National Guardsmen activated as part of Joint Task Force - D.C. (JTF-DC), supporting President Trump’s D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, were seen participating in a trash pick-up detail today near the White House.

In the fourth such incident to occur in the past week, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) today 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 a Russian Il-20M “Coot-A” Special Mission Electronic Signals Intelligence Aircraft operating within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

The United States has told allies that it is prepared to provide military assets and battlefield oversight, to include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, as well as aircraft and air defence assets, to enable any European-led peacekeeping mission and aerial defense shield on the ground and in the skies over Ukraine, according to several senior officials who spoke with the Financial Times. The offer, voiced in a flurry of meetings between national security officials and military leaders from the U.S. and a number of major European countries in recent days, including Britain, France, and Italy, is contingent on commitments by European allies to deploy tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine.

A ballistic missile launched earlier tonight by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen at Central Israel, the first since recent strikes by Israel against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, was successfully intercepted by the Israeli Air Force, using an “Arrow-3” Exoatmospheric Ballistic Missile Interceptor.

The Danish Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. Envoy to Denmark following a report from the primary public broadcaster DR, indicating that at least three Americans with “ties” to U.S. President Donald J. Trump are conducting active influence operations in Greenland. According to an investigation, based off conversations with eight sources across Denmark, Greenland and the United States, the three men are conducting the operations in an attempt to “infiltrate Greenlandic society.” One of the men involved has made a list of Trump supporters in Greenland, with the goal of later recruiting them to establish a secessionist movement on the island against Denmark, while the two other men have made contact with politicians, business people, and other citizens, causing authorities to be concerned that they could be used to support Trump’s goal of eventually annexing Greenland.

The American multinational oil and gas corporation, ExxonMobil, reportedly held “secret talks” earlier this year with the Russia-state owned and operated oil enterprise, Rosneft, regarding a potential road map for resuming joint ventures between the two companies pumping oil-and-gas fields off the coast of Russia’s Far East. During the talks, senior executives from Exxon and Rosneft discussed returning to the Sakhalin Project, a massive development for oil and gas on Sakhalin Island and in the Okhotsk Sea, if the two governments gave the green light as part of a potential agreement to end the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. -WSJ

Reports of a major active shooter incident at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with at least 20 victims reported so far. A massive police response is underway by local, state, and federal authorities, with no word yet on the status of the shooter.

According to media reports, the suspect in today’s mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is dead.