The U.S. State Department and Secretary Marco Rubio have applauded today’s announcement by the E3: Britain, France, and Germany, that they intend to impose “snapback sanctions” against Iran, but added that the United States “remains available for direct engagement with Iran — in furtherance of a peaceful, enduring resolution to the Iran nuclear issue.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that there will be no meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, following last night’s missile and drone attack against Kyiv, which resulted in at least 21 deaths and over 100 injuries, as well as damage to the British Council Office and European Union Mission.

Following reports last week that the sale had been secretly approved by the Trump Administration, the U.S. State Department has now announced their approval of a potential sale of 3,350 Extended-Range Attack Munitions (ERAM), a low-cost precision-guided air-launched stand-off missile-bomb system with a range of roughly 250 miles, to Ukraine for an estimated $825 Million.

Speaking earlier during a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump was “not happy” but also “not surprised,” with last night’s large-scale Russian missile and drone attack against the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, which appeared to primarily target residential and civil structures, resulting in the death of at least 21. Leavitt stated that President Trump will make a statement later on Russia and Ukraine.

Chances of a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2025 have significant dropped within the last week on Polymarket’s betting market, down from its high of over 70% immediately following the meeting between Putin and U.S. President Donald J. Trump, to now only 25%. The chances of a meeting are expected to continue to drop after last night’s ballistic missile attack against Kyiv, with several European leaders stating that there will be no meeting between Putin and Zelensky.

The U.S. State Department has announced that Secretary Marco Rubio has denied and is revoking the visas of members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA), including President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in September. The move is likely a response and an attempt to prevent several countries, including Australia, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, from recognizing the State of Palestine during next month’s U.N. General Assembly.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Thursday directed the Department of Homeland Security to cancel Secret Service Protection and all other “security-related procedures” for Vice-President Kamala Harris. Most Vice-Presidents receive six months of protection after leaving office, though this period was extended by one year for Harris as a result of an Executive Directive from President Joe Biden, due to threats she had received both during and after the 2024 Election.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has charged 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, with “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees” a misdemeanor version of what they initially tried to charge Dunn with, “Felon Assault” which prosectors failed to receive an indictment for from a Grand Jury.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested two wildland firefighter on Wednesday that were helping to battle the Bear Gulch Fire in Mason County, Washington, claiming that they were illegal immigrants, sparking anger amongst officials in Washington State. According to CBP, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service requested the agency’s help in terminating the work of two firefighting firms working at the fire, agents had lined the firefighting crews up and were verifying their identities when it was discovered that two individuals were illegally present within the United States.

The Ticonderoga-Class Guided-Missile Cruiser, USS Lake Erie (CG-70), part of the large-scale deployment of warships by the U.S. Navy into the Southern Caribbean Sea and off the coast of Venezuela, has been spotted docked in Balboa, Panama.

The Israel Defense Force currently assesses that in addition to Houthi Minister of Defense, Major General Mohamed al-Atifi, and Chief of General Staff, Major General Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari, the entirety of the Houthi Political Cabinet, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, were killed in yesterday’s strikes by the Israeli Air Force against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen.

The White House has informed Congress it intends to cancel $4.9 Billion that lawmakers had previously approved for foreign aid programs under the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Trump Administration is attempting to use a legally untested method known as a “pocket rescission” to unilaterally cancel funding that has already been appropriated by Congress, by waiting so late in the fiscal year to make the request that lawmakers do not have time to reject it before the funding expires, in a move which some have called illegal, both Democrats and Republicans. Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is currently serving as the Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement released Friday, “Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.”

Russia is flying surveillance drones over routes that the U.S. military and its allies are using to ferry military supplies through Eastern Germany towards Ukraine, collecting intelligence that could be used to bolster the ongoing sabotage campaign against NATO by the Russian FSB and assist military operations in Ukraine, according to senior officials in Europe and the United States who spoke with the New York Times.

The Russian sabotage campaign against NATO has so far led to fires at warehouses in Britain, an attack against a dam in Norway, attempts to cut cables under the Baltic Sea and an array of other operations, including one which resulted in the arrest of three agents from Ukraine back in May, who the FSB had instructed to send explosives or incendiary devices on cargo planes transiting Germany. Thankfully, the plot was discovered by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who sent a warning to officials at Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service.