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Six months since the United States and Israel launched the first strikes on Iran, the physical, financial and emotional impacts of the war have reverberated from Tehran across the world, including to the vast Iranian community in the US, which has been divided with varying opinions on how the war started and what is has – or hasn’t – accomplished.The Iranian diaspora spans multiple generations and waves of exile, from those who left after the 1979 revolution to more recent arrivals who fled crackdowns and protest movements. Those experiences helped shape sharply different reactions to th

Six months into the Iran war, Iranian Americans remain divided over what comes next

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Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say

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Warsh raises stakes for Fed's next meeting and other takeaways from Jackson Hole conference

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh renewed his inflation-fighting credentials in a speech Frida y that opened the door to potential rate hikes in the coming months. In doing so, Warsh has put more pressure on the central bank to increase interest rates when it next meets in mid-September if inflation doesn't improve. The government's next price report, to be released just days before the meeting, could play an outsize role in determining whether the central bank acts. Warsh's high-profile speech at the Fed's annual Jackson Hole economic conference was mostly praise

Colorado River plan to cut water amid drought brings uncertainty for cities and farmers

Noncitizen voting claims animate Trump's attacks on midterms and set up potential result challenges

The Earth is sizzling, but climate isn't a hot topic for Democrats in this year's campaigns

Climate change has been the backdrop to Charles Hughes’ entire life, from kindergarten lessons about disappearing habitats to wildfire smoke billowing through the air he breathed while growing up in Colorado. But now that he's a college student in Massachusetts, he said global warming is rarely a top issue. “Honestly, it doesn’t come up as much,” said Hughes, who chairs the state's chapter of the College Democrats. What a difference six years makes. During President Donald Trump’s first term and especially during the Democratic primaries

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Russian strike on Kyiv-area warehouse causes detonation, killing 27

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The space Nolan Wells left behind as a new football season begins without him

Nolan Wells should have joined his fellow Southwest Mississippi Bears on the football field Thursday night in the season’s home opener.Instead, in the kind of humidity that dampens shirts well before warm-ups even begin, his parents sat in the stands at Ocean Springs High School, as two of his younger brothers opened their season on the same field where Nolan played just a year ago.“Today we should’ve been talking to Nolan about how excited he was about game day! He would’ve (been) hyping everyone up,” his mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, wrote on Facebook a few hours before kickoff.

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Trump administration appeals latest ruling blocking his mail voting order from taking effect

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that blocked limitations on mail voting before the midterm elections, the latest twist in a court fight unfolding days before the first states begin sending out mail ballots for the pivotal November elections. The notice of appeal filed Friday comes after a federal judge in Boston handed down a new decision blocking implementation of an executive order from President Donald Trump for the next two weeks. The Supreme Court previously allowed the plan to move ahead on procedural grounds, but hasn’t decided whe

Trump used to say he saw a quick end to his Iran war, but 6 months later he claims he's in no hurry

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Nepal-China flood survivors reach safe areas as families await news of nearly 3,000 missing

As rescue efforts in communities buried by catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal - China border entered their fourth day Saturday, authorities were still finding survivors and transporting them to safety. At relief centers, while some arrived, families of others waited anxiously for news of their loved ones as the death toll and the number of people unaccounted for continued to rise. After Nepali authorities updated their figures Saturday, the combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 676 dead and nearly 3,000 people missing. Chinese authorities have reported seven deaths and

The cheapest accommodation in Paris is disappearing: Here’s why

Secluded under the rooftops of Paris’s renowned Haussmannian buildings — home to some of the city’s wealthiest residents— are also hidden the most affordable apartments available: the notorious chambres de bonnes, or maids’ rooms.Originally designed over two centuries ago to house the servants working in these exclusively bourgeois residences, they have become a budget-friendly hack for generations of students and young travelers willing to sacrifice space and comfort for a place in the heart of the city.However, due to the worsening heatwaves hitting the country, these tiny rooms ar

What new satellite images show about the destructive flooding in Nepal

Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba, once world's youngest monarch, dies at 34

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After six months, the Iran war has reached its endgame - a costly stalemate

(This August 27 story has been republished to add a video, with no changes to text.)By Samia NakhoulBEIRUT, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The Iran war has reached its endgame: a costly stalemate.Six months after U.S. and Israeli forces attacked Iran, killing its supreme leader and maiming his son and successor, the Iranian government is under economic siege, but it still holds power and believes it has time on its side.A threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose crippling new sanctions on Iran faces a fundamental problem: Tehran is betting he will not take the final step to break the stalemate - a

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Rescues underway along Nepal-China border

When floodwaters cascaded down deep mountain gorges and swept into a Nepali valley on Wednesday, it devastated already-vulnerable communities that sat along the swollen river, home to many ethnic groups and farmers.But it also sent shockwaves across the world, with hundreds of foreign nationals unaccounted for. In households across the United States, India, Canada and more, people are desperately waiting for news of their missing loved ones – which include a doctor from Delaware, a New Zealand mother of two, and three young teenagers from the US and Australia. At least 389 people have been k

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About 90 Americans unaccounted for after catastrophic floods hit Nepal and Tibet

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California sues Trump administration over offshore wind lease cancelation

California on Friday sued the Trump administration and an offshore wind developer over a deal that canceled a planned project off the state's Central Coast in exchange for a $120

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