Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford to sail closer to Israel the day after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
By Tara Copp, AP
The carrier and its armada left the East Coast in May.
The exercises involved more than 11,000 U.S. personnel who are on station there in case the Israel-Hamas war erupts into a larger conflict.
A man listed as a person of interest in an active manhunt for a mass shooting that unfolded Wednesday night in Lewiston, Maine is an Army reservist.
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