Axios

The U.S. and U.K. carried out a new wave of strikes against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Saturday in an effort to "disrupt and degrade the capabilities" of the rebels to "conduct their reckless and destabilizing attacks" in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said.

The big picture: It is the third round of U.S. and U.K. airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen since the first on Jan. 11.

The U.S. on Friday began striking Iran-linked targets in Syria and Iraq in response to last weekend's deadly attack on U.S. forces in Jordan, the U.S. Central Command said.

The big picture: While President Biden faced pressure from some lawmakers to strike inside Iran, U.S. officials have stressed the administration does not want to see a wider war in the region.

Fox Corp. executive chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Fox News Media president Jay Wallace visited Israel last week to meet with the network's journalists on the ground.

Why it matters: Fox News is one of several news networks that has had journalists on the ground in Israel since the war broke out last October.

An increasing proportion of U.S. adults believe that Israel's military response in Gaza has "gone too far," according to a new AP/Norc poll published Friday.

Why it matters: The findings underscore how divided Americans are over the Israel-Hamas war, which has become a lightening rod everywhere from college campuses to workplaces across the U.S.

China's hacking operations pose the biggest existential threat to the safety of U.S. critical infrastructure — but despite years of investment, the U.S. is far from nailing the cyber basics.

Why it matters: U.S. cyber officials warned Congress this week that China has shown a persistent interest in not only stealing state secrets, but also disrupting basic services, like access to clean water and electricity.

Former President Trump's privacy lawsuit against former spy Christopher Steele and his consultancy firm was dismissed by a British High Court judge in London on Thursday.

The big picture: Trump's lawyers argued the controversial 2017 "Steele dossier," authored by the former MI6 agent that included salacious but unverified claims about the 2024 Republican primary front-runner, violated data protection laws.

A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.

The big picture: Joshua Adam Schulte's "transmission of that stolen information to WikiLeaks is one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in the history of the United States," the DOJ noted in a statement.