What happened
Europe yesterday was drawn further into the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, as the conflict continues to spread in the Middle East, roiling global markets and sending oil and gas prices higher. French President Emmanuel Macron said he was sending the Charles De Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean to protect French and allies’ assets from missiles and drones from Iran and its proxy militias. President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to “cut off all trade with Spain” after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the U.S. could not use air bases in Spain for its “unjustified and dangerous military intervention“ in Iran.

Who said what
France’s flagship aircraft carrier will join “Rafale fighter jets, air-defense systems and airborne radar systems” deployed to protect Cyprus, an EU member already hit by a Hezbollah drone, and help uphold “binding” defense agreements with Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, The Associated Press said. France, Britain and Germany “previously said that they weren’t involved” in the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. But Macron said yesterday that France had already shot down Iranian drones “in legitimate self-defense.” 

Sánchez, meanwhile, has become the “chief EU critic of Trump’s strikes on Iran,” Politico said, and Trump “has certainly noticed.” Spain “has been terrible,” Trump told reporters yesterday during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “All business having to do with Spain, I have the right to stop it. Embargoes — do anything ⁠I want with it — and we may do that with Spain.” 

What next?
The French carrier deployment is part of Macron's effort toward “building a coalition” that will pool resources — including military assets — resume traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,” said The Wall Street Journal. It will also focus on “securing the Red Sea and Suez Canal.”

What happened
A jury in Winder, Georgia, yesterday convicted Colin Gray of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for allowing his son access to a gun he allegedly used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in September 2024. Prosecutors showed that Gray, 55, gave his son the rifle for Christmas and refused entreaties to lock it up as Colt Gray, then 14, showed signs of deteriorating mental health, including bouts of anger and an obsession with school shooters.

Who said what
“It wasn’t like one parent missed one warning,” Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith told reporters after the verdict. “This was multiple warnings over a lengthy period of time and, like we said, you just had to do one thing — take that rifle away and this would have been prevented.”

The trial was “one of the first in the nation in which a parent was held accountable for allegedly enabling a child’s access to a gun used in a school shooting,” said The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The “only other case like it to have proceeded to trial” sent the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley to prison for 10 to 15 years. This legal strategy “has gained traction across the country,” The New York Times said, but Gray is the first parent convicted “before the son’s guilt had been determined.”

What next?
Colt Gray’s mother, Marcee Gray, unsuccessfully pushed her estranged husband to lock up the rifle after reading about the Crumbley case, “so Michigan was able to move the needle to the point that it almost stopped this tragedy,” Smith said. “We hope we’ve moved the needle a little further.” Colin Gray’s attorneys “are likely to appeal, setting up a lengthy legal battle for Georgia’s higher courts to determine a balance between parental responsibility and criminal negligence,” Georgia Public Broadcasting said.