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official tells NPR a second U.S.
Air Force combat plane crashed today near the Strait of Hormuz and that it had one crew member on board who was rescued.
service member of a two-person crew on an F-15E fighter jet that was shot down over Iran has been rescued.
The search for the second crew member continues.
Several videos on social media appear to show these rescue efforts, including...
two American helicopters and a refueling aircraft flying low over the country.
Iranian state media posted several photos of debris from a U.S.
F-15 jet, along with what looks like an empty ejection seat and televised a call out asking for nomadic tribes and local villagers to target any foreign pilots in the area.
The White House is asking Congress for the largest defense budget in modern U.S.
The spending boost comes amid the U.S.
's more than a month-long war with Iran.
And Pierce Daniel Kurtzleben has more.
A group of 24 states filed a lawsuit today to stop President Trump's latest executive order on voting from going into effect.
And Pierce Miles-Parks reports the order attempts to add new restrictions on who can vote by mail.
The job market picked up a bit last month.
The Labor Department says employers added 178,000 jobs in March, but February's jobs were revised lower for a loss of 133,000 jobs compared to the initial estimate of 92,000 jobs lost.