LIVE: White House briefs after Pentagon confirms U.S. sub sinks Iranian ship

From MSNBC.

Watch live coverage as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. has torpedoed an Iranian ship in international waters in the Indian Ocean, marking the first such kill by a U.S. submarine since World War II. Earlier, Sri Lanka’s navy said it had rescued 32 people after receiving a distress call from an Iranian navy ship, the IRIS Dena. Iran’s escalating retaliation has hit U.S. sites, travel hubs and oil facilities across the Gulf as Washington scrambled to ensure Americans leave the Middle East.

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