a cabin door, a man in a dark suit stepping into the container, and empty airstairs at the forward door

Trump Left Air Force One in a Catering Truck and Let the Press Fly On as a Decoy

On July 8, hours after the United States resumed bombing Iran, President Donald Trump…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

A small rust-streaked general cargo coaster sails alone through an empty strait at dawn, with an arid mountainous coastline in the background

Three Crew Died on the Tihamah, the Kind of Ship That Cannot Reroute Out of Bab el-Mandeb

At least three crew were killed on the cargo ship Tihamah in the Bab…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

Bashar al-Assad in a dark suit at the left of an empty Syrian courtroom, a vacant metal defendant cage standing behind him

Assad Was Sentenced to Death in Absentia, and Atef Najib Was the Only One in the Cage

A criminal court in Damascus sentenced Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday for crimes…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 11

Soviet-era apartment blocks in Nizhnekamsk with an oil refining and petrochemical complex directly behind them, a flare stack burning orange and dark smoke drifting across a hazy dawn sky

Nizhnekamsk Was Built to Serve the Refinery, and Ukraine’s Deepest Drone Strike Killed 13 There

Ukrainian drones killed at least 13 people in Nizhnekamsk, a Soviet monotown built in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

Firefighters in dark navy uniforms and blue helmets aim a hose at a gutted, still-burning steel warehouse beside freight rail wagons, with scattered wooden pallets and debris across wet asphalt

Russia Killed 17 Around Kyiv Using the One Weapon Ukraine Can No Longer Intercept

Russian forces fired 24 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 5

Crude oil tankers moving in single file through a narrow sea channel between rocky coastlines at dusk, with a grey naval destroyer in the distance

Trump Called Off a Second Iran Strike for a Deal Iran Has Not Confirmed

President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he was canceling a planned attack on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 2

Open control cabinet of programmable logic controllers with lit status lights inside a small water treatment plant, a dark control screen and a paper log sheet on the desk, and a town water tower against a dusk sky outside

Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.

In Braham, Minnesota, a city of roughly 1,700 people, the cyberattack that hit the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 1

A wide dark impact crater in a harvested wheat field ringed by scattered metal fragments, with blue and white police tape, two officers, a police van and firefighters beside a fire truck in the background.

Poland Identified the Russian Missile Within Hours, Then Left Article 4 Alone

A Russian cruise missile crossed roughly 100 kilometers into Polish territory early Thursday and…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 30

Five interceptor missile trails rise from a desert airbase at night as two bright intercept flashes detonate high above silhouetted hangars and a radar array.

Iran Fired First This Time, and the Pause Trump Ordered Was Never Written Down

The US struck Iranian targets Wednesday night after the Revolutionary Guard fired first at…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 29

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu seated in armchairs in the Oval Office with US and Israeli flags behind them

Trump Meets Netanyahu at the White House as the Iran Strike Pause Holds

President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 28

Aerial view of the Strait of Hormuz at dusk with oil tankers on dark waters and distant orange glow on the Iranian coastline

U.S. Stops Bombing Iran After Two Weeks of Strikes as China Brokers New Peace Push

The U.S. military did not launch airstrikes against Iran on Friday night for the…

By Mark Masterson · Jul 27

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A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber flies low over the Persian Gulf at dusk with smoke plumes rising from the Iranian coastline

Trump Says He Is ‘Close’ to Ordering a ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran as 13th Night of Airstrikes Wraps

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber with swept wings flying at dusk beneath a storm-lit sky

The B-1 Bomber Just Entered the Iran War. Here’s What That Escalation Actually Means

Military honor guard carrying flag-draped transfer cases on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base at dusk with a C-17 aircraft in the background

Trump Honors Four Fallen Service Members at Dover as Iran War Death Toll Climbs to 17

Diplomatic table split between Saudi Arabian and American flags with a glowing uranium fuel rod assembly at center

Landmark Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia That Could Open the Door to Uranium Enrichment

Smoke rises from a U.S. military base in the Middle East at dusk with the American flag silhouetted against an orange sky

The Pentagon Just Admitted Nearly 100 Troops Were Injured in Iran, and Its Own Tracking System Showed Zero

Pete Hegseth seated at a microphone in a Senate hearing room with protesters holding signs behind him

Hegseth Says Iran War Has Cost $37.5 Billion as Pentagon Demands $67 Billion More From Congress

Gas station price sign showing four dollars per gallon at sunset with cars at pumps

Gas Prices Hit $4 a Gallon Again as Iran War Squeezes American Wallets

U.S. soldier in explosive ordnance disposal gear kneeling near debris from a downed Iranian drone in dusty northern Iraq terrain at sunset

Another American Killed in Iraq as U.S. Troops Pay the Price of an Escalating Iran War

Smoke rising from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan at dusk with US military fighter jets on the tarmac

Two US Service Members Killed in Jordan as Iranian Missiles Hit a Key American Air Base

A ruptured white fuel storage tank burns at an industrial depot, sending a dense black smoke column into a grey dawn sky as firefighters spray water from the perimeter

Ukraine’s Drone Barrage Kills 8 in Russia and Sets a Moscow-Region Oil Depot Ablaze

Aerial view of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz at dusk with smoke plumes and military vessels

Iran Launches Simultaneous Strikes on Five Gulf Nations After the U.S. Hits 300 Targets in Three Nights

Donald Trump walking across the White House South Lawn at dusk flanked by Secret Service agents, with steel security fencing and crowd barriers in the foreground and Marine One behind

Trump Says He Left Orders to Bomb Iran If He’s Assassinated as the White House Turns Into a Fortress

President Donald Trump seated at the NATO summit press conference table in Ankara alongside NATO officials with flags in the background

Trump Declares Iran Ceasefire ‘Over’ at NATO Summit as Strait of Hormuz Attacks Shatter Fragile Truce

Submarine surfacing in dark Pacific Ocean waves with ballistic missile trail arcing through stormy sky at dawn

China Fires a Nuclear-Capable Missile From a Submarine in the South Pacific, and the Timing Is Not a Coincidence

Massive crowd in Tehran at dusk with Iranian flags during funeral procession, spotlight beams cutting through the air

Iran Begins Weeklong Funeral for Ayatollah Khamenei as a Wounded Nation Stages Its Largest Public Spectacle

Aerial view of Kyiv skyline at dawn with multiple plumes of smoke rising from residential apartment buildings after Russian drone and missile attack, emergency vehicles on streets below

Russia Unleashes Its Most Massive Attack on Kyiv of the Entire War, Killing at Least 13

A military airbase at night with floodlights illuminating the tarmac and smoke rising in the distance

Iran Strikes US Military Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain as Middle East Ceasefire Crumbles

Aerial view of the Pentagon building at dusk with military aircraft silhouettes in the sky

The Pentagon Wants $80 Billion for the Iran War, Nearly Triple Its Original Estimate