🇺🇸 - Beloved bodybuilder and YouTuber Rich Piana died nine years ago today at the age of 46.

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump endorsed Darline Graham is in a tight race to secure the GOP nomination against Freedom Caucus member Ralph Norman.

Graham still holds an advantage.

🇺🇸⚡️- Darline Graham has won the GOP South Carolina Senate runoff.

🇺🇸⚡- U.S. SOUTHCOM carried out an airstrike on a vessel in the Carribbean waters neutralizing four narco-terrorists.

🇰🇪🇸🇴⚡- Overnight, al-Shabaab launched two cross-border attacks on Kenyan military positions, one on Mandera, northeast Kenya, and the other on Garissa, eastern Kenya.

Heavy gunfire was heard for several hours, before the al-Shabaab forces were pushed back towards the Somali border.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine has awarded Elon Musk with the Order of Freedom.

"For outstanding personal merits in protecting people's lives and freedom, developing relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States of America, I decree: to award the Order of Freedom to Elon Musk," - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.

🇫🇷⚡️- Around two French companies out of three are at risk of bankruptcy if there is no major reform during the next presidential term, according to a poll conducted among dozens of thousands of business owners.

🇫🇷⚡️- Due to the latest polls confirming a likely second turn between Mélenchon (immigrationist far-left) and Le Pen (right-wing statist) for the 2027 French presidential election, France's top CEOs are preparing contingency plans for a total collapse of the French private sector by 2032.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC:

M23-allied groups continue to expand south in the Baraka direction, effectively surrounding the Uvira-Sange front. Uvira now relies almost entirely on Burundian supply routes.

M23 controls 19,700 sqkm of territory in the North and South Kivu regions - an incredible 80% of Rwanda's land area.

Note, in the north, Uganda's military presence in eastern DRC is shown on the map, which has prevented M23 operations towards Butembo.

🇲🇱🇷🇺 - Russian channels, Malian media, and other pro-cannibalism outlets are falsely spreading this video as an alleged attack on FLA positions in northern Mali.

The video is several months old and shows a Rapid Support Forces drone strike on a fuel depot in the North Kordofan region, Sudan.

However, a Russian drone did strike an FLA fuel depot in the Abeibara countryside, Kidal direction, northern Mali, earlier today.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tim Curry has passed away at 80.

🇺🇸⚡️- “Far-left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West. Today, the United States sanctioned several transnational far-left terrorist networks, including Autistici/Inventati – a major far-left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world. There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities. We will use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life from terrorist coercion.” - Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🇭🇹⚡️- On August 23rd, the Viv Ansanm gang coalition launched a barbaric assault on farmers and civilians right outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the middle of the night— torching homes, killing livestock, and abducting dozens of individuals.

The death count from the attack is either 25 or 47, as local officials are claiming 25 and international agencies have claimed 47, with 52 people kidnapped. It was also stated that 22 people were reportedly executed on a church compound where they sought refuge from the attacks.

🇺🇸🇭🇹⚡- “The United States strongly condemns the violent attack against the farming community of Kenscoff. We extend our deepest condolences to the victims and their families and we remain committed to supporting Haitian-led security efforts to end gang terror.” - The U.S. Embassy in Haiti.

🇧🇾⚡️- Belarus has ordered an unplanned nationwide military readiness check.

🇧🇾⚡️- "The public should not assume that something extraordinary is about to happen." - Alexander Volfovich, Secretary of Belarus’ Security Council.

🇺🇸⚡- Upon his return to the United States, CIA Director John Ratcliffe met at the White House, which also included Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the JCOS Dan Caine.