Farnoush Amiri

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn to the White House after arriving on Marine One Monday evening, Feb. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

UN Security Council members blast Israel’s West Bank plans on eve of Trump’s Board of Peace meeting

February 18, 2026 at 9:05 p.m.

The high-level U.N. session in New York was originally scheduled for Thursday but was moved up after President Donald Trump announced the first Board of Peace meeting for the same...

This handout image from the U.S. Navy shows an EA-18G Growler launching from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on Jan. 23, 2026. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/U.S. Navy via AP)

US shoots down Iranian drone that ‘aggressively’ approached an aircraft carrier, military says

February 3, 2026 at 3:38 p.m.

A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump holds the charter during a signing ceremony on his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Donald Trump’s wide ambitions for Board of Peace spark new support for the United Nations

January 30, 2026 at 4:02 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it...

A man stands with his motorbike in front of a huge banner showing hands holding Iranian flags as a sign of patriotism, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump claims killing of Iran protesters ‘has stopped’ even as Tehran signals executions ahead

January 14, 2026 at 4:20 p.m.

President Donald Trump made a vague statement Wednesday that he’s been told “on good authority” that plans for executions in Iran have stopped, even as Tehran has indicated fast trials...

FILE – The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US will exit dozens of international organizations as it further retreats from global cooperation

January 7, 2026 at 5:11 p.m.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

People walk past a small memorial in a planter, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, near the site where two National Guard members were shot in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns

November 30, 2025 at 9:02 a.m.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal mounting warnings about the asylum-seeker whose erratic conduct raised alarms long before the attack on National Guard members that jolted the nation’s capital.

Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly via video, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

‘Palestinians will not leave,’ their president tells world leaders at UN in defiant speech

September 26, 2025 at 6:04 p.m.

The Palestinian president is speaking over video to world leaders after the United States revoked his visa.

Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran, signs a note in a United Nations book during the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

UN Security Council rejects Russia and China’s last-ditch effort to delay sanctions on Iran

September 26, 2025 at 5:22 p.m.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program a day before the deadline and after Western...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening event of the bipartisan delegation of American legislators to Israel in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

Facing global isolation at UN, a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel ‘must finish the job’ against Hamas

September 26, 2025 at 12:10 p.m.

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in...

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One with Col. Christopher Robinson, right, commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump in speech to UN says world body ‘not even coming close to living up’ to its potential

September 23, 2025 at 3:36 p.m.

President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations on Tuesday to boast of his second-term foreign policy achievements and lash out at the world body as a feckless institution.

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