🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "No plans for President Trump to meet President Putin in the immediate future," - The White House.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump’s policy on Ukraine is going in circles," - AFP, citing a Ukrainian official.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi.

🇺🇸⚡- Speaker Johnson plans to permit a floor vote on the release of Epstein files when Congress reconvenes: "If it hits 218, it comes to the floor."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump-Putin summit in Budapest, Hungary, is called off after a phone call between Rubio and Lavrov to prepare for peace talks turned sour," - The Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio to join Vice President JD Vance in Israel in the coming days.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- A senior Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus, Syria.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡- "British troops have been deployed to Israel to join US troops in 'monitoring the Gaza ceasefire'. The British deployment was requested by the White House," - Sky News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah is quickly rebuilding its forces, recruiting fighters, and restoring bases north of the Litani River, surpassing the Lebanese army’s attempts to limit its power.

Israel had initially agreed to reduce its operations in Lebanon if the Lebanese government made successful progress in disarming Hezbollah," - i24, citing Western intelligence.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to travel to Washington to meet with President Trump to bring him back in line with Europe and Ukraine on the war," - Reuters.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas have delivered the bodies of 2 deceased Israeli hostages, leaving 13 remaining within the Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Los Angeles Times reports that a U.S. marshal was wounded by gunfire by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer today during a shootout in south Los Angeles after a suspect attempted to ram arresting officers.

Both the suspect and the wounded marshal are in hospital, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

🇺🇸 - A bit of opinion from admin: Mainstream conservative media and pro-Trump outlets have been casually and carefully omitting the specifics of this incident. FOX News did not mention in their headlining that the U.S. marshal was wounded by an ICE agent; implying that the U.S. marshal was wounded by gunfire from the illegal immigrant they were attempting to arrest.

While it's not a direct lie, it's a careful rhetorical omission that is subtly attempting to support the Trump Administration's goals of further confronting the left.

🇺🇸 - At some point - God forbid - a crazed leftist will go out and attempt to harm federal agents. Any victims will be the justification for the Trump Administration to crack down further. This escalation will continue until something akin to the 2020 riots breaks out, and the Trump Administration will then have to deal with a full-scale confrontation with the left.

The question is then this: Is the Trump Administration prepared for that?

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery shelling of eastern Gaza City.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- The Turkish parliament has voted in favor of extending the Turkish military deployment to Iraq and Syria for another three years.

🇰🇵⚡️- Yonhap News Agency reports that North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.

🇮🇸⚡- After record heat, mosquitos have been discovered in Iceland for the first time ever.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukrainian forces have begun a slow withdrawal from Pokrovsk city as Russian troops advance.

Russian forces have advanced south of Pokrovsk and within the city as well - Russia now controls 46% of the city. Russian troops have also entered the city of Mirnograd from the southeast.

Further north, Russian forces have captured the rest of Krasniy Liman, and have entered the south of Rodinskoe. Ukrainian troops are now at risk of encirclement in Rodinskoe, as the Russians advance from both, the north and the south.