US, Iran pause attacks for second day amid push for ceasefire talks

The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire.
It was not clear why the US has paused after targeting Iranian coastal areas and infrastructure in a nearly two-week escalation sparked by Iran's firing at ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

The Pentagon did not respond to questions Sunday.
US President Donald Trump is "giving talks some space.

He's giving it a little bit of room," Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations, told Fox News. "We've had both Oman and Iran, and a number of our other negotiators, engaged at every level, from the most senior levels all the way down to the technical level over the past few weeks, and particularly in the past few days."
Waltz dismissed the idea that the US stockpile of interceptors crucial in defending against Iranian .