US and Iran Conclude 2nd Round of Nuclear Talks, Agree to 3rd

Iran’s foreign minister and U.S. special envoy agreed to a third round of talks aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Iran and the United States have ended their second round of talks aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear weapons development and agreed to hold a third round next week. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas

Vance Meets With Vatican Officials

Discussion topics included freedom of religion and immigration. Vice President JD Vance met with the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on April 19, continuing his Easter trip to the Italian Peninsula. Vance met with Cardinal Parolin and the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, at around 10

U.S. and Iran hold second negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program

The United States and Iran held a second round of negotiations on Saturday in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, officials said. U.S. Middle East envoy and billionaire Steve Witkoff met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the Omani Embassy in Rome’s Camilluccia neighborhood. The negotiations were mediated by Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi.

Epoch Readers Rally Behind Trump’s China Tariffs, Demand Revival of US Manufacturing: Poll

President Donald Trump’s bold move to hike tariffs on Chinese goods to 145 percent—met by Beijing’s 125 percent retaliation—has reignited a national debate over trade, economic independence, and the future of American industry. A new poll of 18,438 Epoch Times readers shows broad support for Trump’s tough stance against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and

Supreme Court temporarily blocks new deportations under Alien Enemies Act

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily blocked the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order from this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.

2 Pentagon officials fired amid sweeping leak investigation

Third Pentagon official put on leave Third top Pentagon official put on leave pending leak investigation 01:56 The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon’s inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended earlier this week were terminated, multiple officials told CBS News.  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, ordered an

Assessing Trump’s Diplomatic Juggling Act. Plus, How Anti-Semites Hijacked a Top Scholarly Journal.

The art of the deal: Most presidents, the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson writes, “implement only a handful of initiatives at a time that usually only become public knowledge once they have matured.” Not Trump. “I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” he wrote in Art of the Deal. “I keep a