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"No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars," Hegseth said.

If attacked, Iran has long threatened to drag the region into total war, including targeting Israel, the Gulf Arab states and the flow of crude oil crucial for global energy markets.

Kuwait acknowledged its forces accidentally hit the jets while supporting the U.S. combat operation in Iran.

A senior White House official said Sunday that Iran's "new potential leadership" has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after American and Israeli forces launched a major attack against Tehran.

President Donald Trump said during the State of the Union that he "will always allow people to come in legally." His policies stripping people's legal status and limiting legal immigration contradict that.

A gunman opened fire outside a bar in a popular entertainment district in the Texas capital of Austin, killing two people early Sunday in a shooting that the FBI said is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism.

The gunman who killed two people at a bar in Texas early Sunday in a mass shooting that left 14 others wounded was wearing a sweatshirt that said "Property of Allah," and another shirt with an Iranian flag design, a law enforcement official told AP.

Both the House and Senate, where the president's Republican Party has a slim majority, had already drafted such resolutions long before the strikes Saturday.

Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Los Angeles public schools in the nation's second-largest district, was put on paid leave Friday, two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters.

A federal judge on Friday extended an order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported, saying a Trump administration policy turns the "American Dream into a dystopian nightmare."