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| Good morning. It’s Friday, March 13. Let’s get straight to some breaking news.  | Four crew members were killed after a U.S. Air Force plane crashed in Iraq. | | | A KC-135 air refueling tanker went down over Iraq yesterday. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images) | - What happened? There was an accident involving another aircraft, officials said. Both planes were supporting U.S. operations in Iran. The other one landed safely.
- Earlier in the day: A fire broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, a centerpiece of the U.S. campaign against Iran, leaving two sailors with injuries.
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 | President Donald Trump temporarily removed sanctions on Russian oil shipments. | - Why? To calm the economic fallout from the war, which has caused a spike in oil prices. The move positions Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of the war’s top beneficiaries.
- China is watching: It could also emerge as a winner from Trump’s energy shock.
- In the U.S.: A former NFL player said he felt disgusted after being included in a White House montage that mixed football highlights with footage of U.S. strikes in Iran — watch here.
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 | Two violent attacks yesterday are being investigated by the FBI. | | | Smoke rises from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, after a car rammed into the building. (Reuters/WXYZ) | - In Michigan: A man rammed his car into a synagogue, starting a fire, in an incident being investigated as an attack on the Jewish community. The perpetrator died at the scene.
- In Virginia: An Islamic State sympathizer opened fire at Old Dominion University, killing one person before students subdued him, the FBI said. Officers found the attacker dead.
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 | Trump is counting on this man to deliver health care wins before the midterms. | | | Chris Klomp at the Oval Office last year. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) | |
 | A record-breaking heat dome is hitting the West. | - Where winter feels like summer: Temperatures are set to soar into the triple digits in Los Angeles and Phoenix next week. Look up your city here to see if records could be broken.
- Weather whiplash: D.C. this week experienced one of the most extraordinary weather sequences in city history, with record heat followed by storms and snow within 18 hours.
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 | New sonar images show a famous Civil War vessel wreck in a new light. | | | The Monitor is famous for its fight with the Confederate CSS Virginia on March 9, 1862. (NOAA/Northtrop Grumman) | - 163 years ago: The USS Monitor sank in a gale, drowning 16 sailors. Ever since, it has been resting upside down on the ocean floor 16 miles off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.
- “Mind-blowing” imagery: An underwater robot circled the USS Monitor wreck to get the best view of it ever captured. You can find an annotated, 3D flyover of the site here.
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 | The Earth has been talking to us for eons — now we can listen to it. | | | Technology enables us to perceive sounds beyond human hearing range, allowing a new perspective on our place on the planet. (Junne Joaquin Alcantara/The Washington Post) | - How? The planet’s natural features and critters emit noises outside the range of human hearing. New technology lets us record, speed up or slow down those sounds.
- Hear for yourself: Listen to the secret noises of ocean currents, glaciers, volcanos, spiders and more here. Some of the eerie sounds that surround us remain unexplained.
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