The Trump administration told federal prosecutors in Miami to pause scrutiny of Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez.

Rodríguez had long been on the DEA’s radar over allegations including money laundering and drug trafficking, though she was never charged.

Source: AP

The White House continues to be funny.

Senator Graham:

They should change the Nobel Prize to the Trump Prize if Trump achieves normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. has sanctioned Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which oversees vessel transit requests through the Strait of Hormuz.

The Treasury warned that companies or individuals working with the authority could also face sanctions for indirectly supporting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

US and Iranian forces exchanged new strikes after the US shot down Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and hit a launch site in Bandar Abbas.

Iran then targeted a US airbase in Kuwait, while also firing at ships near the strait.

Senator Graham:

To our Arab allies, you need to help Trump, and if you say no to him, you do so at your own peril.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

I'm not so sure that we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the Iranians.

We have to be prepared for the next war, which will probably be against Türkiye and Egypt.

The storm is coming.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

For the United States and the West, nuclear weapons — at any level: tactical, strategic, EMPs, whatever — are viewed as something that should only be used as a last resort, and even then very carefully, on an escalation ladder, as they say.

I don't care if you start throwing nukes immediately — responsibly, but immediately.

And a case that I've been pushing is the use of an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or weapons, against Iran. Why are we waiting to get hit?

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

We are an American auxiliary. We are not an independent state.

That's why I kind of derisively referred to Bibi as ‘Governor Bibi.’

And this is why I've been talking about the need for an Israel-first principle to act on.

Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a medical checkup and met with service members, but he did not visit the 14 troops recovering there from injuries sustained in the Iran war.

The White House said Trump was “honored to meet” service members and staff but did not explain why wounded troops from Operation Epic Fury were not included in the visit.

Source: CBS News

The UN added Israel to its blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence, according to Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon.

Iranian air-defense intercepting what’s claimed to be a U.S. AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile.

EU’s Kaja Kallas is demanding that any Ukraine peace deal include Russia withdrawing troops from all the “frozen conflict” zones it occupies.

Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Georgia), Belarus, and Armenia.

BIG: Sweden is donating several JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter jets to Ukraine, with PM Kristersson announcing it today at Uppland Air Base.

Separately, negotiations are opening on a future sale of the newer Gripen E, financed through an EU loan.

This follows an October 2025 letter of intent and could eventually cover 100–150 aircraft total.

The Gripen’s ability to operate from highways and short strips makes it especially valuable given Russian strikes on Ukrainian air bases.

Source: Aftonbladet

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard released footage showing the launch of missiles toward the U.S. base in Kuwait, describing it as retaliation for the American attack near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

The video also featured symbolic anti-U.S. imagery.

WATCH: Russia is airlifting Pantsir-S1 air defense systems onto Moscow skyscraper rooftops using Mi-26T heavy-lift helicopters — including a filmed deployment onto the 42-floor Nordstar Tower.

Russia has been expanding this rooftop network since 2023.

EU’s Kaja Kallas said “America left” Kyiv, but it’s false.

The US Embassy immediately denied it and confirmed it’s fully operational.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry also shot it down.

Kallas was apparently relaying bad information she’d received from Ukrainian sources the day before.

All European embassies are staying too.

Russia had issued threats urging diplomats to leave Kyiv ahead of planned strikes, but no major embassy moved.

Kremlin:

Russia warned embassy personnel that they should leave Kyiv, and after that, everyone will make their own decisions.