THE THREATDOWN: The price of oil is rising again after Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea as the Iran war spreads to a second choke point for the oil industry. Saudi …

BLUSTER BOMBS: President Trump threatened to escalate the war with Iran, yet again, with a bunker-busting attack on what he believes to be one of the country’s nuclear facilities known in the West as Pickaxe Mountain.   Iran says such an attack would …

TRADE WAR: President Trump reignited a trade war with Canada yesterday, signing an order to impose a 50 percent tariff on a range of Canadian goods, claiming that Canada has discriminated against the US in motor vehicles, dairy and alcohol.   The tariffs …

THE WAR ROOM: Three American soldiers are dead and a third listed as missing after a weekend of warfare with Iran.   One soldier died Saturday while disposing Iranian drone wreckage in northern Iraq. On Friday two soldiers were killed in an Iranian …

THE VOTING BOOTH: Following President Trump’s alarmist speech about election security Thursday night, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin yesterday threatened local election officials with prison time if they do not comply with Trump’s efforts to change election policies.   Repeating Trump’s unsubstantiated claims …

BE AFRAID: President Trump in a prime time speech last night made shopworn claims about vulnerability of US voting systems and foreign attempts to sway American elections in what was ultimately an argument for passage of his Save America Act that …

THE NOMINEE: Texas lame duck Republican Sen. John Cornyn may hold the vote that determines whether the full Senate ever considers the nomination of President’s Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche to become Attorney General. A single “no” vote would end …

TALK BIG AND CARRY A SMALL STICK: The US launched another round of strikes against Iran today as the conflict approaches a return to full-scale war. Iran responded by hitting US military targets in the region.   President Trump yesterday threatened on …

THE WAR ROOM: The US bombed targets in Iran for the third night in a row after President Trump declared that he will charge a toll for protecting ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a move he declared illegal when …

TERM LIMITS: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham died of a burst aorta in his Capitol Hill home Saturday night, according to preliminary reports. He was 71.   Graham had just been re-nominated to a 5th term and was scheduled to appear yesterday morning on …