Iran's Ghalibaf:

In my view, only those who are prepared for war can negotiate with the United States.

Before the recent war, the United States, the Zionist regime, and NATO believed they could force Iran to surrender within just a few days.

However, they soon realized they would not achieve their objectives.

Senator Graham:

We’ve reached agreement with the White House on a version of the Russian sanctions bill that they will support. It means it’s going to become law.

I’m going to go with Senator Blumenthal to the Republican and the Democratic leaders, see if we can find time to move this Russian sanctions package that would give tools to President Trump to help end this war.

The EU wants Meta to make autoplay, infinite scroll, and engagement-driven recommendations less aggressive by default, plus add screen-time limits that actually work.

If Meta doesn’t comply, it could face fines of up to 6% of its yearly global revenue under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Meta disputes the findings and says its Teen Accounts already protect younger users.

Source: Politico

JD Vance:

My life is, dude, totally transformed. I don't go to the grocery store anymore. People go to the grocery store for me.

Most of my meals—like when I cook a meal, I love to cook actually. I'm a big baker. I like to cook for my kids as a special occasion, but I don't have to cook anymore because I've got an army of people who are willing to cook my food.

My life is so weird. I fly around on a 757. No more TSA lines for me and the kids. It's so weird.

But it can become the sort of thing that, if you internalize it, you start to be an entitled asshole.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

JD Vance:

I was traveling—actually Elon Musk was in my motorcade at one point.

I think we were in Florida, maybe during the transition. They had completely shut down traffic from the airport to, I think, Mar-a-Lago.

And Elon's like, "You know, I can buy a lot, but I can't buy that."

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Hunter Biden on Trump:

How does Trump not understand that he is not going to have a legacy?

His only legacy will be remembered as the most corrupt person in the history of the United States of America by far—with the most corrupt family.

Source: The Jim Acosta Show

Hunter Biden on Trump:

How does Trump get away with it?

Why is it that none of your former colleagues turned to him and said, "Go f*ck yourself, Mr. President"?

Sorry... my dad literally says, "Stop cussing, Hunter."

Source: The Jim Acosta Show

Hunter Biden on Trump:

Trump is literally sleeping. It's not once. It's not twice.

It's over and over and over again now.

Obviously, he has a serious medical condition. And I suspect that it obviously has to do with his heart.

Source: The Jim Acosta Show

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

There will be no problem for Türkiye to get the F-35 that we had paid for long before, five or six years ago.

We paid for those F-35s. They've been sitting in a hangar to be picked up by us.

Source: The National News

Q: Would we potentially see the S-400s going to the UAE, for example?

Turkish FM Fidan: This is an ongoing process, and there have been discussions and talks within the government. There has to be a healthy discussion with the Russians as well, because I cannot name any country, process, or type of solution at this moment.

As I said, there is a political will between the two presidents.

Russia should be part of the discussions as well because this is where the S-400 was bought from.

Source: The National News

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Iran:

When we heard President Trump, it was our understanding that he doesn't really mean that the ceasefire is over.

I think he was basically referring that there is a retaliation actually to what was happening between Iran and the United States.

I think there was a lack of communication and misunderstanding between both sides in terms of how to implement the passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

They need to have better communication and better deconflicting mechanisms.

Source: The National News

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Syria:

There is one risk for Syria—the policies of Israel.

We are not sure if Israel wants to see a stable, good, powerful, evolving, developed Syria.

Israel is trying to destabilize Syria. This is something that we don't want to see.

This is something that we want to communicate to the Israelis together with the regional governments. Look, stop a strategy that sees your security should come from someone else's insecurity and division.

Let's change this. You know, when other countries in the region become stable and secure, that might also work well for you.

Source: The National News

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb:

The first time we met, Trump asked the question, "Can you trust Putin?"

And my answer was, "No, you can't."

Source: BBC

Turkish FM Fidan on a possible conflict with Israel and NATO's Article 5:

The conditions for Article 5 are very clear. The provisions are very clear.

Our president is a leader of peace and wisdom. When you look at his policies in the region over the more than 20 years that he has been leading this country, that has been demonstrated again and again.

Apart from fighting against terrorism, he has always sought the best ways of cooperating with regional governments and the international community.

Source: The National News

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb:

Ukraine has already won this war.

Source: CNBC

Q: Is a cornered Vladimir Putin ever, in your opinion, going to turn nuclear?

Finland’s President Stubb: I had the Foreign Minister of China in Finland for dinner two days ago. We discussed the nuclear issue.

The Chinese are very adamant in saying, "No, that will not happen."

But there is always an escalation danger, and we need to take it seriously.

Source: CNBC

NASA is looking for 4 volunteers to spend one year in a simulated Moon/Mars mission starting no earlier than August 2027.

Participants will live in isolated habitats, grow food, monitor their health, perform simulated spacewalks, and adapt to the 40-minute-longer Martian day.

The goal is to study the physical and psychological effects of long-duration space missions.

Source: SPIEGEL

Dutch intelligence says Russian hackers compromised internet-connected security cameras (including doorbell cameras) near NATO military routes to monitor weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Many cameras were reportedly easy to hack due to weak passwords and outdated software. Authorities have warned affected organizations to improve security.

Source: The Telegraph

The Trump administration is intensifying pressure on Cuba by targeting its overseas medical missions, a major source of revenue for Havana.

The U.S. argues the program exploits Cuban doctors through forced labor and is urging countries to end or reduce contracts, threatening visa restrictions for officials who continue participating.

Several countries—including Jamaica, Guatemala, the Bahamas, and Honduras—have scaled back or ended their agreements, while others, such as St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, say they depend on Cuban doctors to keep their healthcare systems running.

Cuba has about 24,000 medical workers abroad, and the program generated roughly $5.3 billion in 2024, about half of the country's export earnings.

Source: WSJ

The Trump administration has narrowed the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, meaning destroying or degrading an endangered species' habitat is no longer automatically illegal unless it directly injures or kills the animal.

Source: NYT

Trump flew home from Türkiye on an older Air Force One after U.S. officials received Israeli intelligence about a possible Iranian plot to kill him.

Although the threat wasn't considered fully credible, officials decided his new Qatari-donated jet lacked some defensive capabilities needed for elevated-risk missions.

Trump switched to the older aircraft for the most sensitive part of the trip before returning to the new jet for the flight back to Washington.

Source: WSJ