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Story by Meera Navlakha

President Donald Trump has inadvertently revealed why he launched his war against Iran, Jimmy Kimmel pointed out Monday night.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host had harsh words for the president’s “desperate” strikes in the Middle East, calling the new offensive a ploy for re-election.

Kimmel recalled Trump’s 2012 tweets, which have resurfaced in the wake of the weekend’s first strikes against Iran, in which he repeatedly accused then-President Barack Obama of wanting to start a war with the Islamic Republic “in order to get re-elected” and because he is “desperate.”
Story by Falyn Stempler

A damning new report found that evangelical Christian fundamentalism is underpinning U.S. military action in Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. and Israel launched a joint operation and struck Iran overnight, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among dozens of others across the region. The attack was launched amid Iranian nuclear negotiations and weeks of civil unrest in Iran due to economic turmoil. After the initial attack, Trump said "heavy and pinpoint bombing" would continue "uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!" while calling for regime change in the Islamic Republic.

The operation comes less than a year after Trump ordered strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025 during the 12-Day war between Iran and Israel, during which the president claimed to have obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities. It comes after a chilling map emerged revealing the 12 safest places to find refuge if WW3 erupts.
A judge ruled to preserve the toll, ending, for now, a dispute that has become emblematic of New York’s resistance to federal intervention in local affairs.
By Stefanos Chen and Winnie Hu

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the federal government’s attempt to end New York’s congestion pricing toll was illegal, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.

While other legal challenges remain, the 149-page decision by Judge Lewis J. Liman of Federal District Court in Manhattan ends, for now, a heated battle between Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has become a staunch defender of the program, and the White House, which has claimed, without offering evidence, that it would harm the region’s economy.

The ruling comes months after Judge Liman granted the toll program temporary protection from threats issued by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who had warned that the federal government would withhold approval and funding from a range of highway and transit projects in New York if congestion pricing was not canceled.
US county attorney is ‘confident’ her office will be able to pursue charges in cases which led to criticisms of use-of-force policies
Associated Press

A Minnesota state prosecutor announced an investigation on Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown.

The Hennepin county attorney, Mary Moriarty, said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one in which Bovino, a border patrol official, threw a smoke canister at protesters on 21 January.

Her office is also investigating federal agents’ shooting deaths of 37-year-old US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti on 7 and 24 January, respectively. And she is “confident” they will be able to pursue charges in the cases which led to nationwide demonstrations and criticisms of federal immigration enforcement use-of-force policies.

Another case on 7 January involved federal officers making an arrest outside a high school and deploying chemical irritants while students and staff were in the area.

“Make no mistake – we are not afraid of the legal fight, and we are committed to doing this correctly,” Moriarty said. The immigration enforcement operation known as “Metro Surge caused immeasurable harm to our community”.
The Trump administration cited widespread fraud in state social service programs. Minnesota officials said they were victims of “political punishment.”
By Mitch Smith

Minnesota officials sued the Trump administration on Monday over a decision to withhold more than $200 million in Medicaid funds from the state, which has seen widespread fraud in social service programs.

The lawsuit was the latest front in a wide-ranging legal clash between the state and the federal government, which have been at odds over immigration enforcement, election issues and how to respond to the fraud scandal. A recent deployment of thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota led to three shootings, thousands of arrests, and frequent clashes between agents and residents, all while state and federal officials accused their counterparts of illegal behavior.

In the new lawsuit, Minnesota officials asked a judge to restore most of the $259 million in funding that the Trump administration cut off last week. The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office, said that the federal government had “weaponized Medicaid against Minnesota as political punishment.” Vice President JD Vance said last week that he felt “quite confident that we have the authority to do this,” adding that the Trump administration had to “turn the screws on them a little bit so they take this fraud seriously.”
Story by Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN

The Trump administration’s stated justifications for going to war with Iran were already a jumbled and self-contradictory mess.

But on Tuesday, Trump made it even worse — laying waste to the administration’s confusing explanation from Monday.

Just a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that Iran posed an imminent threat — because it would respond to imminent attacks from Israel by striking US forces — Trump went with an entirely different explanation: that Iran was going to launch preemptive strikes against the US on its own.

“It was my opinion that they were going to attack first,” the president said.

And with that, the botched rollout of the Trump administration’s case for war enters yet another chapter.

Rubio had already turned plenty of heads with his claims on Monday.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio said. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”

This was problematic for a couple of reasons.

For one, it was different from the explanations for why Iran posed an imminent threat that had been offered in the days before the war began. Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff, who was leading negotiations with Tehran, initially claimed Iran was “probably a week away” from having nuclear bomb-making material. Then Trump in his State of the Union address last week claimed Iran would “soon” have the ability to strike the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
By Eric Levenson, Maxime Tamsett

Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter charges Tuesday in a case testing the limits of who is responsible for a mass shooting.

The jury deliberated for less than two hours before convicting him on all 27 charges: Two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct.

At the defense table, Colin Gray did not visibly react to the verdict. He was taken from the courtroom in handcuffs. He faces 10 to 30 years in prison on each murder charge and 1 to 10 years on each manslaughter charge.

Prosecutors accused Gray of buying his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present and allowing him access to that weapon and ammunition despite warnings that his son was a danger to others. Colt Gray, then 14, used that rifle to carry out a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, killing two teachers and two students and wounding nine others.
Story by Richard Luscombe

The US justice department abruptly reversed course on Tuesday and decided it would defend executive orders made by Donald Trump to try to penalize law firms that represented clients or causes the president did not like.

On Monday, the department announced in a court filing that it was dropping its appeal against a ruling by a district court judge that blocked Trump’s retaliatory executive actions against four companies that refused to make a deal with him.

Trump’s “capitulation” was celebrated by at least two of the the companies that welcomed the DoJ’s voluntary withdrawal from the legal proceedings.

On Tuesday, however, the government filed a new, single-paragraph request to the US court of appeals for the Columbia circuit, announcing it had changed its mind, and wished “to pursue this appeal”.

It gave no reason for its sudden about-face, and quoted attorneys for the four companies who unanimously opposed “the government’s unexplained request to withdraw yesterday’s voluntary dismissal, to which all parties had agreed”.

In a statement, Susman Godfrey, one of the four law firms that initially stood up to Trump, said: “Yesterday evening, the administration told the court that it gave up and wouldn’t even try to defend its unconstitutional executive orders. Today, it reversed course. Regardless, Susman Godfrey will defend itself and the rule of law – without equivocation.”
Trump is drawing backlash online over a video where he appears to be teasing an elderly veteran during a ceremony. Users have accused him of belittling the military service.
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