As of 5:01am Thursday morning, Palm Beach International Airport in Palm Beach County, Florida had been officially renamed to President Donald J. Trump International Airport, with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informing all airports and pilots overnight that the 3-letter location identifier for the airport will be immediately changed from PBI to DJT.

Amidst ongoing high-tempo reciprocal U.S.-Iran strikes in the Middle East, President Donald J. Trump is set to receive an intelligence briefing at 1:00 pm ET today. This, as U.S. officials told Axios yesterday that decision-makers are preparing for a prolonged period of reciprocal strikes with Iran that could last days to weeks.

The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) has issued a new advisory stating that the expanded southern transit corridor through the Strait of Hormuz remains open and available to all commercial traffic, despite the recent series of attacks targeting vessels along the U.S.-supported route through Omani waters.

The bulletin also notes that additional transit routes are available, but cautions that they are not protected, underscoring the elevated security risks that continue to confront commercial shipping in and around the Strait.

In a shocking turn of events, police are saying that the death of former Conservative British minister Ann Widdecombe is being investigated as a murder, after she was found with serious injuries in her home.

According to sources speaking to Al Arabiya, the U.S., Pakistan, Qatar, and Iran are set to hold a four-way call soon. This comes as U.S. President Donald J. Trump has said that Iran would like to return to talks despite, according to the same statement from the president, the ceasefire not being in effect.

Newsmax reports that the USS Boxer and its embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) were temporarily sidelined during the opening weeks of the conflict with Iran after an engine cooling system failure forced the amphibious assault ship to divert to Diego Garcia for repairs.

The unexpected maintenance issue reportedly removed a key U.S. rapid-response capability at a time when the Pentagon was enforcing a maritime blockade of Iran and considering additional military options. After repairs were completed, the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group resumed operations and is now supporting renewed U.S. operations in the Middle East.

The incident also underscores broader concerns about the readiness and availability of the Navy's amphibious fleet, which continues to limit the Marine Corps' ability to rapidly respond to global crises.

Source: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/uss-boxer-marine-corps-iran/2026/07/09/id/1262324/

Axios' Barak Ravid reports that the Trump administration is demanding that Iran publicly declare the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping and commit to ending attacks on merchant vessels by tomorrow, according to Axios, citing U.S. officials.

The request comes after U.S. officials say Iran violated last month's memorandum of understanding by targeting commercial ships, prompting two rounds of U.S. retaliatory strikes. Iranian and Omani officials are expected to meet in Muscat tomorrow, with Washington signaling it expects Tehran to reaffirm freedom of navigation and halt further attacks.

U.S. officials say diplomacy remains the preferred path, but warned that if Iran refuses to make the commitment, additional consequences could follow.

Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/iran-strait-hormuz-attacks-mou-deal

U.S. President Donald J. Trump spoke with his Saudi counterpart, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, today, amidst the most recent spate of increased U.S.-Iran tensions. The call was centered on recent regional developments, specifically freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a key Saudi concern, and tensions with Iran, and came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Saudi Ambassador to the United States Reema bint Bandar Al Saud at the White House.

Explosions now being reported in Kyiv, Ukraine, amidst a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on the country. Both Russia and Ukraine have stepped up reciprocal strikes on each other in recent weeks and months, as Ukraine has increasingly effectively targeted key Russian assets and infrastructure, specifically in the Kerch region, Moscow region, Sea of Azov, and other key oil and gas infrastructure across Russia.

Commercial shipping visible via MarineTraffic.com shows traffic transiting the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a trickle over the past 24 hours, with just five merchant vessels completing the transit-all via the Iranian (northern) traffic separation scheme.

One vessel, Jin Zeng 5, initially appeared to be routing through the U.S. established safe route through Omani waters, but altered course before entering the Strait and instead completed its transit through the Iranian channel.

It is possible additional vessels transited the Strait with their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders disabled, in which case they would not appear in publicly available tracking data. Even so, the visible traffic suggests commercial operators continue to overwhelmingly favor the Iranian route despite the availability of the expanded southern corridor.

The Department of War today published the fourth tranche of declassified UAP/UFO records under the PURSUE transparency initiative, adding dozens of new reports, videos, photographs, and historical documents spanning from the late 1940s through 2025.

Among the most notable releases:
• A 1949 Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, bringing together military officials, Atomic Energy Commission personnel, the FBI, and scientists—including Edward Teller—to discuss unexplained "green fireballs" near the sensitive facility.
• An unresolved 2025 East China Sea UAP report (PR105), including sensor footage of an unidentified object observed during U.S. military operations that investigators were unable to conclusively identify (video below).
• Additional military videos, NASA imagery, and historical Air Force investigations into unresolved aerial phenomena.

According to the New York Times, citing U.S. officials, Iran is expected to make a public statement in the coming days announcing free passage for commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Per the officials, if such a statement, followed by commensurate action, is not made, “we’re not going to have a good outcome for them,” signaling renewed and expanded U.S. strikes on Iran.

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration has issued grand jury subpoenas to several of its journalists following the newspaper's reporting on security concerns surrounding the President's new Qatari-donated VC-25B Bridge that recently entered service in the "Air Force One" fleet.

According to the Times, some subpoenas were delivered by federal agents at reporters' homes and require the journalists to testify before a federal grand jury next week as part of an alleged criminal leak investigation. The articles at issue reported that President Trump departed Turkey aboard the older VC-25A at the recommendation of the Secret Service and that the new aircraft may lack some of the defensive capabilities of the legacy VC-25A and new VC-25B fleet.

The Times called the move an attempt to intimidate journalists and said it intends to challenge the subpoenas, while the administration has not publicly commented on the specific investigation.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html

Eyes are on Muscat, Oman today, as Iranian, Qatari, and possibly Pakistani decision-makers descend on the Gulf nation for discussions surrounding a transit framework for the Strait of Hormuz. Per reports, specifically from regional news outlets and @BashaReport, Omani officials hope to secure a framework where the Median Transit Lane, a transit route that separates the pre-war inbound and outbound lanes, will be opened for free commercial maritime traffic through the strait.

According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, he just finished another physical, where he also requested another cognitive evaluation. The majority of the president’s statement was spent lambasting journalist Margot Hagerman.

Talks in Oman between Iran, Qatari officials, and others have concluded with seemingly not much being agreed upon, other than a commitment to continue talks, centered on commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, at the technical level in the future. Per the release, the talks, which were brokered by Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, ended with an agreement “to continue these talks at the technical and political levels to reach the necessary agreements in accordance with international law.”

Reports now of gunfire and tanks being mobilized in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.

Following reports of gunfire in Baghdad’s Green Zone, regional news outlets are now reporting that former Iraqi MP, Talal Al-Zoubi, has been arrested. Al-Zoubi is a member of Iraq’s Azem coalition, a Sunni-Arab coalition. His arrest does not yet indicate a wider targeting of the coalition, and is subordinate to the ongoing widespread crackdowns on corruption by current Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

In direct contradiction to reports that the U.S. was expecting an Iranian announcement on freedom of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and more evidence that little to nothing was gained by Oman-Iran talks today, the IRGC has announced that they struck a vessel that they say was in violation of their Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) transit framework. In addition to this, the IRGC has now said that the strait is closed until further notice.