🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- As part of the second phase of the 20-point Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal, the US has proposed a phased disarmament of Hamas, the New York Times reports.

The plan will see Hamas decommission all heavy weapons first, that are capable of striking Israel. Hamas would be allowed to keep small arms temporarily, but must have them registered and later handed over. US envoys Witkoff and Kushner are expected to present the phased disarmament proposal to Hamas and the mediators soon.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "The US is using offtake deals and state-backed funding to compete in the short term with China in securing supplies of African copper, cobalt and other critical minerals.

Washington's focus is on Zambia, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter accounts for more than 70% of global cobalt supplies and produced some 3.3 million metric tons of copper in 2024," - Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡- NOTAM issued over El Paso, Texas, that is set to last 10 days.

The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all commercial and passenger aircraft. The airspace is defined as "national defense airspace," with the NOTAM stating "pilots who do not adhere to the following may be intercepted and detained."

🇺🇸⚡️- The person detained in connection with the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie has been released.

🇺🇸⚡️- “Important context: the El Paso TFR is not like the 9/11 nationwide airspace shutdown. DC & NY restrictions were created later. A ban on all flights over a U.S. city—including medevac and police helicopters—has no modern precedent.” - CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- Congress was not notified of the airspace closure ahead of time.

🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡- The Venezuelan government denies the Bloomberg article of sending its first ever shipment of oil to Israel. Caracas calls the Bloomberg report "fake news."

🇺🇸⚡️- "The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted. There is no threat to commercial aviation. All flights will resume as normal." - FAA.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- "Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace. Pentagon took action to disable the drones," - A US official tells Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡- "Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-TX) says her office is not aware of any threat to the El Paso area and was not notified prior to operations at El Paso airport being halted by the Feds for 10 days," - Fox News.

🇺🇸⚡️- Maricopa County Attorney has dropped charges against Clavicular based on “no reasonable likelihood of conviction" — NYT Journalist

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met Secretary of State Rubio at the Blair House, and has officially joined the Board of Peace.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Trump-Netanyahu meeting at the White House has been ongoing for 30 minutes now.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has arrived in Venezuela.

🇾🇪⚡- Factions affiliated with the former UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of Yemen attempted to storm Shabwah's government building, leading to clashes with the Saudi-backed Coalition Forces. At least five deaths have been reported.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US forces withdraw from al-Tanf base, eastern Syria, ending an almost 12 year deployment to the site.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - President Trump is joined by Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary of War Hegseth, and Envoys Witkoff and Kushner, while meeting Israel's Netanyahu.

🇺🇸⚡️- Congressman Thomas Massie and Attorney General Pam Bondi get into a heated exchange over the Epstein files, with Massie accusing Bondi of conducting a massive cover-up.

🇹🇯⚡- Emomali Rakhmon, who's been President of Tajikistan for over 31 years, hasn't appeared in public for over two weeks.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Trump-Netanyahu meeting was planned to last 60 minutes, but it has now been ongoing for over 250 minutes.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The meeting has ended after 3 hours.