WASHINGTON / RIYADH, May 12, 2026 — President Trump declared Monday morning that the Iran ceasefire is “on massive life support” after receiving what he called Tehran’s “garbage” response to the U.S. peace proposal — the same counter-offer that demanded…
WASHINGTON / TEHRAN / ISLAMABAD, May 11, 2026 — Iran formally rejected the United States’ 14-point ceasefire and nuclear proposal and submitted its own 10-point counter-offer through Pakistani mediators Sunday — a counter-proposal that demands war reparations, international recognition of…
TENERIFE / WASHINGTON, May 11, 2026 — American passengers aboard a cruise ship struck by a hantavirus outbreak in the Atlantic Ocean are being flown home on military and government aircraft — with two passengers transported in the plane’s biocontainment…
WASHINGTON / LONDON / DOHA, May 10, 2026 — The United Kingdom deployed the Royal Navy warship HMS Dragon toward the Middle East on Saturday as part of a 40-nation coalition building the infrastructure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz…
MOSCOW / KYIV / WASHINGTON, May 10, 2026 — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he believes the war in Ukraine is coming to an end — his most optimistic public statement about the conflict’s trajectory since Russia’s full-scale…
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2026 — ABC News filed a legal brief with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday accusing the Trump administration of attempting to chill constitutionally protected free speech, escalating a months-long confrontation over whether The View — the…
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2026 — The Pentagon released more than 160 previously classified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena Friday, fulfilling a promise President Trump made at a conservative gathering in April that “very interesting documents” would be released “very, very…
WASHINGTON / TEHRAN, May 8, 2026 — Iran extended its ceasefire with the United States on Friday, averting a resumption of full-scale hostilities on the deadline day its own foreign ministry had set for the conflict’s reassessment. The April jobs…
WASHINGTON / STRAIT OF HORMUZ, May 8, 2026 — The Iran war’s ceasefire review day arrived with American forces striking Iranian military facilities overnight, gasoline hitting $4.56 a gallon nationally — the highest since the war began — and President…
WASHINGTON / MUSCAT, May 7, 2026 — Iran is expected to deliver its formal written reply to the U.S. peace proposal to mediators Thursday — the same day its navy said safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz is possible…
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2026 — President Trump simultaneously threatened Iran with dramatically escalated military action and said it is too soon for new direct negotiations Wednesday — a combination of signals that sent oil markets into a confused holding pattern…
WASHINGTON / MUSCAT, May 6, 2026 — Iran is actively reviewing a formal U.S. peace proposal and both sides are moving toward a memorandum of understanding to end the war, according to sources familiar with the negotiations who spoke to…