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With the two-week cease-fire almost over, Vice President JD Vance was expected to head to Pakistan on Tuesday for the second round of negotiations.
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The rare move comes after recent scandals raised questions from lawmakers and others about how Congress handles investigations involving its members.
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The PM tells the Commons that if he had known the peer failed security vetting he would not have been appointed.
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In a letter, the 11 senators questioned the defense secretary's decision to gut programs intended to protect civilians and said his orders endangered U.S. troops.
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The Strait of Hormuz is closed to shipping traffic after Iran once again shut off access to the key waterway over the weekend in retaliation for the ongoing U.S. blockade on Iranian ports. This comes as the U.S. Navy intercepted and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Sea of Oman on Sunday. Iran said the seizure violated the ceasefire reached earlier this month. Despite the escalation, President Trump announced a U.S. delegation is heading to Pakistan for a new round of peace talks. Iran's Foreign Ministry says Tehran has "no plans" to participate.
There has been a "gradual escalation" in hostilities between the U.S. and Iran since the last round of talks in Islamabad, says Iranian American analyst Vali Nasr, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Iran's leadership is "suspicious that President Trump was really using the talks in Pakistan as a cover for renewing war on Iran and that he was not serious about diplomacy."
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Helped by a favorable national environment and strong candidate recruitment, Democrats are tied or ahead in four Republican-held seats, polls show.
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Conflict with Iran hurts American wallets, but it's far more devastating for people in the global south.
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The Colorado schools say they're being excluded from funding because of their denial of enrollment to children of LGBTQ parents, which the state deems discriminatory.
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A president who relishes attacking the news media is set to break his boycott of an event celebrating the news media. (The first lady is attending, too.) What could go wrong?
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The trend is fueled by their status as political celebrities in a deeply divided country.
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Many GOP states are enacting soda and candy bans for food stamp purchases amid MAHA's healthy food efforts. Some retailers and SNAP users find the new rules complicated.
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Marines are searching thousands of containers aboard the Touska, an Iranian cargo ship that the Navy disabled and seized on Sunday.
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Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.
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The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered, with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City. While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist Jim Pattiz says it will effectively destroy the agency.
"This is a critically important agency," says Pattiz, co-author of the newsletter More Than Just Parks that tracks threats to public lands across the country. "The intent here is obvious. It's to hollow out this agency and hand it to the resource extraction industry and prepare it for, potentially, the eventual transfer of our public lands to states."
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While many Western countries have condemned Iran's restrictions on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz as a breach of international law, reaction has been relatively muted about the "clearly unlawful" war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran, says law professor Maryam Jamshidi.
"This says a lot about the ways in which international law is being deployed in this moment as a way of restraining and regulating Iranian behavior, while effectively allowing the United States and Israel a free hand to do what they want," says Jamshidi, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute.
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The vice president is again center stage, after abruptly leaving the first round of high-level Iranian peace talks without an agreement.
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The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs.
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The prime minister said he was "staggered" to find out last week that civil servants in the Foreign Office withheld information from him.
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The prime minister says he only learned of security concerns around the ex-US ambassador earlier this week.
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As Democrats try to find a way back to power in Washington, some see tax cuts as a quick and easy way to address affordability. The wonks are freaking out.
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Is the UK's second city about to see the biggest political shake-up in more than a decade?
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Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.
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