Poor Conditions on USS Lincoln, Economic Warfare on Iran, Ukraine's Drone Campaign
This episode of Up First highlights deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where sailors have been at sea for over 250 days amid reports of food shortages, failing sanitation, and mental health crises, while also covering the Trump administration’s shift to economic wa
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