Lindsey Halligan, President Trump’s pick last week to serve as Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and who previously worked as a lawyer on Trump’s legal team between his first and second term, is expected to ask a grand jury in the coming days to indict Former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, despite protestors and investigators at the Department of Justice determining there was insufficient evidence to charge him, according to ABC News. 

Earlier this week, prosecutors presented Halligan — who only began serving as Acting Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia last week after the previous nominee reportedly was removed or quit due to pressure from President Trump, who is demanding charges be brought against several of his political opponents, including Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James — with a detailed memo recommending that she decline to bring perjury and obstruction charges against Comey.

A monthslong investigation into Comey by Attorney General Pam Bondi and prosecutors at the Justice Department failed to establish probable cause of a crime — meaning that not only would they be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving the claims beyond a reasonable doubt, but that they couldn’t reach a significantly lower standard to secure an indictment.

The memo from prosecutors appears to have been totally ignored by Halligan, who despite their recommendations, plans to present evidence to a grand jury before the statute of limitations for the alleged offense by Comey expires next week, sources told ABC.

The Ukrainian General Staff is reporting that a Russian Su-34 “Fullback” Medium-Range Tactical Bomber was downed this morning near the frontline in Eastern Ukraine, while attempting to carrying out strikes against the city of Zaporizhzhia.

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has stated that Denmark is considering invoking NATO Article 4 following recent drone intrusion over airports and airbases in the country, which officials state was an “attack” carried out by a “professional actor” against Denmark. This would be the third request of consultations under NATO Article 4 in the last two weeks, due to potential hostile actions by Russia.

Prior to both Estonia and Poland, and now possibly Denmark, invoking NATO Article 4 this month, the last time that a member of the alliance requested consultations under Article 4 was at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Germany’s Defense Ministry is reporting that a pair of Russian “Luch-Olymp-K” Signals-Surveillance Satellites are actively “shadowing” two Intelsat-operated communication satellites utilized by the German Armed Forces and NATO, stating that the ongoing action is a “fundamental threat” against NATO by Russia.

In September 2018, France’s Minister of the Armed Forces claimed that in 2017 a Luch-Olymp-K Satellite had crept close to the “Athena-Fidus” Telecommunication Satellite, operated jointly by France and Italy and used for secure military communications and the planning of operations by NATO, calling it an “Act of Espionage.” Previous maneuvers by Russia’s Olymp-K have caused serious concern and a number of classified meetings by the U.S. Department of Defense.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has confirmed that several military aircraft with the Russian Aerospace Forces, 2 Tu-95MS “Bear” Long-Range Strategic Bombers and 2 Su-35SM “Flanker-M” Multirole Fighters, violated the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) last night, resulting in the scramble of an E-3C “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft, 4 F-16 “Fighting Falcon” Multirole Fighters, and 4 KC-135R “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers to track and intercepted the aircraft until they left the ADIZ.

Israel is currently carrying out strikes against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen, following a drone strike yesterday against the Southern Israeli city of Eilat which resulted in over 20 injuries, for which responsibility was claimed by the Houthis.

In addition to overnight drone sightings above and around several airports and military airbases in Denmark, authorities have stated they are also investigating reports of unknown drones seen and detected by ship-based radars last night over Danish-operated oil fields in the North Sea.

Footage showing the moments immediately following Israeli strikes earlier against Sana’a in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly accepted an invitation from Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha to visit Ukraine.

Poland is preparing to amend its law on military deployments abroad to allow its forces to shoot down “hostile objects” launched by Russia, such as drones and missiles, over Ukraine without prior approval from NATO or the European Union, according to Euractiv.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a rare, urgent gathering of nearly all Generals and Admirals in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force next week at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, for a currently unknown reason, according to The Washington Post.

Denmark has activated its National Crisis Management System following last night’s drone intrusions by an unknown actor over airports and military airbases across the country, with the National Operational Staff (NOST), which is headed by the Danish National Police and consists of representatives from the Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA), Danish Health Authority, Danish Defense Command, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (DSIS), Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Critical Supply Agency, and the Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority, to remain assembled 24/7.

Wing of Zion carrying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where he is expected to attend the United Nations General Assembly and several other diplomatic meetings, before traveling to Washington, D.C. on Monday for a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

NATO Allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian fighter jets that violate NATO’s Airspace, with some countries including the United States, Poland and the Baltic States signaling that future violations should be met with force, while others, including Germany, urge more restraint from allies, according to CNN.

The issue reportedly came to a head during an emergency defense consultation meeting Tuesday requested by Estonia under NATO Article 4, which was called after Estonian Airspace was violated last week by several Russian MiG-31s over the Gulf of Finland. During the meeting, representatives from several countries, including Poland and Estonia, wanted the joint statement following the meeting to make clear that any additional violations by Russia, including from manned aircraft, would be met with lethal force, but Germany and some member countries in Southern Europe pushed to remove that language from the statement, claiming that it was too escalatory against Russia.

Even U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, the Commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, urged restraint to any escalatory statement from NATO, suggesting that the Russian incursion into Estonia was likely accidental given the inexperience and insufficient training of pilots in the Russian Air Force. Only a day later however, President Donald J. Trump told reporters at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, that he believed NATO Allies should shoot down Russian aircraft that violate their airspace in Europe.