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Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives with Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger, to the Treaty Room at the State Department, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tierney L. Cross)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives with Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger, to the Treaty Room at the State Department, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tierney L. Cross)

With US-Iran talks stalled, diplomatic efforts expand to unlikely European players

While talks to end the Iran war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators haven’t succeeded so far.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to let White House ballroom construction continue during appeal

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Suspect arrested in World War II Memorial vandalism in Washington

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Trump says record-setting Navy deployment to support Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’

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Trump says advisers wanted him off Air Force One in Turkey due to threat

Trump signs executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccine shots

Analysis from AP Elections

Audience members use American flag signs to shield themselves from the sun before opening of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

How Americans describe the US ahead of 250th anniversary, according to new AP-NORC poll

Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander arrives with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for an election night watch party Tuesday, June 23, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Mamdani proves his power with New York endorsements, plus more takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

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Tracking U.S. House retirement announcements

Tracking approval and key issues: The latest AP-NORC polls

Small multiple maps showing the new congressional districts in Texas with vote margins from the 2024 and 2020 presidential elections.

Why Texas’ redistricting plan isn’t a sure bet

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Proportional area charts showing that four competitive U.S. House races and one U.S. Senate race in Illinois drew $70 million in outside spending and $54 million in campaign spending.

Where big spending won – and lost – in the Illinois primary

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This graphic includes small multiple symbol maps showing the vote share for Republican U.S. Senate candidates John Cornyn and Ken Paxton as well as for Democratic U.S. Senate candidates James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett, helping to show where these candidates drew support from in the March 3 primary.

The first midterm primaries of 2026, by the numbers

Dr. Anthony Fauci appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote

The emblem of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is displayed on a podium in Denver on Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

US civil rights agency denies issuing order halting all federal class discrimination complaints

The sun sets over a section of the border wall, June 18, 2025, in Mission, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe’s reservation

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FBI director Kash Patel speaks before President Donald Trump at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Homicides dropped 18.1% in 2025 to the lowest rate since 1956, FBI says

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A portrait of President Donald Trump is displayed at the Justice Department building in Washington, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Appeals court sides with Trump in fight over subpoena of gender-affirming care provider

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California lawmakers kill grizzly bear reintroduction bill

Rep.-elect Max Miller, R-Ohio, arrives for new member orientation check-in and program registration in Washington, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

House Democrats PAC adds $6 million to Cleveland spending after Ohio’s Miller opts to stay in race

Sheryl Williams Stapleton, a former state House majority leader and APS employee, right, walks with her attorney Ahmad Assed, left, to make her first appearance in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Former high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico convicted in federal fraud case

Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters after advancing to a special GOP Senate primary runoff to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

US Rep. Russell Fry endorses Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina Republican Senate runoff

Lawrence, Mass., Mayor Brian DePena, right, leaves federal court in Boston on Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, after making an initial appearance on charges that he fraudulently obtained a pandemic loan and using the money to fund election campaign, pay off high-interest mortgages and back taxes. (AP Photos/Michael Casey)

Massachusetts mayor accused of using a pandemic loan to fund election campaign and pay his taxes

A text book, shown Tuesday, Aug 11, 2026 in Washington, to be used by the Pentagon this fall when they will begin implementing a curriculum that centers on Western civilization and Christianity in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning. (AP Photo)

AP Exclusive: US military base schools put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity

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Army Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo shows photos of his wife, Maisa Lopes Eliaser, a Brazilian national who is detained by ICE, near the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center where she is currently held, in Basile, La., Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Joseph Vidrine)

Wife of US soldier is removed from deportation flight and released from federal immigration custody

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President Donald Trump attends the Patriot Games at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Trump focuses on violent crime reduction as he boosts GOP candidates at New York police academy

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Zach Lahn, Republican candidate for Iowa governor, speaks to local residents during a meet and greet, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Hampton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

In Republican-led Iowa, the GOP nominee for governor introduces an anti-establishment message

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A boy rides an e-bike in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Kids keep getting hurt and killed on e-bikes. Should parents be held responsible?

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Federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Documents show federal surveillance operation in Minnesota targeted progressive groups, unions

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, from right, speaks as President Donald Trump and Jennifer Hegseth listen during a meeting about military families, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers

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U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, center, leads a news conference with other members of Congress after an oversight forum on Friday, July 24, 2026, in Houston, about the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

US Attorney confirms no meth was found in van of Texas man shot by immigration officers

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Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald walks on stage before speaking ahead of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign event, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Judge drops Nevada case against electors accused of forging certificate in 2020 election

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Dan McFadden, managing attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, argues to obtain records related to the medical care of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility during a hearing at Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston on July 7, 2026. Seated behind him is Jessica Kenny, general counsel for the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office, who argued against releasing the records. (Kevin G. Andrade/The New Bedford Light via AP)

Judge orders Massachusetts sheriff to hand ICE detainee records to ACLU

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Tomb raiding trio stole from cemeteries in at least 9 states, Florida authorities say

Nelson County, Ky., jailer Justin Hall shows an electric shock glove that is used at his facility, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Bardstown, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

White House border czar defends ICE electric shock gloves as tools to avoid deadly force

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Firearms and suppressors are displayed at SHOT Show, the annual trade show for the gun industry, Jan. 21 2020, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane, File)

Texas court order kicks in striking federal rules on silencers and certain guns

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Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a campaign event in Bar Harbor, Maine, June 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Graham Platner to speak at labor rally, one of his first public events since ending Maine campaign

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People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Harvard University

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, right, is joined by Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Ambassador Michael C. Gonzales, left, during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, August 5, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Blanche seeks to rally a depleted Justice Department workforce in first speech as attorney general

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A National Park Service worker stands near a pump placed next to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

In the Reflecting Pool saga, the National Park Service’s mission is tested by Trump’s demands

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Singer Lauryn Hill performs during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Ms. Lauryn Hill and Fugees’ bandmate Wyclef Jean will headline Global Citizen’s antipoverty festival

Abdul El-Sayed departs following a news conference at the Spirit of Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

As Abdul El-Sayed breaks a barrier, anti-Muslim vitriol surges on multiple fronts

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President Donald Trump speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, and Jayme Franklin listen during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump’s vaccine plan would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago

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