7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (671+ words) The talks are set to begin Tuesday in Washington and will be mediated by U. S. diplomats, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun's office said in a statement, citing the outcome of a call Friday among Israeli, Lebanese and U. S. ambassadors. The statement reiterated Beirut's…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (102+ words) Morning Journal By BASSEM MROUE, JON GAMBRELL, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ The U. S. and Iran both claimed victory afterreaching the agreement, and world leaders expressed relief, even as more drones and missiles hit Iran and Gulf Arab countries. At the…...

3+ day, 12+ min ago  (573+ words) Here's a short breakdown of some of the issues at play. Trump's threat did not seem to account for the harm to civilians, prompting Democrats in Congress, some U. N. officials and scholars in military law to say such strikes would violate…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (452+ words) We Americans are an impatient lot. If we must engage in warfare, we would prefer it be wrapped up in weeks, not months, and certainly not years like World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In those wars we had the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (472+ words) First, four courageous astronauts successfully lifted off from Launch Complex 39 B at Kennedy Space Center aboard Artemis II, which will attempt the first lunar flyby in more than 50 years. It was a stunning sight, and one that'turned out'more than three…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1056+ words) By WILL WEISSERT, JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING, Associated Press He used his platform before a wide audience to tout the success of the U. S. operations and argue that all of Washington's objectives have so far been met or exceeded, but…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (856+ words) By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and WILL WEISSERT Iran's attacks on Gulf states along with its'chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz'have disrupted the world's energy supplies with effects far beyond the Middle East. That has proved to be Iran's'greatest strategic…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (767+ words) By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM METZ The last time he saw Kinda was before she and a group of other newborns left Shifa Hospital in November 2023, after the electricity was cut, turning off the incubators keeping them warm enough to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (544+ words) If I were Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, I might start packing up my office at the Pentagon. While President Trump is boasting about the so-called success of a war with Iran that has no clear mission nor end in sight,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (745+ words) Early Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't reopened…...