Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight,

President Trump announces a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, hours after Iran launched missiles

at a U.S. base in the Middle East in retaliation for the strikes on its nuclear facilities.

New York City prepares to vote in the Democratic mayoral primary that could have national implications.

In many ways, they represent the two polls that are vying for the direction and the compass of the National Democratic Party.

And Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski discusses her new memoir about adapting to Washington

politics and the Trump era.

When I'm here in Washington, D.C., I feel not only physically far from home, but just kind of,

I'm away from who I am, my identity, my roots.

Welcome to the News Hour. It was a dramatic day in the Middle East. Iran launched a series of ballistic missiles at a U.S. military base in the Middle East, but it simultaneously indicated a desire to de-escalate. And this evening, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, which began this recent conflict when it attacked Iran and its nuclear program 12 days ago.

Nick Schifrin starts our coverage.

Above Doha's skyline tonight, the first ever Iranian attack on the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East.

The U.S. says Iran fired more than a dozen short and medium-range ballistic missiles

at Al-Odid Air Base, nearly all intercepted and causing no casualties.

Al-Udid is usually home to more than 10,000 service members, but much of it was evacuated

before tonight's attack, which Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps broadcast, claiming complete success.

The Islamic Republic of Iran will not leave any act of aggression against its territorial integrity,

sovereignty, or national security unanswered under any circumstances.

But Iran warned Washington and Qatar before the attack.

It did not try to choke off global oil supplies.

Nor did it try to strike any other U.S. base in the region.

And it signaled a desire for de-escalation, saying in a separate statement, it used the

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