Live updates: Trump warns all of Iran ‘could be taken out in one night’ as he sticks to deadline

The Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights said Monday it would rescind Title IX agreements that six schools made with the federal government under past administrations over gender identity.

The department said the previous administrations’ enforcement of Title IX was “illegal and burdensome” over “improper use of preferred pronouns” or “asking questions about a student’s preferred ‘gender.’”   

Title IX is based on sex, and the schools did not violate the law, according to the Trump administration.

The settlements’ cancellation means the school districts will no longer have to engage in trainings on gender-based discrimination, instructions for the use of preferred names and pronouns for transgender students or other resulting policy changes, The New York Times reported.

Trump, holding steady on his 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline for Iran to make a deal, said if no deal is made, “We have a plan.”

“We have a plan because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again,” he said.

“It’ll happen over a period of four hours, if we wanted to,” he said. “We don’t want that to happen.”

The president said the U.S. “may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation.”

“And you know what? If that’s the case, the last thing we want to do is start with power plants, which are among the most expensive thing, and bridges,” he said.

Trump reiterating that Iran has until Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT to make a deal, told reporters that “they’re negotiating.”

“We think in good faith, we’re going to find out,” he said.

“We’re giving them til tomorrow, 8 o’clock Eastern time, and after that, they’re going to have no bridges. They’re going to have no power plants,” he said.

He said opening the Strait of Hormuz is a “very big priority.”

However, he didn’t say much about a ceasefire.

“I can’t talk about ceasefire, but I will tell you we have an active, willing participant on the side,” Trump said. “They would like to be able to make a deal. I can’t say any more than that.”

Trump threatened to take out the “entire country” of Iran at the beginning of his news conference.

“The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” he said.

Trump wrote on social media Sunday that his deadline for Iran to make a deal is 8 p.m. Tuesday.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” he wrote in another post Sunday, using expletives to tell Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said the CIA deployed “both human assets and exquisite technologies” to find the second serviceman that was downed in Iran.

He compared the hunt for the airman “to hunting for a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert.”

“This was also a race against the clock, as it was critical that we locate the downed aviator as quickly as possible, while at the same time keeping our enemies misdirected,” Ratcliffe said.

He said a deception campaign was also used to confuse the Iranians looking for him.

“Following the successful exfiltration on Saturday night, our intelligence reflects that the Iranians were embarrassed and ultimately humiliated by the success of this audacious rescue mission,” he said.

Trump, flanked by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, briefed the press about the mission to rescue the downed serviceman.

“This is a rescue that’s very historic,” he said.

He said 21 aircraft were deployed to the area to help with the search. He spoke highly of the downed weapons officer, saying he scaled “cliff faces, bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds and contacted American forces to transmit his location.”

Trump also reiterated threats against Iran at the beginning of the press conference.

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” he said.

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed a post from President Trump over the weekend about the conflict with Iran in which he advised Tehran, using an expletive, to open the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the oil industry.

“Look, I ain’t no damn supporter of Iran, OK? Leading sponsor of terrorism, all of that stuff they want to do to Israel, stuff they’ve already done to America. I ain’t no supporter of that. But, you the president of the United States, you go on social media with a profanity-laced tirade, and then you gonna end it by saying, ‘Praise be to Allah,’” Smith said in a video posted on the social platform X Sunday.

“How do you think that’s going to help us? How do you think that’s going to help us throughout the world? I mean, seriously? For Muslims country — Muslim countries that ain’t Iran? It never ends with this guy,” he added.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has closed its investigation into Tesla’s “actually smart summon” feature after finding that incidents occurred infrequently and were not particularly severe.

The agency opened an investigation into the feature, which allows Tesla users to summon their cars to a particular location without a driver, in January 2025 after receiving reports of several crashes.

The NHTSA opted to close the probe Friday following several over-the-air software updates from Tesla aimed at improving detection of camera blockages and dynamic gates.

By the end of the investigation, the regulator found 159 incidents involving the “actually smart summon” feature, including 97 crashes. However, none of the incidents resulted in injuries or fatalities.