President Donald Trump threatened to commit genocide in Iran, ahead of warnings of a wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure on Tuesday night. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. This followed a drumbeat of similar threats of wanton and criminal destruction. "The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night," he said on Monday, having recently warned he would bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages." "President Trump has repeatedly threatened war crimes in Iran and now he is expressing genocidal intent," said Sarah Harrison, an associate general counsel at the Pentagon's Office of General Counsel, International Affairs during Trump's first term. "Every single lawmaker and national security leader needs to stand against this and make clear to the U.S. military that these are unlawful orders and if carried out they will someday face criminal prosecution."...

President Donald Trump's threat against Iran marks a grave political and moral decline. Speaking about a possible expansion of the bombing campaign, he said that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." That sentence does not sound like the language of a president discussing military objectives. It presents the possible result of American action as the destruction of a civilization. Once a president speaks in those terms, accusations of genocidal threat cease to be fanciful or polemical. He has introduced them himself. The legal point should be stated with care. A court would probably not treat this single statement as dispositive proof of genocidal mens rea. The Genocide Convention sets a high threshold. It requires specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group as such...

His threats are overheated and politically unhelpful, but his domestic opponents are skewing the facts in response. Andy McCarthy said it best: The president's "disgraceful rhetoric" around this war is condemnable. His public statements have been anything but reassuring to the majority of Americans who are apprehensive about the course the war has taken. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," the president wrote, by way of example, Tuesday morning. On the domestic front, remarks like these only make the president's life (as well as that of his fellow Republicans) more difficult. And yet, at the risk of lapsing into a tendency to which Trump's biggest fans are prone by grafting logic onto what ...

Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday shot a gang member who tried to run them down with his car as they moved to arrest him, officials said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot a man in California on Tuesday, after he allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and tried to run over an officer, according to the acting director of ICE.