An estimated 8 million people took to the streets of cities across 50 U.S. states and more than a dozen countries around the world on Saturday in thousands of protests against President Trump under the banner “No Kings.” Organizers say it was the largest single day of protests in U.S. history. In St. Paul, Minnesota, around 200,000 protesters gathered at the state Capitol, just miles from where federal immigration agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January. After headlines, we’ll air speeches from the St. Paul rally and from the streets of New York, where dozens of rallies and marches were held across the five boroughs.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has entered its fifth week. President Trump told the Financial Times Sunday that he would prefer “to take the oil” and seize Iran’s oil export hub, Kharg Island. Shortly after his comments, the price of oil surged to $116 a barrel. Separately, President Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One and boasted about regime change in Iran.

President Donald Trump: “But we’ve had regime change, if you look, already, because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. They’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime, we’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before. It’s a whole different group of people.”

President Trump’s comments come as 3,500 U.S. troops began arriving in the region on Friday. The Washington Post reported Saturday night that the Pentagon was preparing for weeks of potential ground conflict in Iran. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump is considering a military operation to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran. This is Ebrahim Zolfaqari, the spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Ebrahim Zolfaqari: “In response to Trump’s recent threats of ground operations or occupation of any part of Iranian territory, which of course is nothing more than a wish, we announce that the warriors of Islam have been waiting for such actions for a long time to prove that aggression and occupation will not result in anything other than humiliating captivity and dismemberment and disappearance of the aggressors.”

CENTCOM says more than 300 U.S. troops have been wounded in the Iran war so far; 13 U.S. service members have died. According to a consortium of human rights groups in Iran, nearly 1,500 Iranian civilians, at least 217 children, have been killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes.

U.S. officials say Iran fired six ballistic missiles and 29 drones at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, wounding at least 15 U.S. service members on Friday. The Iranian strike also destroyed the U.S. military’s E-3 Sentry radar aircraft — the first time the $300 million plane has been lost in combat.

On Saturday, Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at southern Israel for the first time since the war began, targeting what the group called “sensitive Israeli military sites.”

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed air defense cooperation agreements with Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, after signing a similar deal with Saudi Arabia during his visit to the kingdom on Thursday. Ukraine has sent anti-drone experts to all three Gulf countries, as Iran has been targeting infrastructure in the region using drones similar to ones used by Russia. On Sunday, Zelensky also visited Jordan for security talks.

An Israeli strike targeted a marked press car in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing Ali Shoeib of Al-Manar TV, reporter Fatima Ftouni of Al Mayadeen TV, and her brother, freelance cameraman Mohamed Ftouni. Israel’s military said it had targeted Shoeib, accusing him of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative, without providing evidence; Israel made no mention of the two other journalists killed. Protesters gathered in Martyrs’ Square in Beirut on Saturday, holding photos of the journalists killed in the Israeli airstrike.

Omar Al-Rawas: “The important thing we all want to draw attention to is that the Israeli enemy, once they find anyone standing for rights and supporting the oppressed, tries to silence that voice. And the voice of the oppressed cannot be stopped, despite the enemy trying to overpower it or no matter how many killings they carry out.”

Lebanon’s information minister said the government would file a complaint with the U.N. Security Council over what he called Israel’s “deliberate and blatant war crime against the media.” Meanwhile, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said a peacekeeper was killed on Sunday when a projectile exploded at one of its positions in southern Lebanon; another peacekeeper was critically injured. On Saturday, the World Health Organization said nine paramedics were killed in five separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number of health workers killed by Israel in March to 51. The attacks come as Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to further expand the security buffer zone in southern Lebanon. The United Nations says that Israeli strikes and evacuation orders in Lebanon have displaced more than 370,000 children. More than 120 children have been ​killed and nearly 400 have been injured in Israeli attacks this month.

In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes on two checkpoints in Khan ⁠Younis killed ​at least six Palestinians, including a child, on Sunday, according to local health officials. The Israeli military has killed over 680 Palestinians in Gaza since a U.S.-brokered ​ceasefire with Hamas came into effect last October. This is the mother of Samer Al-Fasis, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Sunday.

Taghreed Al-Fasis: “This is the fourth martyr. I do not have any sons left. No sons are left. That’s enough. That’s enough. Enough. Enough. What is the fault of this woman? What is the fault of this child, this child, two-and-a-half years old and orphaned? There is a fetus in her womb who will enter the world without a father.”

Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday to celebrate Mass, due to Israel’s ban on gatherings at religious sites during the Iran war. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Iranian missiles had repeatedly targeted Jerusalem’s holy sites, with missile fragments landing near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Latin Patriarchate said it was the first time in centuries that the heads of the church were prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the site, calling the incident a “grave precedent.” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called it a “violation of religious freedom.” Following the backlash, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the Latin patriarch would receive “full and immediate access” to the church.

Pope Leo has reprimanded U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for using Christian Scripture to justify waging war and slaughtering people. During a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said God refuses the prayers of leaders who have “hands full of blood.”

Meanwhile, leaders of the Democratic Women’s Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus have condemned Hegseth for personally intervening to block the promotion of four Army officers to become one-star generals. Two of the four officers denied promotions are Black, and two are women; the remaining officers on track for promotions are overwhelmingly white men.

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with plotting to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian-American activist in Brooklyn. Alexander Heifler is accused of assembling Molotov cocktails and planning an arson attack against Nerdeen Kiswani, the co-founder of Within Our Lifetime. Kiswani has led protests in support of Palestinians and against Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Investigators say Heifler is a member of the Jewish Defense League, a pro-Israel group designated as a terrorist group by the FBI. He allegedly planned to flee to Israel after launching an attack. We’ll speak to Nerdeen Kiswani later in the broadcast.

President Trump on Sunday bragged to reporters that his planned White House ballroom was “ahead ​of schedule and under budget.” He also described the ballroom ​as a “shed” for ​a “massive” military ⁠complex being built underneath. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued the Trump administration, alleging that the ballroom construction ignored required reviews and public ​input.

Bank of America has agreed to pay more than $72 million to settle a federal lawsuit brought by hundreds of survivors of rape and sexual abuse by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Survivors filed the lawsuit last October, alleging Bank of America overlooked clear signs that Epstein was using a pair of bank accounts to carry out crimes. The suit claimed Bank of America had “a plethora of information regarding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation but chose profit over protecting the victims.” It’s the third settlement of its kind, after Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase paid out a combined $365 million to settle lawsuits brought by Epstein survivors.

The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is now the longest shutdown of any federal agency in U.S. history. On Friday, a record number of TSA employees called out of work. Since the shutdown began, more than 500 TSA officers have quit. Last week, the House passed its own short-term bill to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security, after the Senate passed a bill excluding funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The House bill now heads to the Senate, which is currently in a two-week recess.

Here in New York, Senator Bernie Sanders rallied support Sunday for a proposed income tax increase on New Yorkers earning over a million dollars a year. The tax would impose a 2% increase on New York City’s wealthiest residents, helping to close a looming budget deficit, as New York City Mayor Mamdani seeks to establish universal free early child care, free bus rides and more affordable housing. This is Senator Sanders speaking at a rally at Lehman College.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “The people of this city, the people of this state, the people of this country do not want to see our kids go hungry, do not want to see people sleep out on the street, lack healthcare. They want the very rich to start paying their fair share of taxes.”