The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries. 

• Iranian officials have announced that they have attacked U-S targets in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation to the second round of U-S strikes 
• Democrat Graham Platner has withdrawn from the crucial Maine senate race after another rape allegation 
• Texas Governor Greg Abbott is pressing for an investigation into a hospital near the US-Mexico border for alleged birth tourism