White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that Joe Biden was “installed” as president following the 2020 election.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche:

The DOJ has now released all of the files with respect to the Epstein saga.

Kuwait says one of its power and water desalination plants was attacked earlier today, causing material damage.

NEW: Türkiye’s investigation into the November 2025 C-130 military cargo plane crash near the Georgia–Azerbaijan border found no signs of external interference, explosives, or sabotage.

Forensic analysis detected no shrapnel, blast damage, accelerants, or suspicious chemicals.

The cause of the crash is still under technical investigation.

NEW: A French-owned CMA CGM container ship (CMA CGM Kribi) successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz — the first French-linked container vessel to do so since the Iran war began.

Zelensky:

We want to count on receiving anti-ballistic systems, including THAAD, which are available in Middle Eastern and Gulf countries but are absent in Ukraine and Europe.

If we had such systems, the threat of Russian aerial bombs simply would not exist in Ukraine.

At a minimum, within a 200-kilometer radius, we would remove this threat.

Russian aircraft simply would not be able to approach — that would be it.

Israel is pressuring local leaders in southern Lebanon to remove Shiite civilians from their towns.

Christian and Druze communities were told they could remain only if they expel Shiites who had taken refuge there.

Most towns complied out of fear of being targeted, leaving displaced Shiite families with nowhere to go.

“Where will we go then? …Will we sleep on the street?”

Source: NYT

A Russian Su-30 fighter jet crashed in Crimea.

Crew members successfully ejected and survived.

Russia's Medvedev:

Neither Trump nor the United States will withdraw from NATO.

Trump’s rhetoric is pure showmanship.

Kremlin:

To stop the active phase of the "special military operation," Ukraine must withdraw its troops from Donbas, but Russia has not set any deadlines.

Russian drone strikes a residential building in Ukraine.

French President Macron:

We should not be passive in this new disorder.

We have to build a new order.

French President Macron:

Our objective is not to be the vassals of two dominant powers.

We don’t want to depend on the dominance of China, and we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.

French President Macron:

There is room, a space, to build new cooperation between Korea and France, in order to have such an agenda shared by Korea and France, and bringing with us other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, and Australia.

You start having a sort of third way — those who don’t want to be dependent on China or aligned by definition with the US.

French President Macron:

Iran is a very bad regime — no discussion about that. I disagree with them on a lot of topics.

But I don’t believe that we will fix the situation just by bombings or by military operations.

Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya — we never delivered. Never. Even after 20 years.

So you have to respect the sovereignty of people. If people want to change a regime, they want to react, step up, they can do so.

French President Macron:

We do not consider climate change a crazy idea; it is based on science, it does exist, and it needs to be fixed.

The U.S. quietly expelled Iran’s deputy UN ambassador, Saadat Aghajani, last December over "national security concerns."

At least two other Iranian diplomats in New York were also expelled in recent months.

Source: Axios