“Trump has now praised Israel’s strike, affirmed US material support, and Israeli media is reporting his public opposition was a disinformation campaign to mislead Iran,” said Saagar Enjeti, rightwing co-host of the podcast Breaking Points. “So in other words Trump, not Israel, has made a mockery of all of us [who] wanted to avoid this war.”

When President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday, the Israeli leader told Trump that it was the last day of his 60-day timeline for Iran to make a deal. Israel could wait no longer, Netanyahu said,

President Trump is trapped between the “America First” isolationists and others in his party who are cheering on Israel’s strikes against Iran.

Israel's bombing of Iranian targets ignites political clash as Democrats, Republicans, and media figures debate Netanyahu's actions and Trump's Middle East influence

Israel said fewer than 100 rockets had been fired from Iran. Israel's Channel 12 said two people were critically injured, eight moderately and 34 slightly from shrapnel.. The U.S. military has helped shoot down Iranian missiles headed for Israel,

No matter how the fighting unfolds, it promises to increase prices at the gasoline pump just as voters' natural gas and electricity bills are already set to rise.

Sen. Lindsey Graham urged President Donald Trump to go "all-in" for Israel in its conflict with Iran, while other lawmakers prefer a diplomatic end to the conflict to prevent further escalation.

Israel targeted Iran’s nuclear sites in an attack escalating the conflict between the two countries. An appeals court allows Trump’s authority over National Guard troops in L.A. to remain for now. And the sole survivor in an India plane crash that killed everyone else on board isn’t sure how he escaped,