After remaining in the position for roughly six months following his appointment by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, David Richardson has resigned from his role as Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to CBS News. Richardson’s resignation from the agency follows several controversies under his leadership, including during the devastating floods in Texas back in July, in which FEMA officials said they were unable to contact Richardson for over a day after the floods began, hampering federal relief efforts across Texas.

Alexis Wilkins, 27, the current girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel - who performs as a country music artist in Nashville, Tennessee - has been assigned an elite security detail made up of FBI agents usually attached to a SWAT Unit at the FBI Field Office in Nashville, despite her not living with or even in the same state as Patel, who often travels to Washington for work but keeps a legal residence in Las Vegas, according to The Independent.

Kash Patel recent sparked controversy by taking a private jet operated by the FBI to Wilkins’s concerts in Nashville, something which he was highly critical of Former FBI Director Christopher Wray for doing under the first administration of President Donald J. Trump.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells reporters earlier in the Oval Office that the United States will sell F-35A Lightning lls to Saudi Arabia, despite continued concerns of Chinese espionage raised by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and other sectors of the Pentagon.

Speaking earlier in the Oval Office, President Donald J. Trump tells reporters that he would sign, not veto, a bill directing the Justice Department to release all files related to the case against convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, if it passes a vote in the House and the Senate.

The U.N. Security Council has voted 13-0, with both China and Russia abstaining, in favor of adopting a resolution authorizing the creation of a Board of Peace and an International Stabilization Force in the Gaza Strip, as outlined in U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.”

Satellite imagery taken earlier today, November 17, by the European Space Agency (ESA) and published by @MT_Anderson, captured the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and several other naval vessels, most likely a part of Carrier Strike Group Twelve (CSG-12), positioned south of Puerto Rico in the Southern Caribbean.

In addition to a deal regarding the sale of F-35s and a security agreement with commitments similar to NATO’s Article 5; one of the agreements that will reportedly be signed during tomorrow’s meeting at the White House between U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is an agreement regarding cooperation in the field of civil nuclear development between Saudi Arabia and the United States, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks about the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities and the ongoing situation in the Middle East during the McDonald’s Impact Summit tonight in Washington, D.C.

In a post earlier on Truth Social, President Donald J. Trump congratulated the “World” on tonight’s successful vote by the U.N. Security Council, acknowledging the establishment of the Board of Peace, which he will chair, and which he states will include “the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World.” President Trump then thanks all of the countries on the Security Council as well as all the countries who supported the creation of the Board of Peace, adding that “the members of the Board, and many more exciting announcements, will be made in the coming weeks.”

The U.S. Army has awarded a $698,948,760 firm-fixed-price contract to the American defense manufacturer Raytheon for the procurement of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to be delivered to the Republic of China Armed Forces (Taiwan), with an estimated contract completion date of February 28, 2031.

Former Harvard President and Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers has announced that he will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” in response to last week’s release of 20,000 emails by the House Oversight Committee showing correspondence between convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and several of his close associates, which included Summers, who had spoken back-and-forth with Epstein for over seven years, even up until the day before his arrest on July 5, 2019.

A Michigan man named JD Vance has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for posting online threats to kill President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President JD Vance, according to FOX 2 Detroit.

James Donald Vance, Jr., 67, pled guilty to two felony offenses and was sentenced on Monday to two years of federal prison time for posting messages earlier this year on the social media service Bluesky threatening to do harm to four different people, including Vice-President JD Vance and President Donald J. Trump.

Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure company that helps websites secure and manage their internet traffic, suffered a major outage which took down hundreds of websites and web services early Tuesday, including Amazon, ChatGPT, Indeed, Shopify, Spotify, and X.

The Spokesman for the Polish Coordinator of Special Services, Jacek Dobrzyński, has stated that “everything indicates” Russian intelligence services carried out and/or ordered this past weekend’s explosion on a railway line and other acts of sabotage in Poland, which officials have said was most likely aimed at blowing up a train on the Warsaw-Lublin Route.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced this morning that they have identified the two suspects in yesterday’s sabotage of several sections of crucial rail line in Poland, with at least one attempt successfully blowing up a rail section using C4, as a pair of Ukrainian nationals long since linked to intelligence services in Russia. One of the suspects was previously convicted for sabotage in Lviv, while the other is from the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine. Both were living in Belarus and entered Poland this fall, fleeing back into Belarus after their attempts at sabotage on Sunday.