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The military claimed the skies were “friendly,” but initial reports suggested otherwise.

Four Republicans voted with nearly all Democrats to advance the Iran war powers measure, with GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy joining the Republican defectors for the first time.

Democrats face an uphill battle to win the Senate. They see in Mary Peltola, the first Native Alaskan elected to Congress, their best chance to unseat Senator Dan Sullivan.

A pair of Senate lawmakers introduced legislation Monday to ban digital gambling advertisements targeting minors. The bill, titled the Gaming Advertisement to Minors Enforcement (GAME) Act, would e…...

A Sudanese paramilitary commander who was arrested late last year following global outrage over videos of him executing unarmed people in al-Fashir has been released from prison and returned to active duty on the battlefield, nine sources told Reuters.

Sen. Bill Cassidy joins a short but notable list...

Reports emerged in December that the Pentagon planned to shuffle various commands as part of an organizational restructuring.

“I think the timing and the optics are really bad,” admitted one Republican senator.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the FBI director needs to be fired “for a whole host of reasons.”...

The president has never pretended to be an ordinary American, but a recent “truth bomb” has opened him to criticism that he doesn’t grasp the economic strain of his war with Iran.

More than $1 billion has been bet online on military decisions and outcomes this year on Polymarket. Some wagers have been suspiciously timed, with information seemingly coming from insiders.

"For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won't be anything left of them," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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…...

Editorial: Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menace...

Subpoenas have begun to fly over reporting on the Iran military campaign.

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

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Incumbent senator faces a defining test as Trump-backed rival surges ahead in polls and prediction markets before the state's GOP primary.

The president has unintentionally set off an international scramble for renewable energy due to his war in Iran...

Senator Bill Cassidy, who has drawn President Trump’s ire, is fighting for political survival.

Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, is in danger of losing his primary.

A year ago, Trump promised a new era during the first major foreign trip of his second term. On his recent visit to Beijing, the war with Iran and economic strain clouded his diplomacy.

Like Lucy with the football, President Donald Trump keeps teasing that a deal to end the war with Iran is nearly over.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led an official day of mourning in Kyiv a day after a Russian cruise missile flattened an apartment building. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war.

Cuba’s top diplomat in the U.S. said the country is sticking to its red lines amid faltering negotiations it says have made “no progress” and a looming threat from President Trump to invade the nat…...

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CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday Iran’s military capabilities have been “severely degraded” across “every domain.”...

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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.

There’s no avoiding blunt reality.

Docked ship reportedly seized outside UAE port by “unauthorised personnel”...

President Trump is in Beijing meeting with China's President Xi Jinping, with the two leaders aiming to stabilize their trading relationship after last year's trade war.

A Congressional Budget Office report deemed the missile defense scheme both wildly expensive and ineffective.

U.S. consumer prices climbed a sharply again last month as the 10-week war pushed energy prices higher.

Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, a former national police chief, has sought refuge in the senate.

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

The White House waits for Iran's response to the latest deal to end the war, as President Trump prepares for a meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jingping later this week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran war is “not over” in an interview that aired on Sunday, reinvigorating the push to dismantle Tehran’s proxies and see its nuclear enrichment …...

President Donald Trump said Sunday afternoon that Iran's latest peace proposal was unacceptable as negotiations to end the war remain stalled.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday.

The two countries have been discussing a 30-day extension to the cease-fire and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran's response, which included several demands he deemed "unacceptable."...

As relations between the U.S. and Ukraine remain low, Volodymyr Zelensky has started looking for new partners.

Details were not immediately clear. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said he hoped the response would include a “serious offer for a ceasefire.”...

Putin hinted the war in Ukraine may be coming to a close as he led his country in celebrating the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

Chris Wright said the administration was “open to all ideas” as gas prices have shot up more than 50% since the start of the Iran war.

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As gasoline prices have ratcheted higher across the US due to the war in Iran, several Midwestern states have seen the steepest increases. That’s putting a strain on many of the voters Republicans need at the midterm elections in November to keep control of Congress.

A cargo ship caught fire Sunday after being hit by an unknown projectile off Qatar's coast, the British military said.

The Russian leader sees potential for Ukraine negotiations, but condemns the West's backing for President Zelensky.

The U.S. military's latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed two men Friday while leaving one survivor.

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The US said it expects Iran to respond to its latest proposal to end their war imminently, as clashes in the Strait of Hormuz threatened to further fracture a month-long ceasefire.

Iran didn’t confirm a deal was close, though its navy said that “with aggressor’s threats neutralized & new protocols in place, safe, stable passage through” the Strait of Hormuz “will be ensured.”...

Ukrainian President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia's proclamation of a limited ceasefire for its World ‌War Two commemorations exposed the "strange and inappropriate" logic of its leaders.

A federal judge said more than $100 million in cuts to NEH grants were discriminatory, ruling in a case that revealed the inner workings of DOGE.

Trump said Iranian attacking forces were “destroyed” after Tehran fired missiles, drones, and fast attack boats at three U.S. Navy destroyers.

Three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz came under attack on Thursday, and the U.S. struck on two Iranian ports abutting the strait, putting into question an increasingly fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.

The United States and its partners have burned through an enormous amount of air defense missiles in the Iran war, and production is slow.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Democratic Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, one of 18 lawmakers backing new legislation that would cut off funding for the war in Iran.

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

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A flurry of diplomatic activity in the last 24 hours suggests the US and Iran are making a fresh push to end their two-month war. Beyond the spotlight, leaders in Iran are making sure to tend to alliances with Russia and China along the way.

The attack was the second in two days, and the latest in an ongoing campaign against people the United States says are engaged in drug smuggling at sea.

President Donald Trump hinted that a "Final Agreement" regarding an end to the conflict between Iran and the U.S. may be around the corner.

Families in Norfolk, Va., await the return of roughly 15,000 sailors and Marines as the USS Ford continues a deployment that started more than 10 months ago.

Shipping company Maersk says one of its US-flagged commercial vessels has successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US military protection.

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US President Donald Trump said he will raise the case of Hong Kong’s imprisoned former media tycoon Jimmy Lai in his upcoming summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, adding a potential friction point to an agenda already complicated by the Iran war.

A post-Vietnam law puts a 60-day clock on the use of military force without congressional authorization.

The initial skirmishes that presage a return to combat operations may have already begun.

The U.S. military said it helped two merchant ships transit the Strait of Hormuz, and the United Arab Emirates said it was fending off Iranian missiles and drones.

President Trump has thrown his support behind challengers to Republican state senators who opposed his redistricting push.

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned European leaders that US President Donald Trump is disappointed with their reluctance to assist with the war in Iran.

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President Donald Trump said the US will help ships stranded in the Persian Gulf transit the Strait of Hormuz, describing it as a “humanitarian gesture” and testing his ability to restore traffic through the strategic waterway for the first time since the war with Iran began.

Trump's letter to Congress comes 60 days after the conflict started on Feb. 28, and is designed to address a May 1 legal deadline on war powers.

The defense secretary and Representative Seth Moulton, a Democrat, debated the Iran war through the prism of their shared experiences fighting Iraq.

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US President Donald Trump said he will review Iran’s latest peace offer but wouldn’t rule out restarting strikes on Tehran’s military targets should the regime “misbehave.”...

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Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as US President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might not be enough to satisfy him.

Panelists joined to discuss the economic fallout from the conflict, and more.

The US keeps selling arms without congressional approval.

President Trump formally informed Congress in a letter Friday that the ongoing ceasefire with Iran extended the timeline between the start of the war and the 60-day deadline invoked by the War Powe…...