The U.S. Department of Defense today cancelled a classified briefing for congressional leaders and key committees on the recent military strike against a vessel linked to drug trafficking off the coast of Venezuela, according to the AP.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has just signed an Executive Order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Officials state they do not currently know how much it will cost to implement President Trump’s Executive Order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, claiming that the cost will “fluctuate.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has already changed his account to Secretary of War.

Changes to signage have already begun within the Pentagon.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that fighter jets with the Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela will be “shot down” if they “put us in a dangerous position.” This follows the reported low-altitude flyover of the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) yesterday in the Southern Caribbean Sea by a pair of armed Venezuelan F-16s.

The U.S. Department of Defense account has now also been changed to the Department of War.

The Acting-Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Justice’s Office of Enforcement Operations, Joseph Schnitt, was recently caught on a hidden-camera recorded and published by Project Veritas, claiming that the DOJ would redact the name of any Republican and/or Conservative in the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, and leave any Democrat or Liberal. Schnitt also suggested that convicted sex offender and close-associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, was moved to a minimum-security prison following talks with the DOJ, as part of a deal to “keep her mouth shut.”

The Department of Justice has since released a statement from Joseph Schnitt, who claimed that everything said in the video were just “personal comments” made during a date with a girl he met on Hinge.

Warships with both the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Australian Navy are currently conducting a “Freedom of Navigation” transit through the Taiwan Strait.

Overnight, several aircraft with the Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela overflew the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) in the Southern Caribbean Sea for the second time in 24 hours, according to several officials with the War Department who described it to CBS News as a “game of chicken.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is weighing a number of options for carrying out military strikes against narco-terrorist cartels operating in Venezuela, including potentially hitting targets inside the country as part of a broader strategy aimed at weakening the hold and eventually removing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to CNN.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, while talking to reporters today attempting to justify and downplay President Trump continually calling the Epstein Files a “Democrat Hoax,” claimed that Trump was an informant for the FBI in their case against Jeffrey Epstein.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has condemned a strike earlier week by the U.S. military against a boat being operated by narco-terrorists in the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela, which reportedly killed 11 members of Tren de Aragua/Cartel de los Soles, with Petro calling the strike “murder.”

On Thursday, the White House delivered a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley, explaining its view that the president acted within his constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief to conduct this week’s strike against a narco-terrorist vessel off the coast of Venezuela. The letter makes clear the open-ended nature of the mission, stating, “It is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that will be necessary. U.S. Forces remain postured to carry out further military operations [in and around Venezuela].”

Reuters has published a photo showing a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 “Reaper” armed with AGM-114 “Hellfire” Missiles on the runway at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Northwestern Puerto Rico. A Hellfire fired by an MQ-9 or another aircraft is likely what was used in Tuesday’s strike against a narco-terrorist vessel off the coast of Venezuela.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refused an “invite” by Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in Moscow, instead telling Putin he should come to Kyiv.

Publicly threatening war with a city in the United States because they won’t bow to your demands, just an average day in the Trump Administration.

Israel appears to have quietly backed away from talks of annexing large portions of the West Bank, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu having removed the issue of annexation from a recent high-level cabinet meeting hours before it began, according to the Washington Post. This apparent decision came following intense pressure from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against both Israel and the Trump Administration, stating through rarely-used diplomatic channels that annexation would be a “red line” and potentially lead to the collapse of President Trump’s Abraham Accords.