By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said it was up to the United States to choose when the Iran war will end, when asked if the conflict could end by the end of the year.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States jumped to 7.03 percent, putting pressure on housing affordability.

Some diplomats walked out of the room as the Israeli PM took podium.

On Feb. 27, the day before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, the U.S. economy was on a steady course to lower inflation and attain greater buying power.

In a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday, an advocacy group asked a federal judge to declare that the seven-month war in Iran was never declared or authorized by Congress.

The Iran war is leading to lower carbon emissions globally. Why energy markets are watching the Trump-Xi summit closely. The U.S. Energy secretary applauded China’s expansion of EVs. Huh. CLIMATE MAGAPHONE: President Donald Trump’s war in Iran may accelerate the arrival of peak fossil fuel demand — and help the climate.

Asked by a student to ‘stand unequivocally against the IRGC,’ El-Sayed criticized the U.S. for trying to be the ‘world’s policeman’

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the war, choking off sea passage for some 15 million barrels of oil a day, many feared that prices would skyrocket, cratering the world economy.