🇺🇸⚡️- Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, cancelling a pre-planned rally trip to Las Vegas.

🇺🇸 - A reminder that Biden said he would drop out of the race if a medical problem emerged.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- American airstrikes against Hudaydah International Airport, Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN is reporting that Joe Biden is becoming open to the idea of stepping down from the ticket, now asking if Harris can win instead of dismissing the idea completely.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Senators were told in an all-member briefing that Thomas Crooks wrote a post on Steam (the gaming platform) that July 13th would "be my premier, watch as it unfolds". The FBI can find no evidence of a particular ideology and none interviewed have reported him discussing politics at all. Crooks also had a burner phone with around 27 contacts that the feds are now tracking down for interviews.

🇺🇸⚡️- Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries told Biden earlier today that he cannot win the election.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Haaretz: "The Knesset passed a resolution which expresses the Israeli parliament's opposition in principle to the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River."

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Three unnamed US officials told CNN that Thomas Matthew Crooks had previously visited the site of the Trump rally in Butler, and his cell phone contained images of both President Trump as well as Biden. A search history also included other Trump events and the DNC.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- The attempted assassin also possessed a burner cell phone with more than 23 contacts. The FBI is currently in the process of contacting all 23 contacts for interviews.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - Israeli media reports that, for the first time since October 7th, the majority of the Israeli public have expressed a lack of confidence and trust in the military and high-level leadership in the military, with more than 55% of Israelis holding this opinion.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian border forces stopped a large Russian DRG assault in the northern Sumy and Chernigov regions overnight.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York Times reports that the Democratic Party will delay the presidential nominating event of the Democratic National Convention to the first week of August.

🇧🇩⚡️- AFP reporting widespread internet outages in Bangladesh following an attack on television and radio stations in the nation by protesting students over university quotas.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris is campaigning in North Carolina in the midst of calls for Biden to step down from re-election.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media: "We expect a storm tonight"

🇺🇸⚡️- Lou Dobbs, a conservative commentator and former Fox News host, has passed away at the age of 78.

🇧🇫⚡- "Africans must prepare for a war of high intensity. We must be prepared to welcome the aggressor and fight for the long haul. Whether they come in the form of Western armies or in the form of Benin, Ivory Coast or ECOWAS, we must be prepared." – Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- The risk of war spilling into Ethiopia is higher than ever. Large troop movements are observed on either side of the Sudan-Ethiopia border. Coupled with Rapid Support Forces advance in the Sennar region and even a possible alliance with the Fano in Ethiopia seems likely – Institute of War.

⚡️🇱🇧 Israeli airstrike in Southern Lebanon kills 5, one of the dead may include a field commander of the Radwan Unit.

@medmannews

🇫🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan was responsible for starting the terrible war in 2020. Over the past few decades, it is Azerbaijan who has armed itself much more than Armenia." – French President, Emmanuel Macron.