Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.

Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, March 12th, 26. Here's what's happening today in America.

Attack on tankers. Temporary protected status. Starbucks leaving Seattle and John Cornyn flips. It's all coming up and Bill's

going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Iran is launching sea drones against

oil tankers. At least three oil tankers were struck by Iran, one off the coast of the UAE and two

off of Basra Iraq. The BBC is reporting that one of the ships that was struck off the coast of Iraq is a U.S. owned, but a Marshall Islands flagged ship. The practice of flagging is to allow ship owners to operate their ship under lower regulatory burdens while paying fewer costs. And it's been a conversation for a while now how much security the U.S. should give

to ship owners who fly the cheapest flag of convenience.

The Marshall Islands doesn't even have a military.

But either way, innocent ships,

we've been told about Iran's so-called mosquito fleet

of several hundred small boats with Chinese-made anti-ship missile launchers on them.

It's being reported that the new Supreme Leader, the 56-year-old son of the old

Supreme Leader, has lost a leg as other serious injuries.

It might even be in a coma.

The Department of Justice issued an emergency request for the Supreme Court to lift

a judge's decision, preventing the termination of temporary protected status amnesty for

about 350,000 Haitian migrants.

The Department of Justice says lower courts were again attempting to block major executive

branch policy initiatives in ways that inflict specific harm to the national interest and

foreign relations.

In February, a Biden-appointed judge blocked

President Trump's administration from ending TPS amnesty for Haitian migrants, arguing that the

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