The U.S. House of Representatives voted to end the war on Iran for a third time, with seven House Republicans joining Democrats to back the resolution.

This comes as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has cost the Pentagon $38.1 billion from the outbreak of the war in February through August first. That’s an average of $246 million per day in five months. The CBO reports that the war could cost another $2 billion to $3 billion for each additional month of fighting. The CBO also warned that the war has used up as much as two-thirds of the U.S. missile-defense interceptors since June 2025. It would take at least five years to replace these interceptors. The CBO also expects the war to add half a percentage point to annual inflation by the first quarter of next year.

Meanwhile, a separate report by the Pentagon’s inspector general details how Iranian strikes have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at U.S. military bases across the Middle East, causing about $184 million worth of damage.

New photos obtained by CBS News reveal heavy damage of buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East from Iranian missile and drone attacks. The images were sent anonymously to CBS News by active service members. One deployed service member told CBS News: “This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public. We’re standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.”

Saudi Arabia says it destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca before ​it entered prohibited airspace. Houthi officials deny targeting Mecca. It comes as the Houthis claimed responsibility for using dozens of ballistic missiles and drones against a Saudi airbase in the south of the country on Monday. Air raid sirens were activated in six governorates including Jeddah on Tuesday. In addition to long range missiles and drones, there’s now growing evidence that the Houthis are using artificial intelligence to attack shipping traffic in the Red Sea. The Houthis declared a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia back in July, and captured the port city of Mokha last week, as well as islands near the Bab al-Mandab strait. The Houthis claim they are retaliating against Saudi airstrikes on Yemen. The UN warns of a humanitarian crisis with 100,000 Yemenis already displaced. This is a Yemeni woman who was forced to flee her home.

Khadija Kudaf: “We fled from the war and took nothing with us. We didn’t even bring the children’s clothes. We have no flour and no clothes for the children. We came to Aden and arrived today, after three days of walking, we made it today. The children are hungry. We have no food, it’s been three days, they are hungry.”

Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, accusing him of illegally starting and continuing the Iran war, defying Congress, and causing needless civilian casualties. The House will have to act on Massie’s proposal by tomorrow. This is Congressmember Massie.

Thomas Massie: “Wherefore, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth by such conduct has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution, if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law. Peter Bryan Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial. Removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”

The Trump administration acknowledged for the first time that the U.S. Space Force has deployed weapons in orbit. China warned against an “arms race” in space, with a foreign ministry spokesperson saying: “We urge the US side to stop expanding its military capabilities and preparing for war in outer space.” The Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov urged “that space must be free of any weapon.”

The Trump administration approved a $2.8 billion package selling 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. The sale includes 40,000 bombs, made up of 20,000 Mk84s and 20,000 BLU-117s. The sale is funded by foreign military financing, a program in which the U.S. gives Israel taxpayer money that Israel then spends on American-made weapons. Human rights groups and governments around the world have condemned Israel for dropping the 2,000-pound bombs in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza.

In Gaza, a building housing 100 people suddenly collapsed this morning, killing at least 20 people, including women and children. The building was reportedly unstable due to damage from Israeli strikes. Dozens more are trapped in the rubble as the death toll is expected to rise.

This comes as Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians, including two children and a Hamas armed commander on Tuesday, according to Palestinian health officials. This is the brother of a Palestinian man who was killed in an Israeli strike.

Ahmed Al-Batsh: “The killing, arrogance and brutality against children and innocent people are still ongoing. This enemy (referring to Israel), which has no regard for humanity, international conscience, children or women, continues killing. We are here appealing to the entire world, we appeal to the United States, the sponsor (of the Gaza deal), and we appeal to the mediators. We hold them responsible for what is happening to the Palestinian people.”

Meanwhile the UN is sounding the alarm about possible war crimes committed by Israel, as hundreds of bodies have been recovered from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza. According to the UN, the remains of entire families, many of them children, are being unearthed from sites. This is the head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Palestine.

