Chapter 1: What recent events have escalated tensions between Iran and the U.S.?
Iran's president responds. I'm Deborah Valentine, Fox News. Israel and the U.S. continue to strike Iran's capital.
Explosions echoed across Tehran and in many other parts of Iran. The targets, again, political and military infrastructure and apparently police stations across the country. Presumably an attempt to take out the forces who might be sent into the streets to put down any uprising by the Iranian people.
Israel, meantime, released video of the destruction of the underground compound apparently used by Ayatollah Khamenei before he was killed, along with an animation that Israeli officials say shows the complexity of that compound. Fox's Jonathan Hunt reporting.
Iran's President Massoud Pazeskian has issued a recorded statement saying...
Chapter 2: What statements has Iran's President made regarding U.S. demands?
The U.S. demand for unconditional surrender is a, quote, dream that they should take to their grave. A new U.S. aircraft carrier group set to deploy to the Middle East amid the war with Iran. Fox's Lucas Tomlinson.
Chapter 3: How are U.S. aircraft carriers being deployed in response to the conflict?
A third U.S. aircraft carrier strike group is getting ready to deploy to join the war against Iran. The USS George H.W. Bush strike group is wrapping up her workups off the East Coast and should be deploying Likely to the eastern Mediterranean soon. The USS Gerald R. Ford strike group was seen transiting the Suez Canal. The Ford strike group now in the Red Sea.
Point of the carrier going to the Red Sea, of course, would be to just in case the Houthis were to get involved in any attacks on Israel or any attacks on international shipping. Now the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group in the Red Sea with her guided missile destroyers in addition to the dozens of strike aircraft.
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping lane in the Persian Gulf, has fallen more than 90 percent since the start of the conflict, spiking the price of oil. America's listening to Fox News.
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A Pakistani man has been convicted of trying to hire hitmen to kill a presidential candidate.
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Chapter 4: What impact has the conflict had on oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz?
It took two hours for a jury in Brooklyn, New York, to convict Asif Merchant on terrorism and murder for hire charges. He admitted in court that he sought to put the plot in motion during the 2024 presidential campaign. Merchant told the court he was carrying out instructions from a contact in Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
He claimed the handler never specified a target, but named then-candidate Donald Trump, then-President Joe Biden, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was also a Republican presidential candidate. Merchant, who worked in Pakistani banking before going into other businesses, claimed he had to do his handler's bidding to protect loved ones in Iran.
The Iranian government has denied trying to kill U.S. officials. In New York City, Lisa Lucera, Fox News.
President Trump is urging Congress to produce laws about payments to college athletes.
Chapter 5: What recent legal developments involve a Pakistani man and a presidential candidate?
Fox's Jill Nader reports from Washington.
Top college athletic directors, the president of the NCAA, as well as members of Congress, were at a roundtable hosted by the president to address what he called a threat to the integrity of college sports. People are being signed 17-year-old quarterbacks for $12 million, $13 million, $14 million. we have a seven-year freshman.
He says Congress needs to come up with laws that will deal with name, image, and likeness payouts and let college athletic programs set common sense rules about eligibility transfers as well. A new commission to come up with ideas to address the issues is being formed to be led by New York Yankees President Randy Levine and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
At least six people are dead in two states as tornadoes, massive hail and damaging winds tore through four states, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Four of those fatalities are reported in southwestern Michigan, two deaths reported in Oklahoma. I'm Debra Valentine. This is Fox News.
Chapter 6: How is President Trump addressing the issue of college athlete payments?
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