Janine Herbst

The Pentagon says six U.S.

service members are dead after their U.S.

military refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq as they supported the war in Iran.

U.S.

Central Command says the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in, quote, friendly space and that the second plane landed safely.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, though the U.S.

military says it wasn't shot down.

That brings the U.S.

military death toll from the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran to at least 13 U.S.

service members.

Ukraine's President Zelensky says the Trump administration's decision to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil will only empower the Kremlin.

An official in Lebanon says the armed man who crashed his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue yesterday had lost four family members in his native country after an Israeli airstrike last week.

The FBI says it was a targeted attack on the Jewish community, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer calls it an anti-Semitic attack.

41-year-old Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, who was killed in the attack, was a naturalized U.S.

citizen.

Many airport security officers at the TSA missed their first full paycheck today as the partial government shutdown continues.

NPR's Joel Rose has more.

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President Trump today signed two executive orders that aim to make housing and mortgages more affordable.