🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah fighters and IDF soldiers are clashing in the town of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

Israeli media reports there are over 800 Hezbollah fighters in the town.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:

"America, just as it suffered a historic defeat against Iran in failing to open the Strait of Hormuz, is also doomed to failure in its maritime blockade. Iran's armed forces will not grant America such permission and possess major untapped levers for countering it. Iran is not a place to be blockaded with tweets and fanciful schemes!"

🇭🇺 - Hungarian national parliamentary elections:

Votes counted: 96.37%

Tisza - 138 seats,
Fidesz - 55 seats,
Mi Hazank - 6 seats.

🇭🇺⚡- "Hungary will again be a strong ally in NATO and the EU.

In my first trip, I will visit Poland and strengthen our thousand-year-old friendship. My second trip will be to Vienna and the third to Brussels, to bring home our EU funds that we are rightfully entitled to," - Peter Magyar, Hungary's Prime Minister-elect.

During Magyar's victory speech, thousands chant "Russians go home," taking aim at Orban and Fidesz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- "In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S in good faith to end war.

But when just inches away from "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade.

Zero lessons earned

Good will begets good will.
Enmity begets enmity," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- A US drone operating over Marib, Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council controlled central Yemen.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺⚡️- The United Kingdom and Australia have both refused to join the U.S. blockade of Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️- Rory McIlroy has done it! With back-to-back wins at The Masters, he becomes the first player since Tiger Woods (2001-2002) to defend the green jacket. He joins the exclusive club of Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods as the only players to accomplish the feat, and the first to do it in over a quarter century, further cementing his place among golf’s all-time greats.

🇺🇸⚡️- Eric Swalwell has suspended his campaign for California Governor amid the tsunami of sexual assault allegations against him by over 50 former staffers.

The Manhattan DA had opened an investigation into Swalwell and DHS is now investigating his use of campaign funds to pay an illegal Brazilian women as a house maid.

Swalwell remains in the House of Representatives.

🇺🇸⚡️- Swalwell continues to deny these allegations, most of which seem to be about him hitting on subordinates or having drunk sex with them.

None yet have claimed he actually committed a violent rape or drugged them.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some Democrats and Republicans in Congress want a combined expulsion vote for 4 members, including Swalwell, over sexual assault allegations and corruption charges as to not upset the balance of the House.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- President Trump attacks Pope Leo XIV.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- President Trump posted an AI-generated image on TRUTH Social, depicting himself as Jesus Christ.

This follows his attacks on Pope Leo XIV.

We look forward to covering your impeachment when you get slaughtered in the midterms.

#BlueWave2026

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡️- The Philippines National Security Council has released a report accusing the Chinese government of dropping bottles of cyanide into the disputed South China Sea last year near the grounded BRP Sierra Madre vessel.

The BRP Sierra Madre is a navy vessel that was intentionally grounded by the Philippines in 1999 to serve as a forward military outpost in the Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea, to defend against Chinese territorial claims to the shoal. The soldiers who fortify this vessel rely on fresh food to be delivered, although the Chinese coast guard has made substantial efforts to blockade these deliveries to the crew, including intentionally ramming supply vessels.

Polluting the water surrounding the vessel could prevent the crew from catching their own fish, leaving them entirely reliant on the Philippine Navy breaching the blockade to deliver food and water.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Violent clashes have erupted between Hezbollah forces and IDF soldiers in Bint Jbeil, Shama, and Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon.

The IDF has sieged Bint Jbeil from all sides but is struggling to take control of the town.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The United States to Blockade Ships Entering or Exiting Iranian Ports on April 13 at 10:00 A.M. ET. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT" - President Trump via Truth Social.

The American blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to the Iranian blockade, will begin in seven and a half hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “No port in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman will be safe if our ports are threatened.” - Iran’s Central Military Command.