Todd Blanche faces Capitol Hill grilling in bid to become attorney general The Washington Post

His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-century.

Oil prices climbed as the U.S. military bombed an Iranian launch site and Iran retaliated by attacking a U.S. air base in Kuwait.

Canada announced new tariffs of up to 50 percent on hundreds of American goods in retaliation for U.S. tariffs that took effect last week. Starting Sept. 8, Canada will double…