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Central Command said it used Apache helicopters to sink the Iranian speedboats that were harassing traffic in the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

By comparison, traffic in the Red Sea has plummeted: from 18 transits per day through Bab al-Mandeb between March and April 2023, the average fell to five three years later.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

I could hear all the traffic in L.A. coming to my house at two o’clock when the pubs and the discos closed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

There is already one pipeline in heavy use today, but more capacity will be needed to cope with increased production and a permanent change to the fluidity and cost of tanker traffic in the Gulf.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Other episodes of mass fatality are abundantly documented: the Black Death in Europe, the post-collectivization famine in the Soviet Union, even the traffic in African slaves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann