5+ day, 26+ min ago   (71+ words) Daily Local By SAMY MAGDY, SARAH EL DEEB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Iran spent decades building up armed groups on Israel’s frontiers that suffered major losses in the wars following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza. Israel battered the Palestinian fighters…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (695+ words) By LEE KEATH and SARAH EL DEEB Iranian state media said four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than 60 were wounded. The rights group said one of the children, a teenager, was killed by another strike…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (738+ words) By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer The price of oil rose and stocks fell on Wall Street Monday after the U.S. launched its first military action in a month against Iran. The S&P 500 index fell 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (226+ words) The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 89.4 in August from 90.2 in July. That’s the lowest level in seven months but essentially in the same lukewarm range its been in since the beginning of the year....

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (92+ words) Daily Local The meeting, first reported Sunday by The New York Times, touched on issues ranging from housing, immigration to the high costs of living. People in the United States are struggling under inflationary prices that Democrats blame on Republicans,…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (504+ words) By NASSER KARIMI and DAVID RISING The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. Iran’s official Central Bank rate stood at around 1.5 million rial to the dollar, but the market rate is what most…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (944+ words) With sparse details, President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would be imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (859+ words) Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials, which were obtained by the National Iranian American Council and made public Tuesday, offer the most transparent play by play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (838+ words) Iran on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’ s threats of economic pain and isolation, while the U.K and other nations condemned Israel over a controversial settlement project. Meanwhile, Syria’s foreign minister visited Pakistan, which is seeking to defuse tensions…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (817+ words) By WILL WEISSERT and COLLIN BINKLEY Trump gushed for several uninterrupted minutes about granite being laid and said the chopper landing area would leave visiting foreign leaders “very impressed” — including Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is coming next month. At…...