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U.S. Tomahawks are being used in Iran war faster than stockpile is being refilled

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Washington — The U.S. has so far used hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles against Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter, several times more than the number procured for the military each year.  One of the sources said over 850 have been used so far in the conflict, a figure that is roughly … Read more

Examining prospects of U.S. military ground action in Iran

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Examining prospects of U.S. military ground action in Iran – CBS News Watch CBS News As negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran continue, American troops are flowing to the Middle East. CBS News national security analyst Aaron MacLean joins “The Takeout” to assess the state of the war. Source link

Markets plunge, U.S. oil hits $100 as Trump fails to reassure Wall Street

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President Donald Trump is used to bending financial markets to his will. But with the war in Iran, he may have reached the limit of his ability to do so. On Friday, the S&P 500 closed down 1.7% and notched its fifth-straight weekly decline, its worst stretch since 2022 and a sign of rapidly faltering … Read more

U.S. appears to drop anti-tank mines in Iranian village near Shiraz, analysts say

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The U.S. may have dropped anti-tank mines over a village in southern Iran, the open-source research group Bellingcat reported Thursday, as images posted on social media appeared to show American BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines in the southern suburbs of Shiraz. Iranian state media reported that “explosive packages” slightly larger than tuna cans had been dropped … Read more

Iran’s response to U.S. peace proposal expected Friday, sources say

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The Iranian response to the U.S.’ 15-point framework for a peace deal is expected on Friday, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. President Trump and top White House officials have been told that Iran’s counter-proposal would likely arrive Friday via interlocutors, two of the sources said. At the time of publication the … Read more

Iran war fallout raises odds of a U.S. recession, economists say

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The Iran war raises the risk that the U.S. will tumble into a recession within the next 12 months, according to economists and Wall Street analysts.   Goldman Sachs analysts this week estimated that higher global energy prices would boost U.S. inflation by 0.2 percentage points to 3.1% by the end of the year, putting a … Read more

For women’s hockey fans, the league’s first U.S. broadcast is a watershed moment

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Growing up, Kate Hoos was told girls don’t play hockey. “If you can find a girls team, we’ll let you play,” she recalled being told. But there was no girls team at the time — and it wouldn’t be until a decade later, at age 20, that she learned to skate. Now 44 and fresh … Read more