Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian speaks in the newspaper's offices in Washington, DC in a November 6, 2013 file photo provided by The Washington Post./ Reuters/Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post/Handout via Reuters/ A senior U.S. congressman on Tuesday accused the Iranian government of ...
The families of four Americans held in Iran told lawmakers on Tuesday that now is the time for the U.S. to demand their release. Relatives of Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini and Robert Levinson all testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, saying any leverage the U.S. has ...
US lawmakers Tuesday called on Tehran to immediately free four Americans held or missing in Iran after poignant testimony from relatives who described "living a nightmare" with little news and fading hope./ Some on the House foreign affairs committee and some family members urged the US ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of four Americans held in Iran called on the Obama administration Tuesday to do more to press for their release during negotiations with Tehran on a deal to roll back its nuclear program./ Lawmakers from both parties said that if Tehran doesn't release them ...
Ali Rezaian, brother of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, talks to a reporter during a television interview at the National Press Club in Washington on May 26. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)/ The families of four Americans imprisoned or unaccounted for in Iran will testify Tuesday before a House ...
For the first time ever, the families of the four Americans imprisoned in Iran are uniting – speaking out before Congress to secure the release of their loved ones. Pastor Saeed Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh, is speaking out Tuesday – along with the families of the other captive Americans – in ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After weeks of dry and hot weather, we finally have widespread chances for rain setting in overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning. The downpours will build after midnight in Sarasota, Manatee, Hardee, DeSoto, and Highlands counties. After sunrise, the showers will begin ...
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates struck a paragraph from ...
The United Nations Security Council has voted to support a US-proposed Israel-Gaza ceasefire plan. It sets out conditions for a "full and complete ceasefire", the release of hostages held by Hamas, the return of dead hostages' remains and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners. Fourteen of the 15 ...
Taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant, Jan. 13, 2022, in Kemmerer, Wyo. Bill Gates and his energy company are starting construction at their Wyoming site adjacent to the coal plant for a next-generation nuclear power plant he believes will “revolutionize” how ...
Antony Blinken is visiting the Middle East to seek backing for a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal/ If diplomats have groundhog days, when they are condemned to reliving the same 24 hours, perhaps Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, felt a certain weariness as his jet approached ...
Grief in Gaza as scores killed in IDF hostage raid/ Two days after Israel's operation to free four of its citizens from central Gaza, more details are emerging of how Saturday’s rescue mission unfolded and of the hostages' eight months in captivity. The Hamas run Health Ministry says at least ...
The dramatic rescue of four Israeli hostages in Gaza amid efforts to try to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire has raised questions over the impact it could have on reaching a deal, as mediated talks show no sign of a breakthrough. As images of the freed and smiling three men and one ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses at the French National Assembly before his address to lawmakers, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Switzerland’s president says 90 countries and organizations, half from Europe, have registered to take part in a Ukraine peace summit on June 15 and 16, ...
Umm Hudaifa, the first wife of the late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now in prison in Iraq/ In a rare interview from prison, a widow of the Islamic State group’s leader has shared her account of their life. Umm Hudaifa was the first wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was married to him while ...
) – One person was killed in a crash along a busy Lower Valley corridor on Sunday afternoon, June 9, police said. The crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. at Americas South at Zaragoza, fire dispatch said. El Paso Police said one person was killed in the crash./ Fire dispatch said two people ...