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The 58-year-old, identified as Rafiq al Q. due to Dutch privacy regulations, claims he is being conspired against.

The investigation disclosed Tuesday comes as the state considers whether to allow the all-girls camp to reopen this summer.

A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling "Friends" star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023.

Stock prices are still below where they were before the war. And oil prices are still significantly higher because the threat remains that the war could continue and keep oil tankers blocked in the Persian Gulf.

Reaching a permanent deal will be key to ending a war that's shaken the Middle East and global energy markets. But there are vast differences between President Donald Trump and Iran's surviving leaders, and America's ally Israel has its own interests.

Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed off President Donald Trump's threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization.

Both the U.S. and Iran declared victory.

The dramatic shift in tenor came as intermediaries, led by Pakistan, worked feverishly to head off a further escalation of the conflict.

A Long Island architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings.

He previously said the U.S. would retrieve the deeply buried material, which is expected to be an intensive undertaking, if it struck an agreement with Iran.

"We stand ready in the background to ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.

Several strikes were in busy commercial locations, causing panic in the streets.

President Donald Trump has suggested the U.S. may consider leaving the trans-Atlantic alliance after NATO member countries ignored his call to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping waterway, as Iran effectively shut it and sent gas prices soaring.

Trump said late Tuesday he's pulling back on his threats to widen attacks on Iran, including an array of bridges, power plants and other civilian targets — subject to Iran being ready for a two-week ceasefire and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump is backing off, for now, from destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure and wiping out its civilization. He also said he agreed to suspend bombing for two weeks if Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. Trump called an Iranian proposal for a 10-point peace plan "a workable basis on which to negotiate." Nick Schifrin reports.

President Trump made a violent and extraordinary threat on Tuesday, saying he would erase an entire civilization if Iran didn't agree to his terms for a deal. He backed down from that rhetoric later in the day, agreeing to a two-week ceasefire. To discuss the reaction in Iran, Geoff Bennett spoke with special correspondent Reza Sayah in Tehran.

As President Trump backs down from his threats against Iran's infrastructure and agrees to a two-week ceasefire, Geoff Bennett speaks with Alan Eyre and Miad Maleki. Eyre was part of the Obama administration's negotiating team for the Iran nuclear deal and is now at the Middle East Institute. Maleki was born and raised in Iran and is now at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts made more history Tuesday: calling their friends aboard the International Space Station hundreds of thousands of miles away as they headed home from the moon.

In our news wrap Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary to back Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid, an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq was reportedly released, officials in Turkey say gunmen attacked a building that houses the Israeli consulate and the British government is blocking Kanye West from entering the UK, citing his history of antisemitic statements.

On Easter Sunday, Israel carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes on Lebanon. The city of Tyre, like much of Lebanon's south, has been placed under forced evacuation orders by the Israeli army. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn and videographer Adrian Hartrick traveled to Tyre and report.