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NEW: Transgender women athletes cannot participate in female Olympic events, the International Olympic Committee said. abcnews.link/a36ZLqN

When a father shared his first ever TikTok post last month, he did so with a prayer and a plea: Doctors had recently informed him that his 15-year-old son, who had a rare blood disorder, would need a stem cell transplant soon to save his life. abcnews.link/ZQgqmHL

One of the first officers on the scene testified about the moment he encountered a bloodied Arielle Konig after she was allegedly attacked by her then-husband on a Hawaii hiking trail. ABC News' Rhiannon Ally reports. abcnews.visitlink.me/MkrQD3

"Today" show host Savannah Guthrie is speaking out in her first interview nearly two months after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was kidnapped from her Tucson, Arizona, home. abcnews.link/mYFYKCi

It has been 41 days since the Department of Homeland Security ran out of funding and there is still a stalemate up on Capitol Hill to get a deal to fund agencies like TSA and ICE. ABC News’ Jay O’Brien has the latest. abcnews.visitlink.me/9l0gDq

Iran launched fives waves of ballistic missiles toward Israel within two hours on Thursday morning. Missiles were intercepted in Bahrain, Saudia Arabia and Kuwait. Matt Rivers reports.

The number of Americans applying for jobless aid inched up last week as employers continue to retain workers despite a labor market that has weakened considerably in the past year. abcnews.link/Wpo6b4b

The escalating Israeli operation against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon may prove to be the most intractable theater of the wider U.S.-Israeli confrontation with Iran, analysts who spoke with @ABC News warned. abcnews.link/CGG3wVJ

IRAN LATEST: A Kremlin spokesperson on Thursday denied a Financial Times report suggesting that Russia is providing drones to Iran. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/bZlZN1k

TSA Deputy Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said travelers were facing the "highest wait times in history" as TSA workers called out while going without pay due to the partial government shutdown. @ABC News' @WhitJohnson has the latest. abcnews.link/jKSMAWO

IRAN LATEST: Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said in a post to X that Islamabad is facilitating "U.S.-Iran indirect talks" by carrying messages between the warring nations. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/wO3s8pr

Wind power production will continue to advance, despite the Trump administration's attempts to halt the growing momentum of renewable energy, experts told @ABC News. abcnews.link/5QN1axn

Conservatives from across the country will descend on Texas this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the largest gatherings for Republicans in the year. abcnews.link/61U7plr

President Trump on Thursday warned Iran to "get serious" about talks to end the war, writing on social media that Iranian negotiators were "very different" and 'strange.'" Follow live updates: abcnews.link/Z9JrcEP

United Nations peacekeepers operating in southern Lebanon have been fired upon around 20 times since the resumption this month of hostilities there between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia, a spokesperson for the force told @ABC News. abcnews.link/Fw8GG56

U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement on Thursday that a sailor was injured aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier while it was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/sg11H7V

NEW: President Trump said in a social media post on Thursday morning that the U.S. "needs nothing from NATO," claiming that allies "have done absolutely nothing to help" with the war in Iran. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/gCuhgcC

LATEST: An Israeli military official told @ABC News on Thursday that the Israel Defense Forces conducted a strike targeting the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Alireza Tangsiri. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/2961hWV

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are set to return to a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday for a status conference that could determine the trajectory of the criminal case against them. abcnews.link/anYSAQ5

The U.S. hit its 10,000th target in the military campaign against Iran and is on track to “completely eliminate” the country's military manufacturing capacity, Adm. Brad Cooper announced on Wednesday. What You Need to Know is streaming on @DisneyPlus. Stream now: abcnews.link/b6V1bt1?utm_so…