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.

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s pointman for negotiations across the globe, briefly spoke directly with Iranian leaders Saturday, as the two countries said negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program would continue next week.

The stakes could hardly be higher for fresh nuclear talks between the United States and Iran planned for this weekend.

I can only plant half of my farm because I don’t have the irrigation water that’s owed to me,” said Brian Jones, a fourth-generation farmer in Weslaco, Texas, who grows c

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.