Iran, the US and Oman say they are making progress on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that carries much of the world's oil shipping.
Current and former US officials tell Reuters the Pentagon has used almost its entire stock of long-range precision-guided missiles fighting Iran, raising questions about what would be left for a separate crisis with Russia or China.
A group of US states has sued to stop tariffs — import taxes — that the Trump administration placed on goods from about 60 countries, saying those countries failed to curb forced labor.
Iran said Monday it is not negotiating with the United States and expects no talks, contradicting President Trump, who said a deal over the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) could start that same afternoon.
Reuters reports, based on unnamed sources, that Japan is preparing to announce it acted jointly with the United States to support the yen, its currency, which has been weakening.
The Pentagon plans to give up command of SAG-U, the hub in Wiesbaden, Germany, that has organized Western training and weapons deliveries to Ukraine since 2022.
Iran launched a new round of missile attacks, and United States and Saudi Arabian forces struck Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, according to news reports.
Days after signs Iran's conflict with the US was cooling, fighting flared again on three fronts: Iran fired a missile attack on US forces, which the US says it intercepted; US and Saudi jets bombed Iran-backed militants in Iraq who had launched drone attacks; and Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage carrying much of the world's oil.
Four separate studies published this month found China pulling ahead of the United States in several areas at once: global opinion polls now favor China over the US in most countries, China's trade surplus keeps growing, its biotech industry is running drug trials faster and cheaper, and its military has added disinformation and fake videos to its war plans for Taiwan (a self-governing island China claims).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet President Trump at the White House this week, then attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, a leading Senate voice for arming Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February set off new Middle East fighting.
The Pentagon, the US military's headquarters, is now planning its support for Ukraine as far ahead as 2029.