Thursday’s Mini-Report, 3.12.26

Today’s edition of quick hits.

* Today’s shooting at a university in Virginia: “A shooter at Old Dominion University in Virginia sent the campus into lockdown Thursday morning, leaving at least two people injured and the shooter dead, the school said.”

* Today’s shooting at a synagogue in Michigan: “A suspect drove a car into a synagogue near Detroit on Thursday, dying after a confrontation with security, the county sheriff said. One security officer at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was hit by the vehicle and hospitalized but is expected to recover, and no one else inside was injured, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.”

* A revised target tally in Iran: “U.S. Central Command today released an updated report on the war with Iran, raising the number of targets struck by U.S. military forces to approximately 6,000.”

* A serious risk of cyberattacks: “Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of digital chaos that could expand if Tehran’s allies join the fray.”

* In Russia: “A Ukrainian missile strike inflicted heavy damage on a key plant supplying electronic components for the Russian war machine, Kyiv officials said. Russian officials on Wednesday sharply condemned the strike, which was carried out using British-produced medium-range missiles, saying that it was intended to derail peace talks, though negotiations seem to have hit a wall for other reasons.”

* Tapping the SPR: “The U.S. will release 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help lower energy costs during the Iran war, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday evening.”

* The fight over tariffs clearly isn’t over yet: “The Trump administration took a major step toward replacing the global tariffs that the Supreme Court recently invalidated, announcing new investigations of unfair trading practices that will almost certainly result later this summer in permanent new taxes on U.S. imports.”

See you tomorrow.

Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”