Israel launched what officials say will be a multi-day, targeted military operation in Iran early Friday morning local time, killing at least six of Iran’s top generals and several senior nuclear scientists.

An Air India passenger plane bound for London, carrying 242 passengers and crew, crashed Thursday shortly after takeoff from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.

Protests in response to recent immigration enforcement actions have expanded beyond Los Angeles and are now taking place in cities across the country, including in New York, Illinois, and Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced the deployment of the Texas National Guard across the state to “ensure peace and order.”

President Trump dismissed concerns Tuesday that deploying 700 Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles escalated violence. Instead, he called the response necessary and appropriate, and warned other cities that protesters could be “met with equal or greater force” if similar unrest occurs.

Approximately 700 U.S. Marines were mobilized by the Trump administration Monday to support the National Guard in LA amid anti-ICE protests.

The temperature has dropped quite a bit after yesterday’s heated war of words between President Trump and his former aide and fellow billionaire, Elon Musk. Trump told CBS News on Friday morning that he’s focused on moving forward with his presidency, not on Musk, which is “why I have my highest poll numbers,” he added.

Well, that didn’t take long — the First Friendship between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump imploded Thursday, with the two lobbing insults at each other, with Musk responding “yes” to a post calling to impeach Trump.

Billionaire Elon Musk continued his criticism Wednesday of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill, which the Senate is taking up this week after the House passed it before the Memorial Day holiday.

Federal immigration officials accelerated President Trump’s mass deportation plans in May, but the pace remains lower than what the president and some of his closest allies want.

Federal prosecutors charged Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman with a hate crime on Monday after he allegedly threw two lit Molotov cocktails at a march in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday that was aimed at raising awareness about the 58 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. He was also charged with 16 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.

Elon Musk said goodbye Friday to the White House and leading his federal cost-cutting initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In his parting message, the world’s richest man compared the group’s work to Buddhism, calling DOGE “a way of life” that will “permeate” the federal government.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday the U.S. will “aggressively revoke” Chinese students’ visas, focusing on those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or studying in “critical fields.”

A top researcher at Bank of America Global Research says that artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly entering a new era where it will be able to complete tasks better than humans can — and that will have a massive impact on the job market.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop recommending routine COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday in a video announcement.

A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. The Department of Homeland Security had announced the policy on Thursday.

The House narrowly passed President Trump’s massive tax and spending legislation package, called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” on Thursday with a 215–214 vote, fulfilling House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) goal of passing the legislation before the Memorial Day holiday.

President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had a heated exchange Wednesday in the Oval Office after Trump alleged there is a genocide taking place against white farmers in South Africa.

President Trump met with House Republicans on Tuesday to urge conservative holdouts to support his signature budget legislation that would deliver massive tax cuts while also adding more than $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. The debt currently sits at about $37 trillion.

Former President Joe Biden, 82, said he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer Friday that has already spread to his bones, his team announced Sunday.

Former FBI Director James Comey is under fire for a photo he posted on Instagram Thursday that showed seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “8647,” which many are interpreting as a call to eliminate (or assassinate) President Trump.