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Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a former ally of President Trump who has since sparred with him over multiple issues, on Sunday predicted “political revolution in” the U.S. if there are…...

Two days of talks in Washington between Lebanon and Israel produced an extension of the current ceasefire by 45 days.

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President Donald Trump said the US objective of recovering highly enriched uranium from Iran was “more for public relations than it is for anything else,” while reiterating his commitment to removing the nuclear material.

How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.

Trump says he expects a long talk with Xi Jinping about Iran this week as the issue looms over a summit originally focused on trade and technology.

The president deployed the National Guard to Washington on the premise that they would help crack down on crime.

The president’s deeply unpopular Middle East war has dragged on into its third month.

The president’s team is getting multiple warnings about looming backlash to rising costs.

China orders firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil in what analysts call an unprecedented escalation of Beijing's resistance to Washington.

The president threatened that Iran would be “blown off the face of the earth.”...

Oil prices plunged around midday on Wednesday as reports emerged that the U.S. and Iran are nearing an agreement on a one-page memorandum that could result in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.…...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina floated the idea of further U.S. military attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the rising cost of the Iran war under fiery questioning from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.&n…...

Iran’s president calls the US siege 'intolerable' as Donald Trump says war may resume.

The vice president is concerned about the reality of Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

Trump gives shoot and kill order for boats putting mines in Strait of Hormuz; Chevron CEO expects air travel disruptions due to jet fuel shortage.

The world is staring down the “biggest energy security threat” it has ever seen, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Thursday. “We are facing the biggest energy security threat i…...

Thought the summer travel season was looking bad? Brace yourself: It could get even worse.

As the weekend approached, the US and Iran appeared to be closing in on a deal to end the seven-week war.

Roger Carstens, former lead hostage negotiator, warns Iran is untrustworthy as the Trump administration considers new round of peace talks in Pakistan.

The fate of the Iran war centers on highly enriched uranium, an essential ingredient for nuclear weapons. A post-Soviet-era operation that could inform a U.S. recovery mission in Iran.

Rep. Elise Stefanik pushes back on Jake Tapper's claim that Trump's rhetoric toward Iran amounted to a call for genocide in heated CNN exchange.

Iran said it has opened the Strait of Hormuz and President Trump said the regime is very close to making a deal. He told CBS News' Weijia Jiang that Iran had agreed to virtually everything the U.S. pushed for when the war started. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab and Eleanor Watson report.

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the war with Iran is "almost over." He has also stated multiple times that the U.S. is close to accomplishing "all of its goals" in Iran. CBS News' Robert Costa reports and Michael Doran, director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at ...

U.S. Central Command said Wednesday that nine ships have obeyed orders from American forces while attempting to break a blockade of Iranian ports.

Iran’s military has threatened shipping in the Red Sea if the US continues its blockade of Iranian ports, as President Donald Trump suggests talks could resume this week in Pakistan. Follow for live news updates.

There is still a long way to go in changing European and many U.S. perceptions of the first branch of its government.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday denounced President Trump’s threatening posts about Iran as sounding like the “prelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in hi…...

Iran-U.S. negotiations fell apart after Tehran misjudged its leverage, a U.S. official says, as Vice President JD Vance departed Pakistan without a deal.

Trump said the U.S. blockade will stop Iran from policing the strait and benefiting economically while the rest of the world suffers from its closure.

Vice President JD Vance is traveling to Pakistan to helm talks aimed at solidifying the fragile truce between the US and Iran — and in the process, elevate himself as the key peacemaker within an administration that has devoted its last several weeks to war.

Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.

Anthony L. Fisher: Iran’s ruling regime has not only survived, but Trump’s war may also make it an even wealthier and more influential regional power.

Trump used to rail against presidents not showing ‘backbone,’ Eric Garcia writes. Now, he has pulled another ‘TACO’...

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate.

