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.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that he has been fully briefed on the shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

When the shooting occurred at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, the school was reportedly holding an all-student mass, with the shooter said to have opened fire outside the building with some kind of semiautomatic weapon.

Footage showing the interception of a U.S. Navy P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft equipped with an AN/APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) today off the coast of Crimea and Southern Russia in the Black Sea, by a fighter jet with the Russian Air Force.

CBS News reports that at least 10 people are critical condition after a mass shooter at a church and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that he would be taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, D.C. away from Amtrak and placing it under federal control, as President Trump continues his campaign of exerting control and influence over the Nation’s Capital. Duffy claimed during his announcement that Union Station, located within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol Building and the National Mall, had “fallen into disrepair” when it should be a “point of pride” for Washington.

Two children are dead and seven others are in critical condition following a mass shooting earlier today at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to CBS News, at least ten children are receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, while six others have been admitted to Children's Minnesota. 

According to Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O'Hara, two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed in today’s mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School, while 17 others were injured, 14 of whom are children. The shooter, identified as a male in his early 20s with no extensive criminal history, was armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol, firing through windows into the church during morning mass, before taking his own life behind the building via a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police are currently searching his vehicle.

Federal prosecutors have failed to secure a grand jury indictment against Sean Charles Dunn, a former employee with the Department of Justice, who is accused of throwing a 10-inch sub at an agent working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) during a confrontation two weeks ago in Washington, D.C. This is the second time in three days that a grand jury has rejected an indictment effort led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro.

The suspect in today’s mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had been identified as Robin Westman.

The Israeli Air Force has carried out airstrikes for the second day in a row against military sites belonging to the Syrian Army near al-Kiswah, just to the south of the Syrian capital of Damascus. These strikes come amidst ongoing talks regarding a possible security agreement between Israel and Syria.