🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱⚡- A Russian bulk-carrier ABINSK carrying grain from Russian-controlled Ukrainian territories docked at Israel's Haifa Port two days ago, violating US, UK, and EU sanctions.

Israel continues to use Haifa, which has been leased to China's SIPG, against the interests of the West. The port has routinely been used by the Russian ghost fleet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to enter direct negotiations following today's talks.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Commander of Israel’s 52nd battalion has been seriously wounded in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, alongside ten other soldiers during clashes with Hezbollah.

🇺🇸❤️⚡️- President Biden calls an African American student up to the stage at Syracuse University, saying the student reminds him of Obama.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Two car blasts on Imam Khomeini Street, Tehran, attempting to target a Basij checkpoint.

Iranian security forces have closed the area off diffusing a third car rigged with explosives.

No injuries reported.

🇱🇧🇫🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is refusing to have France be a part of the Israel-Lebanon negotiations.

🇺🇸⚡️- Vice President JD Vance is heckled by an audience member who shouts, "Jesus doesn't support genocide."

🇺🇸⚡️- Vice President JD Vance is confronted by a TPUSA audience member who shouts "You're killing children!"

🇺🇸⚡️- Disney has laid off over 1000 employees across its media subsidiaries. The new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger earlier this year, announced the layoffs to consolidate Disney's marketing division.

Marvel Studios has reportedly been hit hard as most of its Visual Development department has been let go.

🇺🇸🌎⚡- “On April 14, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Four male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump says the war in Iran is over, again.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- British King Charles III will address a joint session of Congress, also privately meeting with President Trump during his visit to Washington D.C. later this month.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "A blockade of Iranian ports has been fully implemented as U.S. forces maintain maritime superiority in the Middle East. An estimated 90% of Iran's economy is fueled by international trade by sea. In less than 36 hours since the blockade was implemented, U.S. forces have completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea." - Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM Commander

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- JD Vance says that breaking off support to Ukraine is one of the proudest things he's been a part of during Trump 2.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️- Iran acquired the high-tech Chinese spy satellite TEE-01B and used it to guide strikes on U.S. military bases in the region, according to the Financial Times.

🇺🇸⚡- "NATO wasn’t there for us, and they won’t be there for us in the future!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇻🇦🇮🇷⚡- "Will someone please tell Pope Leo that Iran has killed at least 42,000 innocent, completely unarmed, protesters in the last two months, and that for Iran to have a Nuclear Bomb is absolutely unacceptable.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

AMERICA IS BACK!!!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇰🇵🇺🇳⚡- IAEA says North Korea is significantly expanding the country's key nuclear site, the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center (NH), and has built a new enrichment facility.

IAEA believes the expansions signal Pyongyang's intentions to increase its nuclear stockpile.