🇺🇸⚡️- Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback trails Byron Donalds, 37% to 23%, in a new poll, showing a substantial increase for Fishback.

The pollster is Patriot Polling, recognized by FiveThirtyEight and known for being reliable during the 2024 presidential election and the NYC mayoral election.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation before the House Oversight Committee in closed-door depositions.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡- "India has agreed to buy petroleum, defence goods, and aircraft from the US, while partly opening up its highly-guarded agriculture sector under a trade deal.

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with India on Monday that slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to 18% from 50% in exchange for India halting Russian oil purchases and lowering trade barriers," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "In light of requests from friendly governments in the region to respond to the proposal by the President of the United States for negotiations:

I have instructed my Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided that a suitable environment exists—one free from threats and unreasonable expectations—to pursue fair and equitable negotiations, guided by the principles of dignity, prudence, and expediency.

These negotiations shall be conducted within the framework of our national interests," - Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "No war is good, but not every peace is a surrender either," - Mohammad Ghaempanah, Head of Iran's Presidential Office.

🇹🇷🇸🇴🇸🇩 - Visual confirmation of Turkish jets operating over Mogadishu, Somalia.

The Turkish military is now confirmed to be involved not only in the Sudanese civil war, but also the Somalian war.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The USS Abraham Lincoln has pulled back around 1,400 km (870 miles) from Iran’s coast amid negotiations on Friday – Iranian media.

🇺🇸⚡- The Senate has approved Marine Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan as the new SOUTHCOM Commander.

🇫🇷⚡️- The French police is currently conducting a police search in X's French headquarters in Paris.

The operation is conducted with Interpol's support and related to the ongoing investigation opened in January 2025.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- BREAKING: "A group of armed boats attempted to intercept a vessel 16 nautical miles (29.6 km) north of Oman," - al-Arabiya, citing the UKMTO.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "A vessel has been hailed on by numerous small armed vessels.

The vessel had ignored the request to stop and had continued on its planned route.

Authorities are investigating," - UK Maritime Trade Operations.

🇸🇩⚡- Following Diling, the Sudanese Armed Forces have broken the 24+ months siege on the capital of South Kordofan, Kadugli.

🇩🇪⚡- BREAKING: Two shipyard workers have been arrested of attempting to sabotage multiple German navy warships in Hamburg, Germany.

A 37 year old Romanian and a 54 year old Greek have been detained by the German authorities.

German outlet The Bild reports the "men poured corrosive material into a warship's engine block, punctured freshwater pipes, removed fuel tank caps, and disabled electrical safety switches on the vessels."

🇹🇷🇸🇦⚡- Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

A historic visit, marking the Arab Kingdom's shift towards the Turkey-led Middle East bloc.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu-Witkoff meeting has begun at Netanyahu's Prime Minister's Office.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel had opposed the smaller-scale strikes Trump was considering three weeks ago out of a sense they would merely be symbolic, and not worth the risk of massive retaliation.

That dynamic has shifted. A succession of Israeli spies and generals - including Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir have visited D.C. in recent days. Zamir briefed the US Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Israel's offensive and defensive plans in the event of war with Iran," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "It's safe to say that nothing came out of that [Israeli Chief of Staff's] meeting to change his [Gen. Dan Caine] or the President's mind on attacking Iran.

It's really the Israelis who want a strike. The President is just not there.

Trump really does not want to do it," - A US official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran is demanding change to the venue and format for negotiations scheduled for Friday with the United States.

The WSJ reports they are threatening to pull out of negotiations completely.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The US Navy has just shot down an Iranian drone that approached the USS Lincoln. - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The Iranian Shahed-139 drone was flying towards the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and was shot down by a F-35 US fighter jet," - Reuters.