U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump spoke to reporters Saturday outside the White House before leaving for a college football game. This week, Iran offered to reopen the strait and resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if the U.S. lifts its blockade of Iranian ports, waives sanctions on Iranian oil sales and observes a ceasefire that would include Lebanon. Iranian media says the country’s president has left New York after a U.N. gathering. During that event, Iran held hours of indirect talks with the U.S.
Iran's president and top diplomat have proposed a deal to the Trump administration to end the fighting and open the Strait of Hormuz after spending a busy week in New York. The deal would require the U.S. to end its military blockade of Iranian ports, release frozen assets and waive sanctions on oil sales. The U.S. and Iran held hours of indirect talks, their first since a previous agreement on similar terms collapsed in June. Reaching a deal with Iran could work in Trump's favor ahead of the U.S. midterms, but on Saturday, the president said he rejected the proposal.
The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump. That potentially puts an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is underway in the midterm elections. Earlier Friday the high court lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database, granting Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. Meanwhile Trump took Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the National Archives. There he showed off the sacred texts of U.S. democracy to the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country.
Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if the United States lifts its naval blockade, waives sanctions on Iranian oil sales and observes a ceasefire that would include Lebanon. Iran’s foreign minister detailed the proposal to reporters outside the U.N. Security Council on Friday. The deal mirrors the so-called Memorandum of Understanding reached in June, but with an accelerated timetable and would also set a start date for the resumption of nuclear talks with the United States. The earlier agreement quickly collapsed as Iran resumed attacks on shipping in the strait.
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Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him as he responded a question about the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House by affirming the importance of journalists covering public figures. Leo spoke to reporters on board the papal plane on Friday as he traveled to France at the start of a four-day visit. Asked by a CNN reporter about the Trump administration’s attempt to bar CNN and other reporters, Leo said the media was welcome on his plane. “I am very happy that here, you are all welcome,” he said.
