The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. has filed a complaint seeking the forfeiture of the motor tanker Skipper, and it's 1.8M barrel cargo of Venezuelan crude oil, that was boarded and seized on December 10th in the Southern Caribbean for violating sanctions by the U.S. Coast Guard.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has posted to TruthSocial directing that all federal agencies "IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthorpic's technology" and goes on to say there will be a six month phase out period for agencies like the Department of Defense. His post also advises Anthropic to "get their act together" or he will use the "Full Power of the Presidencey to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow."

In a release, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated Iran as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention. Iran has routinely detained Americans to use as bargaining chips for negotiations frameworks or to gain concessions from the U.S. in the past. Should Iran fail to stop using this underhanded tactic, the release says that “additional measures, including passport restrictions and geographic travel restrictions “to, through, or from Iran,” will be implemented.

Following President Trump's TruthSocial directive earlier today for all agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic, and their language model, Claude AI, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a "supply-chain risk to national security" effectively blacklisting the company from doing business with any government agency, or any contractor who does business with the U.S. Government.

The U.S. Government and Pentagon under Pete Hegseth has now effectively blacklisted Anthropic, as well as it’s language model Claude AI, which is currently being used as a backbone by several defense systems, while listing the company as a “supply chain risk,” a label not even placed on a majority of defense contractors or companies working for the Armed Forces of China and Russia. All because Anthropic refused to remove safeguards that would allow the Pentagon to develop weapons that fire without human involvement and commit mass domestic surveillance directed at Americans.

Speaking earlier today on CBS News’ Face the Nation, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi, who met Friday with Vice President JD Vance and other senior officials in Washington, said that recent talks are approaching an agreement which would see Iran give up all of its highly-enriched uranium, while the remainder is developed - under international oversight - into fuel for nuclear power plants. “I think that there is agreement now that this will be down blended to the lowest level possible, to a neutral level, a natural level, and converted into fuel, and that fuel will be irreversible,” Badr told CBS, with technical talks regarding this agreement to begin on Monday.

In a notable turn of events, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has announced that tonight, OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Department of War (DOW) to deploy their models on classified networks. This comes amidst the ongoing row between Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, and the DOW regarding concerns over its model being employed for mass surveillance and the use of AI in the decision-making process on the use of force. Which, ironically, are the two key points that OpenAI has reportedly now rectified with the DOW. Altman also added that he has asked the DOW to offer similar terms to all AI companies, though it now remains unclear where Anthropic and Claude AI now sit in the current equation.

Defense Minister Israel Katz says he declared an "immediate state of emergency throughout the entire country."

Multiple explosions reported across the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Israel is confirmed to have launched “preemptive strikes” this morning against Iran.

Satellite imagery from the Iranian port city of Konarak, located on the Gulf of Oman near the border with Pakistan, shows a large fire onboard and smoke pouring from a pierside vessel, possibly a warship with the Iranian Navy.

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Cellphone footage showing an Iranian Shahed-136 striking a high-rise residential building earlier tonight in Bahrain.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published footage showing BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) being launched from Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, as well as F-35C Lightning lls and F/A-18E Super Hornet from the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), during today’s opening strikes against Iran.

President Donald J. Trump told Axios in an interview on Saturday that he has several “off ramps” from Operation Epic Fury against Iran. “I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: 'See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs],” Trump said in a five-minute phone interview from Mar-a-Lago, further stating that, “In any case, it will take them several years to recover from this attack.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike this morning on Iran, with his body being found recently among the rubble, Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel.

Insane footage showing multiple interceptors from a U.S. Army MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Battery launching and downing Iranian ballistic missiles earlier tonight during an attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with at least one ballistic missile seen striking the base, reportedly damaging a clinic on Al Udeid.