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1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Sam Mednick |Natalie Melzer |Jon Gambrell |Robert Farley

VIENNA, Austria — Iran's foreign minister will meet in Geneva on Friday with counterparts from Germany, France and the United Kingdom, Iranian state media and European diplomats said, as Israeli airstrikes target his country's nuclear and military sites and Iran fires back. Europe’s push for diplomacy is in sharp contrast to messages from Washington, with U.S. President Donald Trump openly weighing bombing Iran and calling for the unconditional surrender of the Iranian leadership.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Sam Mednick |Natalie Melzer |Jon Gambrell |Robert Farley

BEERSHEBA, Israel  — President Donald Trump will decide within the next two weeks whether to strike Iran, the White House said Thursday, saying Trump still sees a “substantial” chance that negotiations can achieve U.S. and Israeli demands on Iran’s nuclear program. Trump’s announcement, relayed by press secretary Karoline Leavitt, puts an extended timeline on the president’s warnings to Iran to immediately shut down its enrichment operations and any other potential for producing nuclear weapons.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Sam Mednick |Natalie Melzer |Jon Gambrell |Robert Farley |Lori Robertson

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. President Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, appeared to be at odds over whether Iran was close to having a nuclear weapon, but Gabbard said the two leaders were saying “the same thing.” We’ll lay out the facts.

1 week ago | factcheck.org | Robert Farley |Lori Robertson

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, appeared to be at odds over whether Iran was close to having a nuclear weapon, but Gabbard said the two leaders were saying “the same thing.” We’ll lay out the facts.

1 week ago | factcheck.org | Robert Farley

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In defending his decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, President Donald Trump has distorted comments made by Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell. Trump claimed that the police chief said the situation with immigration protests “had gotten away from them” and that “we really did need this help.” That’s not what McDonnell said.