Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, targeting oil and other infrastructure in an escalation that risks widening the region’s conflicts and adding further pressure to crude prices. This comes as the United States struck three Iranian crude oil carriers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles toward two US Navy warships over the weekend. CNN talks to military and regional experts about the latest developments from the Iran war. 0:00 Saudi Arabia plans retaliation after Houthi attacks (September 8) 6:47 What would extended deployments mean for the war? (September 7) 8:49 Is America’s economic pressure campaign against Iran backfiring?…
The sequence of events detailed by National Transportation Safety Board investigators showed that the pilots lost crucial seconds before the plane ran off the runway in Miami.
LiveNOW is learning more this Tuesday as former Sen. John E. Sununu won the GOP Senate nomination in New Hampshire. Political analysts are saying that this race has the potential to determine if Republicans keep control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections. Sununu will now face off in the general election against four-term Rep. Chris Pappas who won the Democratic nomination in the state.
The National Transportation Safety Board provided new details Tuesday on the deadly plane crash at Miami International Airport over the weekend. Five people were killed after an Amazon cargo jet overran a runway and struck vehicles near the airport. Federal investigators are examining the plane’s landing, speed, braking, weather and mechanical condition to determine what caused the crash. On Tuesday, NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy revealed the 55-year-old captain had 7,145 flight hours and received his Boeing 767 type rating in May. Officials also recovered the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
The U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers on Tuesday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "targeted a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the past two days." That warship successfully evaded the attempted attacks and continued to patrol regional waters, according to U.S. Central Command. No American personnel were harmed. LiveNOW's Austin Westfall has more.
The National Transportation Safety Board expects to interview the two pilots who were in the cockpit of an Amazon Air cargo plane that overran a runway.
The Iranian government is taking an increasingly aggressive approach as it confronts a growing economic threat and worries that its grip on the Strait of Hormuz is slipping, analysts say.
"It could quite possibly be that our defendant here is simply not criminally sophisticated, and that's why we're seeing the similarities," DeGonia said.
The president is anxious for a win, but taking over Venezuela’s oil reserves might prove a poison pill. The post Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal Is a Big Gamble appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal Is a Big Gamble The president is anxious for a win, but taking over Venezuela’s oil reserves might prove a poison pill. (Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images) At the end of August, President Donald Trump announced a major deal with the government of Venezuela. The agreement would give the U.S. functional control of about 20 percent of Venezuela’s oil, which equates to over 65 billion barrels—or almost one and a half times more oil than the United States has in its own current proven reserves (which total approximately 46 billion barrels). The vehicle for the deal is…Open
