Iran demands FIFA guarantee US respect of country’s military ahead of World Cup in rebuke to Trump

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday condemned Iran's statements warning against a "military solution" as talks with the U.S. to end hostilities in the Middle East "progress." Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on the social platform X earlier in the day that recent events in the Strait of Hormuz "make...

When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was elected in February of last year, he warned the political mainstream that it was “five minutes to midnight” before outside parties consumed the nation’s center. Exactly a year since taking office, it seems those five minutes have passed — centrist Merz is suffering the lowest approval rating of any […]

NBC News Correspondents Monica Alba and Courtney Kube report on the latest developments in the war with Iran as President Trump appears optimistic a deal is close. Vice President for Policy at the Middle East Institute Ken Pollack discusses the state of play in the war with Iran.

House oversight committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told reporters ahead of Wednesday’s hearing that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had not been “100% truthful” about visiting convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein‘s island. “I haven’t seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn’t 100% truthful with whether or not he had been on the island,” Comer […]