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President Trump says he doesn't think that the U.S. was responsible for a deadly strike on a school in Iran at the beginning of the war. "I don't think it was us," Trump tells reporters during an Oval Office briefing alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
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Also, Western Europe is sweltering. Here's the latest at the end of Wednesday.
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Delegations from the U.S. and Iran opened talks in Switzerland on Sunday.
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Tens of millions of people are grappling with punishing temperatures, which have led to red heat alerts across the continent.
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President Trump clashed with Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy in a meeting with Republican senators over his vote on the war powers resolution passed Tuesday in the Senate.
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The president has sought to recast the Iranian government as he pursues a peace deal. But there are signs that a softening on Iran in the Republican Party goes well beyond him.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was traveling among the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain, which were attacked by Iran during the war.
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Republicans hoped to celebrate passage of a bipartisan spending bill on Wednesday — until President Trump scuttled their plans. It was the latest in a series of rifts between Trump and his party.
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The party secured key victories in New York City, but battles across the state suggest a larger fight awaits in the fall.
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Scotland will play their final group stage match against Brazil later, with hopes of making it to the knock-out stages.
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Hours before visiting the Capitol, the president scrapped plans to sign a major housing bill, condemning "bad Republicans" for resisting his demands to ram through new voting restrictions.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the findings a "libelous sham."
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Pro-Israel leaders in New York expressed alarm at the primary victories of three Democratic candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Progressive Jewish groups celebrated.
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The Israeli military says thousands of troops have surrounded a large tunnel network in southern Lebanon. The standoff is at the center of intense clashes in the area recently.
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People have long gathered in solidarity by the Reflecting Pool, but amid the turmoil of President Trump's attempted repairs there is little unity to be found.
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Gen. Christopher Donahue, seen as a top warfighter, is the latest apparent casualty in a purge of senior military leaders by the Trump administration.
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A doctor who had traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo was infected, the French health ministry said. The authorities said the risk to the wider population was low.
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Gen. Chris Donahue has spent the past 18 months leading U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the command responsible for Army operations across both continents.
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The head of the U.N.'s atomic agency said Iran's nuclear enrichment sites would be inspected as part of the interim deal. Iran insists any such visit would only come after a final deal.
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;Resize=(620)) Ukrainian drones knocked out power in the biggest city in Russian-held Crimea on Wednesday and targeted facilities ?in central and southern Russia, underscoring the reach of Kyiv's attacks on energy infrastructure.
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Sevastopol's Moscow-installed governor warns there will be no electricity in some areas until the evening.
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Under President Trump, more federal attention and support has gone towards anti-abortion Christian centers. A watchdog group says many of them mislead patients with promises to "rule out" ectopic pregnancies.
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Micron's quarterly earnings report follows a 700% surge in the memory maker's stock price over the past year.
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Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are contractually committed to staging their fight in the UK, says Eddie Hearn - and any attempt to move it to the United States would need Joshua's team to agree new terms.
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The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent letters Wednesday to the contractors overseeing the renovation at the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
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Heat records were broken when temperatures soared across southern England on Wednesday afternoon.
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Republicans are critical of the US lifting sanctions against Iran
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Judge Denise Casper ruled that the president lacks the authority to oversee elections.
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ABC News political director Averi Harper discusses the impact New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani had on candidates he supported.
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President Donald Trump has called for the Department of Justice to "immediately start looking into" oil companies as he accused them of price gouging.
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There will be no tolls, insurance costs, or charges of any kind for ships looking to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said.
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;Resize=(620)) Western Europe was in the grip of a deadly, record-setting heat wave on Wednesday that has killed dozens of people, closed schools, slowed trains, knocked out electricity and forced farmers to harvest grain at night.
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NPR's A Martínez asks Republican political consultant Doug Heye about whether Trump is losing support among congressional Republicans after the Senate voted to limit his war powers on Iran.
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Plus, why some tech companies are telling workers to cut back on A.I.
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Surfside, Florida, is marking five years since a beachfront condominium collapsed, killing 98 people. It was one of the largest structural failures in U.S. history.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had instructed the Department of Justice to immediately probe oil companies for not lowering gas prices at the pump in line with falling costs, accusing them of "gouging" consumers.
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The Senate on Monday adopted a House-passed Iran War Powers resolution 50-48 in a symbolic, yet rare rebuke of President Donald Trump.
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;Resize=(620)) The UN's Commission of Inquiry found that Israel had genocidal intent in the Gaza Strip during the war, with the key indicator being its targeting of children. The Gaza Health ministry says that since the ceasefire began in October 2025, more than 1,000 people died, 265 of them children.
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A sound engineer has emerged as an unexpected heartthrob amid Britain's political tumult.
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Divides over what GOP priorities should be ahead of this fall's midterm elections are testing the relationship between President Trump and Senate Republicans.
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Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have halted fuel distribution in vacation season as Ukraine isolates the peninsula.
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;Resize=(620)) Millions of people across Europe were exposed to extreme and exceptionally high temperatures on Tuesday, with 40 fatalities from drowning recorded in France in the past week as residents seek relief from the searing heat.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke in front of 10 Downing Street on Monday.
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Federal investigators announced that the Surfside, Florida, condo building collapse that killed 98 people in June 2021 began three weeks prior to the structure falling.
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Despite long-standing commitments from governments, women remain underrepresented, particularly in leadership and operational roles in United Nations Peace Operations. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, only 40 per cent of all Chief of Police Officers, and 30 per cent of civilian heads of United Nations peace operations are women. As of October 2024, just one woman serves in a military leadership role within United Nations Peace Operations. On the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, 29 May, meet some of the women leading global peace and security efforts and find out why women's leadership in peace operations matters.
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