Foreign policy and law-and-order politics dominated the day, with Donald Trump claiming Iran shot down a U.S. Apache near the Strait of Hormuz and insisting Washington “must” respond, even as he simultaneously suggested a new deal with Tehran could be within reach. In another escalating confrontation, Vice President JD Vance referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department over alleged fraud tied to state social-service programs, accusations Minnesota officials reject as exaggerated and political. In Europe, France raised pressure on Israel’s government by banning Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and joining allied sanctions over West Bank settlement expansion and violence against Palestinians. Meanwhile in Belfast, a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing that left the victim critically injured, quickly feeding a wider political argument over crime and migration.