🇸🇩⚡- Heavy artillery shelling is underway in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Two RSF drones are also operating over the city.

So far, no ground offensive has been launched by the RSF.

More than 24 hours ago, Rerum Novarum reported a significant RSF build-up in two areas around El-Obeid.

🇸🇩🇸🇸⚡- Frontline sources report the arrival of militias from South Sudan, loyal to the Rapid Support Forces, in the major town of Al-Dubaibat, El-Obeid direction, North Kordofan region, Sudan.

The South Sudanese militias have deployed across the city, with RSF shutting down the internet in the area.

🇫🇷⚡️- France recorded their hottest day since nationwide measurements started in 1947.

At least 40 people died already from drowning in the past week due to the ongoing heatwave. Due to lack of A/C in most of the country, many historical landmarks and museums are being closed to the public earlier in the day. Around 1800 schools have been closed yesterday.

Hundreds of ambulances are being called daily, as medias report. The average ambulance is mobilized up to 30 times a day. Hospitals, with no A/C, are reportedly filled with people fainting due to the heat. The government deployed nationwide plans to ease the stress on health infrastructures. Hospital employees talking to medias report they are not sure French hospitals and clinics will last until the predicted end of the exceptional heatwave this Sunday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway. No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's the existing international law [UNCLOS pIII].

That's the way it is in international waterways all over the world, that's the way we will expect it to be in the Strait of Hormuz. I think all the countries in the region will agree with us," - Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Note, Oman ratified UNCLOS in 1989.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Daily Wire under financial stress is seeking out over $100 million in strategic investors and working towards an initial public offering (IPO) within the next 2 years.

Semafor reports that Ben Shapiro's company has failed to grow its subscriber base in the last 2 years and has lost much of its audience. Daily Wire's paid subscribers dropped by over a third of its prior peak down to 771,000 subs.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- The fat Hispanic woman who was filmed emptying out a Knicks colored trash can onto the street and taking it home has been fired from her job at JP Morgan in the city.

She previously was a DEI Executive at another company.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🗽⚡️- Brad Lander has unseated Representative Dan Goldman in the NY 10th Congressional District primary.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- So far all of Mayor Mamdani's endorsed candidates are in good positions to win their primary races, only Darializa Avila Chevalier who has had a series of recent controversial interviews is having trouble staying ahead in the vote counts.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- Mamdani endorsed Claire Valdez has won the 7th Congressional District primary.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- Darializa Avila Chevalier has defeated incumbent Congressman Adriano Espaillat in the NY 13th Congressional District primary. Espaillat is the current head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Avila Chevalier had previously made pro-Russian arguments when asked about the Ukraine war alongside boiler plate DSA policies to abolish ICE and nationalize healthcare.

Mayor Mamdani has now gone 3 for 3 in his Congressional endorsements tonight expanding the influence of the DSA further within the Democratic Party.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- DSA candidates are also winning primary races for the State Assembly and State Senate. New York State has been shifting rapidly towards the GOP in recent years as the Democratic Party in the state keeps lurching to the left.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "So, I have Iran on the “ropes,” ready to go down for the fall, willing to give us practically anything, and for the first time in decades, respecting the hell out of the United States and its President, ME, and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote, telling the Number One Sponser of Terror in the World that the United States doesn’t like what I am doing to them, and I must stop, and by so doing has provided aid and comfort the Enemy. Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and Iran asked my people, “what does that all mean?” These Senators have just made my job more difficult, but I will get it done, one way or the other, because I always get it done!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇾🇪 - Clashes had erupted for the second time in a week between Ansarullah and former Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces in the Ad Dali region of southern Yemen.

Fighting lasted several hours overnight, with multiple Ansarullah drone strikes also reported.

The STC has requested assistance from the Saudi-backed Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, claiming that pro al-Houthi forces are escalating along the line of contact.

🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea yesterday after crossing the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that separates the two nations.

🇺🇸⚡️- Pete Hegseth has requested General CD Donahue, the top U.S. Army officer in Europe, to resign. Donahue will reportedly resign today.

Donahue has been critical of the lack of U.S. assistance to Ukraine, has served in Iraq, Syria, and other combat zones, and was also the last U.S. soldier to depart Afghanistan after then-President Joe Biden ordered the military to withdraw from the country in 2021.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Even if there is an American request, we will not withdraw from Lebanon," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “Iran has informed the U.S. that, despite troublemaking Fake News reporting to the contrary, there are “NO TOLLS, NO INSURANCE COSTS, & NO OTHER CHARGES OF ANY KIND BEING SOUGHT OR RECEIVED BY IRAN ON SHIPS TRAVELING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. If this is false information, negotiations would end, immediately! Additionally, no money has been given to Iran, or released from their money to them, by the U.S. We will be releasing some of their money, that is totally controlled by us, to our Farmers and Ranchers, for the purchase of Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, and more. Food is desperately needed in Iran, and we will be purchasing it for them exclusively from the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP” - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇱🇾⚡- "Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to welcome representatives from eastern and western Libya to Washington to formalize the historic reunification of the country," - Il Foglio.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🏴⚡️- “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted an airstrike in northwest Syria, June 19, that resulted in the death of a senior ISIS leader.

The precision strike killed Ali Husayn al-‘Ulaywi and is part of ongoing U.S. efforts to disrupt and eliminate terrorists seeking to attack Americans abroad or the U.S. homeland. CENTCOM forces continue to work alongside regional partners.” - U.S. Central Command.

🇫🇷⚡️- A group of five illegal immigrants ambushed a young French man in Narbonne earlier this week, with intent to kill him.

Louis, 17, died yesterday after three days in a coma.

🇫🇷⚡️- The family of Louis has authorized the sharing of the video of his murder.

The video, while not gore, is extremely violent.