1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (718+ words) US President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening he was pausing the American effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, while insisting the US blockade of…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago  (795+ words) Starmer's center-left Labour Party is expected to take a battering in elections for local authorities across England and for semiautonomous legislatures in Scotland and Wales. With the prime minister's popularity in the doldrums from a weak economy and repeated'questions about…...

3+ hour, 43+ min ago  (544+ words) The United Kingdom's Green Party is investigating over 30 local council candidates for alleged antisemitism, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday. The report came a day before local council elections are set to be held. A Green Party spokesman told the newspaper…...

3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (816+ words) AP " Elections in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan on Tuesday reinforced a picture that's becoming increasingly clear " while US President Donald Trump still dominates the Republican Party, Democrats seem to have the momentum ahead of November's midterm elections. The biggest test…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago  (290+ words) Demonstration against Israel real estate event draws hundreds, who chant 'Death to the IDF' and 'End the settler Zionist state'...

8+ hour, 22+ min ago  (745+ words) Washington says direct engagement is best way to swiftly advance peace and security deals, after Aoun said agreements must proceed meeting; Rubio: Peace 'imminently achievable' but Hezbollah 'the problem'...

10+ hour, 37+ min ago  (365+ words) A group of 30 House Democrats has demanded that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio disclose details of Israel's alleged nuclear weapons arsenal. "We cannot develop a coherent nonproliferation policy for the Middle East," they wrote in a letter dated Monday,…...

12+ hour, 50+ min ago  (1772+ words) The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Tuesday it would respond firmly to any ships that diverge from Iran's approved route through the Strait of Hormuz, as Israeli television reported US President Donald Trump came close to ordering renewed strikes…...

12+ hour, 36+ min ago  (597+ words) The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday's events as they unfold. US President Donald Trump says the US will be pausing the operation it launched just one day earlier to assist vessels stuck in the Strait of Hormuz due to…...

13+ hour, 47+ min ago  (839+ words) JTA " A bestselling author is facing a flurry of anger from fans after advance copies of her upcoming novel identified a character as Israeli " a move that her critics say advances "normalization" of a country they oppose. Rebecca "R. F." Kuang, the…...