The Latest: Israel hammers Beirut and Tehran as Iran fires missiles at Israel and the Gulf

Iran’s president rejected a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender on Saturday and apologized for Iran’s attacks on regional countries, as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic. Gulf countries say they have intercepted more ballistic missiles and drones launched from Iran. Saudi Arabia said it … Read more

Trump criticized GOP hawks. Why did he choose war with Iran anyway?

On Election Night in November 2024, Donald Trump delivered a victory speech with an antiwar message. “[My opponents] said, ‘he will start a war,’” he said. “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.” President Trump still boasts about his role in stopping wars. By waging war on Iran, though, he … Read more

US detainees in Iran risk becoming collateral damage in war, families and supporters fear

NEW YORK — Families and supporters of Americans detained in Iran say their loved ones face new dangers during the intensifying war, including the risk of becoming unintended casualties of Israeli and American bombardment or victims of retaliation from Iran’s repressive regime. “For Americans imprisoned in Iran, this is about as terrifying a moment as … Read more

Iran war deaths could resurface Trump’s complicated history with military sacrifice

It’s delicate for any president to watch flag-draped transfer cases return home from overseas, a solemn tradition that honors the dead and shines a spotlight on the human costs of conflict. Donald Trump’s visit Saturday to Dover Air Force Base, honoring the six American service members killed in the war in the Middle East, could … Read more

State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war

As attacks spread after the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces, a video circulated widely of crowds peering up at fire, smoke and debris coming from the top of a high-rise building said to be in Bahrain. Social media users claimed an Iranian attack had hit the skyscraper. But while buildings in Bahrain … Read more

Oil and gas prices rapidly rise as Iran war shows no signs of letting up

NEW YORK — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. The conflict, in which nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missiles … Read more

Iran war threatens Trump’s affordability push as rising energy prices complicate Fed rate cuts

The war with Iran is quickly becoming an economic problem for the United States — and a policy dilemma for the Federal Reserve. Rising oil prices, shipping disruptions in the Middle East and fresh signs of weakness in the U.S. labor market are creating a complicated backdrop just as inflation had begun to show some … Read more

Dealing with Iran war is ‘easy,’ Trump says. College athlete pay? Not so much

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that questions about the war in Iran were “easy” compared to efforts to better regulate college sports and rein in high salaries for football players — an extraordinary suggestion that even he himself seemed to think better of a short time later. Trump convened a roundtable of experts … Read more

Trump says US ‘doing very well’ on Iran nearly 1 week into joint action against Tehran

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. is “doing very well” in Iran, nearly a week after the military coordinated with Israel on airstrikes in Tehran that left its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dead. “Somebody said, ‘How would you score it from zero to 10?’ … Read more