The vice president said the United States had leverage to dictate the outcome of the next round of negotiations. But he claimed incorrectly that Iran got no new benefit from the lifting of oil sanctions.Vice President JD Vance during a briefing at the White House on Thursday.
Mr. Vance said earlier at a press briefing that he did not know if he would travel to Switzerland on Friday for the talks, where he was initially expected for a signing ceremony.The White House late Thursday said Vice President JD Vance was delaying a trip to Switzerland for negotiations with Iran.
Also, Ukraine launches a major assault on Moscow. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro.Peeled blue paint floating in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday.
The White House insists that private donations are paying for a new ballroom, but the administration is using taxpayer money for a series of security upgrades.Construction on the White House grounds in May. President Trump has linked his ballroom project to national security and an underground bunke
The director of national intelligence’s office was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now some lawmakers want to shrink it.Tulsi Gabbard, seen at a hearing in March, is stepping down as the director of the office of national intelligence, a role that critics say has become too sprawli
Andy Burnham, Labour’s most popular politician, beat the populist right-wing Reform U.K. party in the Makerfield by-election. The decisive victory will energize his bid to become prime minister.Mayor Andy Burnham of Greater Manchester outside his campaign office on Thursday.
Charismatic, northern and exuding a relaxed optimism, Mr. Burnham is a contrast to Keir Starmer. His allies hope he could mend Labour’s relationship with voters.Andy Burnham, Labour’s most popular politician, arriving on Friday for the results announcement for the Makerfield by-election, in which he
The book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of The New York Times, “Regime Change,” reveals a host of details and surprising exchanges as President Trump pushed to drastically expand his power.A new book by two New York Times reporters describes President Trump’s efforts to bend the federal govern
New York City found a reason to party on Thursday, cheering, crying and climbing around Broadway to celebrate the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship.
Fans gathered in Manhattan on Thursday to cheer on the N.B.A. champions at a parade that has been 53 years in the making.
The first lady and the mayor showed up for the celebration in style.Not your usual mayoral merch: Rama Duwaji is wearing a top by Claire Sullivan, made from upcycled Knicks T-shirts, at the Knicks championship parade.
The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.Airmen at Lackland Air Force Base last year. A flu outbreak at the base has raced through a training wing among new recruits.
Two members of Gov. Jared Polis’s board that reviews commutation requests came forward to say the secretive panel had twice rejected the release of Tina Peters, convicted of election tampering.Hannah Proff and Azra Taslimi, two Denver lawyers who serve on Colorado’s 11-person clemency advisory board
The Major Oak in the Sherwood Forest was between 800 and 1,200 years old. It succumbed to a combination of over-tourism, climate change and misguided efforts to save it.The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.
British archaeologists may have found the remains of a site where people celebrated the solstice thousands of years ago, a few miles from the famed stone circle.
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.The author and his son walk toward Thomas Jefferson’s residence at Monticello.
Thursday’s opening drew four former presidents, as well as Bruce Springsteen, Bono and Jennifer Hudson. Chicago has seen years of planning and legal fights.The Obama family onstage at the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony in Chicago on Thursday.
Celebrity guests paid winking homage to President Obama’s notorious tan suit.A pair of funny guys in shades of khaki at the Obama presidential library opening on Thursday.
The story of one progressive activist arrested in Minnesota in January shows what critics say is the aggressive nature of the Trump administration’s response to those who have protested its immigration crackdown.Paul Johnson, a longtime progressive activist, in the van where he alleges that federal
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.The warehouse that ICE recently purchased for $87 million in Hamburg, Pa.
An 18-year-old was ejected after a carriage horse bolted on Wednesday as the driver took a photograph. It was unclear how long the voluntary shutdown might last.Police investigated the scene after a horse-drawn carriage overturned in Central Park on Wednesday.
The case, which resulted in a short jail sentence despite years of alleged abuse, has drawn outcry in Texas. So have the attempts to politicize it.James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, held a news conference to call on Ken Paxton to release files related to Adam Hoffman in Waco
Thomas Kean Jr. has missed three months of votes in Washington and has not been on the campaign trail in his New Jersey district because of an unexplained health condition.Representative Thomas Kean Jr. has missed 135 floor votes since March 5.
