WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior White House official said Sunday that Iran’s “new potential leadership” has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after American and Israeli forces launched a major attack against Tehran, killing the country’s supreme leader and other high-ranking officials. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — On this edition of Up Close, one local politician gives his reaction to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Amid mixed approval ratings and a fight to keep Republicans in control of Congress, President Trump gave the longest State of the Union speech in U.S. history on Tuesday

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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that nine Iranian naval ships have been sunk as part of combat operations against Iran. “I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important,” Trump wrote in a post on X, adding that Iran’s naval headquarters

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“This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this!” That was Charlie Kirk, speaking last summer and just

After U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a U.S. drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, was followed by an attack on two American bases in

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I have always loved the idea of going to outer space. I grew up reading Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. There is something unique and wonderful about the idea that humans could free

US ice hockey star Hilary Knight aimed a barb at Donald Trump during an appearance on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Knight led the US women to gold at last month’s Olympics, scoring the Americans’ first goal as they beat Canada in overtime. But after the US men’s team won gold Trump joked that he

President Donald Trump addresses the American people following strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran. The fallout of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran led to the highest-ever activity on X, the platform’s owner Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday. Musk made the statement in reply to Nikita Bier, the head of product at X.

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Believe Trump? Seriously? John L. Evans’ letter in Friday’s Sentinel (“Take Trump seriously”), encourages us to listen to what Donald Trump says with a grain (or a block) of salt, while also taking him seriously. While this apparent conundrum is making my brain hurt, it also gives me hope. According to the letter-writer’s formula, now,

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a billionaire, on Sunday, March 1, declared that the X platform witnessed its record usage to date as the US and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran on February 28. Elon Musk stated that X experienced unprecedented usage amid US-Israel airstrikes on Iran. The platform’s traffic surged as

The coordinated strikes on Iran launched by the United States and Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning formally reignited a conflict that had been simmering since last summer’s 12-day war. They targeted key command structures and killed senior figures, most notably Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who had been in power since 1989.

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the United States have lined up to laud the strikes on Iran, as responses to the president’s war have largely split along partisan lines. Despite the rise of a noninterventionist wing within Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Republican opposition to the war on Iran remains scant, underscoring the

Olympic gold medal winners from the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams crashed Connor Storrie‘s SNL monologue on Saturday, with the two on the women’s team taking a shot at Donald Trump for his dismissive comment about them. Storrie, who stars in the hockey-themed Canadian television series Heated Rivalry, was talking about learning about how

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This is an adapted excerpt from MS Now’s Feb. 28 special coverage. Early Saturday morning, the United States started a war with Iran for some reason. Your guess is as good as anyone’s as to why the president of the United States did this. In terms of pure rational deduction about what he’s doing here,

Russian riot police lead a charge on demonstrators protesting the arrest of Alexei Navalny – hero of the democracy movement – following his return from Germany, after his first poisoning with the banned chemical Novichok in 2021. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Russia’s

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