JD Vance:

Tucker Carlson is a friend of mine.

I am not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with them.

JD Vance:

But for the leadership of Trump, we would have had an energy crisis because the Iranians refuse to stop acting like terrorists.

JD Vance:

Last night, 15 million barrels came out of the Strait. That’s because of the USA.

If we don’t do it, nobody else would do it, and if nobody else did it, we would have a catastrophic world energy crisis.

JD Vance on Iran:

We are not talking to the Iranians, and we are not going to talk to them unless they stop shooting at commercial shipping.

Reporter: On Iran, will the war be over by the midterms?

JD Vance: I wouldn’t call it a war.

JD Vance on Iran:

When will the Iranians stop shooting at ships? I don’t know the answer to that question.

JD Vance on Iran:

If you look at the Iranian ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans, I think it’s quite limited.

It’s not zero, but it’s quite limited.

Reporter: Maria Bartiromo left Fox News. Is she going to be the next White House press secretary?

JD Vance: I don’t know, man. No, I don’t think so.

JD Vance on China:

Say what you will about China, they are not the sort of nation that shoots at commercial shipping because they are not getting their way in an international dispute.

JD Vance on Iran:

If you look at Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, if you look all across the world, we are actually seeing a lot of countries privately doing a lot of good things to help us ensure that the Iranians pay a penalty for firing at commercial shipping.

NEW: Ratko Mladić's body landed in Belgrade, flown from The Hague on a Serbian government plane.

Serbian Army soldiers carried the coffin off the aircraft, draped in the flags of Serbia and Republika Srpska.

His son Darko, a granddaughter, the justice minister, and two former comrades accompanied it.

The coffin was taken under heavy police escort to the Military Medical Academy for autopsy.

Citizens gathered along the route with banners reading "Welcome home, General."

The funeral is scheduled for September 7 at Topčider Cemetery.

BIG: Volkswagen's own management is using sinking-ship language now.

A leaked 147-page internal paper prepared with Boston Consulting Group for this week's supervisory board meeting says "the Titanic has already struck the iceberg, water is flowing in."

VW isn't bankrupt — it still has over €30 billion in cash — but the old model is broken.

Margins are at 2.8%, China profits have collapsed, and the cost gap with rivals is around 20%.

The plan: up to 100,000 job cuts by 2030, four German plants losing production by the early 2030s (Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, Neckarsulm), SEAT phased out as a brand by end of 2029 in favor of Cupra, and the model lineup cut roughly in half.

The Israeli military says it has cleared Hezbollah fighters from an underground complex beneath southern Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge and is now preparing to destroy the site.

According to the IDF, troops established “operational control” above and below ground, killing some Hezbollah operatives while others fled.

Marco Rubio:

Today I've designated a grandson of Raúl Castro, Fidel Ernesto Castro Calis, Banco Exterior de Cuba, and four entities that are part of the corrupt Castro financial and intelligence network.

President Trump and I are unwavering in our commitment that Cuba will be free.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

Rebuilding Gaza will cost around $71 billion. Seventy-one billion dollars to rebuild Gaza.

So if anyone has some idea in their head about rebuilding Gaza, they’re simply living in a fantasy.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We conducted surveys in Israeli society: 86% in the south, 89% in the West Bank, and overall 76% of Israeli society support "encouraging emigration" from Gaza.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

There are countries that informed the State of Israel that they are willing to accept [Palestinians leaving Gaza] — in exchange for budgets, in exchange for money, in exchange for various things they asked from the State of Israel.

But there are countries that are willing to do it.

The family stays together. We have no intention of breaking up families there; on the contrary, they should move together, remain together, and live together.

There will be a variety of destination countries — there are several such countries.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We are talking about our targets: 250,000 leave Gaza in the first year. It is possible.

One million leave Gaza within three years. Within seven years, we can reach almost 1.9 million who will leave Gaza.

Zelensky on India:

Today, I spoke with a representative of India – India’s Minister of External Affairs visited Ukraine.

India’s position is clear: there must be an end to the war, not Putin’s attempts to make this war endless.

Zelensky:

It is important that airlines using Russian airspace continue to pay attention to the real situation and the real danger.

Today, there are new signals from airlines on this, and we confirm that because of Russia’s war, Russian skies have become a space for drones, not civilian aircraft.

Drones are a concrete reality, unlike the words of Russian officials who are trying to reassure airlines.

Wreckage of Chinese-made CH-95 drone was filmed near Assosa in western Ethiopia, close to the Sudan border today.

The CH-95 is operated by Sudan's RSF terror group, backed by UAE.

The crash site is near Assosa Airport, where analysts have tracked suspected UAV-related activity and logistics linked to RSF cross-border operations.

CH-95s have been lost in growing numbers inside Sudan since June 2026, often shot down by Sudanese Akıncı drones.