A fresh War Powers notification arrives weeks after Congress passed a resolution ordering the same war to end.
The strait was already effectively shut before Trump's post. His new plan adds a 20% toll he once called unacceptable.
A Republican president is holding a bipartisan housing bill and a spy-power renewal hostage to pass an election-fraud bill, while the GOP controls all of Washington.
A congressional commission, a White House task force, and an activist coalition each say they represent the country. None of them speak for all of it.
The IMF's outgoing chief economist says strategic reserves kept the price shock small — and warns the next one has nothing left to absorb it.