President Donald Trump told his aides to prepare for an extended U.S. Naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the U.S. looks to intensify economic pressure on Iran as the war enters its third month. Read More

King Charles III called on the U.S. to maintain its leadership role in the world, and to support Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in a remarkably pointed speech for a monarch that urged Americans to resist the pull of isolationism. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III to the White House for a visit fraught with doubt about the future of Britain’s so-called special relationship with America and fresh security concerns in the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the CBC he’s in no hurry to sign a minor deal for tariff relief with the U.S., arguing that other governments that have done so aren’t happy with the results. Read More

President Donald Trump called on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC to immediately fire late night host Jimmy Kimmel after what he called a “despicable call to violence” on an April 23 broadcast. Read More

President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years. Read More

Manitoba plans to prohibit young people from accessing social media and artificial intelligence chatbots, said Wab Kinew. Read More

In early April — after a month of disruption around one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints — U.S. President Donald Trump wrote that with “a little ​more time, we can easily OPEN THE ​HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A ⁠FORTUNE.” Read More

More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he’s nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an “everything app” with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month. Read More

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg. Read More

To say the special relationship is going through a rough patch ahead of King Charles III’s visit would be an exercise in British understatement. Read More

Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it won’t negotiate so long as it’s being threatened. Read More