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USS Gerald R. Ford Home After Record-Breaking 11-Month Deployment

“Home is the sailor, home from the sea.” That refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson will be joyfully repeated right across America in coming days after the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, returned home to Virginia on Saturday after an 11-month foreign deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA - MAY 16: Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford arrives at Naval Station N

Iran, Rattled by Trump-Xi Lovefest, Knocks Pete Hegseth as ‘Failed TV Host’

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of several Iranian politicians vying for influence following the elimination of “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, disparaged American Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as a “failed TV host” in commentary on Friday following a successful visit by President Donald Trump to Iranian ally China.

Iranian Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, gestures while speaking with media i