🇺🇲🇸🇬⚡️ - A Singapore-flagged cargo ship, the Dali, was map tracked by US Coast Guard at 2:50am Eastern Standard Time (EST) under the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- The US Embassy in France has issued a security alert for Americans in Paris.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Baltimore Police Department has confirmed the death of two as a result of the bridge collapse, reporting that at minimum 7 are still missing.

🇷🇺⚡️- The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) has alleged that Western intelligence agencies aided the Crocus terrorists.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- Director Bortnikov has stated that America, Britain, and Ukraine "are behind" the attack, and added that "retaliatory measures" will be taken.

🇺🇸🇫🇷 - "Attack may happen with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, major sporting (!!!) and cultural events, and other public areas that attract large numbers of civilians."

Translation: Don’t go to the Olympics on a Friday evening.

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- A poll, conducted by RMF-FM, has shown support for Ukraine in Poland has only increased.

- 75% of Poles support continuous aid to Ukraine.
- 36.5% of Poles support sending the Polish military to Ukraine (compared to just 3.4% in 2023).
- Of the 36.5%, an alarming 27.1% supported giving Polish volunteers the right to go and fight. And a terrifying 9.4% support sending the Polish military to the front-line.

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- "NATO is considering shooting down missiles on approach to the Alliance's borders.

Various concepts are being analyzed within NATO, including the possibility of shooting down such missiles when they are very close to the NATO border," – Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Andrzej Szejna.

Szejna has admitted Ukrainian permission will be needed, as Poland (and NATO) would be targeting Russian missiles on non-NATO soil.

🇧🇾⚡️- Telegram users in Belarus began to receive messages calling for terrorist attacks, including shootings in shopping centers – Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

🇷🇺⚡- A deputy of the Kursk City Assembly proposed blocking the Telegram application on the territory of the Russian Federation.

🇵🇰🇨🇳 - Terror attack kills five Chinese engineers in Pakistan’s KP province.

NatSecJeff says expecting ISKP to claim it.

🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian President Zelensky has dismissed Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

🇯🇵⚡️- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida caught up in $6.5 million (USD) Liberal Democratic Party slush fund scandal; approval ratings drop below 20%.

🇯🇵⚡️- "The race to replace Kishida is now gathering pace behind closed doors" — East Asia Forum

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election is in September 2024, and the next Japanese general election before October 2025 (TBD).

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- U.K. High Court judges grant Julian Assange permission to appeal against removal from U.K., in a victory for Assange and his legal team.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York City Council petitions New York State Supreme Court to let illegals (upwards of 800,000 in New York) vote in elections.

🇲🇩🇷🇺⚡- "Transnistria does not currently plan to appeal to Moscow with a request to be included in the Russian Federation," – Foreign Ministry of Transnistria Republic.

🇳🇮🇻🇦 - 10 Nicaraguan Catholics will mark a year since being jailed this week. They were imprisoned during 2023's Holy Week for participating in & covering religious activities.

🇮🇶🇷🇺 - In Baghdad, Iraq, buildings are illuminated as a sign of solidarity with Russia.

🇺🇸⚡️- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces Silicon Valley attorney Nicole Shahanan as his running mate for POTUS.

🇺🇸⚡️- Shahanan, 38, was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and is substantially wealthy; she is seen as someone who will help bankroll the campaign and get RFK Jr. on the ballot quicker.