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Four U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq Plane Crash

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Mar. 13. The U.S. military confirms that four U.S. servicemembers were killed yesterday when a refueling plane crashed in Iraq. The deaths mark the first U.S. Air Force losses since the start of the war. Plus, TikTok parent company ByteDance secures access to top Nvidia chips in its bid to compete with the world’s most popular AI apps. And WSJ’s Jennifer Williams explains how U.S. employers plan to cope with the biggest annual jump in health-insurance costs in 15 years. Luke Vargas hosts. Check out what WSJ critics had to say about this year’s Best Picture nominees.  Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.2

It's a new workday.

0:18.0

Iran and the U.S. intensify their war rhetoric yet again.

0:22.4

Plus, TikTok's parent company gets access to NVIDIA's top AI chips as it pushes a global expansion.

0:29.8

They've struggled to acquire the amount of compute they need in order to push at the

0:34.4

frontiers of AI, and Nivodeas Black Blackwells are top chips and they're after them.

0:39.9

And U.S. employers stare down the biggest annual jump in health insurance costs in a decade and a half.

0:45.6

We'll look at how they plan to cope. It's Friday, March 13th.

0:49.5

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News,

0:53.9

the top headlines and business

0:55.5

stories moving your world today.

1:01.1

The U.S. is easing sanctions on Russian oil. In a move that's designed to boost supply and ease

1:07.3

price pressures, countries will be allowed to purchase Russian oil that's already

1:11.6

at sea until April 11th. I asked journal correspondent Thomas Grove what to make of the policy

1:17.5

shift. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said in a post on X that the sanctions exemption is a

1:22.8

narrowly tailored short-term measure. And he says that it shouldn't provide a lot of economic

1:26.7

benefit to Russia

1:27.6

in the long term. This certainly shows us that the priority in Washington is to make sure that there's

1:32.7

enough oil on the market to keep prices low. And that's more important, I think, to Washington right now

1:38.1

than preventing Russia from gaining additional revenues that are feeding its war right now in Ukraine.

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