crisis

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Last year, despite years of sanctions and a domestic currency crisis, Tehran sold more crude than in any year since 2018.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Most Angelenos know Frank Gehry as the rebel architect whose deconstructivist buildings reinvigorated L.A. amid its late-century identity crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

More than 2,100 people have been killed, Lebanese health authorities say, and over a million, or roughly one in five of the population, have been displaced - creating a pressing humanitarian crisis.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

But that argument is undermined by the short-term responses of Treasury rates in the closest analogous crisis: the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. by the petroleum-exporting countries in the Middle East.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Barnes visited the White House twice a day during the crisis.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow