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"I reject their proposal," President Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday, saying Iran wants the strait reopened only because it is "losing so badly." Iran's foreign minister says Tehran will decide its next step once mediators deliver Washington's definitive answer.
Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and John Middleton Murry (Boston: John W. Luce, 1915). Text from Project Gutenberg.
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LOURDES, France — On the third day of the first official papal visit to France in 18 years, Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S.-born pope — told France’s bishops at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes to keep fighting the “painful scourge” of sexual abuse of children by clergy and church workers, and to “maintain the greatest vigilance,” the BBC and France 24 reported Sunday.
ZURICH — Swiss voters on Sunday firmly rejected a ballot measure that would have written a much stricter form of neutrality into the country’s constitution, Reuters and Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported. Early projections from research group GFS Bern, carried by SRF, put the “No” vote above 70 percent; Reuters said more than two-thirds voted against.
SEATTLE / WASHINGTON — Boeing said it told airlines last month about a software problem on some 737 Max jets that can cut off an automated altitude-guidance tool after pilots abort a landing and climb away — a maneuver called a go-around — then change their planned path, CNBC and CBS News reported Saturday into Sunday.
WASHINGTON / NEW YORK — One day after he publicly rejected Iran’s seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump told Axios in a Sunday phone interview that he expects U.S. negotiators to hold more talks with Iran this week. “I expect more talks with Iran [this week]. They want to make a deal, but it is not the…
BOSTON — A powerful, slow-moving nor’easter continued to batter the U.S. Northeast on Sunday, flooding coastal communities and leaving more than 130,000 customers without power across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, the Associated Press reported. Forecasters warned that another round of high tides could inundate vulnerable shorelines…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration announced it is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending Congress had already approved, using a rare and contested budget tool called a “pocket rescission,” the Associated Press and PBS NewsHour reported. The White House Office of Management and Budget cast the cuts as targeting “the…
KYIV — Russia struck the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile service provider, on Sunday, the company told Interfax Ukraine, Reuters reported. Kyivstar said its Kyiv head office was hit and there were no casualties at the site. Russia’s defense ministry also said Sunday it hit a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine…
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Whether mediators deliver Washington's formal answer on Iran's strait plan, and what Tehran does next.
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Ask a question about thisThe Transportation Department's new fuel-economy rule, which Secretary Sean Duffy says will be released Monday.
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