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Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the United States is close to a deal that would permanently end Iran's nuclear program, dismissing Tehran's threats to the Strait of Hormuz as the final throes of a weakened government.

President Trump announced Sunday that U.S. negotiators will travel Monday to Pakistan for talks to end the Iran war.

The dueling blockades in the Strait of Hormuz lurched into uncharted waters on Saturday. The United States pressed ahead with its campaign to choke off Iranian ports and Iran reversed an initial move to reopen the waterway, firing on a ship ...

Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record Friday after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is open again for commercial tankers carrying crude from the Persian Gulf to customers ...

The Trump administration has closed down an investigation of NewsGuard, a group that rates news websites and which had been accused of being used to justify boycotts of conservative outlets.

Union leaders representing thousands of New York City apartment house doorpersons, superintendents and other workers said Friday that they had reached a tentative contract agreement with building owners, averting a strike at the homes of an estimated ...

Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit the president filed against his own tax collection agency over the leak of his tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.

Hampshire College in Massachusetts will close at the end of this year due to declining enrollment and revenue, foreshadowing accelerated downsizing in higher education under the Trump administration.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick backed President Trump's disapproval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on Friday, insisting the deal needs to be renegotiated to better suit American interests.

The government-owned corporation that delivers mail in Canada is taking steps to stop home delivery.