US President Donald Trump has tapped housing finance chief Bill Pulte to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in the wake of Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation. Trump announced Pulte’s appointment in a post on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, describing Pulte as someone with “deep »»»

LONDON: Oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday, paring the previous session’s sharp gains, as Iran reviewed a proposed agreement with the US to halt the war between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr News reported. President Donald Trump said on Monday that negotiations with Iran were continuin»»»

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday expressed hope that a deal to end the war in Iran was in the cards, stressing that Tehran must severely curtail its nuclear program before any sanctions are lifted. "There is the prospect before us, which could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it cou»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States and Iran were speaking "continuously," denying reports that Tehran had broken off contact over Israel's attacks on Lebanon. Trump added that "one never knows" where the negotiations would lead, as weeks of direct and indirect talks hav»»»

The Lebanese delegation to the Washington peace talks with Israel "sensed Israeli and U.S. acceptance regarding a comprehensive ceasefire, and the three parties presented proposals on specific ceasefire formulas," Baabda sources said on Tuesday. "There is seriousness and a clear effort and interest»»»

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in April in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. Trump privately signed another executive order Tuesday requesting that tech companies give the government access to their AI models before release. Photo by Allison Robbert/UPI | »»»

US President Donald Trump was said to be reconsidering a controversial $1.8 billion compensation fund on Monday, created as part of a settlement with the IRS, amid legal challenges and growing opposition from Republicans. The Justice Department has paused implementation following a court order, rai»»»

Californians have their final chance to vote Tuesday in a fiercely contested gubernatorial primary ahead of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom’s mandate coming to an end at the end of the year. The state's open-primary system, which allows the two best-performing candidates to advance regardless»»»

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The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon began a new round of direct talks in Washington Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he received de-escalation commitments from both sides. But Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon killed eight people, according to Lebanese authorities. Follow our live»»»

Israel ​kept up strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing eight people, including children, as it pressed its campaign against Hezbollah a day after President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to attack Beirut to avert a further escalation.   Israeli drone str»»»

Hezbollah will not accept a "partial ceasefire" with Israel, a senior official from the Iran-backed group said Tuesday, refusing to halt attacks against northern Israel in exchange for Israel sparing Beirut's southern suburbs, although they appeared to have stopped on Tuesday. "We will not accept a»»»

Israel and Lebanon could reach a peace agreement within days were it not for the obstacle posed by Hezbollah, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday, as the two sides began a fourth round of talks in Washington. "Israel and Lebanon can do a peace deal tomorrow," Rubio told the Senate Fore»»»

Israel continued to strike southern Lebanon on Tuesday as Iran-backed Hezbollah attacked its troops there despite an apparent Washington-brokered de-escalation deal and a fourth round of U.S.-hosted talks between Lebanon and Israel. U.S. President Donald Trump had announced an agreement to halt som»»»

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, June 2: The European Union approves the creation of offshore "return hubs" to where failed asylum seekers could be sent. The British papers focus on a new trove of documents pertaining to Peter Mandelson, the former ambassador to the US. The Canadian province of Al»»»

US President Donald Trump has nominated Douglas Holder to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Bulgaria, according to a notice published on the White House website on June 1. Holder is a Republican former member of the Florida House of R»»»

Activists shout slogans outside the Ministry of Health Headquarters in protest against an American Ebola quarantine facility in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday. Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA June 2 (UPI) -- A plan for a quarantine site in Kenya for Americans exposed to Ebola is on hold for at least another th»»»

The Syrian government is betting that removal from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation in place since 1979, will clear the biggest political and legal hurdle to its economic recovery. Alongside remaining sanctions, the designation has blocked any tangible gains from what»»»

Trump says he does not know where the ongoing talks with Iran may lead, even as he insists they “have been going on continuously”. “Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, ‘It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social.»»»

Israel has a clear interest in prolonging US hostilities with Iran and has been successfully sabotaging efforts to reach a peace agreement, Tehran-based Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi has told RT. The political analyst was commenting on the latest escalation of Israeli military operations against»»»

The potential deal with Iran that US President Donald Trump is seeking would benefit Israel, but not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is using the war to stay in power, security expert Dr. Simon Tsipis told Sputnik. "Everything hinges on whether Benjamin Netanyahu is granted a pardon,»»»

IRBIL, Iraq: Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias said on Tuesday they would begin handing in their weapons to the authorities, a major step in the new government’s effort to rein in militias that have long operated on their own even though they were nominally under state command. One o»»»

DUBAI: Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the US to halt their war but has not communicated with Washington for a few days, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said negotiations were ongoing. More than three ​months after the US and Israel launched strikes ag»»»

