🇺🇸⚡- Speaker Johnson plans to permit a floor vote on the release of Epstein files when Congress reconvenes: "If it hits 218, it comes to the floor."

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Trump-Putin summit in Budapest, Hungary, is called off after a phone call between Rubio and Lavrov to prepare for peace talks turned sour," - The Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio to join Vice President JD Vance in Israel in the coming days.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- A senior Russian delegation has arrived in Damascus, Syria.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡- "British troops have been deployed to Israel to join US troops in 'monitoring the Gaza ceasefire'. The British deployment was requested by the White House," - Sky News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah is quickly rebuilding its forces, recruiting fighters, and restoring bases north of the Litani River, surpassing the Lebanese army’s attempts to limit its power.

Israel had initially agreed to reduce its operations in Lebanon if the Lebanese government made successful progress in disarming Hezbollah," - i24, citing Western intelligence.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to travel to Washington to meet with President Trump to bring him back in line with Europe and Ukraine on the war," - Reuters.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas have delivered the bodies of 2 deceased Israeli hostages, leaving 13 remaining within the Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Los Angeles Times reports that a U.S. marshal was wounded by gunfire by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer today during a shootout in south Los Angeles after a suspect attempted to ram arresting officers.

Both the suspect and the wounded marshal are in hospital, according to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

🇺🇸 - A bit of opinion from admin: Mainstream conservative media and pro-Trump outlets have been casually and carefully omitting the specifics of this incident. FOX News did not mention in their headlining that the U.S. marshal was wounded by an ICE agent; implying that the U.S. marshal was wounded by gunfire from the illegal immigrant they were attempting to arrest.

While it's not a direct lie, it's a careful rhetorical omission that is subtly attempting to support the Trump Administration's goals of further confronting the left.

🇺🇸 - At some point - God forbid - a crazed leftist will go out and attempt to harm federal agents. Any victims will be the justification for the Trump Administration to crack down further. This escalation will continue until something akin to the 2020 riots breaks out, and the Trump Administration will then have to deal with a full-scale confrontation with the left.

The question is then this: Is the Trump Administration prepared for that?

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery shelling of eastern Gaza City.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- The Turkish parliament has voted in favor of extending the Turkish military deployment to Iraq and Syria for another three years.

🇰🇵⚡️- Yonhap News Agency reports that North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.

🇮🇸⚡- After record heat, mosquitos have been discovered in Iceland for the first time ever.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukrainian forces have begun a slow withdrawal from Pokrovsk city as Russian troops advance.

Russian forces have advanced south of Pokrovsk and within the city as well - Russia now controls 46% of the city. Russian troops have also entered the city of Mirnograd from the southeast.

Further north, Russian forces have captured the rest of Krasniy Liman, and have entered the south of Rodinskoe. Ukrainian troops are now at risk of encirclement in Rodinskoe, as the Russians advance from both, the north and the south.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- After multiple Trump threats against Hamas for attacking opposition groups, Hamas leaders have told Egyptian mediators they will cease all operations against IDF-backed rival groups.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the IDF presence in the Gaza Strip up to the Yellow Line. The map also shows the four IDF-backed groups and their locations:

- Green: Yasser Abu Shabaab's militia, which operates in the al-Bayuk area of southeast Rafah.
- Blue: Husam al-Astal's militia, which operates in eastern Khan Yunis. Recently, a video began circulating in which Hamas executed multiple members of the group in public.
- Brown: Rami Hillis militia, which operates in the al-Shuja'iyya district of Gaza City. Majority of the fighting in the Gaza Strip over the past week have been between Rami Hillis and Hamas.
- Red: Ashraf al-Mansi's militia, which operates in the Ebad al-Rahman district north of Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- The US Department of State have informed Baghdad they are willing to negotiate on new trade deals, but Iraq must first disarm the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces.

🇷🇺🇭🇺⚡- "If any country blocks Putin’s flight to Hungary, it means that country does not want peace," - Peter Szijjarto, Foreign Minister of Hungary.