🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "These strikes are intended as punishment, not proportional, and won't be over for a bit," - CNN, citing a U.S. official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- IRIB confirms new attacks on Sirik and Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The moment of a U.S. arrival in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, earlier.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇮🇶 - Contrary to reports, there is no unusual aerial activity over southern Iraq.

🇸🇩⚡- Two Rapid Support Forces drone strikes on the North Kordofan region, Sudan, earlier today killed 15 civilians.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli flares over the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery shelling of Ali al-Taher, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Scenes from the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- U.S. airstrikes against Sirik, southern Iran.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇦🇪⚡- "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) possibility transported military equipment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in late June.

The UAE’s military assistance to the DRC is part of its broader strategy to protect and expand its growing financial interests in the DRC under a US economic umbrella.

The UAE has signed several mining deals with the DRC since the United States became involved in regional peace efforts in mid-2025. The latest US sanctions on Rwanda could further incentivize the UAE to prioritize its efforts to reestablish a gold pipeline from the DRC over Rwandan gold exports.

Future Congolese efforts to regain control of Bukavu, the M23-controlled South Kivu provincial capital, through military action or the US-backed peace process would further strengthen the DRC-UAE economic partnership.

Bukavu [M23-controlled DRC] has been a trading and transport hub for high-value minerals for decades," - Critical Threats.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Nabatieh's al-Fawqa district, southern Lebanon.

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🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, now has another ex-girlfriend levying an accusation of sexual misconduct.

The ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner for two years, had previously accused Platner of physical abuse, but now accuses him of “sneakily” removing a condom during intercourse, which is criminal in most of the Anglosphere, as well as in Maine, but not in Washington, D.C., where the alleged incident took place.

Platner’s team has called the allegation “categorically false and politically motivated.”

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who's currently attending the NATO summit in Ankara, will travel to Israel tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reports of strikes near Kharg Island, and Qeshm Island.

🇺🇸🐊⚡- Kelly Mason, a founder of a charter school in Florida called ‘Mason Classical Academy,’ is suing Byron Donalds for an incident that occurred in 2022. Donalds, as seen in the video, brought a member of his team and cornered Mason, demanding that she drop a lawsuit against his wife, Erika Donalds.

When Mason Classical Academy opened, Byron and Erika Donalds were added to the board in some capacity. Not long after, the Donalds began pressuring Mason to create new schools to make money, while Mason was more concerned with the quality of the already established Academy. Mason refused to go along and sued after an attempted “hostile takeover,” per the Daily Mail.

In the video, Donalds is heard demanding that Kelly Mason drop the lawsuit, while her then-13-year-old daughter recorded from a distance. Donalds also reportedly told Mason that he would “crush” and “finish” her during the embarrassing display of the Congressman’s manners and public etiquette.

Mason and the Donalds settled the original lawsuit in 2024.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "A U.S. military official said the airstrikes against Iran would go on “for a while” and would focus on a series of Iranian military targets. The official did not disclose what types of targets were being hit, but in strikes last month, U.S. forces hit Iranian coastal radar sites as well as missile and drone storage locations." - The New York Times.