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WatchMasoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic.
The Chinese leader's first state visit in more than a decade opened with a rare planeside welcome at Joint Base Andrews. Bessent announced a two-month truce extension, far shorter than many expected.
H.R. 5334 passed the Senate 86-11 and the House 262-159 in honor of the senator who died in July. It bars new U.S. investment in Russia until Ukraine accepts a peace deal and extends Iran sanctions to 2031. A former State Department sanctions chief says Trump 'missed a chance to send a message to Putin.'
WatchThe three outlets asked a federal judge in Washington for a temporary restraining order after their reporters were turned away at the gate Saturday and CNN was pulled from Monday's travel pool. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested the 'off-ramp' might be 'a change in coverage.'
Kim Yo Jong called a six-nation 'Pacific Vanguard' naval exercise a 'frantic military move' and said there will be 'never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.' U.S. Pacific Command said the launches pose no immediate threat.
WatchThe Saturday Truth Social post gave no structure, budget, authority or name for the new body. It landed a week after Anthropic's Dario Amodei told CBS the industry 'lied to people' about AI's risks and after four subscribers sued the top labs for agreeing to slow down.
The president said the monument between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial will also store sniper ammunition. Rep. Don Beyer called a drone site under DCA's approach 'a stupid, dangerous, and unworkable idea,' and a federal judge has ordered 48 hours' notice before any construction.
Mohsen Rezaei, a month into the job as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told Al Jazeera the conditions are with Qatari and Pakistani mediators and Iran is waiting on Washington. The list drops Tehran's earlier demand for reparations, which one U.S. analyst read as movement, though he said Washington would still hear it as 'surrender.'
The White House Correspondents' Association says the president himself described the move as a 'ban on the free press.' CNN, Politico and MS NOW all say they will fight it, and the AP's lawsuit over its own 2025 ban is still in court.
WatchThe agreement bans any non-NATO base or troops on the island, screens out Russian and Chinese investment and lets the Pentagon add bases 'as required.' A State Department official says it stays in force 'forever,' even if Greenland leaves Denmark.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix found that once Congress zeroed out the $200 tax on 'gangster weapons' in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, the National Firearms Act's rules lost their constitutional footing. The appeal deadline is October 5. Anyone who joins the gun groups that sued is covered.
Lee Jae Myung said Seoul will instead consider expanding its anti-piracy naval unit off Somalia and may offer patrol aircraft, mine-disposal teams and supply ships. He also said he will not seek a second term and that the $350 billion U.S. investment deal is close to done.
WatchThe president says he will make up his mind after meeting six Gulf leaders in New York on Tuesday. Brent is near $104, up from $88 three weeks ago, and central banks in Tokyo, Washington and Frankfurt all raised rates this week to fight the oil shock.
WatchCNN geolocated the wreckage to Marib. Saudi Arabia is running low on interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt for help. Tehran's security chief says there will be no talks until Iran's conditions are met.
Four people familiar with his thinking say the former Waste Management CEO was furious after a June Senate hearing where he was called a 'pawn' in Trump's mail-ballot plan. The Supreme Court blocked key parts of that plan on Monday.
Canada sends 70% of its exports to the U.S. Carney told lawmakers in Strasbourg that when countries negotiate alone with a dominant power, 'we negotiate from weakness.'
Bloomberg counted about 20 cases where Trump bought into companies within a week of publicly promoting them, including DoorDash, Nvidia and Tesla. The White House says outside firms run his money through index-tracking models and nobody in the family directs a trade.
WatchThe chairman Trump picked to cut rates instead delivered the hike the president spent two weeks lobbying against. The Fed now sees inflation at 3.7% this year and does not expect to hit 2% until 2029.
In two late-night Truth Social posts the president called José de Rivera's stainless-steel sculpture 'strange' and said it 'tells visitors nothing about America.' The Smithsonian's Board of Regents, not the White House, controls the museum, and its secretary, Lonnie Bunch, has already announced he will leave at the end of the year.
WatchAn unsigned, one-paragraph order Monday left in place a Massachusetts judge's injunction against the USPS rule born of Trump's March executive order. Twenty-three states and D.C. had sued, and Justice Kavanaugh wrote that election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.'
Draft resolutions filed in court Monday offer 10 marble inscriptions crediting Trump and ask trustees to shut the main building immediately. Rep. Joyce Beatty says the safety claim cites a consultant who expressly disclaimed it.
The president blamed the world's diesel crisis on the Ukraine war rather than his own war on Iran. Zelenskyy said any halt has to last past Russia's 'elections' and not collapse the moment fuel prices ease.
The former CIA director's lawyer disclosed the subpoena in a court filing and said Brennan also remains a target in a separate Washington investigation into whether he lied to Congress in 2023.
WatchA hidden-camera investigation that aired Sunday caught Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl pitching a convicted aquarium owner at a Ritz-Carlton bar. Other brokers charge up to $3 million, and roughly 70% of Trump's second-term clemency grants never went through the Justice Department.
Iran's briefing for Gulf foreign ministers on how it plans to manage Hormuz shipping was called off hours later. Oman said the delay was 'in the interests of consensus.' Trump said the war will end 'right after the midterms.'
Speaking at his golf course in Ireland, the president said Ukraine can hit other targets but not refineries because the strikes are 'hurting the world.' U.S. diesel topped $6 a gallon on Friday.
'Japan does it, but they hire our people,' the president told Fox News on Friday. Detroit's trade group wants Congress to lock Chinese vehicles out permanently by the end of December.