Ajith Sunghay: “It is estimated that at least 8,000 bodies remain buried under the rubble across the Gaza Strip. Palestinian civil defence teams have recovered over 800 bodies since the announcement of a ceasefire in October 2025, despite severe shortages of equipment, fuel, and personnel. At this pace, completing the recovery of the remaining bodies will take at least 10 more years, even longer when accounting for the time needed to identify bodies, if ever possible.”

Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser and far-right strategist Steve Bannon shared the stage at a conference called the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, denouncing tech oligarchs and calling for AI regulations. This is Senator Sanders.

Bernie Sanders: “Despite living in a so-called democracy, the public has had virtually no input into the AI revolution that is transforming the world in which they live. Congress, under both Democratic and Republican control, have been asleep at the wheel, and we now have a president whose ignorance regarding this issue is truly embarrassing.”

In related news in New Jersey, clean-up is underway after some 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from a storage tank at the Equinix Data Center in Secaucus and flowed into a creek near the Hackensack River. This comes as activists continue to warn of the catastrophic environmental impacts of unregulated AI data centers nationwide.

Trump’s board of trustees for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Tuesday to immediately close the center, citing “dire” financial shortages and the need for renovations. The decision came just hours after a federal judge again blocked the board’s latest effort to inscribe President Trump’s name into the building’s marble edifice, without approval from Congress.
Just after the ruling, President Trump called into the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees meeting and yelled at Democratic Congressmember Joyce Beatty, who serves as a trustee. Beatty is an Ohio Democrat who has spearheaded the campaign to block efforts to memorialize Trump at the Kennedy Center. Trump reportedly referred to Beatty as “incompetent,” to which she responded, “You’re holding up the whole country.” An unnamed board member described Trump’s phone call as “effing crazy” to CNN.

Just a few days ago, the Trump-aligned board had claimed the Kennedy Center was on the brink of bankruptcy and “fiscal collapse.” And last month, Justice Department lawyers suggested the Trump administration could demolish the Kennedy Center, unless the government is allowed to follow through with its plans for the site.

A review by Bloomberg of President Trump’s financial disclosures finds that he made nearly 28,700 stock trades in 17 months, more than all of Congress combined. This comes despite President Trump’s backing of a House bill that would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks. The bill, sponsored by Republican congressmember Anna Paulina Luna, would exempt the President.

In a Senate hearing Tuesday, FBI director Kash Patel suggested he might be willing to send federal agents to polling places during the midterm elections. He made the admission during a contentious exchange with Vermont’s Democratic Senator Peter Welch.

Peter Welch: “I thought you weren’t going to be sending people to the polls,” Mr. Welch said.

Kash Patel: “When did you hear that? Just another lie.”

Peter Welch: “So you are sending F.B.I. agents to the polls?”

Kash Patel: “We have election crisis coordinators manned at all 56 field offices Election integrity is of paramount importance. This F.B.I. will not shy away from that effort.”

In Pennsylvania, health officials have reported a fourth Measles death. All four deaths have occurred just in the last month. 2026 is now on record as the deadliest year for measles in the U.S., since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Pennsylvania had not had a Measles-related death in at least 35 years. The deaths include an 18-year-old teen and a 40-year-old woman, both of whom were unvaccinated, as well as a 6-week-old baby and a newborn who died shortly after birth.

And singer songwriter Ed Sheeran is facing growing backlash after removing Grammy-winning musician Macklemore from his U.S. tour. Sheeran caved into demands to drop Macklemore after New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft organized a boycott among stadium owners over the rapper’s advocacy for Palestine. Kraft reportedly told Sheeran the tour would be canceled unless Macklemore was dropped.

Hours after Sheeran said he would not publicly speak up over Israel’s war on Gaza, four of his supporting musical acts announced they would be leaving the tour. Among them Finneas, the brother of pop star Billie Eilish, who said on Instagram “Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed…I stand with Palestine and its people.”

The Irish folk band Beoga, Sheeran’s backing band, and Irish musician Aaron Rowe, dropped out as well. Rowe said in a social media post “As Irish people, we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation…I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children.”