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Fox News Hourly Update

8PM ET 03/17/2026 Newscast

Fox News Hourly Update

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Sports News

3.95.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Trump administration, not speaking with one voice on Iran. I'm Tom Rigadi Fox News. The top aide to director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is the first to resign over the Iran war. The White House is reacting. Fox's Aisha Hosni is there. The White House battling internal pushback on the Iran strikes. The director of the National Counterterrorism Center,

0:21.8

Joe Kent, resigned, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation and that Trump bowed to

0:28.1

pressure from Israel. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt pushing back on that, saying the president

0:33.7

had, quote, strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the

0:38.1

United States first. According to Israel Defense Forces, two more leaders of the Iran regime

0:43.7

have been killed in Israeli air strikes. First, a key player to talk about Ali Larajani,

0:48.9

head of the National Security Council, and widely seen as the de facto leader in Iran,

0:53.7

in no small part, because

0:55.1

Moshtaba Khomeini has not shown up in public or any leadership role more than two weeks

1:00.4

since he was named the new Supreme Leader. Also killed overnight, Gholom Razas Soleimani.

1:05.5

He's the head of the besiege forces. That's the force that brutally cracked down on the latest

1:10.0

popular uprising. Now, Israeli

1:11.8

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the assassinations give the people of Iran a chance.

1:16.9

It's Fox's Mike Tobin in Tel Aviv, President Trump, calling on NATO allies for help getting ships

1:21.1

through the Strait of Ormoos in order to ease oil prices. Foxes Lucas Tomlinson on what ships

1:26.3

were able to traverse the channel.

1:27.7

While traffic through the strait has slowed to a trickle, 15 vessels did transit the Strait of Hormuz,

1:33.2

according to marine traffic. And India says two of its tankers made it out after a deal was cut

1:38.5

and it sent destroyer escorts. China gets nearly half of its oil through the straight

1:43.1

and diplomatic efforts are

1:44.5

likely ongoing to get more of their oil out. And in the Arabian seed, the USS Abraham Lincoln

1:49.7

Air Wing continues strike missions over Iran. It's Fox's Lucas Tomlinson. America's listening to Fox News.

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