Acting ICE Chief Todd Lyons has reportedly been hospitalized twice for stress while carrying out Trump’s immigration agenda.

Officials say intense pressure—especially from the White House and adviser Stephen Miller—has affected his decision-making, though Lyons denies the White House is to blame.

Source: POLITICO

Trump:

We will get Minnesota back. We will take it back from Somalia.

A New Jersey man, Alexander Heifler—suspected of being a Jewish extremist—has been charged with plotting an attack on Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani.

Officials say he planned to throw Molotov cocktails at her Staten Island home and nearby cars.

A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg Friday morning at Philadelphia International Airport.

The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information on Iranian-linked cyber actors, including Parsian Afzar Rayan Borna and the Handala hacking group.

The move came after the FBI said Iran-linked hackers breached Kash Patel’s personal email and leaked materials online.

Hezbollah releases a video showing a strike on an Israeli Merkava tank.

Trump and Modi held a call about the Iran crisis—and Elon Musk unexpectedly joined.

Musk’s presence is unusual, as private citizens rarely join calls between world leaders.

The discussion focused on Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: NYT

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

Displacement—this was last done by Stalin.

Humanity needs to move beyond this primitive method.

Marco Rubio on Russia:

The Russian side is losing more soldiers than they’re recruiting.

Marco Rubio on Iran:

We can achieve all of our objectives without any ground troops.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

Any reporting on Cuba that you didn't get from me or the President is a liar.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf:

They’ve spammed so much fake news trying to push energy prices down that the market’s just numb now. Keep going, nobody’s buying it anymore.

The real prices will show up anyway.

Powerful? Maybe. But Smart? Not even close.

Burned that fake news card way too early.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

Cuba’s economy needs to change, and their economy can’t change unless their system of government changes.

Who’s going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country?

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

Everybody talks about these blackouts. Cuba’s been having blackouts all of last year, all the year before.

There isn’t a naval blockade surrounding Cuba. The reason why Cuba doesn’t have oil and fuel is because they want it for free — and people don’t give away oil and fuel for free on a regular basis.

The reason why they’re having blackouts is because they have equipment from the 1950s and 60s that they never maintained or kept up.

Marco Rubio on Cuba:

It is sad that the only place Cubans can’t be successful is in Cuba. You see Cubans go all over the world and find success — except in Cuba.

Marco Rubio on Iran:

There are some in the Iranian regime that are going around saying that they want to make the Strait of Hormuz a tolling thing.

They want to make it permanent. That’s unacceptable. The whole world should be outraged by it.

Steve Witkoff on Iran:

We think there will be meetings this week.

Steve Witkoff on Iran:

We have a 15-point deal on the table that the Iranians have had for a bit of time. We expect an answer from them and it would solve it all.

It would solve the enrichment question, which is we can't have enrichment there today.

It would solve the material question. They have close to 10,000 kilograms of enriched material stockpiled, which they have to give up.

It would solve the stockpiling question and the oversight question.

Q: A few Iranian missiles were intercepted over Türkiye. But this hasn't happened for a while. How?

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, with a smirk:

Am I obligated to answer?

Steve Witkoff on Iran:

We want Iran to join the League of Nations.

German Chancellor Merz on Iran:

Is regime change really the goal? If that is the goal, I do not believe they will achieve it.

In Afghanistan it took 20 years, and the regime change was from one mullah regime to another.