🇺🇸⚡️- “A group of U.S. ​states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit ‌to block Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Shares of Warner Bros fell ​after Reuters first reported the news, and were down 3.6% on Friday afternoon. Paramount ‌shares ⁠added to losses and were down 6.7%.” - Reuters.

🇮🇷⚡- Reports of explosions / air defense activity on Kharg Island, home to Iran's main oil port terminal.

🇮🇷- Mehr News denies reports of military activity on Kharg Island.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran launched one-way drones at the Strait of Hormuz with the U.S. shooting down four of them, a U.S. official tells CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Several explosions can be heard on Sirik island, according to Iranian locals.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Moments ago, CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks.

American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense," - CENTCOM.

🇮🇩🇯🇵⚡- Japan has entered talks with Indonesia over a possible sale of the Asagiri-class destroyers, marking a further step in Tokyo’s gradual loosening of restrictions on lethal arms exports, a trend pushed by the new Takaichi government.

The move is unlikely to sit well with Beijing, with Chinese President Xi Jinping having recently reiterated his very strong opposition to Japan’s militarisation in talks with Donald Trump, and casts doubt over the Beijing-Jakarta relationship.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Jewish community leaders in Spain, France, Britain, and Canada are in contact with State Department officials to explore the possibility of Jews migrating to the US under refugee or other protected status due to the nonstop rise of antisemitism across the West because of the Gaza war, and mass migration of Arabs and Africans into Europe and Canada (that the vast majority of jews supported).

The State Department has yet to indicate any actual program but confirmed these talks are happening.

Rabbi Yehuda Kaplum, the State Departments special envoy to monitor antisemitism, stated when asked by i24NEWS, "It is the government’s responsibility in those countries to make certain that the Jewish community has safety, security and the ability to practice their religion free from any type of harm. The U.S. government demands it.”

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Candace Owens, who is still in Russia, attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where Vladimir Putin personally spoke.

Owens also made comments to the press.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️ - BREAKING: Kuwait's Army says air defenses are currently "confronting hostile missile and drone attacks."

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- As California continues to "count" ballots it looks increasingly likely that Spencer Pratt will not advance to the November runoff as each ballot dump brings leftist Nuthya Raman closer and closer to 2nd place.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens are sounding again in Kuwait.

🇮🇷🇧🇭🇰🇼⚡️- BREAKING: SEVERAL EXPLOSIONS IN BAHRAIN AND KUWAIT SIMULTANEOUSLY, LOCALS TELL RERUM NOVARUM.

🇮🇷🇰🇼🇧🇭⚡️- The strikes have ended in Kuwait and Bahrain.

Iran launched a large attack, likely the biggest since the start of the ceasefire.

🇺🇸⚡️- White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is reportedly “on her way out” after the midterms, after disagreements with President Trump over Bill Pulte and resentment towards Wiles for “telling [Trump] what to do”, according to the Daily Mail.

The elevation of Pulte was seen as a direct insult to Wiles after she was said to have 'vehemently' opposed his appointment as DNI Director. In addition, it was reportedly Pulte’s idea for Trump to post the image of him depicted as Jesus Christ in April.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Following the aggression of the child-killing and terrorist US army against Sirik and Qeshm Island, enemy bases in the region were hit by aerospace missiles." - IRGC Public Relations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official.

The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East, the officials said." - NBC News.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - A Russian settler documents his occupied property in Avidiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after the Russians occupied the city in one of the most bloody offensives of the entire War during the Battle of Avidiivka.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. forces intercepted multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf neighbors, June 5.

Iran fired seven ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain hours after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further maritime attacks.

Initial assessments indicate six of the missiles launched by Iran were intercepted and a seventh did not reach its intended target. There are currently no reports of harm to U.S. personnel, and Iranian claims of damaging U.S. 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain are false." - US Central Command.

🇺🇸🇰🇼⚡️- The US Department of State has announced approval of a possible $1.98 billion sale of Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Platforms to Kuwait, with the principal contractor being Anduril.

The sale would include "counter-unmanned aerial systems platforms Roadrunner-Munition and Anvil-Kinetic; launch boxes; lattice command and control; Long Range Sentry Tower with Fire Control; Long Range Sentry Tower-82 Mobile; Extended Range Sentry Towers; Maritime Sentry Towers; pulsar electromagnetic warfare; menace tactical operations centers; generators; publications; personnel training; software development; U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support."