U.S. military shoots down Iranian drone

Amid already heightened tensions today, military escalations with Iran, the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which just arrived in the region as part of President Trump's military buildup, was today approached about 500 miles from the Iranian coast by an Iranian drone flying aggressively and with unclear intent. According to US Central Command, the Lincoln scrambled a fighter jet and shot it down. Hours later, in the Straight of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping lanes for oil and ...