🇺🇸⚡️- Supreme Court ruled this morning that states can collect absentee ballots marked by election day but received 5 days after the election.

Justice Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts sided with the liberals.

🇺🇸⚡️- Americans bet over $165 billion on sports last year, which is more than they spent on movies, books, concerts and sports tickets combined.

Credit: Charlie Bilello

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Tucker Carlson hosted international arms dealer Viktor Bout on his podcast today, in a show that can only be described as a propaganda piece in favor of Russian narratives around the Ukraine War.

Here, however, is a clip from Tucker's Fox News show from the Biden years, when Bout was freed from prison to get WNBA player Brittney Griner out of prison.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against near al-Qantara, southern Lebanon.

🇸🇾⚡- Islamic State attacked a Syrian military checkpoint in Deir ez-Zur, eastern Syria. Casualties reported.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Mass casualty event after the Israeli Air Force struck the al-Mawasi displaced people tent camp in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Fires rage throughout the camp.

🇺🇸⚡️- Democrat Senator Rubin Gallego is under federal investigation for suspected campaign finance violations. Stories of Gallego misusing campaign funds have been floating around ever since the Eric Swalwell cancellation earlier this year.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike northwest of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli flares over Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Scenes from Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

🇲🇨⚡️- An individual left a bag near a building in Monaco. It detonated shortly after. First responders are on the scene.

🇲🇨⚡️- Initial reports of three injuries from the blast.

🇲🇨⚡️- BREAKING: Monegasque authorities have confirmed they are treating the explosion as a terror attack.

🇲🇨⚡️- Rerum Novarum can tentatively report that the explosion took place at the entrance of the Cuomo Foundation.

Fondation Cuomo is a self-described philanthropic organization whose stated mission is to "educate, enable, and empower underprivileged individuals," and primarily operates in North Africa and the Middle East.

🇲🇨⚡️- Several wounded victims have been being evacuated shortly after the first responders arrived on the scene.

🇲🇨🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Monegasque authorities report that the injured individuals are of Russian and Ukrainian origin.

At least two suspects remain at large, one being described as elderly in their 50s or 60s and the other being a teenager.

🇲🇨⚡️- Another angle of the explosion site.

🇲🇨⚡️- Correction: The injured are believed to be a mix of elderly in their 50s and 60s, as well as teenagers. The victims are of Russian and Ukrainian national origin.

No suspect has been identified, however Monegasque authorities are currently searching the area.

🇲🇨⚡️- "Plan Red" has been activated throughout Monaco by the authorities.

🇲🇨⚡️- Monegasque authorities will reportedly hold a press conference in five minutes.

🇲🇨⚡️- The explosive contained bolts and shot according to the early investigation.