🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Oman has released a statement following their talks with Iran's Ghalibaf and Araghchi, agreeing to explore the option of "administrating the Strait of Hormuz, and the services and 'costs' associated" with it.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The IDF says troops opened fire on four Hezbollah operatives who crossed into Israel's security zone in southern Lebanon a short while ago.

According to the military, troops spotted four Hezbollah operatives riding in a bulldozer and on a motorcycle into the security zone near the Ali Taher ridge, close to Nabatieh -- where troops are operating -- "in a manner that posed an immediate threat."

After identifying the operatives, troops fired warning shots toward them. "After the operatives continued to approach and did not respond to the forces' calls, additional fire was carried out in order to remove the threat," the military says, adding that at least one was hit," - Galei Tzahal, IDF Radio.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli assassination strike near Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon, a short while ago.

🇺🇸⚡️- Primary elections are being held in New York today, the leftist DSA is mounting its most aggressive primary assault against mainstream Democrats yet with multiple Congressional and state level candidates.

Mayor Mamdani's wife posted on Instagram earlier reminding followers to vote for 2 of the DSA endorsed Congressional candidates Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier. She however neglected to mention the only Jewish candidate endorsed by her husband, Brad Lander who is running in NY's 10th District.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- FLA-aligned sources on X report that Africa Corps conducted racially-motivated atrocities against the Tamasheq people in northern Mali. Pictures of a decapitated head centered in severed arms and legs turned into a swastika were relayed.

Rerum Novarum will not show these images.

🇬🇧⚡️- Andy Burnham is already planning to undo the immigration reforms made by PM Starmer and Shabana Mahmood that resulted in near net 0 migration.

Should be noted that the net 0 figure has only been close due to the amount of people leaving the country rather than a mass reduction of actual migration numbers which still remain above pre 2019 levels.

🇺🇸🗽⚡️- NYC Board of Elections shows that as of 3pm only around 9% of Democrats have turned out for the primary.

Turnout among key socialist demographics are also much lower than they were last year when Mamdani won against Andrew Cuomo.

🇸🇩⚡- 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.