🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff confirms that the Trump Administration is no longer pushing for the total denuclearization of Iran or the destruction of its nuclear program.

The Trump admin wishes to impose limits on Iran’s enrichment of uranium and the weaponization of its nuclear program, very similar to the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.

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🇾🇪🇾🇪 Yemeni militias are planning a ground offensive against the Houthis, Yemeni and U.S. officials say

The Yemeni factions are sensing an opportunity to oust the Houthis from at least parts of the Red Sea coast they have controlled in the decade since they took power over much of the country’s northwest, the officials said.

Private American security contractors provided advice to the Yemeni factions on a potential ground operation, people involved in the planning said. The United Arab Emirates, which supports these factions, raised the plan with American officials in recent weeks, the U.S. and Yemeni officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/yemen-houthis-operation-us-support-975febe6

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🇺🇸🇾🇪🇾🇪 It appears that US strikes on the Houthis have shifted from strictly degrading launch capabilities to targeting leadership and now Houthi defensive positions at the base of the Western Highlands along the front between the Houthis and Yemeni National Army.

US may be starting a strike campaign to shape the battle space for an offensive by the Yemeni National Army to break through the front and make a push towards reclaiming the capital Sanaa.

https://fxtwitter.com/Schizointel/status/1911887819720499357

🇺🇸🚢 Port of Los Angeles Braces for Cargo Decline as Trade War Intensifies

The Port of Los Angeles, despite posting strong first-quarter numbers in 2025, is preparing for a significant downturn in cargo volumes as new tariffs threaten to reshape global maritime trade patterns.

In March, the nation’s busiest container port processed 778,406 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), showing a 4.7% increase compared to the previous year. The first quarter ended with an impressive 2,504,049 TEUs, maintaining a 5.2% lead over last year’s performance and marking the third busiest first quarter on record for the port.

“Our volume remained strong throughout the first quarter, and we’ve now seen year-over year growth in 18 of the last 20 months,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka reported during his monthly media briefing.

However, significant headwinds are on the horizon. March 2025 data revealed concerning trends, as loaded exports dropped 15% from 2024 levels to 122,975 TEUs. This marks the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year decline in exports at the Port of Los Angeles.

https://gcaptain.com/port-of-los-angeles-braces-for-cargo-decline-as-trade-war-intensifies/

🇺🇸 President Trump says he's open to deporting U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes.

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🇦🇷🤝🇺🇸 — The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, received U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, during the meeting at the Casa Rosada, reaffirmed the “full support of the United States for President Milei’s bold economic reforms.”

💰 Bessent’s visit followed the Argentine government’s signing of a new $20 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the announcement of the end of currency controls. In Buenos Aires, Donald Trump’s secretary also praised the Milei administration’s “prompt action” to “reduce barriers to reciprocal trade with the United States,” highlighting a new chapter in the bilateral relationship.

➡️ During the meeting, Bessent also congratulated Milei on the successful negotiations with the IMF and “emphasized the United States’ confidence in President Milei to continue driving Argentina’s positive economic momentum,” according to an official statement released by the U.S. Treasury.

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸❗️ — Communist China MFA: US agents carried out cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure.

👤🇺🇦🪨🤝👤 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Blinken Says US Rare-Earths Deal Actually Originated With Zelensky | April 14, 2025:

"Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unexpected admission during a recent CNBC interview while discussing the topic of President Trump's controversial rare earths minerals deal with Ukraine.

Not only did Blinken appear to approve of some kind of rare earth minerals plan which would benefit the US, but disclosed that the Biden administration was working on something similar - albeit he characterized the current White House as having the wrong approach.

"Part of the victory package that [Zelensky] put on the table in the last six months of our administration included us working with them on rare earths, on critical minerals," Blinken told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in the televised interview. He also described 'frustrations' between the Biden admin and Zelensky government, but said the White House under Biden was unwilling to make these public."

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🇺🇸🗯😵‍💫🗣🗣 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Trump Slams Biden, Zelensky & Putin For Ukraine War: 'Everybody Is To Blame' | April 15, 2025:

"President Donald Trump while speaking with the press in the Oval Office on Monday once again blasted President Biden for the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, a war which Trump has repeatedly stressed should have never happened.

"That’s a war that should have never been allowed to start and Biden could have stopped it and Zelensky could have stopped it and Putin should have never started it," Trump said. "Everybody is to blame."

Trump added: "If Biden were competent and if Zelenskyy were competent, and I don’t know that he is, we had a rough session with this guy — he just kept asking for more and more."

But he seemed to reserve his most aggressive criticisms for Zelensky, once again blasting him for asking for more and more weapons and money, while knowing full well Ukraine can't defeat Russia, which is "twenty times your size" - as Trump said."

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🇺🇸🤝🏒🇷🇺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | US, Russia Preparing To Hold Hockey Matches In St. Petersburg & Washington | April 14, 2025:

"Last month, during the lengthy phone conversation between Presidents Trump and Putin, the two broached the idea of holding special USA vs. Russia hockey games amid broader efforts at diplomatic normalization. 

The March 18 phone call, which also resulted in the 'energy sites ceasefire' - saw the NHL announce at the time: "We have just become aware of the conversation between President Trump and President Putin" regarding the potential for hosting a big hockey event. 

Now, on Monday Russia’s Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev has for the first time confirmed that a series of games are indeed likely given that serious closed-door negotiations are currently in the works."

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🍀👨‍💻⚠️ — Over the past hours, many netizens have erroneously shared this image, claiming to be the "numbers of posts of 4Chan's /pol/ per flag"

However this is a Manipulated image/data.

The screenshot is from 4plebs.org, an unofficial website that tracks and archives 4chan posts, unrelated to the forum per se directly, much less to the recent breach

4plebs.org stopped tracking country statistics in 2021.

Per the final archive of the country statistics webpage in December 2020, Israel only had a total of 936363 posts:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201224040114/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/statistics/countries

🇪🇨❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — President of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) responds to Nicolás Maduro:

“If he says there was fraud, it means we’re doing things right in Ecuador. What would be truly concerning is if he congratulated us.”

🇺🇸🔒❗️ — Dan Caldwell, top advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in leaks probe