Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to bolster American military strength in the Middle East by sending additional aircraft to support naval operations, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
While the official announcement did not detail which aircraft were deployed, several U.S. officials speaking anonymously to Reuters revealed that four B-2 stealth bombers had been flown to the joint U.S.-UK base on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean positioned within operational range of both Iran and Yemen.
In addition, Hegseth has directed the Carl Vinson carrier strike group to head toward the Middle East. According to a Bloomberg report, the strike group will make its way to the region after it wraps up training drills in the Indo-Pacific.

The Trump administration announced Monday a major federal review of $9 billion in grants and contracts at Harvard University, citing the school’s failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic discrimination.  The review, conducted as part of the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, will involve audits by the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, along with the U.S. General Services Administration. Federal officials will scrutinize over $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard and the U.S. government, in addition to more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon delivered a sharp rebuke of Harvard’s handling of antisemitic incidents on campus, warning that the university’s reputation is at stake.

BREAKING: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the Senate’s record for longest floor speech set in 1957 when Strom Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act. Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. yesterday and has just passed the 24 hour mark.

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3 of 4 soldiers from Fort Stewart, Georgia who died during a training exercise while overseas last week have been identified as Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., Sgt. Edvin F. Franco and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano.

Yemen attacks US warships with missiles and drones for third time in 24 hours

ALBANY, N.Y.

Israel’s State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman on Tuesday published alarming findings about IDF positions along the northern border—findings he says were urgently delivered to Israel’s highest political and military leaders before the devastating October 7 massacre. According to Englman’s report, soldiers stationed along the northern frontier voiced serious concerns, saying that their rules of engagement did not adequately match the threats they faced. Reserve soldiers reportedly lacked suitable weaponry, further compromising their readiness to defend the border effectively. Perhaps most disturbing were testimonies from commanders, who disclosed repeated cancellations of vital patrols due to persistent malfunctions in military vehicles.

Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The potent storm system will bring the threat of “significant, life-threatening flash flooding” starting Wednesday, according to the Weather Prediction Center, a part of the National Weather Service. The new flood threat also comes as residents in parts of Michigan continue to dig out from a weekend ice storm. Floods could inundate towns, sweep cars away Thunderstorms with multiple rounds of heavy rain are expected in parts of Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley beginning at midweek and lasting through Saturday.