Evening Brief: US Jet Down in Iran, Aviator Missing as Army Chief Ousted and War Spending Surges
An American aviator is evading capture on the ground in Iran while the Army’s top general is forced into retirement mid-war and Washington opens the floodgates on a $1.5 trillion defense budget, three moves that tell you exactly how fast this fight is expanding and how tightly control is being pulled in at the top.







