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Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Sheriff: Suspect Dead After Ramming Vehicle into Synagogue; U.S. Aerial Tanker Goes Down in Western Iraq; Sources: Trump Admin. Underestimated Iran War's Impact On Strait Of Hormuz; FBI: Synagogue Attack Was "Targeted Act Of Violence Against The Jewish Community"; CENTCOM "Aware" Of Loss Of U.S. Refueling Aircraft In Iraq; Strait Of Hormuz To Remain Closed As "Tool Of Pressure" Says Iran's New Supreme Leader In First Purported Public Message; VA Gunman Identified As A Veteran And Convicted ISIS Supporter; Robert Irwin On His Father Steve Irwin. Aired 8-9p ET


Amanpour
• Interview with The New York Times Magazine Staff Writer "Rise and Kill First" Author Ronen Bergman; Interview with Former Acting U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Jeffrey DeLaurentis. Aired 1-2p ET


CNN's The Arena with Kasie Hunt
• Sources: Car With Explosives Rams Michigan Synagogue; Iran Escalates Attacks On Key Oil Route As Trump Claims "We've Won"; Oil Prices Spike As Iran Chokes Off Global Supply. Aired 4-5p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• 2 dead, Including Gunman, In Old Dominion University Shooting; Suspect Dead After Car Ramming At Michigan Synagogue; Iran's Supreme Leader Issues First Message Since Appointment; Iran keeping Strait of Hormuz Closed as Oil Prices Rise; Update On Terror-Related Shooting At Old Dominion Univ.; Suspect Dead After Ramming Vehicle Into Michigan Synagogue. Aired 5-6p ET
• Suspect Dead After Ramming Vehicle into Michigan Synagogue; CENTCOM "Aware" of Loss of U.S. Refueling Aircraft in Iraq; Officials Give Update on Michigan Synagogue Attack. Suspect Dead After Ramming Vehicle Into Michigan Synagogue; CENTCOM "Aware" Of Loss Of U.S. Refueling Aircraft In Iraq. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip
• U.S. On Alert After Attack At Synagogue, Shooting At University; Trump Touts Surging Oil Prices Downplays Higher Gas Prices; Sources: U.S. Underestimated War's Impact On The Strait Of Hormuz. Connecticut Democrat Senator Issues Strong Words on the Iran War; American Generations Debating the Price of the War in Iran. Aired 10-11p ET


CNN News Central
• Trump Claims We Won in Iran, But Need to Finish the Job; Iran's Gulf Neighbors Report New Wave of Attacks; Oil Tops $100 a Barrel Overnight Despite Deal to Release 400 Million Barrels. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Sources: U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due To Outdated Intel; Millions In Southeast Under Tornado Watch, Two Killed In Midwest; Energy Secretary Chris Wright On Iran War And Oil Prices. Aired 7:30- 8a ET
• Interview with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA): Senate Democrats and GOP Split Over Whether There's a Plan to Reopen Strait of Hormuz; Wild Swings in Oil Prices Amid Iran War. Attacks on Tankers; DHS Pushes for Access to Restricted Child Support Database. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Oil Prices Jump As Iran Ramps Up Attacks On Energy Supplies; Watchdog: V.A. Failing To Track Patient Calls Putting Veterans At Risk; CNN Live In Kuwait Outside Residential Building Hit By Iranian Drone; Iran War Threatens Fertilizer Supplies Critical To Food Production; New Mexico Authorities Search Zorro Ranch Formerly Owned By Epstein; Aired 8:30-9a ET
• Iran's Gulf Neighbors Report New Wave of Attacks; Sources: U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due to Outdates Intel; Oil Prices Jump as Iran Ramps Up Attacks on Energy Supplies; Iran's New Supreme Leader Delivers First Message. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Iran's New Supreme Leader Delivers First Message; Iran's New Supreme Leader Says Key Oil Route Will Remain Closed; Oil Again Tops $100 A Barrel Overnight After Iranian Attacks; Trump Again Gives Conflicting Comments On When War Will End; Sources - U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due To Outdated Intel; Search Underway For Missing Retired Air Force General. Aired 9:30-10a ET
• Active Shooter at Michigan Synagogue; Gas Prices Rising; Old Dominion University Shooting; Message From Supreme Leader of Iran?. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Police Are Responding to Reports of Active Shooter, Car Driven Into Building at Synagogue With a School in West Bloomfield, Michigan; Michigan State Troopers Increasing Patrols at Places of Worship; Sheriff Says Nobody Confirmed Hurt After Shooting at Synagogue With School. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Gunman in Michigan Synagogue Shooting is Dead; Explosives Found in Vehicle That Rammed Synagogue; One Killed, Two Injured in Shooting at Old Dominion University, Suspect Dead. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Explosives Found in Vehicle That Rammed Synagogue; Suspect Dead, Security Guard Hurt After Car Rams Detroit-Area Synagogue. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Suspect Dead, Security Guard Hurt After Car Rams Detroit-Area Synagogue 3-3:30p ET
• Car with Explosives Rams Detroit-Area Synagogue; Interview with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA): Suspect Dead, Security Guard Hurt After Car Rams Detroit-Area Synagogue; Iran's New Supreme Leader Delivers First Purported Message; Oil Benchmark Crosses About $100 Per Barrel, First Time Since 2022. Aired 3:30-4p ET


