Authorities in Dubai said Tuesday morning they “contained” a Kuwaiti oil tanker after it came under attack from Iran. Officials said there was “no oil leakage and no injuries reported.” The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has caused major disruptions to the world’s supply of oil and natural gas, roiling global markets, and left more than 3,000 dead.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks rushed higher worldwide, and oil prices eased as hopes built that the war with Iran could end soon. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% and added to its leap from the day before, which was its best since last spring. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 1.2%.
WASHINGTON (AP) – As the Iran war intensifies, President Donald Trump has prioritized efforts to calm the financial markets – trying to keep oil prices from exploding upward, stocks from cratering and interest rates from surging.
WASHINGTON (AP) – King Charles III will deliver an address to Congress during his visit to Washington in late April, becoming the first British monarch to give a speech to a joint meeting of U.S. lawmakers in more than three decades. The joint address is part of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. declaring independence from Britain.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back. No circling around the moon, no stopping for a moonwalk.
LONDON (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance – this time over the Iran war.
Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2026. There are 275 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 31, 1968, at the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned listeners by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
BEIRUT (AP) – Since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, the Trump administration claims to have all but “obliterated” the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared last week that “never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralized.”
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