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Hegseth said "family after family" of service members killed urged the administration to “not stop until the job is done." Donald Trump made a similar claim earlier this month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive.

“What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said.

One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, was among the six crew members killed when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq last week.

Simmons recalled his exchange differently.

Dozens said they weren’t given chance to arrange care for their kids after being deported at short notice, study shows

The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring their children with them, in apparent violation of its own policies, a major report has found.

In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff at reception centers for deportees, researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were detained, without a chance to arrange for the care of their children.

According to the report by the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), parents were forced to leave their children under the informal care of friends or family members who were also vulnerable to deportation. Others were separated from young children and toddlers – including a mother who was deported without her two-month-old baby.

A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely and the incident is under investigation.

The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million.

Saudi Arabia reserves the right to act militarily against Iran and any trust with Tehran has been shattered, the Saudi foreign minister said early on Thursday, after Riyadh was targeted by Iranian ballistic missiles.

Iran accused Israel of striking its ‌facilities in the huge South Pars gas field on Wednesday in a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war that sent oil prices shooting higher, and retaliated by vowing attacks on oil and gas targets throughout the Gulf, firing missiles at Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

In the harshest comments to come out of the Gulf kingdom in nearly three weeks of war, Farhan accused Iran of premeditated hostile actions against its neighbours, ⁠both directly and via an array of regional proxies which he urged Tehran to reign in.

Of the seven illnesses identified so far, four are in children age 3 or younger.

The Food and Drug Administration has linked cheddar cheese made from raw (unpasteurized) milk to a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. But the cheese's maker, Raw Farm, is rejecting the regulator's findings and refusing to voluntarily recall its cheese.

In an outbreak investigation notice, the FDA said seven cases have been identified in three states: California (five cases), Florida (one case), and Texas (one case). Of the seven cases, two required hospitalization. Four of the seven cases were in children age 3 or younger who are at higher risk of severe illness. No deaths have been reported.

The onset of the seven illnesses spanned September of last year to as recently as February 13. Genetic testing of the *E. coli *in each case found they were highly related and, thus, likely from a common source. Of the three cases that health officials have been able to fully interview about their potential exposures, all three said they had eaten Raw Farm-branded raw cheddar cheese.

Lawmakers and schools have rallied against the arrests of students who showed up for court hearings and ICE check-in appointments

A public high school student from The Bronx who was arrested during an immigration court appearance has been released from federal custody after nearly 10 months inside a Pennsylvania detention center.

The arrest of Dylan Lopez Contreras, considered to be the first New York City public school student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, previewed the Trump administration’s new tactic of arresting immigrants inside courthouses as they left their hearings.

“Very soon, my son will be back with his siblings and me — it is both a relief and a blessing,” his mother Raiza Contreras said in a statement through the New York Legal Assistance Group.

Contreras — who was 20 years old when he was arrested and turned 21 while in detention — was enrolled at Ellis Preparatory Academy in The Bronx, which supports immigrant students considered too old to start at a traditional high school.

The U.S. auto safety regulator has deepened a probe into Tesla's driver-assistance system to evaluate its effectiveness ​in identifying degraded road conditions after nine crashes linked ‌to the technology including one that was fatal.

The probe covers roughly 3.2 million vehicles, across multiple models, accounting for nearly all vehicles the company has sold ​in the United States.

The move marks a significant escalation that ​could lead to a recall or other enforcement action ⁠if regulators find a safety defect.

Tesla's ambitions to deploy fully autonomous ​vehicles and robotaxis hinge on the reliability and safety of its ​Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, which remains under regulatory scrutiny.

Many respondents believe the US economy is already in dire straits, the poll found

More than four in 10 Americans believe the country is heading toward a complete economic meltdown within the next decade, according to a new poll.

The survey, released by YouGov on Wednesday, shows Americans are more worried about the economy than potential threats to the democratic system or the prospect of civil war.

42% of respondents said it is very or somewhat likely that there will be “a total economic collapse” in the next 10 years, while a smaller share, 38%, described this outcome as unlikely.

Financial anxiety ran much higher among Democrats, 53% of whom feared an economic breakdown, compared with just 28% of Republicans.

Tulsi Gabbard's congressional testimony came a day after a top deputy, Joe Kent, resigned in protest over the war.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declined to say if Iran’s nuclear program presented an “imminent threat,” deflecting questions from lawmakers about whether U.S. intelligence backed up White House statements on the rationale for starting the war.

Gabbard’s congressional testimony Wednesday at an annual hearing on worldwide threats came a day after a top deputy, Joe Kent, resigned in protest over the Iran war, saying that the Tehran regime posed no imminent threat and the joint U.S.-Israeli air campaign was unnecessary.

Kent and Gabbard, both military veterans, had found political common ground over their opposition to foreign military interventions and “regime change” wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. Gabbard has not publicly endorsed the decision to go to war, staying mostly silent on the U.S.-Israeli air campaign that began on Feb. 28.

The patient in Room 373 refuses to leave.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare earlier this month sued the patient, saying she has refused to depart her hospital room since being discharged last October. The hospital also has asked a state judge in Tallahassee for an injunction ordering the patient to vacate the hospital room and authorizing the county sheriff’s office to assist if necessary.

The hospital said that resources have been diverted from helping other patients because of her occupation of the room.