Overnight headlines on March 11th.

1. U.S. Energy Secretary makes a mistake, White House denies U.S. military escorting oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. 2. The U.S. Senate confirms Joshua Lloyd as the Director of the National Security Agency with a vote of 71 to 29, and he will also lead the U.S. Cyber Command. 3. U.S. intelligence agencies: Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The scale of the mining is currently small, with only a few dozen mines laid recently. 4. U.S. Central Command says that the U.S. military has attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying ships near the Strait of Hormuz. 5. White House Press Secretary Levy: The U.S. military is making "far greater progress than expected" in advancing Operation "Epic Fury" against Iran. Military operations will continue until President Trump sees that the established military goals have been fully achieved. 6. Amazon wins a U.S. court injunction to ban Perplexity AI shopping robots. 7. The Trump administration has requested Israel to "stop further airstrikes on Iranian energy facilities, especially oil infrastructure." 8. Amazon plans to issue bonds in U.S. dollars and euros on both sides of the Atlantic, with a target fundraising scale of about $37 billion to $42 billion. 9. Since the U.S. launched a large-scale military operation against Iran, about 140 U.S. military personnel have been injured, with 8 seriously injured and 108 already returned to duty.