WatchOn a weekend trip built around the Irish Open at his Doonbeg club, the president said Irish unification 'may as well happen now,' drawing a rebuke from Northern Ireland's largest unionist party and a cordon around Dublin's Phoenix Park.
The White House says enrollees in 30 HealthCare.gov states were 'wrongly overcharged' through exchange user fees under Biden. KFF says a $500 check covers roughly one month of the premium increases many of them absorbed after Congress let enhanced subsidies lapse.
WatchOn the 25th anniversary of the attacks, Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden joined Vice President Vance in Lower Manhattan for the reading of nearly 3,000 names. Across the river from Washington, the president told the Pentagon crowd that 'Iran will never, ever have a nuclear weapon.'
WatchThe pledge came an hour into his speech at the RNC's first midterm convention in Dallas. Paying it would cost more than $1 trillion, and Congress would have to approve it.
U.S. forces fired more than 30 Patriot missiles defending Muwaffaq Salti Air Base overnight. No American deaths were reported.
Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis granted discovery in Alexandria, Virginia, over a fund born from Trump's settlement with the IRS. The attorney general has said the fund is dead; the plaintiffs say nobody ever rescinded it.
An NBC News Decision Desk poll taken from Aug. 20 to Sept. 1 found opposition to local AI data centers in every party. Forty-five percent said they strongly oppose one.
The Maryland Democrat told 'Meet the Press' that impeachment is 'a critical tool in the toolbox' but not a fetish and not a panacea. Health care comes first if his party wins the House.
WatchA new NBC News Decision Desk poll of 7,105 adults found that 69% of Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the war in Iran. Republicans have not left him — but the intensity behind their support is draining away with the midterms 58 days out.
The attorney general says the fund is dead. But the document rescinding it was never signed by the people who created it — and a magistrate judge in Virginia just opened discovery into how it was built.
WatchThe party's first-ever midterm convention opens Wednesday in Dallas with a $25,000 price of admission for House members. Three of the most endangered Republicans in the country told Politico they will campaign at home instead.
WatchNo one was hurt when the plaster gave way during a storm in Washington. The Trump-aligned board immediately said the collapse proves the building has to close for two years of renovations a federal judge has blocked.
The crew was evacuated and no casualties were reported. Kharg carried 90 percent of Iranian crude exports before the war, and Trump said last week the island was being "blown to smithereens."
Judge Deborah Boardman enjoined the August executive order that targeted 'alien enemies,' foreign government employees and birth tourism. The White House called her an activist.
WatchIran fired missiles and drones at an air base in Kuwait and another in the United Arab Emirates overnight, extending its retaliation to a third Gulf state in three days. Iran's health ministry now counts 18 dead from American strikes.
Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation doubling the price of large or thermal-imaging drones and their components. Smaller civilian models get 25%.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said ground breaks within a fortnight on the granite triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Construction is expected to run two to three years.
WatchIranian officials say American strikes killed civilians at a wedding celebration in Sirik county and wounded dozens more. Within hours the Revolutionary Guard launched missiles and drones at U.S. positions in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait and the Emirates.
The 90-day proclamation takes effect Sept. 1, right as ranchers head into their peak selling season. 'Most of whom are MAGA Republicans,' one GOP senator wrote.
WatchThe conflict passed its half-year mark on Friday with the Strait of Hormuz still contested, roughly 6,000 sailors on 400 ships still stuck in the region, and Tehran refusing to yield to what the Treasury Department is calling an economic D-Day.
Gabriel Perez had the speeches before the president delivered them. Kalshi's own surveillance system caught the pattern, froze more than $90,000 in his account, and referred him to federal regulators.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein refused again to move the 34-count New York conviction into federal court, writing that a cover-up of an embarrassment is not covered by presidential immunity.
WatchThe president called it 'THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY' in a social media post, seven months after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro. The announcement named no operator, no fields and no price.
WatchThree sources tell CNN that Navy leadership is weighing whether to strip a Pearl Harbor hero's name from a Ford-class carrier and replace it with President Trump's. No aircraft carrier has ever been named for a sitting president.
A DOJ filing describes a 'death spiral' for the building without the president's intervention. Lawyers for the board member suing to keep his name off it called the argument 'unconscionable.'
The executive order directs the Interior Department to change the federal name database. Canada's prime minister noted the existing name is older than the Declaration of Independence.
Greenland Energy, whose board includes people close to Trump, says up to $1 trillion in crude sits under Jameson Land. The government issued a 'strong warning' and says no drilling permit can be issued before November — past this season's window.
WatchTehran's price for reopening the world's most important oil chokepoint was reparations and sanctions relief. Trump's counteroffer was a bill of his own, and Brent crude blew past $87.
The press corps and part of the staff flew home on a decoy Air Force One with the cabin shades ordered shut. By Monday night officials were furious the ruse had leaked.
WatchThe president said infants are getting "vats" of vaccine and should be dosed across five separate visits. The Senate's only practicing physician called the order "wrong" within minutes of the signing.
The unit pulls in case officers, analysts, cyber specialists and covert influence operators — but is not authorized to arm proxies or run lethal operations, according to officials briefed on it.
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the only Republicans to vote no. Trump's former criminal defense lawyer now permanently runs the department that once prosecuted him.
WatchMike Lindell steps into Tuesday's primary with the president's backing, polls showing him ahead, and his own state party questioning where he actually lives.
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