President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.

It marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda. A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under the jurisdiction of the U.

Drought and other conditions have interrupted the flow of water owed to the U.S. under a treaty.

President Trump has threatened to slap new tariffs on Mexico for failing to deliver water under a decades-old treaty. But climate change has decimated river flows.

Iran and the United States began high-stakes talks to reach a new nuclear deal on Saturday, foreshadowed by President Trump’s threat of military strikes as a consequence of failure and Tehran’s warning any attack on it would drag the US into a broader Middle Eastern conflict.

Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Iran's Foreign Ministry issued a favorable statement following "constructive" nuclear talks with representatives of President Donald Trump's administration in Oman on Saturday. The Islamic Republic's foreign ministry said that the first round of discussions in Muscat had been held in "a constructive atmosphere and based on mutual respect,

President Donald Trump, when asked about a Salvadoran man deported from the United States in error, on Friday told reporters that he would follow what the Supreme Court said, a day after the top court told the government to facilitate the man's return.

The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.