Illinois Governor JB Pritzker:

We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker:

We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an open-ended order requiring city agencies to coordinate with federal law enforcement, signaling cooperation with Trump’s takeover of public safety in the capital.

WATCH: The U.S. military struck a smuggling vessel in the Southern Caribbean, killing 11 members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which Washington designates as a Maduro-backed terror group.

Trump:

On my orders, U.S. forces conducted a kinetic strike…

Let this serve as notice to anyone thinking of bringing drugs into America.

ICE secured access to Graphite, a powerful Israeli-made spyware from Paragon Solutions, capable of hacking phones and encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

Graphite lets ICE track locations, read messages, access photos, and even turn phones into listening devices.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Putin:

He is a war criminal.

He is perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time.

There can be “no place for leniency” in dealing with war criminals.

Poland has officially joined the “trillionaire club” of economies, with GDP surpassing $1 trillion — making it one of only 20 countries worldwide to reach this milestone.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk called it an “absolutely historic fact”.

Italian dockworkers in Genoa warned Israel over the Gaza aid flotilla:

If we lose contact with our boats, even for 20 minutes, we will shut down all of Europe.

From this port, 13–14,000 containers leave for Israel every year — not a single nail will leave anymore.

Trump: “We’ve taken in almost $17 trillion of investment.”

Claim is false. That’s more than half of total US GDP.

Since the fall of Assad’s government in December 2024, about 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries.

Another 1.7 million internally displaced people have also gone back to their communities.

Marco Rubio:

Trump is going to be on offense against drug cartels.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved allowing Pentagon lawyers from the Judge Advocate General’s Corps to serve as immigration judges to help ease a massive case backlog.

Source: Bloomberg

Reporter: On Sunday, the satellite signal of Ursula von der Leyen's plane was jammed by Russia.

Trump: Well, nobody knows where it came from, but they did take away her ability to use a phone. You know, sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes that could happen to me, I'd be very happy.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform says it releases 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will begin interviewing 11 candidates for the next Fed chair on Friday, with sessions continuing into next week.

Source: WSJ

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:

India did not cave in to US demands to stop purchasing resources from Russia, and Moscow appreciated this fact.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:

Russia expects to continue negotiations with Ukraine, the heads of delegations are in direct contact.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:

For a lasting Ukrainian settlement, it is necessary to recognize and formalize new territorial realities in an international legal manner.

The US Navy and Marines are conducting amphibious landing drills in southern Puerto Rico as part of a larger Caribbean buildup targeting drug trafficking networks tied to Venezuelan leader Maduro.

The training, led by the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Iwo Jima and supporting ships, coincides with the deployment of at least eight US warships, aircraft, and a submarine to the region.

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