Tracy Mumford

The current ceasefire only runs for two weeks.

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is sending Vice President J.D.

Vance, along with Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Veteran diplomats have raised concerns that Trump has sidelined skilled experts who normally would have helped with these kinds of talks.

And he's putting diplomacy in the hands of a friend and family member instead whose backgrounds are in real estate.

In an interview with ITV News, Iran's deputy foreign minister insisted the Strait of Hormuz is open, though traffic is still just a trickle.

Normally, 130 or so ships would pass a day.

Yesterday, just a handful got through, according to global shipping data.

And last update on the conflict.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep striking Hezbollah in Lebanon, even as those attacks put a huge strain on the shaky ceasefire with Iran.

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and Israel have said Lebanon is not included in the temporary truce, while Iran and the leaders of several NATO countries insist it must be.

Yesterday in Beirut, search and rescue teams were still combing through the wreckage of flattened apartment buildings, where people are still missing.

According to Lebanese officials, the death toll from the Israeli attacks there this week has crossed 300.

At the White House yesterday... Good afternoon.

First Lady Melania Trump summoned reporters so that she could give a surprise statement about Jeffrey Epstein.

In a short six-minute speech, she said she wanted to clear, quote, my good name, and said she had no relationship to Epstein and no knowledge of his crimes.

There have been rumors that Melania had met her husband through the convicted sex offender.

President Trump had a well-documented friendship with Epstein up until the early 2000s.