have been leading this effort to protect women s sports coming up. john: fox news alert, waiting an update in the pentagon after another suspected iranian missile strike targeting a u.s. military base in syria. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, we made it to friday. sandra: we did, the afternoon will hold a lot of news. we ll watch for the pentagon briefing. this is america reports. tensions between the u.s. and iran turning deadly during three separate incidents in syria in the past 24 hours. a suspected iranian drone hit a coalition base in northeast syria, killing an american contractor and wounding five u.s. service members. the pentagon says president biden ordered airstrikes in retaliation, going after iranian-backed forces in eastern syria. john: and a new wave of missile strikes targeted another u.s. military base. iran s deadly attack on americans comes at the same time president biden faces growing criticism of his handling of the middle east. y
u.s. contractor were medically evacuated to coalition medical facilities in iraq. the u.s. response was swift. president biden directed defense secretary lloyd austin to launch precision airstrikes against facilities used by iran s revolutionary guard corps. secretary austin said the precision strikes are intended to protect and defend u.s. personnel. and iran proxy forces launched ten rockets near green village in eastern syria. an official tells fox there are no u.s. casualties and no damage to the base. there are about 900 u.s. troops in syria fighting isis. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley issued this warning of tehran becoming a possible nuclear power yesterday. iran could produce material
been imposed that have been stifling the fishermen in your state? listen, i think it s an important point. to be fair, i have been critical of president biden over the last couple of years in regards to what his government, what the, noaa is trying to do is the fishery. before biden, it was the trump administration. its been going on for 4 or 5 or so years, and no matter who was in the white house, our efforts to raise awareness about the issue has largely been ignored by the bureaucracy. you know, to try and explain this to people is pretty complex but i ll keep it as simple as i can. the government is trying to protect right whales, endangered species. they have developed certain risk modelling, use different al algorithms. they have no evidence that would
john: federal appeals court blocking president biden s mandate requiring covid vaccines for some 3.5 million federal workers. president originally issued the executive order in september of 2021 and a district judge blocked it in january of last year. a three-judge panel reinstated the mandate last april. yesterday, the fifth circuit court of appeals reversed it ruling there is no constitutional basis for requiring federal employees to be vaccinated. as you see on the first coarse, we have some butter poached maine lobsters. we have to honor our lobstermen from maine, they had to ship 200 live lobsters to us. sandra: you may remember president biden s big fancy state dinner of maine lobster with the french president macron, but a democrat lawmaker is accusing the president of hypocrisy, saying regulations of his administration are crushing
the economy, even though he says everything is coming up roses. sandra: yep, and as that inflation continues at multi-decade highs, credit card interest rates are going up, so if you are having to use a credit card to buy the groceries, just about everything is costing the american people more and that s tough, tough to give a good rating on the economy, john. more on that coming up. meanwhile, president biden is in ottawa meeting with prime minister justin trudeau. this is an inflation sorry immigration story. expected to announce a new immigration agreement that would allow both countries to turn away migrants who cross the northern border illegally. meantime, the southern border, dramatic reminder of the violence fueled by the migrant crisis there. fbi called into a hostage situation that quickly turned deadly. alexis mcadams is live in mission, texas. how did the rescue operation go? hi, sandra, it went ok. they got the two migrants out,