Officials in Iran say at least 11 people are dead, and dozens more wounded, after the U.S. launched a wave of attacks across southern Iran. Among the alleged victims are five people killed when a U.S. bomb fell on a house during a wedding celebration in the southern county of Sirik. One child was among the dead. Footage published by the Iranian Red Crescent Society appears to show several other children being treated for injuries. Hours later, Iran said that it launched missiles on an American military base in Jordan and U.S. military equipment warehouses in Iraq. Kuwait says an Iranian drone attack caused a fire in a residential complex in the capital. The strikes come just days after U.S. and Iran exchanged fire for the first time in a month. In a social media post, President Trump claimed that the strikes were in retaliation for Iran laying sea mines near the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: “If the enemy intends to prevent us from exporting oil from the Persian Gulf, know that no one will export oil from the Persian Gulf. This has been and will be our decision, and they will certainly pay the price for this military blockade they have implemented. And the Americans, in particular, will feel this with all their being.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged continued support for Iran in its war with the United States, urging Russian cooperation in countering U.S. sanctions. Putin’s pledge came during a joint appearance with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Kyrgyzstan. Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in February, Russia has provided Iran with military hardware including drone components, as well as intelligence, including on U.S. assets in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, European officials are blasting the Trump administration for inviting Russia’s finance minister to North Carolina for a summit of central bankers from the Group of 20 nations. It was the first time a Russian official participated in a G20 meeting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over four years ago, and came after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to impose secondary sanctions against Iran’s trading partners.

In Germany, officials said Tuesday that Russia was behind an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport last month, and announced a set of responses including summoning Moscow’s ambassador in Berlin and shuttering a Russian consulate. On August 4, a drone loaded with military-grade explosives was discovered beside a Ukrainian cargo plane at the airport, a facility that also handles European and NATO military flights. Footage from security cameras seemed to show the device hitting the aircraft’s wing and then dropping to the ground without detonating. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Germany planted evidence in order to frame Russia for the drone attack. This is Germany’s interior minister.

Alexander Dobrindt: “We assume that Germany is the target of further hybrid attacks by Russia. It must also be assumed that there is a willingness to cause even greater damage through hybrid attacks.”

In the occupied West Bank, the World Food Programme said Tuesday it will slash its food assistance by half this month, from 400,000 recipients to 200,000, due to serious funding shortages. This is Shaun Hughes, the director for Palestine at the World Food Programme.

Shaun Hughes: “In my recent visits to the West Bank, I have witnessed families, once thriving and earning a living off their land, now forced from their homes, their livelihoods destroyed. They now find themselves in a chokehold, unable to move freely to access land or jobs, and so unable to afford food for their families. They face incredible injustice and hardship.”

The WFP has also been forced to cut humanitarian aid to Gaza, where the agency supports 1.5 million people, including 1 million Palestinians who receive monthly food assistance.

An Israeli court has brought criminal charges against a dozen guards accused of beating nine Palestinian prisoners, one of whom died from the assault. According to the indictment, the 12 guards entered a cell during an evening head count in November 2023, where they punched, kicked and beat prisoners with clubs. The assault left Thaer Abu Asab dead, with severe injuries to his heart and respiratory system. In March, Israel’s military dropped charges against five soldiers accused of assaulting and gang-raping a Palestinian man held at the Sde Teiman prison in 2024. According to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, more than 100 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli custody since October 2023. Meanwhile, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has deleted a campaign video he posted to a social media account, following backlash. The AI-generated animation depicts Ben-Gvir denying food to Palestinian prisoners and forcing them along a conveyor belt into what appears to be a concentration camp.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the death toll from an Ebola outbreak has topped 3,000, out of 6,100 reported cases. The World Health Organization warns the outbreak is now on track to exceed the deadliest on record, when a regional outbreak in West Africa that began in 2014 killed 11,000 people. Healthcare workers are racing to vaccinate people against the latest strain of the Ebola virus.

Salatiel Wayele: “Our experience in Bunia showed that those who died from Ebola were largely people who had not been vaccinated. Among those who contracted the disease but recovered, the majority had received the Ervebo vaccine. Based on that experience, we believe the Ervebo vaccine can also protect against other variants because it provides cross-immunity.”

