• News Wrap: Russia resumes fighting in Ukraine after 30-hour 'Easter truce'

    News Wrap: Russia resumes fighting in Ukraine after 30-hour 'Easter truce'

    Apr 21, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    In our news wrap Monday, Russian President Putin says fighting has resumed in its war against Ukraine after a 30-hour Easter truce ended, U.S. airstrikes in Yemen's capital city killed at least 12 people and wounded 30 more and four House Democrats are in El Salvador to ...

  • Hegseth faces calls to resign amid leadership concerns and new Signal chat revelations

    Hegseth faces calls to resign amid leadership concerns and new Signal chat revelations

    Apr 21, 2025 10:30 PM EST

    ... Sunday, The New York Times reported and PBS has confirmed that Hegseth used a second Signal chat in which he messaged sensitive information about that Yemen attack. And, per our source, he included in that chat his wife. That includes obviously a major breach of security and secrecy protocols. Then ...

  • Iran and U.S. move to expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program after 2nd round of negotiations

    Iran and U.S. move to expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program after 2nd round of negotiations

    Apr 19, 2025 03:49 PM EST

    ... an atomic weapon. Meanwhile, tensions in the Middle East have spiked over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza and after U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens more. “I’m for stopping Iran, very simply, from having a ...

  • News Wrap: Negotiations to end Ukraine war stalled

    News Wrap: Negotiations to end Ukraine war stalled

    Apr 18, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... on. Russian missiles today rained down on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Officials say one person was killed and nearly 100 others were wounded.In Yemen, Houthi rebels say U.S. airstrikes overnight killed at least 74 people and injured more than 170 others. The strikes targeted an oil port ...

  • US-Iran nuclear talks at 'very crucial' stage, UN's atomic watchdog says

    US-Iran nuclear talks at 'very crucial' stage, UN's atomic watchdog says

    Apr 17, 2025 02:45 PM EST

    ... reached a Chinese-mediated détente in 2023. That's as Saudi Arabia tries to end its decadelong war against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen — even as a new, intense campaign of U.S. airstrikes targets them. The stakes of the negotiations Saturday and the wider geopolitical tensions in ...

  • U.S. aircraft carrier operating in Mideast waters ahead of next round of Iran nuclear talks

    U.S. aircraft carrier operating in Mideast waters ahead of next round of Iran nuclear talks

    Apr 15, 2025 06:40 PM EST

    Vinson joins Truman as second US aircraft carrier in Mideast Satellite photos taken Monday by the European Union's Copernicus program showed the Vinson, which is based out of San Diego, California, operating northeast of Socotra, an island off Yemen that sits near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden ...

  • Israel intensifies deadly strikes across Gaza and hits a major hospital in the north

    Israel intensifies deadly strikes across Gaza and hits a major hospital in the north

    Apr 13, 2025 07:52 PM EST

    ... not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count but says more than half of the dead have been women and children.Missile reported from Yemen Israel's military said a missile was launched from Yemen on Sunday afternoon and the details were under review. Sirens sounded in several parts ...

  • News Wrap: White House freezes funds meant for Cornell and Northwestern

    News Wrap: White House freezes funds meant for Cornell and Northwestern

    Apr 09, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... by mistake without elaborating. Food funds to Ecuador, Somalia, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria were restored, but cuts will remain for war-ravaged Afghanistan and Yemen. The status of funding for six other unidentified countries remains unclear. And every year, the Library of Congress adds new songs, albums, and sounds ...

  • WATCH: State Department says funding to some life-saving UN food programs was cut by mistake

    WATCH: State Department says funding to some life-saving UN food programs was cut by mistake

    Apr 08, 2025 04:18 PM EST

    ... messages seeking comment. The Associated Press reported Monday that the Trump administration cut funding to WFP emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other countries, many of them struggling with conflict, according to the agency and officials who spoke to the AP. Secretary of State ...

  • Foreign minister says Iran will have indirect talks with U.S. on Tehran's nuclear program

    Foreign minister says Iran will have indirect talks with U.S. on Tehran's nuclear program

    Apr 08, 2025 02:32 PM EST

    ... talks “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” with his administration. Meanwhile, Trump is continuing an intense airstrike campaign targeting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, the last force in Tehran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” able to attack Israel after other militant groups were severely weakened by Israel ...