US Stops Iran Bound Ship, American's Injured in Iran Attack, More
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Dan Schwartzman. The U.S. military stopped a merchant vessel, the Gambia-flagged cargo ship Leon Star, trying to break through its blockade of Iranian ports by firing a missile into its engine room. The ship had ignored more than 20 warnings from U.S. forces overnight as it tried to enter an Iranian port. The vessel remained adrift in the Gulf of Oman, and U.S. forces have not boarded it, said a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation. The U.S. has now stopped six ships total, trying to breach the blockade. Meanwhile, several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base. Iranian ballistic missile strike on the airbase caused minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaged two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones.
That's according to a person with direct knowledge of the attack. Meanwhile, a White House meeting to discuss extending a ceasefire with Iran ended without conclusion despite President Trump's earlier suggestion that an agreement was near. Bloomberg's Wendy Benjaminson has more from Washington.
We haven't heard anything yet, although we are expecting that we will hear from him this morning, particularly about the injury to a handful of American troops at a U.S. base in Kuwait, that given the fact that he apparently wasn't ready to sign this agreements after the discussion in the Situation Room. I don't think this event will push him any closer toward being willing to sign an agreement with Iran.
That's Bloomberg's Wendy Benjaminson on Bloomberg this weekend. A White House official said Trump will only make a deal that satisfies his red lines, including Iran ending its nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. A top American military officer held an unusual meeting with Cuban commanders at Guantanamo Bay as the Trump administration continues a virtual blockade of the island nation and demands drastic reforms. Military officials did not elaborate on the visit, but reportedly conducted security assessments of the naval base and discussed force protection, safety of service members and their families, and operational readiness with base officials. Anthropic updated its warnings about secondary markets for its shares, cutting the number of unauthorized platforms by half after its initial notice caused panic among investors and pushback from the companies it named.
The four firms are Opendoor Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Anthropic's blog originally flagged eight firms as unauthorized to buy or sell the company's shares in violation of its transfer restrictions. New data shows local economies have taken a hard hit from the Trump administration's immigration surge last year. Bloomberg's Monica Ricks with details.
According to a new report from the Brookings Institution, ICE raids and enforcement resulted in 668,000 job losses, creating a, quote, chilling effect that hurt local economies, businesses and American-born workers nationwide. Industries that traditionally employ a large share of undocumented migrants, like construction, saw the biggest impact.
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