Eye Opener: Strikes intensify against Iran as Trump defends expanding war – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. and Israel intensify strikes against Iran as Americans look to evacuate the Middle East. Plus, a key Republican Senate race is heading to a runoff. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Source … Read more
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine are briefing reporters at the Pentagon as the U.S. campaign against Iran enters its fifth day. It’s their second briefing since the offensive began Saturday. The U.S. military has hit more than 2,000 targets in Iran, including command and control … Read more
Washington — The Senate will hold a vote Wednesday on whether to block President Trump from using further military force against Iran, amid shifting messaging from the administration about the strikes and warnings about more American casualties to come. It’s the second time in less than a year that Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia … Read more
A member of Japan’s yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons. Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, has been jailed since April 2022 on the drug and weapons charges, along with his Thai co-defendant Somphop … Read more
Barely a week after President Donald Trump hailed falling gas prices as one of his economic triumphs, his actions are sending the cost per gallon back up. The war Trump launched with strikes on Iran has spread across the Middle East, where more than a quarter of the world’s oil is produced. Gas prices spiked … Read more
3m ago Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen on the fence about wading into the war The Iranian-backed Houthi rebel movement, which controls a large portion of Yemen, was still mulling a decision on whether to engage directly in the war between its benefactors in Tehran and the U.S. and Israel. On Sunday, the leader … Read more
Vice President JD Vance’s role in selling a war in Iran is, on one hand, an uncomfortable position for an Iraq War veteran who rose to political prominence as an anti-interventionist. The fact that President Donald Trump had started no wars in his first term underpinned the early endorsement Vance offered him in his 2024 … Read more
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been confronted with a strange task in recent weeks: promoting his Oscar-nominated movie as his home country erupts in unrest and war. “On the surface, I am in a celebration,” Panahi said, speaking through a translator over Zoom from New York on Tuesday morning. “But from the inside, I feel … Read more
WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials told lawmakers in classified briefings Tuesday to expect an “overwhelming” and bigger wave of military strikes on Iran in the coming days. “This regime is in its death throes. The amount of firepower coming in the next day or two from us is going to be overwhelming,” said Sen. … Read more