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In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks in a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Trump says he sent a letter to Iran to open nuclear talks: ‘The other alternative is we have to do something’

By Jon Gambrell, Will Weissert, and others

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – FEBRUARY 09: Kendrick Lamar performs onstage during Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Why a performer at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag mentioning Sudan and Gaza

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

FILE- President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a bilateral meeting, in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Saudi crown prince MBS tells Trump that kingdom plans to invest $600 billion in U.S. over 4 years

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – SEPTEMBER 11: Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives for a meeting of the Board of Governors at IAEA headquarters on September 11, 2023 in Vienna, Austria. The IAEA has been monitoring the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is on the front line of the current Russian-Ukrainian war. (Photo by Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images)

Iran is poised to ‘quite dramatically’ increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, nuclear watchdog warns

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targets a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 25, 2024. Israel expands operations in Lebanon nearly a year after Hezbollah begins exchanging fire in support of its ally, Hamas, following the Palestinian group's deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Israel just launched an airstrike against Iran, following through on weeks of threats and escalating Mideast conflict

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

A satellite image of the Sounion crude oil tanker floating in the Red Sea, showing bright spots of fire or glowing heat across the deck of the ship. The tanker is surrounded by dark blue water with visible patches of smoke trailing behind it. The vessel appears stationary with no visible crew or other vessels nearby.

Salvagers abandon burning oil tanker at risk of spill 4X the size of Exxon Valdez

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

British-registered cargo ship 'Rubymar' sinking

29 mariners rescued from oil tanker that came under attack passing through $1 trillion-a-year cargo route

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

jets on deck of aircraft carrier

Drone attacks commercial ship in Red Sea as U.S. aircraft carrier departs following most intense naval combat since World War II

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 30: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan attends a signing ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) at The Great Hall of People on May 30, 2024 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Tingshu Wang – Pool/Getty Images)

UAE leader meets with Taliban official who faces a $10 million U.S. bounty over attack that killed an American citizen

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

Iran

Iran fires air defenses after spotting drones as reports of attack from Israel swirl

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

An Iranian drone on display

Israel says Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles, but 99% were shot down

By Joseph Federman, Jon Gambrell, and others

ships in the Persian Gulf

Iranian commandos seize container ship linked to Israeli billionaire near Strait of Hormuz

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

SANA’A, YEMEN – JANUARY 25: A Yemen’s Houthi fighter carries RBG as he takes part in a tribal rally and parade denouncing the U.S.-led aerial attacks on Yemen and in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel on January 25, 2024, on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. The United States and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on four senior Yemen’s Houthi group leaders as a step to degrade and destroy the group’s capabilities and stop attacks on vessels in the Red Sea bound for Israel. At the same time, the US administration is gravitating toward a longer-term strategy to widen the military operation targeting the Houthi group and its financiers. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Houthis attack U.S. warship, escalating Middle East crisis: ‘They’re now finally calling a spade a spade’

By Jon Gambrell, Tara Copp, and others

SANA’A, YEMEN – JANUARY 19: Yemen’s Houthi-affiliated boys hold flags of Palestine and the Houthi emblem march during a protest held to condemn the U.S. for redesignating Houthis as a global terrorist group, and against the U.S.-British aerial attacks conducted on Yemen on January 19, 2024, in Sana’a, Yemen. The United States forces conducted their sixth round of strikes, targeting Houthi military sites in Yemen, according to a White House official, as an attempt to stop the Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that have disrupted global shipping. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Houthi rebel ship attacks that are strangling world trade, U.S. Navy commander says

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press

John Oliver speaking and gesturing

John Oliver segment on McKinsey’s ties to Saudi Arabia cut substantially by Dubai-based TV network

By Jon Gambrell and The Associated Press