Oil prices rose more than 5% on Wednesday, as escalating threats from Israel and Iran against Middle East energy infrastructure risk compounding the already massive disruption to global oil supplies. Brent prices, the international benchmark, rose 5.88% to $109.50 per barrel by 10:33 a.m. ET. U.S. oil prices traded 2.95% higher to $99.05. Israel attacked Iran’s...

WASHINGTON — As the Iran war stretches into its third week, Democrats say they’re done with all of the classified briefings from top administration officials. They now want public hearings into whether President Donald Trump plans to put U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, secure nuclear material there and how he plans to end...

Just weeks after returning to office as president, Donald Trump issued an executive order to close the broadcaster which his officials accused of left-wing bias. Trump also ordered outlets such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law”. Source link