Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with the Pentagon press corps on Thursday during a briefing on the U.S. attacks in Iran. Hegseth expressed his discontent with media coverage of last week's strikes on Iranian nuclear sites following the leak of one Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) preliminary report that said the strikes may have only set the Iranian nuclear program back months.

In a stunning upset, 33-year-old Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won Tuesday’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary in a dominant way. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran a weak campaign as he believed he would coast to victory, had to concede just an hour and a half after polls closed.

The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding — at least for now. After the deal was announced Monday, it appeared to be on the verge of collapse with Israel launching a heavy bombardment of Tehran and Iran responded by firing missiles at Israel, killing several civilians.

Iran responded to the US attack on its nuclear sites by firing 14 missiles at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar — the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East. President Trump confirmed that Tehran actually gave the U.S. advance notice of the strike, crediting it with preventing any casualties and causing “hardly any damage.”

Iran has a maximum of two weeks before the U.S. decides whether to join Israel’s campaign to destroy the country’s nuclear facilities, President Trump said Friday after meeting with his national security team.

President Trump said Wednesday afternoon that he has not yet made a decision on whether to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. “I have ideas as to what to do,” Trump said. Earlier in the day, he told reporters, “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I am going to do.”

President Trump is weighing the possibility of getting the U.S. involved in ongoing strikes between Israel and Iran, as the conflict stretches into its fifth consecutive day.

The man suspected of killing Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D), a former state House Speaker, and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning, was arrested late Sunday and charged with murder after a nearly two-day manhunt.

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.”