U.S. forces targeted two Iranian launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, a U.S. official confirmed. It’s the first U.S. strike on Iran in over a month. Iran retaliated by striking U.S. forces based in Jordan and U.S. military targets at the Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE.

It comes as The Washington Post reports that several U.S. military leaders — the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America — warned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that prolonging the war against Iran is unsustainable, as it weakens the U.S.’s ability to respond to threats. Meanwhile, Iranian leaders acknowledged foreign trade has shrunk by a third due to U.S. sanctions and blockade.

This is Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.

President Masoud Pezeshkian: “We do not seek war. That has been our message to the world until now. However, in the face of aggression, we will not stand by. We are capable of delivering a decisive response. Instability in this region would affect everyone and create serious problems. Instability is in no country’s interest.”

President Trump on Friday confirmed the United States has struck a deal with Venezuela to control more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. Trump said on Truth Social the agreement would more than double U.S. oil reserves and “substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans” amid the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. On Saturday, Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez hailed the deal as an economic revival for Venezuela.

President Delcy Rodríguez: “One thing must remain absolutely clear: Venezuela retains ownership and sovereignty over its resources, while utilizing capital, technology and operational capacity to support the recovery of a strategic industry that has been severely affected by sanctions.”

But many economists warn Venezuelans won’t actually see significant benefits from the agreement. The deal also sparked widespread condemnation of the U.S. takeover of Venezuela’s oil reserves after the abduction of former President Nicolás Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores in January. Senator Chris Van Hollen said, “This is proof Trump put our service members at risk to get Venezuelan oil for his billionaire buddies. Putting our soldiers’ lives on the line for private profit is a gross dereliction of his constitutional duty.”

In Nepal, more than 900 people have been confirmed dead after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a Himalayan river valley on the border with Tibet. The number of missing people has topped 4,700. Rescuers are now digging into roughly a dozen hydropower tunnels where more than 900 workers are trapped. Debris is blocking the entrances. Meanwhile, in Kathmandu, morgues are full as families are searching hospitals for their missing loved ones. Crews have buried hundreds of unidentified bodies in shallow graves. This is a farmer, who has four missing family members.

Marichman Taman: “Everyone is hoping to find relatives. The army camp is crowded, and we need to wait for some time. There is hope, but bodies may be lying in nearby fields or farmland. But their families, like us, are hopeful. I left my work in Kathmandu to come here and look for our missing relatives.”

After headlines, we’ll go to Kathmandu for the latest.

Back in the U.S., at least one person has been confirmed dead and 15 people are still missing at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona after a flash flood swept through the canyon Saturday. Over 60 people were evacuated from the park.

In immigration news, ICE plans to spend as much as $2 million to purchase “robot dogs” to aid in immigration enforcement operations. It follows the agency’s recent decision to purchase electric shock gloves for officers.

CBS News reports that in the span of 10 days the Trump administration deported more than 100 immigrants from the U.S. to at least eight countries in Africa they have no ties to — among them, Afghans who helped U.S. military members. The U.S. deportees have been sent to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and several other nations across Africa, as Trump expands secretive third-country agreements.

This comes as another federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to indefinitely detain immigrants without access to bond hearings. This was the eighth ruling rejecting the policy.

In more related news, the Board of Immigration Appeals has overturned a policy that allowed people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to travel outside of the United States and reenter the country with government permission. The policy is known as “advanced parole.” The Trump administration will now have the ability to penalize DACA recipients who leave the U.S. under advanced parole by denying them the right to apply for permanent U.S. residency for at least 10 years.

In the occupied West Bank, at least three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jenin Friday. This was the first Israeli airstrike on the West Bank in months as Israel escalates military raids. The Palestine Red Crescent said Israeli soldiers briefly detained medics and blocked their access to the site of the strike.

In more news from the West Bank, masked Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian woman and three members of an NBC News team reporting on the ground Saturday. The news crew was interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the town of Jalud, near Nablus, when they were attacked. Abdullah and her family had been violently forced from their home by Israeli settlers.

In Gaza, an Israeli strike killed two Palestinians, including a 3-year-old ​boy identified as Tayyem Hamdan, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Since last October’s so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed over 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza. This comes as Haaretz reports that armed Palestinian militias have become an operational arm of the Israeli army and the counterintelligence agency Shin Bet inside Gaza. An Israeli Air Force officer who spoke with Haaretz said, “You see the State of Israel, the IDF and Shin Bet sending armed, trained militias to commit war crimes, and I’m the one who has to protect them during their operations so they don’t get hurt.”

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration has violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israel. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise wrote, “In the United States, free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength. That strength is diminished when members of our society — citizens and noncitizens alike — must self-censor and 'behave' or suffer the government’s retaliation.” The lawsuit was filed by the student newspaper The Stanford Daily, which claimed that some of its writers on student visas declined to cover pro-Palestinian protests or report on topics related to Israel, and requested their articles on such topics to be removed, fearing deportation.

In Ukraine, a Russian attack on a weapons depot on Friday night triggered enormous explosions and fires that engulfed dozens of homes and buildings, killing 38 people. It’s Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year. On Saturday, Russian strikes on Kyiv killed a 2-year-old girl and injured 12 others. On Sunday, Russian troops dropped bombs on private houses, killing two people, including a 13-year-old. In Russia, Ukraine hit a commercial facility on Sunday, killing two people. Another person was killed in a Ukrainian attack in the Russian-controlled part of the Luhansk ​region ⁠in ​eastern Ukraine.

President Trump ⁠on Sunday threatened to report NBC’s Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for her comments on Trump’s endorsement of GOP candidates. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Welker, who is the longtime host of “Meet the Press,” should face “rebuke or punishment” from the FCC for saying Trump’s political endorsements have yielded “mixed results” in recent primary elections ahead of midterms in November. Trump lashed out: “How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?” He went on to accuse what he described as the “radical left news” of harassment and libel. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has often sided with Trump in his attacks against the press and free speech.

Here in New York, protesters gathered outside Madison Square Garden to rally against a visit from Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of the RSS, a far-right paramilitary organization closely linked to India’s ruling BJP party. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member of the group, and Bhagwat’s rally in New York marks the beginning of a global speaking tour for the 100th anniversary of the RSS. Democracy Now! spoke to Sonny Singh, a Sikh activist at the rally.

Sonny Singh: “The RSS has state power in India right now, which is not only a threat to people in my community as the Indian government targets us for assassinations in parts of the diaspora in the U.S. and Canada, but also to our Muslim brothers and sisters, our Christian brothers and sisters, other religious minorities and Dalit and Bahujan people. So I stand in solidarity with all those communities. I’m also here to stand up for my own community.”

In Washington, D.C., 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, thousands assembled on Friday to warn against the attacks on voting rights. It comes as the Supreme Court this year significantly weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, making it harder for plaintiffs to challenge discriminatory voting maps. Friday’s event drew union members, students, members of Black fraternities and sororities, and activists from all across the country. Speakers included Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter Yolanda Renee King and his son Martin Luther King III, as well as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “So, let’s be clear about the country that we are fighting for: We the people demand full, protected and restored voting rights in the United States of America.”