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FIFA president Gianni Infantino says Iran will take part in the 2026 World Cup and play its group matches in the United States as scheduled, despite pressure to move them.
JD Vance said he is “obsessed” with UFOs, said he has not yet reviewed government files on the subject, and suggested that aliens may actually be “demons.”
David Sacks has stepped down as a special government employee after exhausting the allowable 130 days. He will now focus on co-chairing the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology while his aggressive AI and crypto policy moves leave a messy legacy.
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who served from 1990 to 2004 and later went to prison, has gone viral after podcast clips of his wild agency stories exploded on short-form video. He says the goal is simple: get President Trump to grant a pardon and restore a lost federal pension.
President Trump urged European partners to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, but allies balked, calling his requests muddled and impractical while NATO seeks a collective path forward.
Tehran dismissed a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the nearly month-long conflict as unrealistic and misleading. Mediators including Pakistan, Egypt and Türkiye are pushing for talks, while both sides keep exchanging messages and launching strikes.
An IRGC spokesman rejected President Trump’s suggestion that talks with Iran were underway and warned the US and Israel not to call what he termed their defeat an agreement.
A first-time Democratic candidate edged out a Republican in Palm Beach County’s House District 87, flipping a seat that voted strongly GOP in 2024. The result is the latest sign of Democratic gains in Florida special elections.
A Russian tanker steaming for Cuba is less about fuel and more about sending a message to Washington. Analysts say it is a provocation and a bargaining chip, not a rescue mission.
Over bread, seafood and a reluctant avocado, Gov. Gavin Newsom talks family, his five-year memoir, what might stop him from running for president in 2028, and where he draws the line on Israel. He also explains why Democrats need to fight harder against Trump’s playbook.
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said stopping strikes now would risk ceding the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. Oil prices dipped after President Trump announced a five-day pause on attacks to pursue talks, but experts and industry leaders say a lasting deal looks unlikely.
Iranian officials say there have been no direct or indirect talks with the United States and dismissed former president Trump’s recent comments as a ‘bluff’.