• War timeline: US President Donald Trump said on social media Friday the US is considering “winding down” military efforts in the Middle East. But officials said thousands more US troops are heading ...

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci says President Donald Trump is not laying out to allies what success looks like in Iran. Former Trump White House official Hogan Gidley ...

US sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East ...

Professor and human rights advocate Kian Tajbakhsh says that a popular uprising in Iran is unlikely at the moment, but remains possible. “Regime change in Iran will depend on the balance between fear ...

Dana Bash presses US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on President Trump’s decision to remove sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil.

US President Donald Trump’s request to delay a high-stakes summit with China’s leader Xi Jinping could work in Beijing’s favor, according to several Chinese sources familiar with the matter, ...

Nicholas Brendon, who played the character of Xander in the hit ’90s TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. He was 54.

After weeks of stalemate — and mounting airport delays nationwide — leaders in both parties are scrambling to work out a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, though it remains unclear ...

Trump administration officials are making a desperate push to secure every available barrel of oil amid a worsening energy crisis — even if it means lifting sanctions on the very country that they’re ...

Rep. James Wilkinshaw joins The Lead.

US District Court Judge Esther Salas joins The Lead.

The WNBA and its players union have reached the next step in their new collective bargaining agreement, signing a term sheet.