By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that Americans will likely have to deal with a few more weeks of high gas prices due to the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. "It's a short-term disruption to the flow of energy. Americans ...

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times Roughly 96% of all job losses in the D.C. region last year came from federal layoffs, the liberal Brookings Institution reported this month. The think tank's analysis of federal data found that the District and surrounding counties in Mar...

A new push from Washington is drawing mixed reactions from key allies as tensions continue to build around the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's mo...

A new phase in the conflict between the United States and Iran is unfolding as Washington pushes for international support to safeguard one of the wor...

A federal judge has temporarily stopped the U.S. government from ending immigration protections for roughly 1,100 Somali nationals living in the count...

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times Virginia's current congressional map, among the fairest in the country, would quickly become one of the most extreme if Democrats carry out their redistricting plans. Early voting started last week in a referendum that would allow the ...

By Kim Tong-hyung and Adam Schreck - Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday, after their plane crashed in western Iraq. The U.S. Central Command...

A U.S. military refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury, with rescue teams moving in as officials worked to determine ...

By Jonathan Mattise and Olivia Diaz - Associated Press A gunman is dead and two people are hurt after a shooting at Old Dominion University on Thursday, the Virginia school said. ODU said a gunman opened fire in its business school building, injuring two people who were sent...

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's newly appointed supreme leader, urged the Strait of Hormuz to remain closed to merchant ships, according to a statement read Thursday on Iranian state TV. Although a photograph of Mr. Khamenei was shown,...

Brent crude moved above $100 a barrel early Thursday after a new market update showed fresh pressure on global oil supplies. The jump followed a wave ...

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times Unidentified projectiles struck three cargo ships in or near the Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday amid the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported. Two ships were hit while transiting the s...

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times A van drove through a security barricade near the White House on Wednesday morning, and the driver has been detained. The Secret Service is investigating the incident. The Metropolitan Police Department said that at around 6:37 a.m.,...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said this week that the United States should not move into nation building in Iran, drawing a clear line around what he des...

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times Before the U.S. and Israel opened a war on Iran, the Islamic republic had waged a nearly 50-year campaign of global terrorism that has killed thousands, including at least 995 U.S. servicemen, military personnel and other Americans. ...