Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day, Israeli officials said. Why it matters: This would be a major regional escalation. It would be the first Iranian missile attack on Israel since the ceasefire was announced on April 8. Iran's military said Israel had "crossed all red lines" in intensifying its attacks in southern Lebanon and targeting the south Beirut suburb of Dahieh. "If it expands its attacks in that area, or responds to Iran's action, it will face more forceful blows, and devastating attacks will be launched" against Israel and its supporters, the military added.
Amid ongoing scrutiny over the U.S. war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance " and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of "no new wars." In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's Kristen Welker that aired on Sunday's "Meet the Press," Trump said he built a "tremendous military." "First of all, I didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?" Trump said. "I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn't promise anything."
President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday " after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his "anti-weaponization" fund, and election fraud. The heated six-minute final block of the interview began with Welker pressing Trump about the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund he continues to promote " despite his administration officially abandoning its efforts to launch the fund. Welker pressed " attempting to confirm that Trump is indeed throwing in the towel.
A clip from President Donald Trump's Friday agriculture roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, spread quickly online, with critics saying it showed the president struggling to recall the name of the Washington Monument. ... Hemant Mehta, a former Jeopardy! champion and YouTuber, wrote on X, "He's on the verge of not being able to name the son who's named after him." read more
A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm fly has been confirmed in Texas by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), days after an initial case in a one-year-old calf set off an aggressive response to stop the spread of the parasite ... read more
Another stellar hire by the rapidly decomposing orange chomo.