An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting system is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. This follows President Trump’s executive order in March directing his administration to create federal lists of citizens and to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to people not on those lists. In a complaint shared with the office of Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, the whistleblower warns that problems with the new U.S. Federal Ballot Mail Portal could lead to eligible absentee voters not receiving their mail-in ballots in time for November’s election — or at all. The whistleblower also warns of a “zero-percent failure policy” that would see even a single mismatched ballot cause an entire batch of up to tens of thousands of ballots to be rejected, until the discrepancy is resolved. The whistleblower’s complaint reads in part, ”USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation — raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug.” Meanwhile, in a party-line vote, all three Republican commissioners against two Democrats in Tarrant County, Texas, have voted to slash the number of polling sites in November’s midterm elections by nearly a third, leaving 1.3 million voters with just 224 polling sites. Civil rights groups including the ACLU and NAACP warn the changes will disproportionately affect voters of color in Texas’s third-largest county, with majority-minority areas of Arlington and Fort Worth targeted.

Federal immigration agents arrested roughly 50,000 people in August, matching July’s record-setting pace. That’s according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official who spoke with NBC News. In Washington state, family members are calling on ICE to release 76-year-old Loreto Javar. He’s been held in ICE detention since June, even though he’s a documented permanent resident and is battling stage 4 prostate cancer. Javar emigrated from the Philippines in 1995 and has lived in the U.S. with his wife and daughter ever since. He has no criminal record and was detained during his U.S. citizenship interview.

In Springfield, Ohio, family members say 20-year-old Haitian immigrant Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide after the Trump administration canceled protections for Haitian refugees and outfitted him with an ankle monitor. Bel was struck by a tractor-trailer Monday morning on Interstate 70 after he reportedly parked on the shoulder and stepped into oncoming traffic. Bel had just begun his freshman year at Wright State University, where he was recruited to play soccer. He had hoped to study neuroscience on his way to becoming a neurosurgeon. Pierre Damas Bel had a pending asylum claim, with his next hearing in asylum court scheduled for October. His death came after he expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at being forced by ICE to wear a GPS ankle monitor.

A federal judge denied the Trump administration’s attempt to block DACA recipient and Filipino activist Ya’akub Vijandre from seeking release from ICE custody. He’s been held at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia. Federal immigration agents arrested Vijandre last October at gunpoint at his home in Texas. His lawyers claim he was arrested because of his photojournalism and social media posts critical of the Israeli genocide in Palestine and the U.S. government’s treatment of prisoners of the so-called war on terror.

In Mississippi, the police chief of Senatobia was fired Tuesday, days after news reports revealed he routinely used racist language against Black people in his text messages. In one text message, Chief Harold Vanderford said he was having a “racist moment.” In another text, he wrote that he almost “beat a man,” using a racist slur to describe a Black person. Vanderford had submitted his resignation, but the city’s Board of Aldermen voted to reject it and moved to terminate him instead. Vanderford’s police department came under increased scrutiny after a Senatobia police officer fatally shot 1-year-old Black toddler Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot while responding to an alleged shoplifting call in June.

On Capitol Hill, the House censured Republican Congressmember Chuck Edwards after a bipartisan panel concluded there was substantial reason to believe he violated the chamber’s sexual harassment rules. Edwards announced that he would not seek reelection last month after a House report found that he should be penalized for “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female staffers.” According to the Ethics Committee’s report, Edwards had made repeated comments about the women’s appearance, invited them to intimate dinners and vacations, wrote them notes expressing his affections, and gave them gifts.

In Massachusetts, incumbent progressive Democratic Senator Ed Markey won his Senate primary on Tuesday, fending off a challenge from Congressmember Seth Moulton, who argued that Markey was too old to do his job. At 80 years old, Markey is the oldest Senate Democrat running for reelection. This is part of Senator Markey’s victory speech last night.

Sen. Ed Markey: “We need to build more than just a Democratic majority in Congress. We need to cement a progressive Democratic majority, one that will use its political capital to take on the bosses, the billionaires and the wannabe kings.”