CNN Newsroom
• Iran Claims Responsibility After Two Foreign Oil Tankers Struck in Attacks; Iran's New Supreme Leader Injured on First Day of War; Israel Launches Large-scale Strikes on Beirut Suburbs; Trump Claims We Won in Iran, but Need to Finish the Job; Oil Again Tops $100 Overnight Despite Release of Reserves; IDF Action Comes After Hezbollah Fired What Israel Says Were Dozens of Rockets; Iran's Government Projecting Strength as War Grinds on; Google's Gemini A.I. Cited in Wrongful Death Lawsuit. Aired 2-3a ET
• Oil Prices Spiked Anew as the War in Iran Continues, IEA to release Oil Reserves; Iranian Women's Football Team Member Returned Home Despite Asylum Offer from Australia. Aired 3-4a ET


CNN This Morning
• Iran Attacks Oil Tankers in Strait of Hormuz; IEA to Release Record Oil Stockpile; Trump on War with Iran: 'We've Won'. Aired 6- 6:30a ET
• Sources: U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due to Outdated Intel; U.S. Plans to Release 172M Barrels of Emergency Oil; FBI Memo Warns of Iran-Affiliated Drone Threats in California. Aired 6:30-7a ET


Connect the World
• CNN On Location Throughout Gulf Amid Uptick in Regional Strikes; Iran Attacks Two Foreign Oil Tankers in Iraqi Waters; Fuel Depot on Fire in Bahrain Following Iranian Strikes; U.N. Security Council Demands Iran Stop Attacks on Gulf Nations; Why Trump's Gulf Allies are Resisting Pressure to Join the War; Iranian State TV Reads Statement from Iran's New Supreme Leader. Aired 9-10a ET
• Iran's New Supreme Leader Makes First Statement; Oil Prices Surge; Analysts Warn War Poses Long-Term Threat to Global Economy; Iran Increases Cluster Munition Strikes on Israel; Israel Sends Waves of Deadly Strikes on Beirut; Examining Russia's Motives as U.S. Wages War on Iran; Kuwait Airport Hit by Drones. Aired 10-11a ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• U.S. Refueling Plane Crashes In Iraq, Rescue Efforts Underway; FBI Investigating Fatal University Shooting As An Act Of Terrorism; Sources: Car In Synagogue Attack Registered To Man From Lebanon. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with Rahel Solomon
• New Wave Of Attacks Reported Across Gulf States; Oil Tops $00 Again Amid Market Volatility Due To War; Pentagon Estimates First 6 Days Of Iran War Cost $11.3B; U.S. Strike Likely Hit A School In Iran Due To Outdated Intelligence. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• War With Iran; Dangers Of AI; Tornado In Indiana. Aired 4:30-5a ET
• Sirens Sound, Flashes Seen In Skies Over Tel Aviv; New Wave Of Attacks Reported Across Gulf States; Israel Launches "Large-Scale" Strikes On Beirut Suburbs; Trump Claims Iran War Victory During Remarks In Ohio, Kentucky; Sources: U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due to Outdated Intel. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• U.N. Security Council Demands Iraq Stop Attacks On Gulf Countries; Concerns About Wider Impact Of Middle East War; Sports Minister: Iran "Certainly Cannot" Compete At World Cup. Aired 5:30-6a ET


Inside Politics
• Defiant New Iranian Leader Threatens U.S., World Energy Supplies; New Iranian Supreme Leader: Strait Of Hormuz Will Stay Closed; Trump Claims "We've Won" War In Iran As Strikes Continue; U.S. Intel. Assessment: No Signs Iranian Regime Is Collapsing; Crude Oil Jumps 9 Percent As Iran Keeps Up Threats On Strait Of Hormuz; Average Price Of Gas Hits $3.60, Up 62 Cents Since War Began; Sources: U.S. Likely Hit Iranian School Due To Outdated Intel. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Senate Passes Bipartisan Landmark Housing Act, 89-19; Independent Candidate Seeks To Put Montana In Play For Senate; Could Montana Independent Reshape Dems' Senate Path? Aired 12:30-1p ET


