J.D. Vance
Trump says U.S. and Iran are ‘in negotiations right now,’ Tehran is ‘talking sense’
President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony for newly sworn in Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 24, 2026. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. and Iran are “in negotiations right now” and suggested Tehran […]
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The Fed decision, Micron earnings, Amazon’s USPS contract and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. I’m back after a long weekend skiing in Colorado, just in time for yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting. Stock futures are lower this morning. The three major indexes are coming off a losing day. Here are five key things investors need […]
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Trump says he thinks he will have the ‘honor’ of ‘taking Cuba’
A tricycle is decorated with U.S. and Cuban flags in Havana on Feb. 26, 2026. Yamil Lage | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday said he thinks he will have the “honor” of “taking Cuba,” speaking during an executive order signing at the White House. “Whether I free it, take it, I […]
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Oracle’s TikTok stake sits at just over $2 billion, filing shows
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Almost two months after TikTok’s U.S. operations officially landed in the hands of a group of investors, Oracle disclosed its stake in the joint venture at roughly $2 billion. In its quarterly financial filing on Wednesday, Oracle said it recorded “non-marketable debt investments and equity securities and related […]
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Seventh U.S. service member killed in Iran war ID’ed as Sgt. Benjamin Pennington
Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky. Source: U.S. Army The Pentagon on Monday identified the seventh U.S. service member to have died in the Iran war as 26-year-old Army Sgt. Benjamin Pennington. Pennington, a resident of Glendale, Ky., was seriously wounded March 1 during an Iranian strike at Prince Sultan Air Base […]
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Trump joins grieving families during return of soldiers killed in war in the Middle East
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a casualty return for the soldiers who were killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran, on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | AP […]
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The U.S. insists the Iran conflict won’t be a ‘forever war.’ Experts beg to differ
Plumes of smoke rise over the skyline on March 3, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi | Getty Images Since the U.S. and Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran last weekend, Washington has been keen to stress that the military action will be over in a matter of weeks and won’t turn into a so-called […]
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Trump administration offers shifting narrative for U.S. war in Iran as Democrats pounce
President Donald Trump says combat will continue in Iran until U.S. “objectives” are complete. Those objectives and the justification for the war have remained fluid more than 48 hours into the conflict. Trump and his proxies have not been aligned on their narrative, leading to confusion about how Trump and his advisors are defining the […]
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Trump says he’d ‘love not to’ attack Iran, ‘but sometimes you have to’
U.S. President Donald Trump stops to speak to the media as he departs on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday said that “I’d love not to use” the U.S. military to attack Iran, “but […]
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Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns
Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds. Vance, who made the announcement with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare […]
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