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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

Calvin Woodward

An Iranian flag flutters on board the Adrian Darya oil tanker, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar on August 18, 2019. (Johnny Bugeja/AFP)
April 29, 2023, 10:37 pm
Senators urge Biden to seize Iranian oil after US-bound tanker held
Bipartisan group says despite sanctions, Iran’s oil exports jumped 35% last year, with proceeds used to sponsor attacks on US citizens
By Calvin Woodward
AP Illustration of scenes of the Capitol riots and an image of Trump. (AP)
July 24, 2022, 3:08 am
January 6 hearings trace an arc of ‘carnage’ wrought by Trump
Panel is exposing behind-the-scenes machinations laying bare the lengths Trump and his enablers went to try to keep him in power
By Calvin Woodward and Eric Tucker
A man walks through the house where Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed by US forces the night before, February 3, 2022. (Aaref Watad/AFP)
February 4, 2022, 10:35 am
50 US commandos encountered baby toys, suicide bomb during lethal raid on IS leader
American intelligence planned attack and tracked terror chief for months; notified others in the region ahead of strike; found a houseful of extremists and children
By GHAITH ALSAYED, Zeke Miller, Lolita C. Baldor and Calvin Woodward
A year after the attack on the US Capitol, a US Navy Ceremonial Guard poses with their rifles during a photo session with a military photographer, in Washington, January 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
January 7, 2022, 1:28 am
A nation divided: Americans do not remember Jan. 6 Capitol riot as one people
Democrats recall and mourn attack on US democracy, while Republicans stay silent, exposing breach in nation’s ideals of common purpose, history and values
By Calvin Woodward
People line up to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday Nov. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
November 27, 2021, 3:04 am
World races to contain new COVID threat, the Omicron variant
US, Canada, Russia, Israel and a host of other countries join European Union in restricting travel for visitors from southern Africa; ‘It seems to spread rapidly,’ says Biden
By Raf Casert and Calvin Woodward
In this August 21, 2021,file photo provided by the US Marines, US Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, provide assistance at an evacuation control checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/US Marine Corps via AP, File)
September 5, 2021, 8:08 am
Over 24 hours in Kabul, brutality, trauma — and moments of grace
Longtime enemies the US and the Taliban re thrust into a bizarre collaboration, and both sides had a stake in making America’s last 24 hours in the country work
By TAMEEM AKHGAR, Matthew Lee, Lolita C. Baldor, Rahim Faiez and Calvin Woodward
In this August 27, 2021 photo, US President Joe Biden listens as he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
August 28, 2021, 7:56 pm
Biden in the ‘loneliest job,’ a presidency driven by crisis
President has found himself in a real-time crisis that overrides the platitudes he offered when running for the office
By Calvin Woodward
US President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks before signing the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
March 13, 2021, 4:56 pm
Warp-speed spending and other surreal stats of COVID times in America
The US has now spent more on the pandemic than on the military effort in World War II, and has lost more people than US combat deaths of all of the last century’s wars
By Calvin Woodward
Then-US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 14, 2021, 9:16 am
Two impeachment trials, two escape hatches for Trump
Former US president once again evades consequences at second trial; this time senators were not only judges and jurors but also witnesses
By Calvin Woodward
Congress staffers hold up their hands while Capitol Police Swat teams check everyone in the room as they secure the floor of Trump suporters in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)
January 7, 2021, 4:35 am
Guns drawn, lawmakers under desks as pro-Trump mob roams and loots Congress
On the president’s urging, a horde surges into US Capitol, tearing down American flag and unfurling a Trump banner amid clouds of teargas and a deadly gunshot
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Andrew Taylor, LISA MASCARO and Calvin Woodward
Supporters of US President Donald Trump rally outside of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on November 21, 2020. (AP/Ben Gray)
December 3, 2020, 10:39 am
Threats to US election officials swell as Trump grievances feed menacing tide
Alarm raised as neutral public servants, Democrats and an increasing number of Republicans who accept vote outcome are hounded by outgoing president’s supporters
By Colleen Long and Calvin Woodward
US President Donald Trump listens during an event on Operation Warp Speed in the Rose Garden of the White House, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 15, 2020, 10:13 am
After election loss to Biden, Trump puts American democracy to the test
With claims of massive fraud, demanding recounts and calling for audits in an effort to discredit the outcome, US president has forced a reckoning over the system
By MICHAEL TACKETT and Calvin Woodward
In this photo taken on September 26, 2020 US President Donald Trump announces 7th US Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett (R) as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
October 4, 2020, 2:28 am
Attempt to trace source of Trump infection reveals many large crowds, few masks
It’s not clear where the president got the virus, or even when he tested positive, but his week included several rallies, and a White House event where several attendees fell ill
By Calvin Woodward and Jill Colvin
Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News listens as US President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate September 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
October 1, 2020, 4:31 am
Fact check: False claims swamp first Trump-Biden debate
US president incorrectly asserts that military to deliver coronavirus vaccines, while Democratic hopeful exaggerates drop in crime rate during Obama presidency
By Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen
State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) is being beaten by a state trooper. (AP Photo)
July 18, 2020, 9:23 am
John Lewis, rights icon, ‘American hero’ and the ‘conscience of Congress’
Said he’d been arrested 40 times in the 1960s, 5 more as a congressman. At 78, he told a rally he’d do it again to help reunite immigrant families separated by Trump administration
By Calvin Woodward
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