Six U.S. Navy E-6 “Mercury” Airborne Nuclear Command Post and Communications Relays are currently airborne over the United States, likely as part of a nuclear exercise by U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), similar to the one last month near Iceland.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reporting that power has been restored to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv Oblast of Northern Ukraine, following a blackout that lasted for more three hours after an attack earlier today by upwards of 20 Russian one-way attack drones launched from Belarus, which deliberately targeted energy infrastructure in Slavutych that provide power to Chernobyl.

For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the United States will provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with intelligence for long-range missile strikes against energy infrastructure inside of Russia, senior officials have told the Wall Street Journal.

An order instructing both the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to aid Ukraine with strikes against targets within Russian territory was recently signed by President Donald J. Trump, with U.S. officials asking NATO Allies to provide similar support to Kyiv.

In addition, the U.S. is also weighing the delivery of Tomahawk and Barracuda Cruise Missiles, as well as other American-made ground and air-launched missiles that have ranges of around 500 miles to Ukraine, allowing them to potential strike targets in Russia that are as deep as Moscow.

Three suspected members of Hamas were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of plotting attacks against Israeli and Jewish institutions in Germany, according to the Associated Press. Federal prosecutor said the three suspects, two of which are German citizens, have been involved in procuring firearms since earlier this summer, including an AK-47 and hundreds of rounds of 7.62×39mm, which they would use in attacks on Israeli diplomatic sites and Synagogues in Germany.

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One person was injured, when two regional passenger jets operated by Delta Airlines, DL5155 and DL5047, collided earlier tonight while taxiing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

On Thursday, Papua New Guinea ratified the “Pukpuk Treaty” a mutual defense pact with Australia, that places PNG on the same level as both New Zealand and the United States, and would see Australia come the defense of PNG if they were attacked as well as vice versus with PNG coming to the defense of Australia. Additionally, the treaty will also establish a pathway to Australian Citizenship for Papua New Guineans who wish to join the Australian Defence Force.

The Trump Administration this week notified Congress that it has decided the United States is engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels located in a Venezuela and Latin America that have recently been labeled as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) by the U.S. State Department, according to a confidential notice seen by the New York Times.

The notice was sent to several congressional committees, and appears to be the administration’s rationale for justifying three “self-defense strikes” last month by the U.S. Air Force and Navy, against suspected narco-terrorist vessels operating on the Southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. President Trump and other senior officials have asserted that the targets were smuggling drugs for cartels that the administration has designated as terrorists, invoking the laws of war to justify killing them rather arresting them in the notice to Congress.

Venezuela’s Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino López claimed today that 5 F-35 Lightning lls, likely the U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs deployed recently to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico, were detected by air defense systems operating within the Maiquetía Flight Information Region (FIR) off the coast of Venezuela.

Munich International Airport in Germany was closed earlier tonight, with dozens of flights being grounded and canceled while at least 15 incoming flights were diverted to airports in the German cities of Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Frankfurt, as well as Vienna, Austria, following the sighting of unidentified drones in the airspace around Munich. The sighting, which was originally made by air traffic control and later confirmed by police helicopters, appears to be similar to drone sightings throughout the last few weeks over airports and other critical sites in Denmark and Northern Europe.

Munich International Airport has finally reopened after being closed for several hours overnight due to unusual activity by unidentified drones over and near the airport in Southern Germany.

A U.S. Navy P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft is carrying out quite an unusual flight path tonight, deviating from its normal daily patrol off the coast of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, instead doing rounds earlier over Northern Poland before making small loops over the Baltic, to now doing circles off the coast of Estonia and the inlet to the Gulf of Finland.

U.S. military planners believe that forces being assembled in Puerto Rico and the Southern Caribbean are now sufficient enough to launch “territorial-seizure operations” against Venezuela, capturing and holding key strategic facilities such as ports and airfields, according to a report from the Washington Examiner.

Sky News is reporting that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with intelligence support from NATO and the United States, is preparing for a large-scale drone and missile strike campaign, accompanied by a potential ground offensive, against Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in Russian-occupied Southeastern Ukraine as well as Crimea, which could begin as early as December 2025.

This comes after President Donald J. Trump recently directed the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to assist Kyiv with long-range missile strikes against targets in Russia, while asking NATO to also provide targeting assistance to Ukraine. In addition, talks are reportedly ongoing about the possible transfer of long-range cruise missiles, including Tomahawks and Barracudas, to Ukraine.

A massive fire has erupted tonight at the Chevron El Segundo Oil Refinery right outside Los Angeles, California.