Isa Soares Tonight
• Did Not Air 2-3p ET


Laura Coates Live
• FBI Investigates Attack on Synagogue, Deadly Campus Shooting; Ayatollah's Issues First Message; GOP Lawmakers Slam Democrats Over DHS Shutdown Amid Terror Threats; Iranian-Americans Speak Out. Aired 11p-12a ET


One World with Zain Asher
• First Purported Message from Iran's New Supreme Leader; Israel Tells Military to Prepare for Expanding Lebanon Operations; Oil Prices Rise Above $100 Per Barrel as War with Iran Continues; Trump Allies to Push President on Clear Goals of War with Iran; Iran War Threatens Higher Fuel Costs Across Africa; Abandoned Pets Find New Homes as Their Owners Flee the Gulf. Aired 11a-12p ET
• Beirut Hit By Fresh Israeli Airstrikes Moments Ago; Israel Unleashes Waves Of Deadly Strikes On Beirut; Pro-Iranian Hackers Claim Cyber-attack On U.S. Medical Device Maker; Russian Envoy: Discussed Energy Crisis With U.S. Officials; China Is Closely Watching The Widening War In The Middle East; Iran Steps Up Attacks On Tankers In Gulf; Oil Prices Rise Above $100 Per Barrel; Iran War Takes Toll On Kuwait Fish Market; Aired 12-1p ET


Quest Means Business
• Strait of Hormuz Closure Constricts Global Crude Supplies; Middle East Conflict Threatens African Economies; TACO Time for Trump; Tax Exiles Aim to Return to UAE. Sheriff: Suspect in Detroit Area Synagogue Attack Dead; Oil Prices Rise After Tankers Set Ablaze Near Iraq; Strait of Hormuz Closure Constricts Global Crude Supplies. Aired 4:00p-5p ET


The Situation Room
• First Purported Message from Iran's New Supreme Leader; At Least 8 Killed, 31 Wounded by Israeli Strikes in Beirut; Pro-Iranian Hackers Claim Cyberattack on Medical Device Maker. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Israel Instructs Military to Prepare for Expanding Lebanon Operations; Trump Says U.S. Has Won War with Iran; Iran Ramps Up Retaliatory Attacks on Energy Supplies. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Interview With Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); Interview With Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN); Strait of Hormuz Under Threat. Aired 11- 11:30a ET
• Interview With Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Shooting at Old Dominion University; Gas Prices Skyrocketing; Interview With Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Aired 11:30a-12p ET


The Source with Kaitlan Collins
• DHS: Synagogue Attacker Was Naturalized Citizen From Lebanon; Trump Argues High Oil Prices Are Good: "We Make A Lot Of Money"; Dems & GOP Play Blame Game As DHS Shutdown Drags On. Aired 9-10p ET


The Brief with Jim Sciutto
• CNN International: Virginia Shooting an "Act of Terrorism"; Michigan Synagogue Attack; Purported Statement by New Iranian Supreme Leader; Iran's Supreme Leader: Strait of Hormuz Will Remain Closed; Police in Michigan Give Update on Synagogue Attack; U.S. Refueling Aircraft Lost Over Western Iraq. Aired 6-7p ET


The Story Is with Elex Michaelson
• Israel Launches Large Scale Strikes on Beirut Suburbs; Uncertainty Over Strait of Hormuz Amid Attacks from Iran; IEA to Release Record Oil Stockpile Amid Iran War; Prices Surge at Kuwait Fish Market Due to War with Iran; U.S. Investigating Iran's Alleged Plot in California; China, Iran's Economic Lifeline, Closely Watching War; Trump Claims Iran War Victory; Gavin Newsom in War of Words with Trump Over Dyslexia. Aired 12-1a ET
• Trump Says U.S. Has "Won" Iran War, Vows to "Finish the Job"; Hezbollah And Iran Hit Israel In Joint Attack As Trump Says War Will End Soon; Iranian Officials Dismisses Claims Missile Capabilities Destroyed; Rising Fuel Prices Prompting Anxiety Across Globe; FBI Warns California Of Alleged Drone Threat From Iran; Iran's Gulf Neighbors Report New Wave Of Attacks; Iran Steps Up Use of Cluster Munitions in Strikes on Israel; Podcaster Joe Rogan Warns Conflict Could Get Out of Control; Newsome Announces Funding for Mental, Behavioral Health Care; Prom Dreams Come True for Teens Across the U.S. Aired 1-2a ET


What We Know with Max Foster
• Sheriff: Suspect In Detroit-Area Synagogue Attack Dead; First Purported Message From Iran's New Supreme Leader; Kerry: Iran War Could Get "Out Of Control"; Trump Administration Shrugs Off Surging Oil Prices. Aired 3-4p ET