US President Donald Trump has told NBC News that a deal with Iran is „very close“.
âWe have a couple of points. They donât even seem like big points,â Trump said. âTheyâve conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons. We had a clause in there that [they] will not develop nuclear weapons. And everybody was very happy with it except me.â
(June 7, 2026, 1:00 PM GMT)
The two sides are âvery closeâ to signing a pact, Trump said, but he is pushing for Iran to go further in abandoning its nuclear ambitions.
âWe have a couple of points. They donât even seem like big points,â he said. âTheyâve conceded the fact that they will not have nuclear weapons. We had a clause in there that [they] will not develop nuclear weapons. And everybody was very happy with it except me.â
Trump said he wanted an additional provision to ensure Iran canât execute an end run around a deal.
âAnd I said, âWell, what happens if they, not develop, but they go out and purchase, they acquire? I want to put the word, âif they buy, purchase or acquire,ââ he said. âYou know, youâve got to have that in there, too, because thatâs not developing. So, they donât have the right to develop or purchase, acquire or buy.â
Since a ceasefire went into place in early April, Trump has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Iran to end the war Israel and the U.S. launched on Feb. 28. Israel has publicly expressed skepticism that Iran would abide by any negotiated deal. Netanyahu has pushed for a resumption of bombing raids against Iran and disagreed with Trump, who has pressed him to scale back attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Western officials.
Israel is keenly interested in whether Trump decides to resume major combat operations against Iran or to end the conflict, the current and former U.S. officials and outside experts said.
The DIA reportedly posted an internal message raising the espionage threat level regarding Israel to âcritical.â It also identified a series of specific incidents that heightened US concerns, one of the officials said.
The Pentagon is particularly concerned that Israel is surveilling top US officials to obtain information about internal deliberations among President Donald Trump‘s close advisors regarding decision-making on the conflicts in West Asia.
(May 6, 2026)
Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing âProject Freedomâ on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.
A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.
President Donald Trump told reporters that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call about the wars in Iran and Ukraine. NBC Newsâ Gabe Gutierrez reports on the assistance Putin offered to the U.S. in the war with Iran.
It marks a noticeable shift in the way the president has talked about Walz, whom heâs repeatedly criticized for his handling of a fraud scandal in Minnesota and blamed for unrest that has led to federal officers shooting and killing two people in recent weeks.
As recently as Saturday, after a federal agentâs fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, Trump accused Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who is also a Democrat, of „inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric“ and slammed them as „sanctimonious political fools.“
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to ârestrain, reform and restrict ICE.â
Mariam Dagga, 33, a visual journalist, freelanced for the AP since the Gaza war began, as well as other news outlets. The AP said in a statement that it was shocked and saddened to learn of Daggaâs death, along with several other journalists.
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Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also among those who were killed in the Nasser strike. Reuters reported that its contractor cameraman Hussam al-Masri was killed and its contractor photographer Hatem Khaled wounded. It was not immediately clear who the fourth journalist killed was.
Commercial satellite images show the Israeli military building up troops and equipment near the border with Gaza that would support a possible new ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, according to three U.S. officials and a former official who viewed the imagery.
The images show troop movements and formations that the four sources recognized as signs of an imminent major ground operation.
NBC News has counted at least 25 rallies and demonstrations coast to coast since Monday. Some involved only a few dozen people, while others attracted thousands.
NBC Newsâ Jacob Soboroff reports live from Los Angeles as protests continue over ICE operations throughout the city.
Yahya, 12, Eve, 9, Rival, 5, Sadeen, 3, Rakan, 10, Ruslan, 7, Jibran, 8, Luqman, 2, and Sedar, not yet 1 year old, died in the strike on Najjarâs home, according to hospital officials.
Video provided by Gaza‘s Civil Defense showed a tiny charred body zipped up inside a bag. Sedarâs remains were never found.
âWe couldnât find any trace of him,â a Civil Defense worker said.
One of Najjarâs children and her husband, also a physician, survived with injuries. Dr. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, told the BBC on Saturday that he had operated on 11-year-old Adam.
The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyaâs leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.
In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.
(20.03.2024)
WASHINGTON â Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke virtually to Republican senators during a closed-door meeting Wednesday and found a welcome reception.
But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., declined a request by Netanyahu to address the Senate Democratic caucus, a spokesperson for Schumer said, adding: âSen. Schumer made it clear that he does not think these discussions should happen in a partisan manner. Thatâs not helpful to Israel.â
During an exclusive interview with Jonathan Capehart, President Biden discussed topics from his State of the Union address including a hot-mic moment with Secy. Blinken, calling a migrant „an illegal,“ and his optimism for a ceasefire in Gaza. March 9, 2024
The Israeli military released aerial video showing an incident Thursday in Gaza City, where the Hamas-run Health Ministry reports more than 100 people were killed. The Health Ministry said Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid. Israel said the video shows there was a stampede, as Palestinians in desperate need of aid rushed to the trucks that were carrying food. As some residents moved toward Israeli troops, Israel said the troops fired warning shots and struck some residents in their legs.
Health authorities in Gaza said that Israeli fire on people waiting for aid near Gaza City had killed over 100 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more. The Israeli military later said dozens of people were hurt as a result of trampling when the aid trucks arrived and that troops opened fire at „several people“ in the crowd who posed a threat to them.
Journalist Noga Tarnopolsky joins MSNBC‘s Ali Velshi to discuss the âfissuresâ emerging as the U.S. pushes Israel to transition to a new phase of the war with Hamas amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, both with the U.S. and inside Israel, where Netanyahu is trying to gain support for his reelection and avoid prosecution.
(May 8, 2023)
Kennedyâs positions on many other issues also cut against the media grain. His most controversial stance is on the war in Ukraine, where he strongly opposes American involvement (though his son volunteered to serve alongside Ukrainians). Back home, he believes transgender athletes should not participate in female sports; and, at time when the media itself seems to be hiring directly out of Langley, heâs harshly critical of Americaâs intelligence community, and particularly the CIA, which he believes is responsible for the assassination of his uncle, John F. Kennedy.
(May 26, 2023)
Its commander, Denis Kapustin, who also goes by the last name of Nikitin, is a white nationalist and ex-soccer hooligan who shares neo-Nazi views.
Kapustin is listed on Russiaâs federal wanted list and its register of extremists and terrorists.
The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League has described Kapustin as âa Russian neo-Nazi who lived in Germany for many years.â
(July 15, 2022)
A study found that 42% of people with regular menstrual cycles said they bled more heavily than usual after their Covid vaccination.
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The new survey started in April 2021, around the time people began to report unexpected bleeding and heavier flow post-vaccine. However, these anecdotes were at the time met with the rebuttal that there was no data linking menstrual changes to vaccination.
That was both true and indicative of a larger problem. Individuals who took part in Covid vaccine trials were not asked if they experienced menstrual changes.
(12.05.2022)
Ayman Mohyeldin remembers his friend and colleague, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed today reporting on an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.
India relies on Russian-made weapons, Israel needs Russiaâs cooperation to strike inside Syria and Gulf Arab states look to Russia to help manage the oil market.