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Una bandera estadounidense ondea de nuevo en la embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas, Venezuela, el sábado 14 de marzo de 2026, siete años después de haber sido arriada cuando Washington y Caracas rompieron relaciones diplomáticas en 2019. (AP Foto/Ariana Cubillos)
California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, on Nov. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Americans’ views on Trump soured greatly with regard to the cost of living, an issue that was at the centre of his 2024 election campaign
Pharmaceuticals billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong waves as he arrives in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Hopes of de-escalation dim as Israeli PM also vows to keep striking Iran, even as Trump talks up deal hopes
March 25, 2026 — 5:00am
The Department of War is gearing up to send thousands of troops from the Army’s 82nd Infantry Division to deploy to the Middle East, according to a source familiar with the plan.
LONDON — Oil prices jumped on Tuesday as traders turned cautious over the prospect of a negotiated agreement between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war.
The Pentagon is planning to deploy a brigade combat team of roughly 3,000 soldiers from the army’s elite 82nd airborne division to the Middle East to support operations against Iran, according to two US officials, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty speaks during a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center on Aug. 14, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File)
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El presidente Donald Trump con el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio en la Casa Blanca en Washington, el 20 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump's approval rating fell in recent days to its lowest point since he returned to the White House, with the US hit by a surge in fuel prices and widespread disapproval of the war he launched on Iran on 28 February, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found.
La primera dama de Estados Unidos, Melania Trump, habla en la Cumbre de la Coalición Global Promover juntos el futuro, en el Departamento de Estado, el martes 24 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Jacquelyn Martin)
Vanderbilt head coach Shea Ralph celebrates with forward Sacha Washington (35) during the second half in the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament against Illinois, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are close to a deal with Democrats that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security following a shutdown that has lasted more than five weeks.
US President Donald Trump has executed another spectacular about-turn, from threatening to escalate the Iran war to announcing "very good" talks to end it, which were denied by the Islamic republic.
Over half a billion dollars in oil bets were placed just 15 minutes before President Trump announced Monday he was pausing plans to attack Iranian infrastructure, sending prices plunging.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Park Police officer shot during what authorities called an ambush was released from the hospital Tuesday, the Park Police said in a posting on its X account.
Prediction market bettors aren't confident that a key oil passageway in the Middle East will reopen in the next few weeks, despite some hope that the U.S. and Iran might find a way out of the war.
First lady Melania Trump speaks during a “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” at the State Department, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said his country would host talks between the U.S. and Iran in pursuit of a "comprehensive settlement" of the ongoing war.
THE geopolitical shock of February 2026 was no accident. It was a manufactured crisis, an engineered rupture authored by the Katzenjammer Kids of global politics: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, acting with little regard for the consent of their own publics. Cornered by domestic failures and legal peril, they f…
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s bluffing on Iran ‘talks’ and his callous reaction to Robert Mueller’s death
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing will examine what Republicans are calling Joe Biden’s “Watergate.”
President called practice ‘mail-in cheating’ at Monday event after voting in Florida House race via mail
China's top diplomat told his Iranian counterpart in a phone call on Tuesday that "talking is always better than to keep fighting" after Tehran denied US President Donald Trump's claim that negotiations had taken place.
WASHINGTON — Delta Air Lines is punishing Congress for failing to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
WASHINGTON — NASA's chief on Tuesday said the US space agency "intends to pause" its Gateway project that would have created a space station in orbit around the Moon, instead shifting focus towards "building a lunar base."
President Donald Trump walks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced Tuesday that it had freed US detainee Dennis Coyle, who Kabul had held in captivity since January 2025.
United States President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is pausing attacks on Iran’s power infrastructure for five days and claimed that Washington and Tehran had held “very good and productive conversations” aimed at ending their war.
Airstrikes have battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones have targeted Israel's Tel Aviv and sites across the Middle East, even as President Donald Trump says the US is in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war.With thousands more US Marines on their way to the Gulf, both sides firing intense barrages a…
The US has issued far-reaching demands to Iran to end the war, conditions that Tehran is likely to view as a non-starter, sources familiar with the matter have told Middle East Eye.
The Capitol is framed amid blooming cherry trees in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has threatened US, being weighed up as potential interlocutor to bring war to an end
A guerra no Irã é um "erro desastroso" que "viola o direito internacional", afirmou o presidente da Alemanha, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, nesta terça-feira (24/03), dirigindo uma crítica direta à política externa do presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump.
Islamabad, Pakistan – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said Pakistan is ready to host talks between the United States and Iran amid US President Donald Trump’s claims of ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
Washington Wizards head coach Brian Keefe watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Tuesday, March 10, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
Trabajadores cuentan votos en Industry, California, el 4 de noviembre del 2025. (AP foto/Ethan Swope)
It is possible that Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and US Vice-President J.D. Vance, could travel to Islamabad
Seoul has yet to receive a formal request from Washington regarding troop deployment to the Middle East, though the two countries' military authorities remain in close consultation, the defense minister said Tuesday.
In Atlanta, travelers stuck in lines caused by the partial shutdown react to ICE’s presence at the airport.
Trump doesn’t care what is true about the war in the Middle East or anything else so long as what he says serves his purpose for the moment
Park police chief says officer was ‘ambushed’ by two gunmen who fired as officer drove in unmarked vehicle
With the island back in Washington’s sights, the Screen Cuba festival is taking UK audiences beyond the blockade
President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
An Arizona-based battery startup led by a former General Motors executive is pivoting from making products for all-electric vehicles to ones for the aerospace and defense industries amid the war in Iran and growing demand for U.S. drones by the Trump administration.