News Wrap: U.S. military grounds all Osprey aircraft amid crash investigation

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• Amna Nawaz:

  The U.S. military formally began a full-scale investigation of its V-22 Ospreys after grounding all of the tilt-rotor aircraft. One had crashed off Japan last week, killing eight Americans.

  Today, Pentagon officials would not say directly if they still have full confidence in the Osprey.

• Sabrina Singh, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary:

  We have seen this done before with other platforms, out of an abundance of caution. There will always be an inherent risk in military aviation. And to mitigate that risk, we will continue to maintain the high level of operational standardization for all of our pilots and for all of the crew.

• Amna Nawaz:

  Ospreys can take off like a helicopter and fly like a plane. They have been in service since 2007, but more than 50 troops have died in crashes over the years.

  The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, now says the victims in Wednesday's shooting attack were faculty members, not students. Three were killed, and one wounded. Police say the suspect was a former professor who had been rejected for jobs and had a list of targets at UNLV and at East Carolina University, where he had worked before.

  The assault began at midday at the university's business school. It ended in the gunman's death after a shoot-out with police.

  The last of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont has been released from a hospital. Hisham Awartani was left paralyzed from the chest down in last month's attack. Supporters cheered and clapped as he was discharged on Wednesday. He will undergo rehabilitation, but his family says the paralysis could be permanent. The accused gunman is being held for attempted murder.

  The House has censured Democrat Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm while Congress was in session. He said he was trying to get through a locked door, and he later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Republicans say he was trying to stall a government funding bill. A handful of Democrats supported the Republican censure resolution today. It has no practical effect.

  Former President Trump was back in court today to hear a key defense witness in his civil fraud trial in New York. He listened as an accounting professor testified that Trump Organization financial statements showed no evidence of fraud. Mr. Trump is scheduled to take the stand himself on Monday.

  Five frail survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack returned to Hawaii today 82 years since the attack that catapulted the United States into World War II. Japan's surprise aerial assault on December 7, 1941, killed more than 2300 American servicemen. Today, the number who survived is rapidly shrinking, and the National Park Service says it's a loss to history.

• David Kilton, National Park Service:

  We can share very solid and factual information, but those that experienced it, their stories and the reality of their feelings and their impressions just bring a certain power, an element of the real human touch.

• Amna Nawaz:

  More than 1,100 of those killed in the attack were on the battleship Arizona when it exploded and sank. Today, only one member of the Arizona's crew is still alive at the age of 102.

  The movie about creating the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Japan will show in theaters there, after all. A Japanese distribution company announced that today, after months of heated debate over releasing the film. "Oppenheimer" debuted in most of the world last July.

  And, on Wall Street, tech stocks helped snap the market's three-day losing streak. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 63 points to close at 36117. The Nasdaq rose 193 points. And the S&P 500 added 36.