President Trump brought up Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office on Thursday, as he explained why the U.S. didn't give allies like Japan a heads-up before striking Iran.

A Japanese reporter asked Mr. Trump why the U.S. didn't alert allies like Japan ahead of the Iran strikes, a decision that the reporter said "confused" the Japanese. The president, in his response, said his administration "didn't tell anyone" about the Feb. 28 military action in advance.

"Well one thing, you don't want to signal too much, you know?" Mr. Trump said. "When we go in, we went in very hard. And we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? OK? Right?"

"We had to surprise them, and we did," the...More

Intensifying violence in the Middle East could send oil prices careening above their all-time high, raising the risk of higher inflation and slower economic growth, experts said.

"The biggest hit will be the consumer," said Ryan Sweet, a chief global economist at Oxford Economics. "To kind of put it into context, every penny increase in gasoline prices reduces consumer spending by one and a half billion dollars over the course of a year."

Brent crude briefly topped $119 a barrel on Thursday after fresh attacks on energy infrastructure, and analysts say prices could climb much higher if supply disruptions worsen — a shift that would push up gas prices, squeeze household budgets and ripple across the broader economy.

Consumers are already feeling the impact at the pump, where average gasoline prices are now almost $1 higher than they were before the war...More

Courtois could miss seven matches for Real Madrid during that stretch but might return in time for El Clasico at Barcelona on May 10


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Real Madrid's Champions League hopes may have just taken a big hit. Superstar goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois will be out for roughly six weeks with a thigh injury, though he is currently expected to return before the end of the season. Courtois sustained the injury during Madrid's 2-1 win at Manchester City on Tuesday in the UEFA Champions League, coming off at halftime for Andriy Lunin. Madrid went on to win the round of 16 tie 5-1 on aggregate, advancing to the quarterfinals with relative ease.

"Following tests carried out today on our player Thibaut Courtois by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he has been diagnosed with a muscle injury in the rectus femoris of his right quadriceps," Real Madrid said in a statement on...More

Taylor Frankie Paul appears at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

ABC has scrubbed the upcoming season of "The Bachelorette," starring Taylor Frankie Paul, citing a newly released video from 2023.

Thursday's unprecedented cancellation of the already filmed season of the long-running reality television show comes days before it was to premiere, on Sunday.

"In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of 'The Bachelorette' at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family," a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News.

The statement appeared to reference a 2023 video of an altercation between Paul and her ex-partner, Dakota Mortensen, that was published by TMZ on Thursday. Paul was arrested in 2023...More

Colombian police officers escort a man identified as Angel Esteban Aguilar, a leader of Ecuador's Los Lobos crime group, after his arrest, who is wanted in connection with the 2023 assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, at the international airport El Dorado in Bogota, Colombia, March 18, 2026. Colombian Migration/Handout via REUTERS

A man who is wanted in Colombia and Ecuador for the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito in 2023 was arrested in Mexico and transferred to Colombia, authorities said Wednesday.

Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales, an Ecuadorian national, arrived in Bogota on Wednesday, where he was intercepted at El Dorado Airport by Colombia's migration authorities. No details were immediately provided about his immigration status or...More

Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January, with activists warning of the risk of a new surge in hangings as war rages with Israel and the United States.

They were the first hangings Iran has carried out related to the nationwide demonstrations that were met with a brutal crackdown by the authorities.

Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three men executed in Iran.

Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture.

Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi were hanged in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, after being convicted of the capital crime of waging war against God, known as moharebeh under Iran's sharia, the judiciary's Mizan news agency...More

Divers explore the Mentor shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Kythira. Greek Ministry of Culture

Archaeologists have discovered a piece of marble treasure among the remains of a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Kythira, which could be tied to an infamous robbery at the Parthenon, Greek officials said.

Crews uncovered the marble slab while excavating the site of the Mentor, a brig owned by Thomas Bruce, the British soldier and diplomat known as Lord Elgin, according to Greece's Ministry of Culture and BBC News, a CBS News partner.

Elgin had used the vessel to transport artifacts from Greece to Britain, including relics taken from the Parthenon and other monuments on the Greek Acropolis, the ministry said.

His shipments from the ancient citadel have become the focus of controversy in recent years, as Greece sought to recover some...More

The war in Iran has highlighted the threat relatively cheap drones pose to both human life and crucial infrastructure. It has also highlighted a seeming unreadiness to counter the weapons among the militaries of the U.S. and some of its major allies in the Middle East.

As President Trump sharply criticizes America's longtime NATO allies in Europe, they are moving quickly to take the lead in anti-drone warfare capabilities, taking advantage of technology and skills honed over four years of warfare in Ukraine.

Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion has forced Ukraine to build up robust, modern anti-drone capacities. Already Kyiv has sent experts and equipment, at the request of the U.S., to help protect U.S. personnel and American allies in the Middle East as they fend off drones launched by Iran and its regional proxy groups.

But some of America's...More