🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Senior IDF officials are pushing to expand the ground operation deeper into southern Lebanon, beyond the current 2nd and 3rd village lines, aiming to reduce threats to northern communities.

IDF data shows 70–80% of Hezbollah fire comes from north of the Litani; however, the decision on the matter has not yet been made by the political echelon," - Galei Tzahal, IDF radio.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Tehran will use ports other than those in southern Iran to circumvent the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz," - Mehr News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF has reiterated their evacuation for southern Lebanon, telling all residents to move north of the Zahrani River.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The Wall Street Journal reports that since the start of the blockade, US naval forces have intercepted 8 tankers attempting to leave, all 8 ships turned around when instructed and no ships were required to be boarded.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has fired more than 40 rockets at northern Israel since this morning.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Today, the US Senate will hold a vote on a resolution that would block President Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The US Navy confirmed today that the MQ-4C Triton, which disappeared over the Arabian Gulf, did crash, although not specifying the cause of the incident.

It seems likely that the aircraft encountered issues, while returning from its mission, that were unrecoverable and was abandoned into the sea to avoid further damage.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- For clarification, the recent article from the Washington Post talking about additional troops is not a new deployment. The article discusses the deployment of the USS George H.W. Bush carrier group and the USS Boxer, along with its amphibious assault group. These were known to be on their way for over 2 weeks and the article only states they will soon enter the CENTCOM area of responsibility.