happening now, breaking news. united states conducts another retaliatory strike in the wake of that deadly attack on american forces in jordan. u.s. officials confirmed the operation successfully targeted and killed an iran-backed militia commander in baghdad. also breaking tonight, more chaos on capitol hill. the united states senate rejecting the bipartisan border bill despite months of negotiations. what the sudden failure can also mean for aid to ukraine and israel. plus, final preparations for tomorrow s unprecedented u.s. supreme court arguments on donald trump s colorado ballot ban. we have exclusive new reporting on the trump team s strategy just ahead of the historic hearing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. first up tonight, breaking news. the united states launching a targeted retaliatory strike against an iran backed militia commander blamed for a
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politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
was, as predicted by some, overshadowed by technical glitches. also new overnight, america s credit rating is at risk. a key rating agency now put the u.s. on watch. the one week to go until a possible default. and house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to send house members home for the weekend with no deal. meanwhile, u.s. intelligence is indicating that a ukrainian group may have been behind that recent drone attack on the kremlin. officials picking up chatter of ukrainians blaming one another. and anti-lgbtq campaign takes on corporate america again. target remove sometimes pride merchandise after some employees were threatened. and fans around the world are san. she was the queen of rock n roll, tina turner died at age 83. we re going to remember her life and her legacy on cnn this morning which starts right now. she was the queen. the queen. simply the best. we re going to honor her this morning. you re going hear a lot of tina turner this morning. get re
over the past three years, as chief of staff of the air force, general brown has become known for his signature approach, accelerate, change or lose. general, you re right on. as i often said, our world is at an inflection point where the decisions we make today will determine the course of our world for decades to come. to keep the american people safe, we have to adapt and act quickly. we have to manage our competition with china and meet the reality of renewed aggression in europe. we need to make sure we retain our competitive edge in an age where emerging technologies from ai to 3-d printing could fundamentally change the character of conflict. with general brown as chairman, i know i ll be able to rely on his advice and i ll also be able to have a leader who is unafraid to speak his mind. as someone who will deliver a message that needs to be hard and will always do the right thing when it s hard. that s the number one quality a president needs in a chairman. that s the