After being forced to return to Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia to wait out Hurricane Erin, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), consisting of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and USS San Antonio (LPD-17), have finally departed for their deployment to the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. There they will join by the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers: USS Sampson (DDG-102), USS Gravely (DDG-107), and USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), who have already arrived in the U.S. Southern Command’s Area-of-Responsibility.

The Russian milblog channel Rybar is suggesting that Russia deliver “Shahed-131/136” One-Way Attack Drones to Venezuela to “deter” any future military action from the United States.

Initial reports of an active shooter on the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Major police response at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, following reports of an active shooter at the Thomas Cooper Library.

The University of South Carolina is reporting that law enforcement is currently searching the Columbia Campus but so far there is no evidence of an active shooter, with students and staff told to continue sheltering in place until there is an All Clear.

All clear given at the University of South Carolina’s Columbia Campus, following reports earlier of an active shooter which appear to have caused by an individual with an umbrella looking object which was mistaken for a long-rifle.

The individual who was seen walking around the University of South Carolina in Columbia earlier with an umbrella, which triggered an alert for a possible active shooter near the Thomas Cooper Library.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said on Friday that national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are “highly overrated” and that he will continue extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until it is purchased by a company or group based in United States, in violation of the ban approved last year by Congress. This statement by the President follows last week’s announcement that the White House had created its own account on TikTok.

For the third time in the past week, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked an Ilyushin Il-20M “Coot-A” Special Mission Electronic Signals Intelligence Aircraft with the Russian Air Force operating earlier today within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). In response, NORAD scrambled an E-3 “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft, a KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tanker, and a pair of F-16 “Fighting Falcons” to intercept, visually identify, and monitor the Il-20M.

Beginning Sunday, the roughly 2,500 Airmen and Soldiers with the District of Columbia National Guard, as well as several other Republican-led states that have deployed their own respective National Guards to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump’s D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, will be armed with their service-weapons while patrolling the Nation’s Capital, according to Maj. Michael A. Maxwell, the Spokesman for Joint Task Force - D.C. (JTF-DC). Maxwell emphasized that Guardsmen would operate under established rules for the use of force, employing it “only as a last resort and solely in response to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.”

Footage showing the second strike earlier today on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, which appeared to target search-and-rescue and medical workers that had responded to the first strike on the hospital.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump attempts to defend last week’s deal with Intel, which saw the government receive a 10% ownership stake in the multinational tech corporation. The deal has since received immense pushback from both Conservatives and Liberals who have referred to it as Socialist/Communist-like, with Trump calling those who disagree with the decision “stupid.”

U.K. Secretary of State David Lammy states that he is “horrified” by today’s attack by Israel against Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, renewing calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The accounts on here who regularly talk about Israel and Gaza that are defending and/or attempting to justify today’s strike and “double tap” against rescue workers at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, should tell you all you need to know about them.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump today signed an Executive Order which he claims mandates a one-year prison sentence for those who burn the American Flag, in direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution and upheld by Texas v Johnson. Despite claims by President Trump that the order imposes a prison sentence for flag burning, the actual order makes no mention of a prison sentence and only directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to look at cases where people burned flags and see if they can be charged with other crimes like disturbing the peace or breaking environmental laws, in an attempt to circumvent the First Amendment.