🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has instructed the Justice Department and DHS to rescind protections for trans prisoners and immigrant detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: President Trump has repealed the 1965 Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

Decades of government practices on diversity and equal opportunity would be effectively eliminated. President Trump's new executive order directs all executive departments and agencies to terminate, "...all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)."

🇺🇸⚡️- Elon Musk says the Stargate venture doesn't have the financing to achieve the expected investment levels, in a rare break with the Trump administration.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump has signed an executive order to suspend the physical entry of migrants crossing the southern border.

🇺🇸⚡️- Mass shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee.

At least three casualties are reported, including the shooter, who reportedly committed suicide.

🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Pro Life law that would protect babies who survive botched abortion attempts has been stalled in the Senate by Democrat filibuster. Vote was 52-47

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from earlier inside Antioch High School as the shooting began.

🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡️- President Zelenskyy meeting with President Herzog to discuss Ukrainian-Israeli cooperation.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ethics records reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if confirmed as Health & Human Services Secretary, would retain his stake in ongoing litigation against Merck (vaccine producer). This is relevant because the collected fees from the suit have earned him more than $2.5 million in recent years, making this a high conflict of interest.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian militants reported in Jenin, West Bank.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is more popular with young people than most other demographics.

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN will announce layoffs tomorrow for hundreds of employees. This comes after the company lost a landmark defamation lawsuit.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes between Ansarullah and the Southern Transitional Council west of Taizz, Yemen.

🇱🇾⚡- Tripoli-based Government of National Unity has begun evacuating al-Riqata, west of Tripoli, Libya.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- President Trump has re-designated Ansarullah (the Houthis) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO.)

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Kingdom strongly condemns and denounces the attack launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank," - Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first call was to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Rubio promised Israel of 'steadfast support' and also congratulated Israel on their 'success against Hamas and Hezbollah'.

The Iranian Embassy in Kabul has announced that Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi is set to imminently visit Afghanistan, making it the first trip by a high-ranking Iranian official to Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover in 2021.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- The Aden-based and UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, STC, welcomes Trump's decision to re-designate Ansarullah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The STC released a statement saying it was "an important step to deal with the threat to regional and international security".

🇬🇪🇪🇪⚡- "The Russian-backed Georgian Dream party is using rigged elections to establish complete control over state institutions and suppress the opposition and civil society," - Statement released by Estonia's Parliament.