US paper currency will bear ‌President Donald Trump’s signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money, the Treasury Department said.

The US Senate passed legislation that would finance most of the Department of Homeland Security, but withhold funds from ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection, Senate ‌Democratic ⁠leader Chuck Schumer’s office said in a statement.

The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say.

US President Donald Trump said he would extend a pause on attacks against Iran’s energy plants into April and that talks with Iran were going “very well”, but an Iranian official said a US proposal for ending the war was “one-sided and unfair”.

US President Donald Trump denied being “desperate” to make a deal with Iran on Thursday, as he mixed threats with diplomacy in a push to wrap up his war in the Middle East.

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was back in a New York court on Thursday for his second appearance since his capture by US forces in an extraordinary nighttime raid.

Israel took Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf off its hit list after Pakistan requested that Washington not ‌target them, a Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

The US is making its offer of security guarantees for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country’s eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Reuters ‌in an interview.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget and stave off early elections he would likely lose, with the war in Iran so far doing little to improve his standing in the polls.

US President Donald Trump is ready to “unleash hell” if Iran does not accept a deal to end the nearly four-week Middle East war, the White House warned, but a defiant Tehran said it did not intend to negotiate.

US President Donald Trump, who has blasted mail-in ballots as “cheating”, cast his vote by mail in a special election in Florida in which a Democrat won the district in the state legislature that includes the president’s ‌Mar-a-Lago resort.

British police said on Wednesday they had arrested two men over a London arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation.

The UK government is reviewing records from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s tenure as trade envoy amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal fallout.

Iran has told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organisation that “non-hostile vessels” may transit the Strait of Hormuz if ‌they coordinate with Iranian authorities, according to a note seen by Reuters.

US Supreme Court justices indicated sympathy on Tuesday toward President Donald Trump’s administration in its defence of the government’s authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem US-Mexico ‌border crossings too overburdened to handle additional claims.

The Pentagon beefed up restrictions on journalists covering the US military, days after a court ruled that its earlier overhaul to press access was unconstitutional.

A United Nations expert says the world has given Israel a licence to torture Palestinians, with life in the occupied Palestinian territory “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”.

Iran launched another round of missiles toward Israel, state television announced, after earlier strikes hit a building in the north while a loud explosion rang out in Jerusalem.

Donna Motsinger, 84, was awarded $19.3 million after a jury found Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her over 50 years ago.

Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli strike on Iran began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to US President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war against which the American leader once had campaigned.

An American-operated Patriot air defence battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in a pre-dawn explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in US-ally Bahrain 10 days into the war on Iran, according to an analysis by academic researchers examined by Reuters.