Here's One Good Thing for your Thursday: two pen pals who met over 56 years ago finally met face to face. Their relationship dates back to the Vietnam war when Americans would write to soldiers overseas. More than half a century later these two have managed to maintain a friendship that started long before emails were invented.
The Israeli military has renewed its calls for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in recent weeks.
Three commercial ships were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen, the military said, and a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault.