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 Abir Sultan/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Israeli military's chief of staff Herzi Halevi told troops on Monday that Israel "will respond" to Iran's drone and missile attack as the threat of open warfare between the countries looms.
The announcement comes as Israel's war cabinet convened for a second day to deliberate a retaliation strategy in response to a spate of attacks on Saturday evening, when Iran launched over 300 missiles and drones at Israel. The attack was largely thwarted, according to Israeli forces, who intercepted the strikes with help from the United States, Jordan, the U.K., and France.
Tehran's attack—conducted as punishment for the assassination of a top Iranian commander killed in a strike on a Syrian embassy in recent days—injured a child, but otherwise caused moderate damage.
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The UK is reported to have held talks with other countries to replicate the scheme if it is successful.
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 Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images, Gary Miller/Getty ImagesOn the latest episode of his Club Random podcast, host Bill Maher mildly scandalized his guest, Katie Couric, when he insisted that Donald Trump "killed it" during his CNN town hall last year.
"He's not a stand-up comedian!" Couric retorted after Maher discussed how "the audience loved it" and heavily applauded the former president.
"What?" Maher said.
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After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane.
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 CNNCNN's Jake Tapper was met with an impersonation of an Irish woman when he brought on a former lawyer for Donald Trump to discuss the process of selecting jurors in front of a judge.
William Brennan, an attorney who represented Trump during the 2022 Trump Organization trial, spoke to Tapper on Monday about his experience evaluating potential jurors in the case. That experience apparently included an introduction to a 40-something Irish woman who had strong opinions about the twice-impeached former president.
"She spoke with a brogue, she worked in an Irish Pub," Brennan said. He said he asked her whether feelings toward Trump were positive or negative. "‘Oh, I despise that man,'" Brennan said through an impersonation of the woman.
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 Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThe Supreme Court's conservative majority allowed Idaho to enforce a law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender kids and teens while the law is contested through litigation.
The court granted Idaho state officials an emergency request on Monday, despite the objection of its three liberal justices. The order makes an exception for the two teenagers who brought the suit, who may still receive care. For everyone else, gender-affirming treatment is banned.
The controversial 2023 law could land Idaho doctors in up to 10 years in prison if they provide treatments such as puberty blockers, hormonal treatments or other kinds of care to trans minors.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe jurors haven't even been selected yet. The trial really hasn't even started. But as Donald Trump's first day in criminal court wrapped up on Monday, the former president already seemed to be losing.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan displayed little patience for, as he insisted on calling him, "Mr. Trump." That the judge is already over the former president's antics is abundantly clear. And as Trump's lawyers repeatedly tried to push the bounds of the trial's restrictions, it became increasingly evident that the judge isn't going to extend the former president the latitude he seeks—and is accustomed to expecting—for a trial that could extend past two months.
No, Trump can't skip court to attend his historic showdown at the Supreme Court next week.
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 Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesThe remains of a fourth person killed in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland last month were recovered on Monday, according to authorities.
The body was found trapped inside a missing construction vehicle, the unified command group in charge of recovery said. The victim was transported to the medical examiner's office and identified, but their name was not immediately released at the request of the family.
Of the eight construction workers sent into the Patapsco River in the early hours of March 26 when the cargo ship Dali slammed into the bridge as they worked to repair potholes, six were killed. Recovery crews pulled two bodies out of the river a day after the collapse, and a third body was found on April 5. They were identified as Maynor Suazo Sandoval, 38; Dorlian Castillo Cabrera, 26; and Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35.
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Rishi Sunak makes statement on Iran while a number of guests shun the annual reception at No 10.
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The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel's bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack caused little damage inside Israel, as it intercepted nearly all of the drones and missiles with help from the United States, Britain, France and Jordan. Iran's government described the attack as a defensive maneuver after Israel's unprovoked strike on its embassy killed some of Iran's top military brass. This was "a performative operation to send a message," says journalist Reza Sayah, who joins us from Tehran. But while Iran "does not want to escalate matters," Israel may be preparing to do just that. Washington, D.C.-based analyst Trita Parsi says that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has been trying to instigate conflict between the U.S. and Iran for "more than two decades," and given that Biden has demonstrated an unwillingness to "draw any red lines for Israel publicly," these latest provocations could become a prime "opportunity" for such a war. Crucially, Iranian restraint "cannot last forever," warns our final roundtable guest, the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, who touches on both Iran's own sovereignty and increasing global pressure for Israel to end its war on Gaza. "Gaza is still starving and bleeding, and we shouldn't forget it," says Levy.
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 Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty ImagesThe Trump campaign furiously denied suggestions that he had fallen asleep during the first day of his historic criminal trial—calling the suggestion "fake news" while claiming falsely that the reporters who noted his sleepy courtroom demeanor weren't even in the same room when it happened.
"This is 100% Fake News coming from ‘journalists' who weren't even in the court room," the Trump campaign said in a statement Monday shortly after proceedings concluded.
The New York Times first reported that the former president, 77, seemed equal parts "irritated and exhausted" by Monday's proceedings, with veteran Trumpworld reporter Maggie Haberman writing that just before Judge Juan Merchan called a lunch break "Mr. Trump appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest."
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