Iran is a major producer of oil and also sits on the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s crude passes.
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The Trump administration on Sunday sent a series of conflicting messages to Iran — with U.S. officials initially indicating a willingness to resume negotiations after a surprise attack on three of the country’s nuclear sites and President Donald Trump talking up the possibility of regime change.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced Thursday his decision to appoint Major General David Zini as the next head of the Shin Bet.
Harvard enrolls almost 6,800 foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accounting for more than a quarter of its student body.
The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.
The outcome caps an intense time on Capitol Hill, with days of private negotiations and public committee hearings, many happening back-to-back, around-the-clock.
An Arizona jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.
A FAA review has identified a rash of concerns about the potential conflicts between helicopters and planes at the Las Vegas airport.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday said they would phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump spoke by phone Tuesday, two weeks after the two met in Washington.
Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, reportedly was worried about greeting the crowd in St. Peter’s Square a day before he died at age 88.
Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier who grew up in the U.S., is one of 59 hostages still in Gaza, more than half of whom are believed to be dead.
Israel struck Lebanon in retaliation for rockets targeting Israel, killing six people, in the heaviest exchange of fire since its ceasefire with Hezbollah almost four months ago.
Three people died and 15 others were injured after an altercation broke out Friday at a park in Las Cruces, New Mexico, police said Saturday.
Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said.