Peering to the west as his surveying party paddled through the muddy waters, John Cleves Symmes saw an opening in the tree canopy along the shoreline. It was just as he’d pictured it in his mind. This ...

The US military said it struck a cargo ship attempting to sail towards an Iranian port, while four crew members and two rescuers were killed in a separate Houthi attack in the Bab el-Mandeb strait.