U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced that he will awarding Rudy Giuliani, the Former Mayor of New York City, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, calling him a “Great American Patriot” and the “Greatest Mayor in the history of New York City.” The announcement comes only a day after Giuliani, aged 81, suffered a fractured thoracic vertebra, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg, after being involved in a serious car accident in New Hampshire.

Belgium has announced that it will also recognize the Palestinian State at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, alongside Australia, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom. In a statement announcing the plans for recognition, Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot stated that Belgium would also impose harsh sanctions against Israel.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to make a currently unknown announcement from the Oval Office on Tuesday at 2:00pm EDT.

The Israeli Air Force carried out several strikes this morning on construction equipment that was being used to restore Hezbollah terror infrastructure near Rab Thalathin and Yaroun in Southern Lebanon.

The White House has stated that today’s announcement from the President is related to the Department of Defense, with rumors suggesting that President Trump will officially announce his intention to rename the Department of Defense to its name prior to 1947, the “Department of War” while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will become Secretary of War. It is not currently known how the President intends to accomplish this rebrand, with any official change likely to require an Act of Congress and not just an Executive Order.

Overnight, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen reportedly launched two ballistic missiles at Israel, with both falling short, believed to have landed somewhere in Saudi Arabia.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer has ruled that President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law and the “1878 Posse Comitatus Act” when they deployed Federalized National Guardsmen and Marines to Los Angeles, California in June.

“The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act,” Breyer said, adding that the use of federal troops effectively created a “national police force with the president as its chief.”

As part of today’s ruling, Judge Breyer has issued an order prohibiting troops from engaging in security patrols, riot control, arrests, searches and crowd control across the United States, beginning September 12.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce this week, possibly as soon as today, the relocation of the Headquarters for U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has assessed that Russia used the lead-up to summit in Anchorage, Alaska on August 15 to stockpile drones and ballistic/cruise missiles and conducted more limited strikes against Ukraine to falsely present itself as a “good-faith negotiator” to U.S. President Donald J. Trump. Russia will likely continue to escalate its strikes against Ukraine in the coming weeks to leverage its replenished missile and drone stockpiles and degrade Ukrainian energy infrastructure ahead of the coming Winter.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, officially announces that U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) will be relocated from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

The U.S. Navy carried out a lethal strike earlier today against a vessel being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization in the Southern Caribbean Sea, which had recently departed from Venezuela, according to Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio.

Speaking during the press conference earlier at the White House, U.S. President Trump said, “I have learned things [about the Russian invasion of Ukraine] that will be very interesting, I think, in the next few days you’ll find out.” Adding that there will be “consequences” if a meeting does not occur soon between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Prior to departing Washington for Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio told reporters that the Trump Administration is going to “wage combat” against the drug cartels flooding the United States. Deferring all questions about today’s precision strike by the military against a narco-terrorist vessel in the Southern Caribbean to the Pentagon.

U.S. Republican Rep. Carlos A. Giménez states that the narco-terrorist vessel targeted in today’s precision strike by the military in the Southern Caribbean Sea, belonged to the Cartel of the Suns or Cartel de los Soles, a Venezuelan-based crime, drug trafficking, and terrorist organization purportedly led by high-ranking members of the Armed Forces of Venezuela as well as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Footage released by the Department of Defense showing today’s precision-strike by the U.S. Navy against a vessel belonging to the Cartel of the Suns in the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela.

According to President Trump, eleven members of Tren de Aragua/Cartel de los Soles were killed in the strike today in the Southern Caribbean.

The House Oversight Committee tonight is expected to release redacted documents related to notorious sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that were provided to the committee by the Justice Department, according to officials that spoke to CNN. 

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released 33,295 pages of documents, files, and other information related to the case against Jeffrey Epstein, which were provided to the committee by the U.S. Department of Justice.