A Marine One helicopter carrying Trump came within 0.8 miles horizontally and 700 feet vertically of an Envoy Air passenger jet near Washington, D.C., on Tuesday after radio communication problems delayed coordination with air traffic control.

The FAA called it a "momentary loss of separation" and is investigating, but said the president was never in danger.

Source: NYT

BIG: Trump confronted Defense Secretary Hegseth at Camp David over U.S. munitions shortages in the Iran conflict, furious he’d been told the problem was fixed.

Hegseth blamed his deputy.

The White House and Pentagon deny it ever happened.

Stockpiles of Tomahawks, Patriot interceptors, and ATACMS are severely depleted after 5+ months of fighting, limiting strike options.

Source: WaPo

Trump:

The U.S. has massive amounts of “munitions,” especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed.

Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history.

The “leakers” of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!

JD Vance on Israel:

Netanyahu didn't confront me. We had a nice and frank conversation.

As I said repeatedly, Israel has been a great partner. They're an ally of the United States of America. Like France or Britain or any other ally of the United States, we sometimes have differences of opinion.

And I think that the American media is fascinated by this dynamic. The reality is, my job is to pursue the interests of no other nation on Earth except for the United States of America.

So when our interests are aligned with Israel, we talk about how to accomplish those shared objectives. When my viewpoint is adverse to the Prime Minister of Israel, we have a frank conversation about that.

I describe it as a pleasant but direct conversation. I didn't feel confronted.

JD Vance on Iran:

Number one, the Iranians are extraordinarily difficult people. Number two, they have a fractured system.

There are people within their system that want the war to be over and also people in their system that are crazy radicals that want it to continue.

Our job is to navigate through that and get the best outcome for the American people and for the President of the United States as well.

I think where we'll land—it's going to be messy and take time to get there—but we'll land. Oil was $79 today. The oil prices will come down and stay down.

Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and the United States will be in a stronger position. We're in the middle of the game. People are trying to prejudge exactly how this is going to go.

I can tell you with confidence it's going to go in a place that is good for the United States of America. But we're going to use all the tools that we have—military, economic, diplomatic—to make sure we bring this thing to the right resolution.

JD Vance:

What I do think is interesting is that you have people who will attack what the President of the United States has said, but they don't want to use his name because they know that the President of the United States is too big of a fish for them.

They'll come after me.

JD Vance:

Forty years of bad economic policy—you won't see it fixed in 18 months.

Q: How about Canada?

JD Vance: They're doing terribly.

JD Vance:

If you're committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.

Q: On Iran, what makes you think this will be different?

Trump: You never know. It may be or may not be.

Fetterman: Does Israel engage in a genocide?

Stewart: In Palestine? Yes.

Fetterman: I strongly disagree. There wasn't a genocide. The Jewish community actually experienced a true genocide.

Stewart: They've killed like 1,200 Palestinians since the ceasefire.

Fetterman: Yeah. That's necessary. It's entirely appropriate to eliminate them.

Tucker Carlson used a livestream Wednesday to outline a 10-point vision for America, defining the worldview of a breakaway MAGA faction increasingly at odds with Trump.

After recently saying he would "help build a third party" and hosting MAGA dissidents who urged him to run in 2028, Carlson stopped short of launching a movement. Instead, he described the manifesto as the foundation for "whatever comes next."

His platform calls for:

Equal application of the law, including to political elites.

Greater U.S. sovereignty and reduced foreign influence.

Reviving manufacturing, farming and craftsmanship.

Restoring beauty and public order in cities.

Health reforms, including support for RFK Jr.'s food agenda.

Punishing government deception and declassifying more records.

Promoting family formation and long-term thinking.

Schools focused on practical knowledge and traditional views of human nature.

Restrained foreign policy, including ending support for allies accused of harming civilians.

Tighter immigration and English-only federal documents and ballots.

Two IDF reservists were killed and four seriously wounded by an IED in a booby-trapped building in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon.

They are the first Israeli military fatalities under the shaky June truce with Hezbollah.

The killed soldiers were named as Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a company commander, and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33.

Ukraine shows forests in Vovchansk district of Kharkiv region blanketed in fibre-optic cables left behind by Russian FPV drones.

The material doesn't biodegrade, damages forests, and creates deadly traps for wildlife.

Lt. Gen. Igor Yerusalimov, ~53, a senior Russian officer, was buried under heavy security in Moscow with multiple sources linking his death to the Aug 1 bombing at the Balzi Rossi restaurant.

Russian authorities haven't publicly confirmed his cause of death or named him as a victim.

Yerusalimov was a staff officer with operational-planning experience on the Ukrainian direction, promoted to lieutenant general in 2025.

German authorities, acting on a tip from a foreign intelligence partner, disrupted a Russian intelligence plot to assassinate Stefan Thumann, founder and CEO of Bavarian drone manufacturer Donaustahl, which supplies reconnaissance and FPV drones to Ukraine.

Investigators say two suspected Russian-recruited agents surveilled Thumann, his home, and his company before being arrested in Germany and Spain on suspicion of acting for a foreign intelligence service.

Source: Pravda Ukraine

NEW: US-Ukraine intelligence sharing has rebounded to previous high levels after its brief suspension in March 2025, significantly boosting Ukraine's deep-strike drone and missile campaign inside Russia.

Source: Politico

Russia is training newly recruited North Korean troops, likely in preparation for future offensive operations in Ukraine.

Japan says North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile.