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Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment

Washington, on May 6, 2025. **Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP** Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice

Chris Mason: PM facing awkward hours ahead as Mandelson questions remain

Washington, such as writing to the King about it on the 18th of December. In other

Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution – as it happened

Washington DC after meeting with IMF managing director **Kristalina Georgieva** and World Bank president Ajay

Hopes grow for a breakthrough in US-Iran talks as Pakistan mediates

Washington and Tehran. The central sticking point remains the duration of any enrichment freeze by Iran

Dirk Kempthorne, former Idaho governor and U.S. Interior secretary, dies at 74

Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4362x3078+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fa4%2F60%2F1d94dfbe450a8f7a8b076c9f0080%2Fap26115717049578.jpg) Department of the Interior Former Secretary Dirk

Appeals court rules that Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal

Washington. **Mark Schiefelbein/AP** Mark Schiefelbein/AP WASHINGTON — An appeals court on Friday blocked President Trump's executive

Trump signs order fast tracking review of psychedelics for mental health disorders

Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F77%2F14%2F0c6638764d038e0a05fed8397a10%2Fap26108497800448.jpg) President Donald Trump holds up a signed

Middle East crisis live: US and Iran in blockade stalemate as Washington’s navy secretary leaves office ‘immediately’

Washington’s navy secretary leaves office ‘immediately’ Welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle

Lyse Doucet: Under fragile ceasefire, Iranians wonder if US deal can be done

Washington have meanwhile highlighted American red lines – no nuclear enrichment for Iran, which must dismantle

Italy extradites alleged Chinese cyber-espionage suspect to US

Washington, DC, and worldwide. Xu appeared in the US District Court in Houston, Texas, on Monday

US sending envoys to Pakistan, raising hopes of talks with Iran’s Araghchi

Washington. Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said a “senior official” had “made

US says Iran can play at 2026 World Cup but bars those with ‘IRGC ties’

Washington has no objections to Iranian players participating in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but he added

Japan builds up its ‘southern shield’ as faith in US security cover falters

Washington’s nuclear umbrella, but China’s rapid military and nuclear expansion has “reduced the credibility

Mixed views in Lebanon ahead of controversial talks with Israel

Washington, DC. “If I say the wrong thing, someone might come hit me.” His response

IMF, World Bank say they are restoring ties with Venezuela

Washington, DC-based financial institutions severed ties with Caracas in 2019 amid a split in the international

Reeves arrives at IMF with little leeway to prove its UK downgrade wrong

Washington-based fund warned UK economic growth rate would be 0.5 percentage points lower this

Iran warns US naval blockade threatens ceasefire

Washington, pushing the narrative that they believe Iran has the upper hand after surviving 40 days

Can a mentalist trick Trump? Oz Pearlman will try in a room full of journalists

Washington's newsmakers," association president Weijia Jiang, of CBS News, said in a [February announcement

How two ceasefires and opening of Hormuz could boost Iran talks

Washington between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors have started the process of removing Lebanon from

Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon. And, Trump nominates a new CDC director.

Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2026.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5111x2875+0+266/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F70%2Fad%2Fa4f0c04e48f49210970aed97c6d7%2Fap26105599865107.jpg) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and fellow