Confirming reports that the U.S. and Indonesia were looking to increase military-to-military cooperation, the U.S. Department of Defense has released a statement detailing the upgrade of the U.S.-Indonesia defense relationship to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP). Per the release, the MDCP will be centered around, military modernization and capacity building, training, professional military education (PME), and exercises/unspecified operational cooperation across the Indo-Pacific.

According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, “it won’t be pleasant for them [Iran]” if a peace deal is not reached before the nominal deadline on April 21, 2026.

Engagement between the U.S. delegation and Iranian leaders has continued since this past weekend’s failed round of peace talks in Islamabad, officials tell CBS News, with one official stating that there has been “forward motion on trying to get to an agreement.”

Asked earlier at the White House about one of his posts last night on TruthSocial, which included a picture of himself depicted as Jesus Christ, President Trump responded: “I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross, as a Red Cross worker there, which we support. And only the fake news could come up with that one. It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”

According to USNI News, citing two defense officials, the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) and its escorts, USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), USS Mason (DDG-87) and USS Ross (DDG-71), did not transit the Strait of Gibraltar and are instead sailing around the southern tip of Africa. The carrier strike group is currently operating off the coast of Namibia, as it makes the trip avoiding the Suez Canal transit and the potentially contested zones of the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

A preparatory meeting between Israel and Lebanon is set to take place tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at the U.S. State Department, with Secretary Marco Rubio, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, Counselor Michael Needham, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter, and Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh in attendance. The talks, centered around the ongoing conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah (LH), is meant to prepare for future talks on the disarmament of LH.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, while speaking earlier today at the Semafor World Economy Summit in Washington, said that he expects energy prices will continue to rise and “peak” in the next few weeks, as both Iran and the United States are now threatening to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. During the recent round of strikes between the two countries, Crude Oil WTI peaked at $116.20 per barrel, while Brent Crude Oil approached $117.

During the opening stages of the Iran War, the U.S. Army, specifically the 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery Regiment of the Wisconsin National Guard, which operates the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), fired the Pentagon’s entire inventory of next-generation long-range Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), with replacements quickly being produced by Lockheed Martin, according to Aviation Week.

Speaking earlier tonight on Fox News, U.S. Vice President JD Vance presented a more optimistic and positive view of this past weekend’s peace talks with Iran in Islamabad then he gave on Sunday, stating that while “things went wrong,” they also “went right” during the negotiations and that progress was made with Iran.

Vance added that, “We made a lot of progress, but we also made very clear, and I think this is part of the progress we made, what the terms where the United States could make some accommodation, what terms we were flexible on, and what things we absolutely needed to see in order for the President of the United States to feel like he was getting a good deal.”