Tuesday’s Pentagon briefing with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine has been canceled, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

130 Soldiers with the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, which operates M777A2 Howitzers, M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), M109A6 Self-Propelled Howitzers, and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), departed Monday for the Middle East, joining the significant buildup of forces in the region due to the ongoing Iran War.

Sirens now in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates as ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones continue to be launched at the Gulf Nations by Iran.

Waking up Monday on the sixth day of their mission around the Moon, currently on the far side over 252,756 miles away from Earth, the Astronauts onboard Artemis ll were surprised by a message from the Late Commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, who died in August 2025 at age 97, but before he passed recorded a message for the crew which stated:

“Hello Artemis II! this is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood. When Frank Borman and Bill Andrews and I orbited the moon on Apollo 8, we got humanity's first up close look at the Moon and got a view of the home planet that inspired and united people around the world. I'm proud to pass that torch on to you as you swing around the Moon and lay the groundwork for missions to Mars, for the benefit of all. It's a historic day, and I know how busy you'll be, but don't forget to enjoy the view. So, Reid and Victor and Christina and Jeremy, and all the great teams are supporting you, good luck and Godspeed from all of us here on the good Earth.”

Video footage shows the moment that several Iranian ballistic missiles struck the Jubail Industrial City tonight in northeastern Saudi Arabia, which contains several petrochemical plants threatened recently by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in response to Israeli attacks on major petrochemical facilities in Iran.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump met with members of the Hasidic Jew community today in the Oval Office, accompanied by several Jewish leaders and lawmakers, to celebrate Passover. During the meeting, Trump called Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, who are both Orthodox Jews.

Officials tells Axios that President Trump may hold off on tomorrow’s strikes against civilian infrastructure in Iran and extend the deadline for negotiations, but only if he “sees a deal is coming together,” while a defense official said they were “skeptical” there would be any extension this time for Iran.

Reports of strikes in the last few hours against Iran’s Kharg Island in the Northern Persian Gulf, the home of the primary oil export terminal of the Islamic Republic.

The U.S. military conducted strikes on military targets on Kharg island, U.S. officials tell Axios.

Since early in the morning on Tuesday, Israel and the United States have been extensively targeting railway and vehicle bridges across Iran, with bridges having been targeted in Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, and other regions of Western Iran, with Israeli officials claiming that the strikes were to prevent the movement of military equipment by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG). Roughly ten hours remain of President Trump’s deadline of 8:00PM EST given to Iran.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump posted to TruthSocial early, stating, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

Don’t forget, according to President Trump we’re fighting to free the people of Iran.

After being detained and then sequestered in Iran for the past 3.5 years, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that French nationals, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, are on their way back to French territories following mediation efforts by, with, and through Oman.

New photo taken by the crew aboard Artemis ll and published by NASA, capture a partially shrouded Earth from the far side of the Moon.

Senior Iranian source tells Reuters that if the United States attacks Iran’s power plants, “the entire region will fall into darkness,” threatening to attack energy infrastructure throughout the Middle East, adding that if the situation gets out of control, Iran’s allies, the Houthis, will also close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Sources state that these threats by Iran were relayed to the Trump Administration yesterday through both Pakistan and Qatar.

According to a number of Israeli news outlets, Kataib Hezbollah (KH), the Iranian-backed Iraqi-based non-state actor, announced that they will release kidnapped American journalist Shelly Kittleson and that she must leave the country immediately. Earlier reports indicated that KH had been in negotiations with the Iraqi government for her release in exchange for the release of key KH members. However, at the time of writing, it’s yet unclear if a deal and what nature of a deal has been made.