For all of the tumult and disruption that's accompanied President Donald Trump's return to the White House, his base — his voters and supporters in the diverse right-wing media ecosystem — has been his rock. No matter how nasty and accurate the criticisms he faces, Trump's base continues to treat him as the powerful, popular president he envisions himself to be. If he says he's doing a great job, they're right there to agree. But that is getting much harder than it used to be...

Iran has named a son of its late supreme leader as his successor. U.S. President Donald Trump already had expressed disdain for Mojtaba Khamenei, calling him "unacceptable." The Islamic Republic's war strategy now has a new commander, and the powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has pledged allegiance. Oil prices shot above $100 a barrel. Both sides in the war struck new targets over the weekend, including civilian ones. Bahrain accused Iran of hitting one of the desalination plants that are crucial for drinking water in Gulf countries. Israel struck oil depots in Tehran, sending up thick smoke and causing environmental alerts...

The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies. The alert, reviewed by ABC News, cites "preliminary signals analysis" of a transmission "likely of Iranian origin" that was relayed across multiple countries shortly after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Feb. 28...

A US soldier died after sustaining injuries during an attack last week in Saudi Arabia, the military said, bringing the number of American troops killed in the Iran war to seven. The military on Monday identified the service member as Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky. Pennington, who was injured at Prince Sultan Air Base, was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, a unit within Army Space and Missile Defense Command...

The eldest son of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took a swipe at the former Democratic presidents who paid tribute to his father during a memorial service on Friday. "I listened for several hours to three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson," Jesse Jackson Jr., the late reverend's eldest son and a former congressman seeking to win back his seat in Congress in this fall's midterm elections, said on Saturday at Jackson's final memorial service at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's headquarters on the South Side of Chicago...

New data showed childhood obesity has hit a record high in recent years, while federal changes such as cuts to food assistance programs and a revamped food pyramid reignite debates over how to handle the issue. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report late last month showed more than 1 in 5 U.S. children and teenagers were obese between 2021 to 2023, compared to only 5.2 percent between 1971-1974. The number of children with severe obesity in recent years has hit 7 percent...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said the federal government is requiring approximately 13,000 non-domiciled commercial truck drivers statewide to have their licenses revoked, effective immediately. CBS News Sacramento first reported the news in November of last year, which the state said came following the discovery that the expiration dates on the licenses had passed the immigrant drivers' legally allotted time to stay in the U.S...

A few major airports across the country experienced long security lines for several hours on Sunday as unpaid staffers with the Transportation Security Administration called out of work amid the partial government shutdown. The shutdown has directly affected the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, including TSA, since Feb. 14...

The FBI is expanding its criminal probe into suspected election irregularities, secretly obtaining a large tranche of voting records from Arizona's largest county with a recent grand jury subpoena, multiple people familiar with the probe told Just the News. The sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury probe, said FBI agents are receiving gigabytes of electronic election data from Maricopa County, about a month after the bureau first disclosed an investigation into election irregularities by raiding a warehouse near Atlanta and seizing ballots from the 2020 election conducted in Fulton County, Georgia's largest metropolis...