According to a statement from the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, headquartered at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) had a fire that originated in the laundry spaces and was non-combat related and is contained. Two sailors are being medically treated and are in stable condition. The statement goes on to say that there is no damage to the propulsion plant and the ship remains fully mission capable. The Ford's last known position was in the Northern Red Sea.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump will issue a temporary waiver of the Jones Act in response to climbing oil prices, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Jones Act restricts the shipment of cargo between U.S. ports to only U.S.-flagged vessels. The 30-day waivers would allow foreign-flagged vessels to transport petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf Coast to ports on the East and West Coasts of the United States.
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According to the latest update on Operation Epic Fury published by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), approximately 6,000 targets have been struck across Iran since the start of the operation on February 28, including 90+ vessels with the Iranian Navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC), at least 30 of which were being utilized as minelayers in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Two people were injured and a gunman killed as a result an active shooter incident this morning at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, only miles from Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world and the homeport for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. The shooting took place shortly before 10:49a.m., when a gunman opened fire inside ODUโs Constant Hall, with local and state law enforcement investigating possible motives, assistance is also being provided by the FBI.
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While testifying today in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, the Commander of the U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said:
โWhat I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that anytime you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve. We take this all the way back to the London Blitz in World War II. The Brits just had a stiff upper lip and kept on fighting. And I think that's what we've seen in Ukraine as well.โ
โWhat I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that anytime you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve. We take this all the way back to the London Blitz in World War II. The Brits just had a stiff upper lip and kept on fighting. And I think that's what we've seen in Ukraine as well.โ
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The Israel Defense Force has released footage of strikes recently on security checkpoints and personnel in Tehran under the Basij Force, a paramilitary volunteer militia within Iranโs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Reports of a serious incident ongoing at Temple Israel, a Reform Jewish synagogue and school in West Bloomfield, Michigan, with an individual said to have driven a vehicle into the building before opening fire. Authorities are on-scene and have told nearby residents to shelter-in-place until further notice.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced the loss of a KC-135 โStratotankerโ Aerial-Refueling Tankers in an incident over Western Iraq, after reportedly colliding with another aircraft that has since landed safely. Rescue efforts are ongoing. CENTCOM states this was not due to friendly or hostile fire by Iran.
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According to CBS News, the other aircraft involved in the crash of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker tonight over Western Iraq was another KC-135, with the tanker that went down in Iraq carrying a total of six servicemembers, while the other tanker was able to safely return to Israel.
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Large fires are burning at a Joint Kurdish Peshmerga-French โPatrol Base near Makhmour in Erbil, Northern Iraq, following an Iranian drone strike that injured at least six soldiers with the French Army.
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According to CBS News, an Iranian ship approached the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) recently in the Arabian Sea and was fired upon by a Mark-45 5" Deck Gun that missed several times before an MH-60 Seahawk was launched and struck the vessel with several AGM-114 โHellfireโ Air-to-Surface Missiles.
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Another MEDEVAC flight with the U.S. Air Force departed earlier today from Saudi Arabia, sources tell CBS News. The flight evacuated 19 U.S. servicemembers from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia to a U.S. base in Germany, likely Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) near Ramstein Air Base, with two of the servicemembers aboard the flight being injured after an Iranian one-way attack drone detonated next to their vehicle somewhere in the Middle East.
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The U.S. Treasury Departmentโs Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a general license โAuthorizing the Delivery and Sale of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products of Russian Federation Origin Loaded on Vesselsโ bypassing all previous sanctions levied against Russia, with the license going into effect March 12, 2026 and lasting until at least April 11, 2026.
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NBC News has identified the shooter from this morning's incident at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, as 36-year-old Mohamed Jalloh. Jalloh is a native of Sierra Leone who joined the U.S. Army National Guard in 2009. In 2016 he was arrested and convicted on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and released from federal custody in 2024.
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Additional details have been released about todayโs attempted mass shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with reports suggesting that the intended target of the shooter, identified as Ex-National Guardsman Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, 36, was ODUโs Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). According to reports, Jalloh stormed into a classroom inside ODUโs Constant Hall and asked if this was the ROTC. When someone confirmed that it was, he launched what is now being investigated as a terrorist attack, shooting the professor several times, resulting in the death of the retired military officer in charge of the schoolโs ROTC Program. However, before he could turn his gun on the rest of the class, several cadets jumped on Jalloh, with one cadet stabbing him over 22 times, killing him, likely saving dozens of lives at ODU.
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Video footage published by an Iraqi outlet which appears to show 2 HC-130J Combat King IIs with the U.S. Air Force, which specialize in Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), flying at low altitude tonight over Western Iraq, likely searching for the crash site of the KC-135 Stratotanker that crashed earlier following a mid-air collision with another KC-135.
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