Israeli strikes have hit central Beirut without warning, causing panic after the announcement of the ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

The president has abandoned yet another deadline.

Some of Trump’s biggest supporters are urging someone in the White House to stop him.

Trump fired off a bloodthirsty threat as his deadline looked destined to pass without a deal being struck.

Iran's regime calls on youth to form human shields around power plants as Trump's deadline nears and he warns "a whole civilization will die tonight."...

As Trump's deadline for Iran to open Hormuz nears, Tehran says will respond in kind to attacks on civilian facilities.

President Trump and other senior officials on Monday shared new information about the rescues of two U.S. airmen whose F-15 fighter jet was shot down last Friday in Iran. Tony Dokoupil anchored CBS News' special report on the president's news conference.

Dr. Vin Gupta shared a troubling overview of the president's "erratic" behavior following his unhinged threat toward Iran on social media.

For the Iranians, the Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down was possible leverage. For the U.S. military, finding him was a moral imperative.

U.S. president turns to threats and bluster as efforts to open Strait of Hormuz continue to fail...

Hiding alone in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines, the injured American airman knew exactly what to do: survive and evade.

The 79-year-old president has yet to address the public on a U.S. service member being hunted in Iran.

US President Donald Trump said this week that Iran’s new leadership is “less radical and much more reasonable.” Trump and the Pentagon have repeatedly claimed that regime change has happened.

The forces give Trump military options in Iran, including operations that could target opening the Strait of Hormuz, take oil from Kharg Island or seize Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, sources said.

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end.

The US housing market was supposed to turn a corner this year, but economic uncertainty and a jump in mortgage rates fueled by the US-Israeli war in Iran are complicating affordability for American homebuyers.

President Trump postponed his threat to strike power plants in Iran, citing “productive conversations” with the Iranians. But officials said the talks were in an early stage and not substantive.

Iran’s foreign ministry has reportedly denied that talks are underway and suggested Trump’s post was an effort to reduce energy prices.

Wars of choice, at home and abroad, have become the defining feature of President Donald Trump‘s tumultuous second term.

But at just 35 miles wide, it did. It’s just the latest evidence of how dependent the global economy is on a handful of choke points.

In near-daily briefings with top military officials at the White House, President Donald Trump has reviewed options that include sending American troops into Iran.

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East.

DONALD Trump is considering “winding down” his Iran war but says other nations will need to police the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on Truth Social, the White House boss revealed the US was “v…...

Pressure has mounted on the Vice President in recent days as Donald Trump...

The Republican congresswoman said she would not support any supplemental funding for the war against Iran.

Attacks on facilities by both sides in the conflict this week threaten grave consequences for the global economy...

What does Trump's Truth Social post after gas field attacks tell us about US-Israeli alignment?

A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

European powers and ​Japan said on Thursday they would act to stabilise energy markets and join "appropriate efforts" to open the Gulf's energy chokepoint after tit-for-tat strikes on energy plants dramatically escalated the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

Wrestling authorities face mounting pressure to ban Iran from international competitions after regime targets athletes, executing 19-year-old champion Saleh Mohammadi.

Israel compares its assassinations of the top level of Iran’s leadership to severing the head of an octopus.

Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, took power after his father Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike, but Israeli intelligence says he lacks control over the regime.

The pope’s remarks about portraying war as if it’s a video game could be interpreted as a clear shot at the Trump administration.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday defeated a Democratic-sponsored motion to advance a war powers resolution to halt President Trump’s military strikes against Iran, a conflict that has caused oil and…...

Gabbard's testimony contradicts one of several justifications Trump has given for launching war with Iran.

The director of national intelligence provided the Senate Intelligence Committee with mixed messages about the state of Iran’s nuclear program before the war began.

The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company, with some limits. The Trump administration is looking for ways to to ease oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.

Israeli attacks have targeted the command centers of Iran’s repressive, internal security forces in hopes that Iranians will overthrow their rulers. Some see that as wishful thinking.