President Donald Trump has beenweighing a range of options against Iranamid the country's crackdown on protesters that human rights groups say has killed more than 500 people.
Trump has said publicly that he may take action if Iranian leaders killed protesters challenging Iran's theocracy, as demonstrations entered their second week despitean increasingly aggressive crackdown.
The president has been presented with preliminary plans, according to three U.S. officials, ranging from possible strikes to other options that would not entail military action. No final decision has been made, the officials said.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said Sunday that at least 538 people have been killed. The Norway-based group Iran Human Rights also cited unverified reports that several hundred people may have been killed.
Iran warned Trump that Israeli and U.S. military bases in the region could be considered "legitimate targets" if a strike goes ahead.
How ICE raids in Minnesota connect to a years-old fraud scandal
The Trump administration has surged immigration agents into Minnesota in what it has called the largest DHS operation ever. While the administration often frames its deportation operations as efforts to keep Americans safe,it has added another angle to its campaign in the North Star State: eradicating fraud.
Under the Biden administration, federal prosecutors uncovered an enormous scheme to defraud a pandemic meals program in Minnesota's Somali community, leading to multiple convictions.
In recent weeks, however, conservative commentators elevated the years-old scandal, suggesting that fraud was a reason to target immigrants in the Minneapolis area. As the story took hold, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted that agents were "on the ground" in response, with more than 2,000 agents and officers descending on the Twin Cities.
The ensuing tensions resulted inan ICE officer fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mom.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the federal government shouldallow state agencies to help investigate the shooting.
Frey told moderator Kristen Welker he didn't have preconceived notions about what conclusion an investigation would reach, but said "there is deep mistrust" of federal agencies in Minnesota because "so many of the things that we are hearing are not true."
One such narrative Frey is disputing wasdiscussed by border czar Tom Homanearlier in the program.
When asked about Noem's allegation that Good was engaged in "domestic terrorism," Homan said "if you look up this definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within that definition."
Frey pointed to multiple publicly available videos of the shooting, including a cellphone video taken by the officer who shot Good.
"You don't need to take my word for it. You don't need to take their word for it. Watch the video," Frey said.
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There are parents that stand at four points around the schools with ICE whistles. I took my children to the pediatrician, and my pediatrician was handing out ICE whistles to families.
Ginya, 41, Minnesota resident who lives a few houses away from where Good was killed
Minneapolis residents say the killing of Renee Nicole Good sent shock waves through a cityalready shaped by repeated confrontations with police violence.For some, the fatal shooting reopened deep wounds from the police murder of George Floyd, which occurred just blocks away in 2020. And in more recent months, residents said, heightened immigration enforcement has altered daily life in the city.
'Meet the Press'
Sen. Chris Murphy said in aninterview on NBC News' "Meet the Press"that if the U.S. annexed Greenland, "it would be the end of NATO."
The Connecticut Democrat's comments came in response to a question about whether the move floated by the Trump administration would effectively end the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive alliance created in the years after World War II.
"NATO would have an obligation to defend Greenland, and so query whether we would be at war with Europe, with England, with France," Murphy said.
Greenland is a territory of Denmark, a NATO member. Article 5 of the NATO Charter stipulates that an attack on one NATO member should be considered an attack on all NATO members. Article 5 has only been invoked once, in support of the U.S. following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Politics in brief
Retaliatory strikes: The U.S. carried out what it called "large-scale strikes" against ISIS in Syria, the latest retaliatory attack after an ambush last month killed two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter.
Oil or democracy? Trump administration officials have competing priorities about what's next for Venezuela, leaving its future unclear.
Golden Globes kick off awards season
Nikki Glaser is back to kick off the 2026 awards seasonwith the Golden Globes.
All eyes will be on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another," HBO's "The White Lotus" and Timothée Chalamet, who could position himself as an Oscar front-runner for his role in "Marty Supreme."
NBC News is capturing it all live, from the red carpet to the show.
The Bears saved their best comeback of the season for the playoffs
All season long, the Chicago Bears found ways to win close games, often engineered by quarterback Caleb Williams and his game-winning drives.
All that experience paid off.
The Bearswon their first playoff game in 15 seasons, coming from behind to defeat the Green Bay Packers 31-27 in the biggest postseason comeback in franchise history after trailing 21-3 at halftime.
Rams 34, Panthers 31: Matthew Stafford threw a 19-yard go-ahead touchdown pass with 38 seconds remaining to lift Los Angeles to a dramatic win over Carolina.
Bills 27, Jaguars 24: Buffalo knocked off Jacksonville in a back-and-forth bout thanks to Josh Allen leading a nine-play, 66-yard drive in the game's final minutes.
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member, dies at 78
Bob Weir,a founding member of the Grateful Deadwhose rhythm guitar work, songwriting and tireless touring helped push traditional American blues and folk music into the modern era, died, according to a statement posted Saturday to his official website. He was 78.
The statement said Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July, beat it, but "succumbed to underlying lung issues."
Weir was one of music's true road warriors, performing thousands of shows with almost a dozen bands. And though he often stood figuratively (and sometimes literally) in Jerry Garcia's shadow, Weir eventually assumed the status of elder statesman of the "jam band" music genre that spun off from the Dead.
In case you missed it
Figure skater Maxim Naumov, who lost his parents in last year's plane crash at Reagan National, qualified for the Olympics.
Two men were killed in an avalanche in central Washington while snowmobiling, according to the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office.
Authorities in New Mexico issued an arrest warrant for director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield after he was accused of child sex abuse.
The families of the four University of Idaho students murdered in 2022 have sued the university where confessed killer Bryan Kohberger was a graduate student at the time.
A Chicago man was arrested in connection with the killing of his ex-wife and her husband, an Ohio dentist, in the couple's home last month.
