Janine Herbst

official tells NPR that one member of a two-person crew of an F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran has been rescued, and that the search for the second crew member continues.

Multiple videos show what appear to be those efforts, including...

Two helicopters and a refueling aircraft flying low over the country.

This, as Iranian state media televised a call-out asking for nomadic tribes and local villagers to target any foreign pilots in the area.

They also posted photos of wreckage from a U.S.

F-15 jet.

Explosions are reported in Iran as the U.S.

and Israeli war continues to go on in the country.

And Tehran is choking off oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump wrote online today that, quote,

But he said something quite different this week in his national address, telling NATO allies they need to take care of the Strait.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports Iran's now saying it will start charging the ships to use the vital waterway through which about a fifth of the world's oil and gases pass.

President Trump says there's a new White House fraud task force that will mostly focus on Democratic-led states.

The White House says it's inspired by fraud in Minnesota's state-run social service program.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports it will focus on fraud nationwide.

Wall Street is closed today in observance of the Good Friday holiday.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Army's Chief of Staff, General Randy George, along with two other generals, as the U.S.

wages war in Iran.

This amid tension between Hegseth and Army leadership.