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THE nagging and vexing legal issue of whether or not the government, particularly the president, as the head of the executive department, can effect the arrest, detention, rendition or surrender of a Filipino citizen to the International Criminal Court (ICC), pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued by it, as in the p…
WASHINGTON — A gunman opened fire near the White House on Saturday evening, with US Secret Service agents killing the assailant in a shoot-out during which a bystander was also struck, authorities said.
AMHERST, Massachusetts — Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed United States President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of money, military hardware, and lives in the service of an ill-conceived war with ever-changing objectives. Mean…
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was prepared to enter “into very serious talks” about Iran’s nuclear program if Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, signaling that the Trump administration was prepared to accept an interim agreement that didn’t immediately take away Iran’s ability to make nuclea…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump, who agreed that Iran's nuclear enrichment sites will be dismantled, he wrote in an X/Twitter post on Sunday.
A senior Israeli official says Benjamin Netanyahu has told US President Donald Trump that Israel will continue military operations across the region, including in Lebanon, regardless of ongoing negotiations with Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he and US President Donald Trump are aligned on forcing Iran to dismantle its nuclear capabilities as part of any deal.
As the summer season warms up, long-haul truck drivers lament their bills and vendors worry about raising prices
US President Donald Trump claimed that American relations with Iran were improving as reports of a developing 60-day ceasefire emerged on Sunday.
President Donald Trump on Sunday said talks to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz are proceeding, but urged his negotiating team not to rush into a deal.
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that negotiations with Iran are “proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner”.
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The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the o…
The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the o…
The US president, 80 on June 14, will soon attend his fourth publicly disclosed doctor’s appointment since his second term began
The US president, 80 on June 14, will soon attend his fourth publicly disclosed doctor’s appointment since his second term began
For months, US President Donald Trump has framed himself as the world leader who was willing to confront the Islamic Republic more aggressively than any Western leader before him.
Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for the Republican run-off in the highly contentious US Senate primary between the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, and John Cornyn, the incumbent, who has represented Texas in the US Senate since 2002.
The document is full of disclaimers and does not address fundamental issues, including Gaza and the Biden-to-Harris transition
Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu will run for re-election in January after clinching his party’s presidential nomination with a landslide victory in the All Progressives Congress primaries.
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Turkey is facing a potential political crisis as the leading opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has been thrown into turmoil.
Senior US Republicans have launched a rare public rebuke of President Donald Trump over the reported terms of the ceasefire agreement with Iran, warning they include major concessions that would strengthen Tehran and undermine Israel.
Global Pepfar program has long had Republican leadership and bipartisan support, but initiative is under fire
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President Sheikh Mohamed took part in a phone call to discuss the Iran conflict with leaders of other countries including US President Donald Trump.
A truck passes political signs outside a polling place at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in South Hill, Va., on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
The US State Department has officially cleared a $108.1 million hardware and sustainment package to keep Ukraine's frontline air defenses online, after there's not been much in the way of big dollar headlines concerning Washington's longtime military support to Kiev of late.
Israel’s leaders had little to say on Sunday about President Trump’s announcement of an emerging peace deal with Iran.
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Senior US Republicans have launched a rare public rebuke of President Donald Trump over the reported terms of the ceasefire agreement with Iran, warning they include major concessions that would strengthen Tehran and undermine Israel.
Researchers who have tested Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 say their hacking capabilities are a “game-changer.”
El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, habla en una conferencia de prensa con el ministro indio de Exteriores, S. Jaishankar, que no aparece en la imagen, tras su reunión en Nueva Delhi, India, el domingo 24 de mayo de 2026. (AP Foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that “significant progress, although not final progress, has been made” in negotiations over Iran as he met Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during a four-day visit to India.
United States President Donald Trump says a memorandum of understanding on an agreement with Iran has been “largely negotiated” and would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital oil chokepoint closed since the US and Israel launched their war in February.
The United States continues to update Israel on negotiations over the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at solving the Iranian nuclear issue, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and launching talks toward a final agreement on remaining disputed issues, a diplomatic source stated on Sunday.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “significant progress” has been made in talks to end the US-Israeli war on Iran, hours after President Donald Trump claimed that a memorandum of understanding to end the fighting was “largely negotiated”.
Former Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party or (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu waves from a car after talking to journalists in Ankara, Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Ugur Yildirim/DIA Photo via AP)
Republican lawmakers and former Trump administration officials sharply criticized reports of an emerging 60-day ceasefire agreement with Iran, warning that the proposed deal could hand Tehran a strategic victory and undermine the results of the US campaign against the Islamic Republic.
President Trump said on Saturday that the United States was close to reaching an agreement with Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He offered few details in a post on social media but said the preliminary agreement had been “largely negotiated.”
United States President Donald Trump says a possible agreement between Washington and Tehran to end months of war is now “largely negotiated”, raising hopes that tensions in the region could ease after a flurry of diplomatic overtures involving multiple countries.
A man has been shot dead by United States Secret Service officers after opening fire on a security checkpoint near the White House, and a bystander has been wounded in the gunfire.
Um tiroteio nas proximidades da Casa Branca na noite deste sábado (23/05) provocou a morte de uma pessoa e deixou outra ferida. O suspeito de começar o ataque foi baleado por agentes do Serviço Secreto e morreu posteriormente. O incidente levou ao fechamento preventivo do complexo presidencial. O presidente Donald T…
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