1+ week, 5+ day ago   (930+ words) The appearance, which was to be closed to the news media, comes at an extraordinarily sensitive time for Jewish Americans and the U.S. relationship with Israel. Concerns about antisemitism have surged across the political spectrum ahead of the midterm elections. Republicans…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (497+ words) By ABBY SEWELL and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981. The United Nations and most of the international community consider the territory occupied Syrian land and do not…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1106+ words) It starts with a grim warning to Tehran that he’s on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to “obliterate” its power plants or seize key parts of its oil industry if its leaders don’t quickly agree to U.S. terms…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (438+ words) By GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing the complaint at its next meeting, likely on Aug. 6. After Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a one-game ban for Balogun’s…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (906+ words) By ELENA BECATOROS, FATMA KHALED and COLLIN BINKLEY The Houthis have threatened to shut down another key trade route, with the world economy already reeling from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran and the U.S. have meanwhile stepped…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (768+ words) Hegseth provided the new estimate, up from earlier accounts, during testmnony before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Several times, protesters interrupted Hegseth’s opening remarks, which come days after the Pentagon announced that three more American service members have died in the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1294+ words) By MUNIR AHMED, ABBY SEWELL, SAMY MAGDY and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO They had been engaged in intensive talks through the night, attempting to halt what appeared to be a spiral back into all-out war, a diplomat briefed on the talks said....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (648+ words) “President Trump Lost This War” headlines a New York Times editorial. The New Yorker reports on “The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War.” Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, calls Trump’s stumble into Iran “the worst foreign…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (871+ words) By LINLEY SANDERS and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Americans’ views on how the president is handling Iran are roughly in line with his overall job approval, which stands at 37%, unchanged from an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in…...