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Iranian foreign minister says "we have every right to enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment"
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Iran has "every right to enjoy a peaceful nuclear energy, including enrichment" as the U.S. pushes for a deal on its nuclear program.
Negotiators for the U.S. and Iran met last week in Geneva, where both sides said progress was made. President Trump said on Friday, amid a massive military buildup in the region, that he's considering a limited military strike on Iran, after warning that Tehran had a matter of days to reach a deal on its nuclear program, or "bad things" would happen.
Araghchi announced Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" the two sides will come together again Thursday in Geneva.
He said that the only way to find a resolution for Iran's nuclear program is through diplomacy, while stressing that a solution is within reach.
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Business
Trump says he will raise global tariffs to 15% after Supreme Court decision
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President Trump said on Saturday that he is going to raise his global tariff to 15%, up from 10% he imposed on Friday, after the Supreme Court struck down a set of sweeping global tariffs.
Mr. Trump said in a social media post that he was making the decision "Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday," by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been 'ripping' the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level," he wrote in a Truth Social post.
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Sports
Winter Olympics closing ceremony celebrates athletes, Italian art at ancient Roman amphitheater
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he closing ceremony of the Winter Games of Milan and Cortina in the Verona Olympic Arena. Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images
The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday with a closing ceremony inside Verona Arena, an ancient Roman amphitheater that sits roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games in Olympic history.
The 2½-hour ceremony celebrated Italian music and dance, both classic and contemporary, headlining internationally acclaimed ballet dancer Roberto Bolle along with popular Italian singer Achille Lauro and DJ Gabry Ponte.
Some 1,500 Olympians, a bit over half those who competed in the Games, paraded into the monument built in the first century for gladiator fights and exotic animal hunts.
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Entertainment
"Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi reveals she has cervical cancer
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Nicole Polizzi attends the MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on Sept. 7, 2025, in Elmont, New York. Taylor Hill/ WireImage / Getty Images
"Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi announced Friday that she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The 38-year-old reality star revealed in a TikTok video that her results at a post-op appointment for a cone biopsy — a procedure that removes a cone-shaped piece of cervical tissue to check for precancerous cells — showed a stage 1 cervical cancer called adenocarcinoma.
"Obviously not the news that I was hoping for, but also not the worst news just because they caught it so early. Thank freaking God!" Polizzi said in the nearly eight-minute video.
Prior to her diagnosis, Polizzi said she was "struggling with abnormal pap smears for three or four years now."
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Crime
Violence erupts in Mexico after cartel leader "El Mencho" killed in military operation
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A member of the Prosecutor's Office stands guard near a burning bus set on fire by organized crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on Feb. 22, 2026. Ulises Ruiz /AFP via Getty Images
Violent clashes erupted in parts of western Mexico on Sunday amid a military operation that led to the death of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, triggering widespread security concerns throughout the region.
Mexican security forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho," during an operation in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico's Ministry of Defense said in a statement on X. It said he was wounded during the raid in the town of Tapalpa and died while being flown to Mexico City.
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Life
At least 5 killed, including American, in a string of avalanches in western Austria
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At least five people were killed in a string of avalanches in western Austria, authorities said Saturday.
The government office of the Tyrol region said intense snowfall over the last week led to accumulations of up to 5 feet. Combined with windy conditions and weak snowpack below, the conditions were especially susceptible to avalanches, it said.
Tyrol police said five off-piste skiers were caught up in a nearly 490-yard-wide avalanche Friday afternoon in the St. Anton am Arlberg area at an altitude of about 6,500 feet.
An American and a Pole were among the five recovered dead after the avalanche, and a 21-year-old Austrian died of injuries after being rushed to the hospital, police said.
Dozens of mountain-rescue team members, ambulance and fire department staffers, as well as several dog squads, were deployed for the operation.
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DOJ files antitrust civil complaint accusing OhioHealth of blocking patients' access to affordable healthcare
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The Justice Department on Friday accused one of Ohio's largest healthcare systems of engaging in anticompetitive behavior that forces patients to pay high prices for their healthcare.
The complaint, brought jointly by the Justice Department and Ohio Attorney General against OhioHealth Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, is the first civil antitrust enforcement action by the department's Antitrust Division in about a year, officials said.
It comes a week after Gail Slater, the division's Trump-appointed assistant attorney general, was fired from her post amid rising tensions with Attorney General Pam Bondi's office and replaced by Omeed Assefi, who is serving in an acting capacity.
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Sundry
U.S ambassador's comments on Israel and the Middle East were taken out of context, embassy says
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An uproar continued Sunday after the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East, as more Arab and Muslim countries objected and the U.S. said his comments were taken out of context.
Huckabee spoke in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, including parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. He quoted from Genesis Chapter 15 and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land.
Huckabee responded: "It would be fine if they took it all."
A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy said Sunday that Huckabee's comments were taken out of context and that there is no change to U.S. policies on Israel.
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