AP Top Headlines at 11:04 p.m. EDT

The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in JordanDr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemicThe Fifth Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and protects against self-incriminationThe Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday despite persistently high inflation and a spike in energy prices caused by the Iran warTodd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general has stalled as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee voteOil prices got back to jumping, while sinking technology stock