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Iran's top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, told Pakistani army chief Asim Munir during talks in ​Tehran on Saturday that the U.S. was not an honest ‌party in negotiations to end their war and Iran would not compromise on its national rights, state television reported. A regional mediation push led by Pakistan aims to narrow ​differences between Iran and the U.S. after weeks of war that ​have left the vital waterway of the Strait of Hormuz ⁠closed to most shipping despite a nervous ceasefire, upending global energy ​markets. Iranian state media reported that Munir had also met President Masoud...

President Trump referred to the late actor and director Rob Reiner as having “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME” in a social-media post Monday less than a day after authorities said the Democratic activist and donor and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home. Trump said Reiner, a critic of the president, was “tortured and struggling” and attributed the death “to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” “He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,...