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Central Command says American forces have destroyed at least 16 Iranian vessels used to lay mines near the Strait of Hormuz.

That's where roughly 20 percent of the world's crude oil normally passes through.

Iran has effectively closed the narrow strait with its attacks and threats against ship traffic, including oil tankers.

Tehran vows to block the region's oil exports.

The British military says a container ship was hit by some type of projectile today in the Strait of Hormuz and was sent on fire.

It happened off the coast of Oman.

The crew was forced to abandon ship.

The White House is clarifying President Trump's remarks about Iran and the need for its unconditional surrender to end U.S.

and Israeli airstrikes.

NPR's Franco Ordonez has more.

The U.N.

says nearly 700,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon because of the ongoing fighting involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran.

A special congressional election in Georgia to fill the seat left vacant by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is heading for a runoff.

As Raul Bally with member station WABE reports the winner of the runoff will fill Greene's open House seat for the rest of the year.

Veteran Democratic Congressman Benny Thompson was among the winners in Mississippi's election primaries.

This is NPR News from Washington.

A new survey shows nearly half of all Americans say they would support the idea of National Guard members patrolling polling places in the U.S.

in the November elections.