🇺🇸 “Now more than ever, we need to remember that foreign policy should always be about furthering the national interest of the United States and doing so, to the extent possible, avoiding war and armed conflict.” – Secretary Rubio in a conversation with Megyn Kelly

📎 StateDept

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇳 The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country which has killed tens of millions of Americans

📎 CSPAN

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that the U.S. Military can now perform special ops against Mexican cartels, following President Trump's designation of them as terrorist organizations.

“All options are on the table.”

📎 Benny Johnson

🇺🇸 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on DEI in Aviation: “When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, do you pray that your plane lands safely, or do you pray that your pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer to that question.”

📎 America

🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio: Ukraine has been set back 100 years by the war

“Ukraine has been set back a century. Its energy infrastructure has been destroyed. Someone will have to pay for its reconstruction. Many Ukrainians have fled to other countries and may never return.

The nation’s future hangs in the balance in this regard. From the president’s perspective, this is a prolonged conflict that must be resolved. Negotiations are necessary, and both sides of the conflict will need to make compromises.”

📎 NEXTA

🇬🇹 Guatemalan Police Arrested The Leader of a Jewish Cult, Lev Tahor after capturing 160 children from a trafficking operation.

Mexico has requested to extradite Yoel Alter due to facing similar charges there.

📎 Bikini Bottom News

🇨🇳China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing

Complex will be bigger than Pentagon and include bombproof bunkers for leaders, say US officials

https://www.ft.com/content/f3763e51-8607-42b9-9ef9-5789d5bf353d

https://archive.ph/KMQRD

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇨🇷🇬🇹🇩🇴 President Trump’s foreign-policy agenda begins close to home. Among his top priorities is securing our borders and reversing the disastrous invasion abetted by the last administration.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-americas-first-foreign-policy-secretary-of-state-rubio-writes-western-hemisphere-too-long-neglected-a81707b0

https://archive.ph/IVH4F

🇺🇸 Donald Trump this week ordered work on the most ambitious missile shield in US history, including space-based lasers.

To detect, intercept and destroy ballistic nuclear missiles during their so- called boost phase, the three- to five-minute period before they enter orbit, would require laser beams effective over hundreds of kilometres. No such technology currently exists.

Is the project potentially lucrative for Elon Musk’s SpaceX?

The space-based part of the programme would require hundreds of carrier satellites to be launched — a market currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

All this assumes the space-based programme, which Grego described as a “fantasy”, will be approved by Congress and goes ahead.

https://www.ft.com/content/62c01967-0100-46ee-9f4f-e9af467d7604

https://archive.ph/i4Mzj

🇺🇸 Guantanamo Bay will rapidly be geared up & ready to house more criminal aliens. We’re already holding the worst of the worst there. We’re getting to work.

📎 Secretary Kristi Noem

✈️ Video shows huge debris field after Philly plane crash; there are conflicting reports about a number of casualties

The plane, a Learjet 55, quickly disappeared from radar after taking off from the airport at 6:06 p.m. and climbing to an altitude of 1,600 feet (487 meters).

It was en route to Springfield, Missouri, and registered to a company operating as Med Jets, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/philadelphia-plane-crash-causes-fiery-scene-with-multiple-homes-ablaze/ar-AA1yd4Ut?ocid=BingNewsSerp

📎 Breaking911

🇺🇸💸 Over $1 Billion in DEI related U.S. government contracts cancelled.

📎 America

🇩🇪 Philip Pilkington on X:

"Germany will soon be ungovernable. Growing up I learned that the rise of Nazism was caused by the loss of dignity Germany suffered in the 1920s and so we should never let that happen again. Sadly, we’re letting it happen again - the country has no dignity. Dangerous."

📎 philippilk

🇨🇴🇺🇸 Colombia President Gustavo Petro urges illegal Colombians in America to return home.

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House has been flooded with over 10,000 applications for the "New Media" press seat.

📎 Benny Johnson

🇺🇸 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Our message is simple: if you are a criminal illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported”

📎 America

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 Tucker Carlson slams Ben Shapiro for cheering on the “evil” and “intentional” slaughter of Palestinian civilians by Israel.

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Trump: We are not looking for concessions from Canada or Mexico, we will just see what happens.

📎 Clash Report

🇺🇸🌎 American leadership is back in our hemisphere and we’re ready to work with our regional partners. Secretary Rubio is embarking on his first trip as Secretary of State. He’ll be visiting Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic where he will focus on mutual priorities that make Americans stronger, safer, and more prosperous.

📎 StateDept