Even the largest global supplier of liquefied natural gas can’t make up for the shortfall since the war in Iran cut off an important source. By Ivan Penn The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut ...

Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

The U.S., Israel and Argentina on Wednesday voted against a United Nations resolution led by Ghana to label the international slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for ...

Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as "National Women’s Month" after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

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If the United States assumed, before attacking Iran, that the major oil producer would be reluctant to close the Strait of Hormuz for fear of blocking its own oil exports, it miscalculated. Traffic ...

Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control of a strategic waterway that it has closed off to the rest of the region’s oil producers. As Gulf ...

Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. The war powers vote came amid concerns that the U.S. could be engaged in another lengthy war in the Middle East, and ...

How, and if, the Trump administration plans to regulate the export of semiconductors has remained unclear since Donald Trump took office last year. Now, we have an idea of what the administration is ...

Applied Materials has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce over alleged violations of controls on exports to China. The company has agreed to pay $252.5 million as part a civil ...