Chapter 1: What recent military actions are occurring in the Middle East?
Britain is sending a warship. On Lisa Brady, Fox News. The UK Prime Minister just announcing he's sending a destroyer to Cyprus, though still only for defensive purposes. This after a drone hit a UK base as Iran keeps firing at targets across the region. A growing number of US embassies closing for now. Beirut the latest, citing an imminent threat of attack.
And there are few options for Americans. looking to leave the Middle East. The State Department is making very clear there are no U.S. government-sponsored evacuation flights planned as of right now. They are telling citizens there to rely on commercial means.
Fox's Jillian Turner, Secretary of State Rubio, has formed a task force looking at options, just getting reports that a charter airline, Spring Jet, is seeking U.S. approval to operate humanitarian repatriation flights to the U.S., Israel says its forces disrupted an effort to pick a new supreme leader in Iran.
Iran's supreme council was meeting earlier today, just south of the capital of Tehran, when the Israelis struck the building, killing everyone inside, according to initial reports. They were meeting to determine who the next supreme leader of the country would be.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of US embassies in the region?
And when they were counting the votes, the Israelis say that's when they struck. All of this coming as the Iranians are still launching new ballistic missile barrages into Saudi Arabia. Central and northern Israel. Fox's Trey Yinks in Tel Aviv.
President Trump holding a previously scheduled White House meeting with the German chancellor and just telling reporters, based on the way nuclear talks were going with Iran, he believed they were set to attack first. Oil and gas prices. biking. The national average for a gallon of gasoline has jumped to over $3 a gallon for the first time since November.
Chapter 3: How is the US State Department advising citizens in the Middle East?
Motor Club AAA says its average rose 11 cents to $3.10 in the U.S., up 15 cents from last week and 22 cents from a month ago. Fox's Jenny Kosola, the Dow's down 691 points. America is listening to Fox News. Join Fox in supporting our troops. From daily needs to global emergencies, help us be there for those who serve. Visit go.fox slash Red Cross to donate to service to the Armed Forces today.
The head of Homeland Security is on the Capitol Hill Grill facing a Senate panel and questions about ICE as a partial shutdown of her department continues. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem came ready for a fight as ranking member Illinois Senator Dick Durbin accused the secretary of targeting and arresting illegal immigrants without criminal records in ongoing nationwide ICE action.
If you were counting crimes that these individual illegal aliens in this country have committed, it would be well over 65 to 70 percent of the individuals that are detained today. In addition to the crime of being in the country illegally, Noem also saying failure to fund DHS, which includes TSA and FEMA.
He's leaving agencies strained in an ongoing partial government shutdown over Democrats' efforts to reform immigration action policy. Fox's Jeff Manasso reporting. The father of an accused school shooter is convicted in Georgia.
Colin Gray found guilty on all counts, including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, for a deadly shooting at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta in 2024. His teenage son, who was 14 at the time of the shooting, has not yet been tried. The search continues for a retired U.S. general missing since last week. Retired U.S.
Air Force Major General William Neal McCasland has yet to be found, having last been seen Friday in Albuquerque. There is an active silver alert for the 68-year-old. Law enforcement says they do not have a description of what McCasland may have been wearing when last seen, but say the elderly retired general has medical issues and they fear for his safety.
McCasland once commanded Air Force research labs at New Mexico's Kirtland Air Force Base and Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Eben Brown, Fox News. The fighting in Iran rattling world markets. Earlier, the Dow was down more than 1,100 points. Right now, it's down nearly 700.
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Chapter 4: What developments are happening regarding Iran's leadership?
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