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.

Unverified reports of a “serious security incident” near Gaza City in the Northern Gaza Strip, with several Israeli soldiers having possibly been killed, injured, and/or captured in an ambush by Hamas.

In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the decision by the lower court, ruling that President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unlawful, with the majority stating in an official release after the decision, “We agree that [International Emergency Economic Powers Act's] grant of presidential authority to 'regulate' imports does not authorize the tariffs imposed by the Executive Orders.” In response to the decision, President Trump angrily degraded the Court of Appeals in a post on Truth Social, warning that a court order blocking the tariffs “would literally destroy the United States of America,” and vowing to bring the case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ukraine’s campaign against Russian oil and gas facilities continues, with a large fire currently burning at the Krasnodar Oil Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, Southwestern Russia, following several drone strikes against the complex by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

No there is nothing to suggest that President Trump is dead. It seems like all of this has been spurred by him not being seen publicly since Tuesday and not having any events scheduled for this weekend, which is not evidence of anything other than it being a bit unusual that Trump is not leaving Washington, D.C. for Labor Day Weekend.

Overnight, for the second night in a row, Russia launched one of its largest missile and drone attacks of the war, against Ukraine, launching 537 Shahed-type attack drones, 8 Iskander-M/KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles, and 37 Kh-101/Kh-59/Kalibr/Iskander-K cruise missiles at cities throughout Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, of the 582 missiles and drones launched, air defenders shot down 548, including 510 drones, 6 ballistic missiles, and 32 cruise missiles launched by Russia.

Following rumors yesterday regarding President Donald J. Trump’s health after he had not been seen publicly since Tuesday, Trump was spotted earlier today leaving the White House to play golf at his club in Virginia.

The Israeli Air Force, using intelligence gathered by both the IDF and Shin Bet, carried out a precision-strike today against a neighborhood in Gaza City within the Northern Gaza Strip, believed to have targeted Abu Obaida (Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout), the Spokesman for Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades.

Houthi-run media channels have now confirmed the death of Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi as well as several other unnamed ministers who were part of the Houthi Political Council, as a result of a series of targeted strikes by the Israeli Air Force against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on Thursday. In addition, an untold number of ministers and other senior officials were injured in the strikes, which reportedly targeted them while they were participating in a “routine workshop” for the civilian government held virtually by Houthi Leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

According to Al-Arabiya, only four ministers remain in the Houthi Civilian Government following Thursday’s airstrikes by Israel against the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, which killed several ministers, including Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi.