A Trump administration official says the administration will send Americans who are exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them to the United States. The official insisted on anonymity to share the Republican administration's plans and said Wednesday this arrangement will help patients in need of quick care avoid an hourslong medical evacuation to the U.S. The Departments of Defense, State and Health and Human Services are setting up the quarantine and treatment center. It's unclear where in Kenya the facility will be built or if the Kenyan government has approved the plan. Health authorities in Congo have been struggling to contain the outbreak.

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the Iran war, saying “things are going very well” days after insisting a settlement was “largely negotiated.” Amid concerns that closing a deal would require putting off critical issues, he said “It's gotta be perfect.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the U.S. military's strength, even as a new analysis shows it could take three years for defense contractors to replenish the key weapons systems it used to bomb Iran. Trump also praised his administration's work to stamp out fraud, saying his administration is “bringing our country back to honesty.”

U.S. military contractors will need at least three years to replenish stockpiles of three key weapons systems used in the Iran war. That's according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The findings released Wednesday by the Washington think tank add to concerns American forces would have limited firepower in any future conflict with China. The weapons are Tomahawk cruise missiles and Patriot and THAAD interceptors that defend against incoming missiles and drones. President Donald Trump's Republican administration is ramping up defense spending and manufacturing. But it could still take years to rebuild inventories because contractors aren't used to producing the advanced weapons on such a large scale.

President Donald Trump meets with his Cabinet at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran. The Republican president has projected confidence that he's closing in on a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and give him a credible argument that Iran’s nuclear capability has been diminished enough to declare victory. But Trump risks finding that closure to his war of choice comes with an unsatisfactory ending — one that puts off many critical issues to be resolved later. It leaves Trump vulnerable to criticism that Iran’s hard-line leaders will emerge from the conflict battered but emboldened.

The U.S. military has launched another strike on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors. Video posted Tuesday on social media by U.S. Southern Command shows a boat speeding through water before exploding into flames. Southern Command said it “immediately notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivors.” The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters, including the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, has gone on since early September and killed at least 194 people in total. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs.