🇺🇸 - Marjorie Greene and Paul Gosar both voted against a motion proposed by Matt Gaetz to vacate McCarthy's chair as Speaker of the House.

🇺🇸⚡️- McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House.

🇺🇸 - The role of Speaker is now vacant for the first time in history.

🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom forgot his passport and so could not enter Ukraine for an EU Council summit in Kiev.

🇺🇸⚡️- Troy Nehls, a Republican congressman from Texas, is nominating Donald Trump to be the Speaker of the House.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- The United States will deliver seized Iranian arms to the Ukrainians.

🇺🇸🇦🇿⚡️- Ben Cardin, the Chair of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called for the US to halt all security assistance to Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇨🇦 - Russia's Foreign Ministry accused the Canadian state of promoting Nazism after members of the nationalist Active Club Canada organization laid a wreath at a monument to Ukrainian volunteers who fought for Germany in WWII.

🇬🇧 - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mooted the idea of a complete ban on tobacco products.

🇨🇿🇪🇺 - The President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, has said that it is a “geopolitical imperative” for the EU to not only accept Ukraine as a member state, but to accept Moldova, Georgia, and the Western Balkans as well.

🇩🇪⚡️- Tino Chrupalla, the head of Germany's right-wing Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) has been hospitalized after an assassination attempt against him involving a chemical agent introduced by syringe.

🇩🇪 - It is worth noting that Tino Chrupalla was recently added to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets "kill list" for his opposition to military deliveries to Ukraine.

At this point, police have refused to comment if this was an intentional attack or an accident. However, he was poisoned at a rally which gathered multiple attendees. Some sources are suggesting he was attacked during a meet-and-greet.

🇩🇪 - Two men being questioned by police right after Chrupalla's sudden poisoning. German users on X are alleging that they are the attackers.

🇩🇪⚡️- Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek has pointed out on X, formerly Twitter, that Alice Weidel and Andreas Jurca, two other prominent figures in AfD, had attempts against them in the recent weeks.

Alice Weidel, the co-chair of AfD with Tino Chrupalla, had credible threats of violence against her and was subsequently removed from her apartment last weekend to ensure her safety.

Andreas Jurca was "beaten to a pulp" in an "organized attack" by migrants who recognized him just a few weeks ago.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- Politico EU reporting that Ukraine is "freaking out" over Kevin McCarthy's removal from Speaker of the House, believing that American aid to Ukraine will be seriously threatened.

🇩🇪⚡️- AfD News on X reports that Chrupalla is in "serious condition" and is "not responsive."

🇩🇪⚡️- Oderbayren Police in Germany are asking any and all videos taken during the AfD event to "upload them."

🇩🇪⚡️- Pro-AfD German sources on X are reporting that these men have since been taken into custody.

🇩🇪⚡️- German media reporting no confirmed suspects in Chrupalla's poisoning. The two men pictured above are likely onlookers.

🇫🇷🇳🇪⚡️- The French Ministry of Defense has reported that French troops are beginning to withdraw from Niger this week.