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This is a Fox News alert. A U.S. pilot may be missing in Iran. I'm Lisa Brady. Iranian state media claiming a pilot ejected over southwestern Iran and has not been located.
The U.S. military has yet to confirm or deny a U.S. pilot is missing, though U.S. Central Command posted Thursday on social media that all U.S. fighter jets are accounted for, despite Iranian reports of shooting down an enemy fighter jet.
Fox's Eben Brown. Fox News learning President Trump has been briefed all morning. A source tells the Associated Press the U.S. has launched a rescue operation. An F-15E fighter jet has two pilots.
We see also some open source video showing that there were two search and rescue helicopters that were being refueled midair in daylight. That would suggest, again, an urgency to that search and rescue mission, because it would be rare to conduct a search and rescue mission with low-flying helicopters over an area that is possibly contested, given that this happened during the daylight hours. It shows an urgency and a suggestion that the pilots may have survived.
Fox's Jennifer Griffin. Again, no confirmation yet from the U.S. military on a pilot or pilots missing in Iran. The White House says the latest jobs report is a testament to the president's agenda. 178,000 jobs created in March, much more than expected after jobs were lost in February.
When you look inside the numbers here, one thing really stands out. Again, the average hourly wage is rising faster than inflation, up 3.5% over the past 12 months. That means, in general, people are making more money than the rise in prices Americans are getting ahead, which was not the case under the last administration. Also, when you look at where the jobs are, it reveals one reason for the boom. A strike among doctor office workers ended, and that shows up in health care totals.
Fox Business' Edward Lawrence at the White House. The unemployment rate's dipping to 4.3%. America is listening to Fox News. Opponents of large data centers in Ohio win approval for their petition drive to add a ban to the state constitution.
The Ohio ballot board giving petitioners the green light to collect signatures for a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to potentially ban new data centers in Ohio that consume an enormous amount of electricity and water. Austin Berichter, an attorney and co-author of the petition. the most impactful way for us human beings to govern the future of our state and our destiny in this state. Ohio already has over 200 data centers with plans for rapid expansion from major players, including Amazon, Meta, and Google, driven by AI demand. Supporters of the plans want those jobs and opportunity to stay in Ohio. Jeff Manosso, Fox News.
The proposal would ban construction of new data centers that use more than 25 megawatts of electricity per month. Long security lines easing at U.S. airports after the president ordered that TSA agents be paid, even though a homeland security shutdown continues.
Nearly 95,000 people to fly out of here. Thankfully, especially after the last few weeks, things are going smoothly. And this all comes after days of absurdly long lines here at Hartsville-Jackson, thanks to the ongoing partial government shutdown. TSA workers were not getting paid. This airport had one of the highest call-out rates in the country. But now, after President Trump's executive order, Those workers are finally getting a paycheck. Many are back to work. Nationally, TSA call-outs have dropped by more than 40% since Monday, according to DHS. And ICE agents are still here assisting those TSA workers. They're managing lines, checking IDs.
Fox's Madison Scarpino. A bill to end the DHS shutdown is on hold right now in the U.S. House in an ongoing debate over immigration enforcement funding. I'm Lisa Brady. This is Fox News.
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