Paris: Alexander Zverev breezed past Rafael Jodar to stay on course for an elusive Grand Slam title at the French Open, where Marta Kostyuk and Mirra Andreeva will meet for a place in the women's final. Zverev, the highest-ranked player left in the men's draw, put an end to Spanish teenager Jodar's»»»

A now hiring sign is seen in the window of a fast food restaurant in Orange California on January 27, 2021. Job openings rose to 7.6 million in April 2026. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo June 2 (UPI) -- The number of job openings in the United States increased to 7.6 million in April,»»»

“My hair is on fire.” This was reportedly how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted after a phone call with US President Donald Trump, following Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that he would refrain from launching additional strikes against Iran. Few phrases better capture the curr»»»

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Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a voluntary framework under which AI developers could share advanced models with the government before public release. The central provision allows companies such as OpenAI, Google or Anthropic to give t»»»

New York Attorney General Letitia James and six other state attorneys general filed suit Tuesday against the Trump administration for a deal me made with a French company to end a lease for an offshore wind farm. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo June 2 (UPI) -- Seven Democrat-led states »»»

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's negotiating team has not offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and insisted that any sanctions relief was tied to Tehran giving up its nuclear program. "Right now, everything that'»»»

One of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed armed groups said Tuesday it would begin putting its weapons under government control, a major step in the new government’s effort to bring armed factions that have long operated on their own under state command. Asaib Ahl al-Haq said it had formed a committe»»»

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has been working through Iranian channels to secure Hezbollah’s commitment to a ceasefire while his country presses ahead with negotiations aimed at ending the war, political sources have told Arab News. The Amal Movement leader remains central to ef»»»

Restoring peace in the Middle East will strengthen Europe's stability, which is directly affected by disrupted supply chains and, in particular, rising energy prices resulting from the military conflict in the region, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said during a meeting with Lebanon's Minister of Natio»»»

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the US to halt their war but has not communicated with Washington for a few days, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said negotiations were ongoing. More than three months after the US and Israel launched strikes against Ir»»»

US President Donald Trump appointed a loyalist with no national security experience as head of US intelligence on Tuesday -- and said he would also retain his existing jobs overseeing federal housing and mortgage policies. Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte, who also leads the mortgage»»»

Restoring peace in the Middle East will strengthen Europe's stability, which is directly affected by disrupted supply chains and, in particular, rising energy prices resulting from the military conflict in the region, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said during a meeting with Lebanon's Minister of Natio»»»

Hostilities in the Persian Gulf may resume at a moment’s notice, Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, explains to Sputnik. The issue of frozen Iranian assets and lifting anti-Iranian sanctions still remains the sticking points in the talks.Though the broad outline»»»

The United Nations warned Tuesday that dramatic funding cuts for aid, at a time of multiple crises, have created unparallelled gaps, leaving tens of millions going hungry. The UN's World Food Program said it was facing a 75-percent shortfall in its funding, with dire and deadly consequences. "The g»»»

Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including two children and their father, a day after US President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to dial back fighting. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, continued launching dozens of projectiles and drones t»»»

Dubai: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is the primary condition for any progress in talks with Iran, while insisting that Tehran must also agree to negotiations over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium before any sanctions relief can be con»»»

The Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Emirates, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Republic of Türkiye, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the State of Qatar condemn in the strongest terms the continued incu»»»

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam commented Tuesday on the resumption of Israeli-Lebanese negotiations in Washington by saying that "what remains is to consolidate a ceasefire throughout Lebanon." His remarks come a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to de»»»

The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon began a new round of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had received commitments from both sides to de-escalate. The fourth meeting between representatives of the two sides, which do not have diplomatic relations, is»»»

Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte has been tapped by President Donald Trump to take over as acting director of national intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo June 2 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Bill Pul»»»

GENEVA: Even if the Middle East war stopped immediately, disrupted global humanitarian supply lines would not recover before 2027, the United Nations said Tuesday. Nearly 100 days on from the February 28 US-Israeli attacks on Iran which triggered the conflict, the fall-out extends far beyond the Mi»»»

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to testify Tuesday in front of the Senate and the House. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo June 2 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio will testify before the Senate Tuesday morning in his first public testimony since the war with Iran began. B»»»

1 of 2 | Former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra is running to represent the Democratic Party in California's gubernatorial election in November. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo June 2 (UPI) -- Democrats will determine who their candidates will b»»»

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Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday named Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte, who also leads the refinancing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as his acting director of national intelligence. "William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters »»»

WASHINGTON: The ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon began a new round of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said he had received commitments to de-escalation from both sides.The fourth meeting between representatives of the two countries, which do not have diplomati»»»