Congressional Republicans are amping up pressure on Democrats to vote for funding the Department of Homeland Security after President Trump's bombing of Iran early Saturday.
U.S. and Israel military action against Iran marks a significant policy shift for President Trump, who used to oppose military force to oust threatening foreign regimes.
With U.S. bombs still falling on Iran, Congress is barreling toward a constitutional confrontation with President Trump -- and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are demanding a reckoning over who has the authority to take the country to war.
American forces in the Middle East for the first time in combat used small, cheap, one-way attack drones during Saturday's strikes on Iran, the Pentagon said.
The People's Forum, one of two leftist domestic groups identified by the State Department as linked to China, called Saturday for holding mass protests against the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.
The recent wave of firings at the FBI by Director Kash Patel is being condemned by agency sources who say employees have been caught between the opposing political priorities of the Trump and Biden administrations.
Merchant vessels operating in the Persian Gulf region are being told that Iran is shutting down the Strait of Hormuz amid the expanding conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel.