It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Over the past week, President Trump claimed he would make a decision about Iran in “two weeks” and repeatedly pressed it to come to the negotiating table. But the swiftness of the attack on Saturday night suggests that plans were underway after Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran a little more than a week ago.
With his strikes on Iran, President Trump is betting that the United States can repel any retaliation, and that the U.S. has destroyed the regime’s chances of reconstituting Iran’s nuclear program. David Sanger, the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, explains the risk.
A testy exchange between a senator who strongly supports Ukraine aid and the defense secretary revealed a deepening split among G.O.P. officials on the war.
The president now confronts the reality that stopping Iran’s drive toward a bomb may require letting it continue to make some nuclear fuel.
Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.
The emergency request came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.
It started with a Russian influence campaign and a canceled vote. Then the American right showed up.
John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with an elaborate presentation attempting to falsely prove a “genocide” against white Afrikaners.
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s chief Iran negotiator, offered the clearest outlines of the administration’s position in talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Iran rejects any deal that would ban it from any nuclear enrichment, long a demand of U.S. conservatives.