• Global leaders work to ease oil price surge as Trump signals more weeks of Iran war

    Global leaders work to ease oil price surge as Trump signals more weeks of Iran war

    Apr 02, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... that Iran chooses are now transiting. Yvette Cooper, British Foreign Minister: We have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage. Nick Schifrin: Today, a group of more than 40 countries led by British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper coordinated plans to reopen the strait after ...

  • Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide

    Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide

    Apr 01, 2026 09:15 PM EDT

    ... that Shah Alam “showed no signs of distress, mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance” when agents dropped him off Feb. 19 at a Tim Hortons restaurant, a spot chosen as “a warm, safe location” near his last known address. “This death had NOTHING to do Border Patrol,” its parent ...

  • Trump claims Iran's president wants a ceasefire

    Trump claims Iran's president wants a ceasefire

    Apr 01, 2026 01:50 PM EDT

    ... meanwhile, appeared to have hit the former U.S. Embassy compound, which has been controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard since American diplomats were held hostage there in 1979. Witnesses said buildings outside the massive compound had their windows blown out and that it appears the strike happened inside the ...

  • Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Live Updates: Supreme Court considers Trump's order on birthright citizenship

    Apr 01, 2026 01:09 PM EDT

    Many of the arguments in today’s case go back to the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling in the case of Wong Kim Ark, which said a U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen. In that ruling, Justice Horace Gray wrote that Fourteenth Amendment “affirms the ancient ...

  • Israel's parliament approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

    Israel's parliament approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

    Mar 30, 2026 06:31 PM EDT

    ... 7, 2023. There is a separate bill under consideration dealing with punishment for the attackers. Some opposition lawmakers worry that the bill could harm future hostage negotiations. Israel exchanged some 250 hostages taken during the October 2023 attack for thousands of Palestinian prisoners. The Public Committee against Torture in Israel ...

  • News Wrap: Mullin sworn in as Homeland Security secretary

    News Wrap: Mullin sworn in as Homeland Security secretary

    Mar 24, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... after it had designated Afghanistan a sponsor of wrongful detention earlier this month. Afghanistan has rejected allegations that it engages in what's known as hostage diplomacy. Here at home, many people in Hawaii are starting to clean up and assess the full scope of the damage left behind from ...

  • Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than a year

    Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than a year

    Mar 24, 2026 02:56 PM EDT

    ... still seeking the immediate return of Mahmood Habibi, Paul Overby, and all other unjustly detained Americans,” Rubio said. “The Taliban must end their practice of hostage diplomacy.” Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said his country “has not arrested citizens of any country to achieve political goals,” according to a ...

  • Swalwell sees attacks from left and right as California's race for governor heats up

    Swalwell sees attacks from left and right as California's race for governor heats up

    Mar 20, 2026 06:19 PM EDT

    ... voted last year in favor of a GOP-sponsored resolution condemning an attack on a Colorado demonstration that was being held in support of Israeli hostages, which left one woman dead. The resolution expressed “gratitude” to law enforcement, including ICE. His campaign added that he has proposed restrictions on ICE ...

  • Trump has 'no plan' on how to end Iran war, Sen. Murphy says

    Trump has 'no plan' on how to end Iran war, Sen. Murphy says

    Mar 18, 2026 10:50 PM EDT

    ... difference on how the administration is breaking the law in the way that they implement and enforce our immigration laws. Let's not hold TSA hostage. Let's not hold the Coast Guard hostage. Republicans refuse to open up TSA and the Coast Guard, because they want to use the ...

  • Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war

    Joe Kent, top counterterrorism official, says Iran posed no imminent threat as he resigns over Trump's war

    Mar 17, 2026 03:35 PM EDT

    ... his social media reach that was joined by Nick Fuentes, a popular right-wing influencer who has said that Jews are holding the U.S. “hostage” and once proclaimed that “Hitler was awesome, Hitler was right.” Kent later disavowed those ties and stated that he rejected all “racism and bigotry ...