James LaPorta is the national security coordinating producer for the CBS News' Washington bureau. He is a former U.S. Marine veteran infantryman and veteran of the Afghanistan war. Washington — ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, facing the end of a 60-day deadline for Congress to declare war, told lawmakers in a May 1 letter that U.S. military hostilities in Iran "have terminated," even ...

The White House is arguing that the War Powers Act deadline to either wind down the Iran war or get congressional authorization is not Friday, as Congress assumed, because the 60-day clock stopped ...

President Donald Trump notified lawmakers Friday that the Iran war has “terminated” — an effort to quelch the fight over the need for Congress to approve the conflict. The White House laid out its ...

A Roane County Sheriff's deputy was fired after the office confirmed off-duty conduct violations, with the case now referred to the District Attorney's Office. Iran rejects Trump’s peace plan and ...

US President Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that the hostilities in Iran “have terminated” following the ceasefire starting April 7, with the deadline for a congressional authorisation of the ...

President Donald Trump's administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April, an interpretation that would allow the White House to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House asserted to Congress in a letter Friday that hostilities with Iran have “terminated” despite the continued presence of U.S. armed forces in the region. The message ...