🇺🇸⚡️- Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress - NYT.

🇺🇸🏴🇸🇾⚡️- "Tonight, U.S. and Jordanian forces struck 70+ ISIS targets in Syria with 100+ precision munitions. Peace through strength." - U.S. Central Command.

🇹🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Despite Israel's opposition, we are strongly insistent on participating in the International Stabilization Force in Gaza," - Yasar Guler, Turkey's Minister of Defense.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- Thai's navy shells the Cambodian naval base of Koh Yo in the Koh Kong Province, western Cambodia.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- Thai F-16s carry out attacks on the Cheyyar Pass, Pursat Province of Cambodia.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Heavy US aerial activity again this morning over Syria.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡️- BREAKING: An unidentified drone crashed in the Manyas district of Turkey's Marmara region.

This makes it the third such incident this week after the first two were identified as Russian drones.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡️- Turkish media reports the UAV is a Russian Merlin-VR long range drone. The drone costs approximately $300,000.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 - A team led by Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, drafted a PowerPoint shown to Middle East officials, which outlined a proposal for the U.S. to fund 20% of Gaza’s reconstruction into a ‘smart city’—dubbed ‘Project Sunrise’. - WSJ

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu is expected to ask Trump to attack Iran’s ballistic missile program at their upcoming Florida meeting. - NBC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: "The United States has attempted to interdict and seize another sanctioned vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters." - Reuters, citing US defense officials.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: U.S. Representatives and creators of the Epstein Transparency Act, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, are planning to draft articles of impeachment and pursue inherent contempt against Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to release the entirety of the Epstein files and for engaging in a cover-up.

🇺🇸🇪🇹🇮🇱⚡️- With the US facing difficulties in recruiting countries willing to join the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has requested Ethiopia contribute troops.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳⚡️- BREAKING: The US has seized sanctioned Chinese shadow vessel CENTURIES, which was moving illegal Venezuelan crude.

The stateless supertanker was falsely flying the Panamanian flag.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️- BREAKING: Initial reports of the US seizing the Russian NEURUS SOPHIA shadow tanker in the Caribbean waters.

The tanker was recently loaded with illegal Venezuelan oil.

Correction: Reports are incorrect.