Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a strong condemnation of today’s Israeli airstrike on Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, which targeted key Houthi infrastructure and a power facility.

After being delayed at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, to ride out Hurricane Erin, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)—made up of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28), and USS San Antonio (LPD-17)—has now departed for its deployment to the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. The group will link up with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Sampson (DDG-102), USS Gravely (DDG-107), and USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), which are already operating within U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales stated that the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, near Venezuela’s territorial waters, is a “clear provocation that threatens the peace and stability” of the region.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russia is intensifying its GPS and communications jamming campaign along NATO’s Eastern Front, affecting countries such as Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and others around the Baltic Sea. International transport organizations have raised concerns over a sharp rise in GPS interference, jamming, and spoofing in recent months, coinciding with Russia’s deployment of additional electronic warfare systems near its borders with both Western Russia and Kaliningrad.

Vice-President JD Vance: “I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three and a half years of this conflict. They’ve actually been willing to be flexible on some of their core demands.” NBC News Kristen Welker: “You talk about concessions, and yet the Russians rejected the ceasefire proposal that President Trump put forward. There's no meeting planned between President Putin and President Zelensky. And this week, Russia targeted an American factory in Ukraine. What makes you think President Putin is serious about peace?” Vice-President JD Vance: “Well, I didn't say they conceded on everything. But what they have conceded is the recognition that Ukraine will have territorial integrity after the war. They've recognized that they're not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. That was, of course, a major demand at the beginning. And importantly, they've acknowledged that there is going to be some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said in an interview with NBC News earlier today that “every major conflict in human history” has ended through negotiations, while discussing possible peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Apparently, he overlooked both World War II and the Gulf War.

This morning, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of major strikes on military and infrastructure sites in and around Sana’a, the Houthi-controlled capital of western Yemen. Targets included a military compound near the Presidential Palace, the Asar and Hizaz power stations, and a downtown fuel storage facility. The strikes came in retaliation for ongoing ballistic missile and drone attacks on Israel by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia—most recently a missile fired on Friday that the IDF confirmed carried a cluster munition warhead intended to hit civilian areas in Tel Aviv.

In an interview with NBC News earlier today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that no meeting has been scheduled between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, though he claimed Putin is ready to meet. Lavrov went on to call Zelensky an “illegitimate leader,” arguing he has no authority to sign a ceasefire or negotiate an end to the war. Putin, who has ruled Russia since 1999, has repeatedly altered the country’s constitution to extend his hold on power as both Prime Minister and President.

For months, the Pentagon has been restricting Ukraine from using long-range missiles to carry out strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal.

The Department of Justice has released redacted audio and written transcripts from last month’s nine-hour interviews between Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein.