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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore fears the United States is “lurching again into another forever war” paid for by the American people — yet with no clear articulation from President Trump as to what success in the military operation against Iran looks like.

In an interview with CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe on Friday, Moore, a Democrat, likened the ongoing war with Iran to the war in Afghanistan, where the governor served as a member of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.

“I feel like we are lurching into another one of these forever wars that we’re asking the American people to pay for… but the president of the United States and the commander-in-chief has still yet to articulate what exactly it is that we’re doing,” he said.

Moore said that while Mr. Trump often touts the military success of Operation Epic Fury, the name given to the military campaign in Iran, he fails to acknowledge “the fact of the long road ahead.” The president, he continued, has not clearly addressed what the U.S. is doing in Iran or what success looks like.

The war in Afghanistan lasted roughly 20 years, while the U.S. operation against Iran is in its fifth week. U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News that an American F-15E fighter jet was downed over Iran on Friday, and one crew member has been rescued. The fighter jet is flown by a two-member crew and a search-and-rescue operation is ongoing, the sources said. U.S. officials told CBS News the plane was shot down by Iranian forces.

The downing of the jet comes after U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooker said Thursday that the military is “making undeniable progress” in Iran. Mr. Trump said during a primetime address to the nation Wednesday that the U.S. would complete its mission “very shortly,” and predicted Iran would be hit “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks.

Citing the destruction of Iran’s navy and its degraded ability to launch missiles and drones, the president said in his speech that the operation’s “strategic objectives are nearing completion.” The other objectives laid out by Mr. Trump and senior members of his administration include destroying Iran’s defense industrial base, preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and protecting allies in the Middle East, including Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to exercise hope against “the violence of war that kills and destroys,” saying “we need this song of hope today” as conflicts spread around the world.

With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in its second month and Russia’s ongoing campaign in Ukraine, Leo has repeatedly called for a halt in hostilities. In his Easter homily, the pope singled out those who wage war, abuse the weak and prioritize profits.

“The power with which Christ rose is entirely nonviolent,” said Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, referencing the resurrection that Christianity observes on the Easter holiday. “Brothers and sisters, this is the true strength that brings peace to humanity, because it fosters respectful relationships at every level: among individuals, families, social groups, and nations. It does not seek private interests, but the common good; it does not seek to impose its own plan, but to help design and carry out a plan together with others.”

Leo addressed the faithful from an open-air altar in St. Peter’s Square flanked with white roses, while the steps leading down to the piazza where the faithful gathered were filled with spring perennials, symbolically resonating with the pope’s message of hope.

The pontiff implored the faithful to keep their hope in the face of death, which lurks “in injustices, in partisan selfishness, in the oppression of the poor, in the lack of attention given to the most vulnerable.

“We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys,” he said.

He quoted his predecessor Pope Francis in warning against falling into indifference in the face of “persistent injustice, evil, indifference and cruelty,” because “it is also true that in the midst of darkness, something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit.”

He will later deliver the traditional “Urbi et Orbi” message — Latin for “to the city and the world.”

Traditional ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered by Christians as the traditional site of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, were scaled back under an agreement with Israeli police. Authorities have put limits on the sizes of public gatherings due to ongoing missile attacks.

The restrictions also dampened the recent Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr holiday, as well as the current weeklong Jewish festival of Passover. On Sunday, the Jewish priestly blessing at the Western Wall — normally attended by tens of thousands — was limited to just 50 people.

The restrictions have strained relations between Israeli authorities and Christian leaders. Police last week prevented two of the church’s top religious leaders, including Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from celebrating Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

On Tuesday, the pope had expressed hope that the war could be finished before Easter.

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the burial of a young Mexican man who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, with family members denouncing the “fabricated” charges that led to his detention and death.

Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old from the municipality of San Juan Chamula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, died on March 16 at a detention center in Florida.

After the family received his body on Thursday, his uncle, Manuel Perez, said Royer was a “hard worker” who immigrated at 15 to “triumph and help his family.”

He was arrested in January on suspicion of resisting arrest and giving a false identity to law enforcement, but Perez insists he was confused because he was not fluent in English.

“He was unjustly accused as a criminal. … They fabricated a crime,” Perez told AFP, while also expressing the family’s doubts about the circumstances of his death.

ICE officials said Royer died of an apparent suicide but the official cause of death remained under investigation.

“What we want is a thorough investigation because, unfortunately, we do not believe suicide was the cause of his death, rather we suspect it was probably a homicide,” Perez said.

According to ICE, Perez Jimenez was evaluated by medical staff when he arrived at the immigration detention center in late February and answered “no” to all suicide screening questions, CBS News Miami reported.

At least 14 migrants of various nationalities have died in ICE custody in 2026, according to officials, amid President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown. In 2025, 31 ICE detainees died, a two-decade high, according to a CBS News analysis of ICE records.

Fourteen Mexican nationals have died after contact with U.S. immigration authorities since Mr. Trump began his second term in January 2025.

The rising death toll comes as ICE’s detention population hit record highs amid Mr. Trump’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration. As of early February, ICE was holding more than 68,000 people in detention centers across the U.S., agency figures show.

But even after accounting for the number of people in detention each year, 2025 still had the highest death rate — 5.6 people per 10,000 detainees — since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a CBS News analysis found.

A shootout with police outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul left one gunman dead and two other assailants wounded on Tuesday, the region’s governor said, adding that two officers were also lightly wounded.

Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said on social media that authorities have identified the shooters. He said the “terrorists” arrived in Istanbul in a rented vehicle from the neighboring city of Izmit, and that one was affiliated with an “organization that exploits religion,” without naming the group. The interior ministry later said it was the dead gunman who “had connections with a terrorist group.”

Video shared by the Reuters news agency showed armed police taking cover amid the sound of gunfire.

The Israeli foreign ministry said on social media that it “strongly” condemned “the terrorist attack” on the consulate.

“We appreciate the Turkish security forces’ swift action in thwarting this attack,” it continued. “Israeli missions around the world have been subjected to countless threats and terrorist attacks. Terror will not deter us.”

There are currently no Israeli diplomats at any of Israel’s missions in Turkey, a source with knowledge of the situation told CBS News.

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash over Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks.

Festival organizers canceled the three-day outdoor event as a result of the travel ban and said those who had bought tickets would get refunds.

Ye had been granted an electronic travel authorization which has now been withdrawn on the grounds that his presence in the U.K. would not be “conducive to the public good,” CBS News partner network BBC News said, citing the Home Office.

“Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless,” U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on social media. “This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism. We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.”

The rapper, who changed his name in 2021, had been expected to play his first U.K. dates in more than a decade in front of around 150,000 revelers over three nights July 10-12 at the Wireless Festival, in London’s Finsbury Park. Other acts for the festival had not yet been announced.

The event’s organizers had been under mounting pressure from sponsors and politicians to cancel the gigs by the rapper, who has drawn widespread condemnation for making antisemitic remarks and voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler.

Last year, Ye released a song called “Heil Hitler” and advertised a swastika T-shirt for sale on his website. The song led Australian officials last year to block him from entering their country.

The 48-year-old apologized in January with a letter, published as a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal. He said his bipolar disorder led him to fall into “a four-month long, manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.”

Wireless sponsors Pepsi, Rockstar Energy and Diageo pulled out of the festival since Ye was announced as the headliner.

Starmer had called the booking “deeply concerning,” and Health Secretary Wes Streeting said Tuesday that Ye should “absolutely not” play at the festival.

In a statement issued Tuesday before his travel authorization was revoked, Ye said he “would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the Jewish community in the U.K. in person, to listen.

“I know words aren’t enough — I’ll have to show change through my actions,” he said. “If you’re open, I’m here.”

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the group would be willing to meet with the musician if he pulled out of the festival.

“The Jewish community will want to see a genuine remorse and change before believing that the appropriate place to test this sincerity is on the main stage at the Wireless Festival,” Rosenberg said.

Organizer Festival Republic had stood by Ye. In a statement issued Monday, managing director Melvin Benn urged people to offer the performer “forgiveness and hope.”

“We are not giving him a platform to extol opinion of whatever nature, only to perform the songs that are currently played on the radio stations in our country and the streaming platforms in our country and listened to and enjoyed by millions,” the statement said.

Announcing the cancellation, Festival Republic said that “multiple stakeholders were consulted in advance of booking Ye and no concerns were highlighted at the time.

“Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent, and we recognize the real and personal impact these issues have had,” it said in a statement. “As Ye said today, he acknowledges that words alone are not enough, and in spite of this still hopes to be given the opportunity to begin a conversation with the Jewish community in the U.K.”