🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem said the group outright rejects direct talks between the Lebanese and the Israeli governments.

The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US are set to meet in Washington tomorrow, the first direct talks between the two countries since 1983.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Russia's Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov says Moscow is still ready to accept Iran's enriched uranium.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- CBS reports the US and Iran are still in contact through mediators following the failed Islamabad talks.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is considering a second round of talks with Iran before the expiration of the two-week ceasefire - CNN.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- Despite President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV, treating the Vicar of Christ like a routine political rival, a March 2026 NBC News poll of Americans shows Leo at 42% favorable, 8% unfavorable (+34). Trump stands at 41% favorable, 53% unfavorable (–12). A recent Gallup poll also ranks Leo as the most popular public figure in the world.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡- ICE has arrested the former Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem after fleeing Brazil due to his conviction for the failed coup d’etat with former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- "Aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is operating off the coast of Namibia, as it sails around the African continent and is set to join a growing naval force in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Bush did not sail through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea, a typical transit for East Coast-based carriers headed to the Middle East. The carrier is instead sailing around Africa.

The path around Africa allows the carrier and its escorts to avoid transiting the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb, which were both hubs of activity for Ansarullah in their drone and missile attacks on U.S. and commercial shipping in 2024 and 2025," - US Naval Institute.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "For those people that still read The Failing New York Times and, despite the fact that Iran has been totally OBLITERATED, Militarily, and otherwise, you would think that Iran is actually winning or, at the very least, doing quite well — But that’s not true, and The New York Times knows that it’s FAKE NEWS! When does this Corrupt Media Outlet apologize for their LIES and horrible actions against me, my supporters, and our Country itself! HAVE THEY NO SHAME? HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The United States has 16 warships in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, but a U.S. official says none of them are in the Persian Gulf, making it more difficult to block Iranian ports, all of which are located along the Persian Gulf coastline, according to AP.

🇺🇸⚡️- Eric Swalwell has resigned from Congress

🇺🇸⚡️- GOP Rep Tony Gonzales is also expected to resign tomorrow due to his own sex scandal.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Violent clashes between Hezbollah’s Al-Radwan forces and IDF soldiers are still ongoing in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.

The IDF has attempted to besiege the city from four different sides, but has so far failed to penetrate into the heart of it. These are the most violent and prolonged clashes since the war began.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- Saudi Arabia is pressing the U.S. to drop its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and return to the negotiating table, fearing that President Trump’s move to close it off could lead Iran to escalate and disrupt other important shipping routes, Arab officials tell the Wall Street Journal.

The Saudis warn that a blockade of Iranian ports could lead to the closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait by Ansarullah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The second round of American-Iranian peace talks is probable to occur on Thursday in Islamabad or Geneva, a U.S. Official tells AP.

It is unclear at the moment whether the same delegations from either side will be present.

🇨🇦⚡- The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) will establish a majority in parliament after two victorious byelections tonight. The most likely outlook of parliament by the end of today’s elections:

Liberals: 173 seats.
Conservatives: 140 seats.
Bloc Québécois: 23 seats.
New Democratic Party: 6 seats.
Greens: 1 seat.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israel has announced the death of an IDF soldier and the wounding of three others during clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon last night.

The dead soldier was the commanding officer of his unit and a Sergeant Major.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - IDF soldier ghoulishly hissing at a Palestinian woman in the city of Hebron in the West Bank, Palestine.

Photo credit: Pietro Masturzo.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kash Patel's FBI is now investigating Eric Swalwells drunk sex escapades with former staffers.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A sanctioned, Chinese-linked oil tanker, Rich Starry, has just passed through the Strait of Hormuz despite the U.S. blockade, according to shipping data.