US-Iran War Escalates, Congress To-Do List, UK Has A New Prime Minister

Three American service members have been killed in the Middle East since Friday, bringing the total U.S. military deaths in the Iran war to 17, with 430 wounded. The U.S. has bombed Iran for nine straight nights, and Iran says at least 3,000 Iranians have been killed and nearly 27,000 wounded since the war began on February 28. This is the grim backdrop for a packed week in Washington, where House Republicans have one week before the August recess and a to-do list that includes more defense funding, a stock trading ban for lawmakers, and election integrity legislation — but nothing directly addressing the rising cost of living that voters say matters most. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has a new prime minister: Andy Burnham, who replaces Keir Starmer after Starmer was pushed out.

U.S.-Iran War: Escalation and New Casualties

The most recent U.S. death occurred during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan region of Iraq — "something seems to have gone wrong there," as NPR's Jane Arraf reported from Jordan. U.S. Central Command also said it found human remains at a base in Jordan that it is working to identify, possibly belonging to a service member reported missing in an earlier strike. Two other personnel were killed at the same base on Friday.