🇱🇹⚡️- The Lithuanian military said NATO aircraft were scrambled to shoot down the drone, but were unable to find it.

The Lithuanian Parliament, including the President and Prime Minister, was taken to emergency shelters during the alerts.

The origins of the drone are still under investigation.

🇨🇩⚡️- The World Health Organisation has announced there have been 139 deaths, from at least 600 suspected cases of Ebola.

The WHO has declared a public health emergency of international concern, but not at the pandemic level.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Following the alert activated due to a suspected security incident in the community of Nofim in the Ephraim Brigade, after security forces conducted searches in the area, an Israeli civilian resident of the community was identified near the fence. There is no concern of a security incident." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf mocks JD Vance’s autobiography Hillbilly Elegy in connection to American foreign policy.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The United States has sent a new proposal to Iran, according to Tasnim News Agency.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are dealing with very good people, people with talent and brain power, we're pretty impressed with them, hopefully they make a deal that will be great for everybody." - President Trump.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Channel 11 (Kan 11) polls Likud at 27 seats, while Together (the Bennett-Lapid coalition) lags behind with 23 seats.

Note, Kan 11 is very anti-Likud.

🇮🇱 - Israeli Channel 12 opinion poll:

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party - 25 seats,
• Naftali Bennett (with Yair Lapid), Together - 23 seats,
• Gadi Eisenkot, Yashar - 16 seats,
• Yair Golan, Democrats Party - 10 seats,
• Aryeh Deri, Shas Party - 9 seats,
• Yitzhak Goldknopf, United Torah Judaism Party - 8 seats,
• Avigdor Lieberman, Yisrael Beiteinu Party - 8 seats,
• Itamar Ben-Gvir, Otzma Yehudit Party - 7 seats,
• Ahmed Tibi (with Yousef Jabareen), Joint List - 5 seats,
• Mansour Abbas, Raam - 5 seats,
• Bezalel Smotrich, Mafdal Party - 4 seats.

Note, Israeli Channel 12 (Now 12) is anti-Likud.

🇺🇸⚡️- SpaceX officially files for IPO.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Longtime Daily Wire CEO Caleb Robinson is stepping down, being replaced by Mike Richards the former TV game show producer who replaced Jeremy Boreing as Chief Content Officer last year.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- The U.S. has begun preparing plans for a potential military operation in Cuba, two U.S. officials tell CBS News.

"The U.S. intelligence community has been exploring how Cuba might respond to an American military action. Earlier this month, as the U.S. intelligence community tracked the Universal, a sanctioned Russian-flagged oil tanker bound for Cuba, analysts at the Pentagon and Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military's intelligence arm, started to analyze what the Cuban response would be to an American attack on the Caribbean country.

These types of intelligence forecasts attempt not only to show the immediate consequences of an American action, but the chain of reactions that may follow," - CBS News.

🇺🇸⚡️- “When the Justice Department neared the mid-April deadline for responding to Mr. Trump’s suit [against the I.R.S.], Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers — rather than the government — asked the judge to extend the deadline. In that filing, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said they were in talks with unnamed officials at the Justice Department.

That prompted the judge overseeing the case, Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida, to question whether Mr. Trump could legally sue an agency that he controls as president. She ordered Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers and the Justice Department to submit briefs discussing whether they were actually in opposition to each other — or if they were, in fact, on the same side of the suit. Such collusion would require the judge to dismiss the case.

The parties had until Wednesday to submit those briefs. But Mr. Trump withdrew his suit on Monday, the same day the Justice Department rolled out the [$1.7B] anti-weaponization fund. Judge Williams then closed the case.

Frank Bisignano, who is working in the newly created role of chief executive of the I.R.S., signed the agreement with the Justice Department to create the fund. Mr. Bisignano was not confirmed by the Senate to that I.R.S. role, and he is splitting his duties there with his position as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.” - The New York Times.

🇺🇸⚡- Trump's settlement with the I.R.S. also prohibits them from auditing him or his family.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- Saudi Arabia has asked the Trump Administration to postpone any further military action against Iran until after the Hajj season, which begins on May 24th and continues through the end of May, according to two regional sources telling Basha Report.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡️- "A [United Kindom] Royal Air Force Rivet Joint aircraft operating in international airspace over the Black Sea was dangerously intercepted by Russian military jets – flying as close as six metres and triggering onboard emergency systems.

Despite these reckless manoeuvres, RAF crew completed their mission safely. The aircraft was conducting a routine flight in support of NATO operations, contributing to the security of the Alliance’s eastern flank.

The RAF Rivet Joint is a specialist reconnaissance aircraft equipped with advanced electronic surveillance sensors, providing critical situational awareness to help safeguard NATO territory.

This incident reflects ongoing Russian aggression and heightened military activity across Eastern Europe and the High North – the UK will continue to stand firm with its allies, united in the defence of NATO." - United Kingdom Ministry of Defence

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- Cuba's Ambassador to the United States says they are open to changes to their economy and government, but does not believe the US is participating in good faith.