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U.S. and Iranian officials are negotiating a one-page memorandum of understanding meant to defuse the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz and open a 30-day window to work toward a more comprehensive nuclear agreement....
On Nightly News, former President Donald Trump said he was optimistic that a deal with Iran could be reached. Speaking about U.S.-Iran relations and international negotiations, he pointed to what he described as...
President Trump announced a pause to Project Freedom, the short-lived U.S. mission to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, saying negotiators have made “great progress” toward what he called a...
Updated on: May 6, 2026 / 6:35 AM EDT / CBS/AP A shooting at a public school in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state in northern Brazil, left two women dead and two others wounded on Tuesday, officials said....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire "certainly holds" for the moment, even as periodic clashes and attacks continue to test the truce. Speaking alongside Joint Chiefs...
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday publicly thanked President Donald Trump after the U.S. paused the naval operation known as "Project Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on X, Sharif praised...
President Donald Trump declined to say definitively whether a ceasefire with Iran had ended during a Monday phone interview with Hugh Hewitt, after Iranian strikes on the United Arab Emirates. Pressed on whether...
Iranian forces carried out attacks on multiple oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security officials and shipping sources reported. The incidents in the narrow, strategically vital waterway that links...
Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of Iran's parliament national security committee, warned Sunday that Tehran will view the planned U.S. mission to protect commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz as "a violation of the...
Former president Donald Trump said the United States would 'free up' ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a more assertive posture intended to protect commercial and military vessels in the strategic...
President Trump said he is reviewing a new peace proposal Tehran submitted to the United States through Pakistani mediators. Iranian state media described the document as a 14-point reply transmitted via Pakistan. On...
President Trump likened the U.S. Navy to pirates while discussing its role enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz. His comment came as U.S. forces stepped up maritime operations intended to...
