According to The New York Times, citing two Pentagon officials, the U.S. plans to increase the amount of A-10 Warthogs deployed to the Middle East. Per the report, 18 additional A-10C Thunderbolt lls will be sent to the Middle East in addition to the 12 already operating in the U.S. Central Command Area-of-Responsibility.

Artemis ll, the United States’ first manned mission to the Moon since 1972, is go for launch, T-minus 10 minutes to launch.

Artemis ll is T-minus 5 minutes to launch from Kennedy Space Center.

T - 2:25

T - 1:00

We have launch!!!

Artemis ll, the first manned Lunar Mission by the United States since the 1970s, has successfully lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for a journey around the Moon.

The Crew of Artemis ll: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are now on their way to the Moon and will soon be the first humans to see the Lunar Surface up close since Apollo 17 launched on December 7, 1972.

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS): Americans Christopher Williams, Jack Hathaway, and Jessica Meir, alongside French Astronaut Sophie Adenot, watch the launch of Artemis ll and wish its crew “Godspeed” in their journey around the Moon.

Wild footage filmed by a passenger onboard a nearby plane captured today’s launch of Artemis ll from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.

During tonight’s Address to the Nation from the Oval Office, U.S. President Donald J. Trump will inform the American public that the deployment of ground troops may be necessary to end the ongoing war and round up highly-enriched uranium in Iran, sources tell Fox News.

The U.S. Department of Defense has given President Trump a plan to seize nearly 1,000lbs of highly-enriched uranium from at least one nuclear site in Iran, that would involve flying in excavation equipment and building a runway for cargo planes to take the radioactive material out, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post.

As President Trump’s rhetoric towards NATO and his threats to leave the treaty alliance escalate due to their refusal to join his Iran War, traders on Polymarket appear to believe that his threats aren’t just that and actually have some merit, with chances that the U.S. will withdraw from NATO before the end of the year rising, now sitting at roughly 18%.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, who is seen as a close friend of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, will visit Washington next ‌week for what a spokesperson for the military alliance told Reuters was a “long-planned visit,” which comes after President Trump recently escalated his threats to pull out of the alliance due to their refusal to join the ongoing Iran War.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Address to the Nation will begin in roughly 20 minutes, at 9:00PM EST.

Air defenses are actively engaged with defending against an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack against the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney states that he spoke earlier tonight with U.S. President Donald J. Trump, congratulating him on the successful launch of Artemis II, while discussing the courage of the astronauts, including Colonel Jeremy Hansen, the value of cooperation in space, and developments in the Middle East.