What to Know
- Iran is uncertain if it can trust the U.S in diplomatic talks after Israel launched an aerial attack days before scheduled negotiations with U.S. officials, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC News.
- Iran will never agree to halting all uranium enrichment and Israel must stop its air campaign before any negotiations can proceed with the U.S., the Iranian foreign minister said.
- Israel and Iran exchanged strikes a week into their war Friday as new diplomatic efforts appeared to be underway.
- Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump’s clampdown on campus protests.
- An appeals court has allowed Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles, where Vice President JD Vance is visiting Friday.
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