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According to an exclusive report by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the White House’s Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, Anthony Salisbury, was caught casually exchanging messages over Signal in a crowded, public space last weekend in Minnesota, discussing with a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other high-level officials in the Trump Administration, the possibility of deploying the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, instead of the National Guard, to Portland, Oregon. At one point in the conversation, Salisbury typed out a question to Hegseth’s senior advisor Patrick Weaver, asking: “82nd is part of this trained element you guys have been building for this very [thing] right?”
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U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are on their way to Cairo in the hopes of finalizing the technical details of the hostage release by Hamas and to discuss a lasting peace deal with mediators from Egypt, Israel, and Qatar, according to a White House official who spoke to Axios.
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A swarm of unidentified drones that caused the closure of Munich International Airport in Southern Germany overnight on Thursday and Friday, as well major disruptions at other airports and military sites in Frankfurt and throughout Germany, have been determined by the Bundeswehr to have been “military-grade reconnaissance drones” launched and flown by an unknown actor, according to a classified report seen by BILD.
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At least two commercial flights bound for Vilnius International Airport in Southeastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, are currently diverting for an unknown reason to Riga in Latvia.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump announces via a post on Truth Social that Israel has agreed to an initial withdrawal line as part of the peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which has been shared with Hamas, stating that when Hamas confirms, a ceasefire will be “IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal, which will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE.”
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Initial reports of possible drone sightings in the airspace around Vilnius Čiurlionis International Airport and near the border between Lithuania and Belarus.
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Commercial flights are continuing to divert away from Vilnius Čiurlionis International Airport in Lithuania. The cause is still unknown, with reports suggesting everything from a hot air balloon that drifted close to the airport, gps interference, and even reports of unidentified drones having entered Lithuanian Airspace from Belarus.
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Vilnius Čiurlionis International Airport in Southeastern Lithuania has now issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) closing the airport until at least 2:30am, while confirming that tonight’s delays and diversions were due to a “series of balloons” approaching the airspace over the airport from the direction of the border with Belarus.
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Vilnius Čiurlionis International Airport in Southeastern Lithuania has now issued a Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) closing the airport until at least 2:30am, while confirming that tonight’s delays and diversions were due to a “series of balloons” approaching…
Belarus and Russia appear to be escalating their “hybrid campaign” against countries in Europe, now launching balloons over the border into Lithuanian Airspace, similar to the near-conflict we saw recently between North and South Korea.
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U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, who was nominated by President Donald J. Trump in 2018, has issued a restraining order temporarily blocking the Trump Administration’s federalization and deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, until at least October 18, 2025.
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Flights are beginning to divert away from the airspace over Eastern Poland, near the border with both Belarus and Ukraine.
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Russian one-way attack drones are currently flying over Western Ukraine in the direction of the border with Poland.
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Commercial flights are now totally avoiding the airspace over Eastern Poland.
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There are almost no military flights visible tonight over Europe, despite a large-scale drone and missile attack ongoing against Ukraine and balloons launched into Lithuania from Belarus. It appears in the last 24 hours or so, both NATO and the U.S. have halted the use of visible transponders for most, if not all, military aircraft, including fighters, tankers, surveillance, and command & control aircraft within European Airspace.
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An Australian E-7A “Wedgetail” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft has just appeared over Poland heading in the direction of the border with Ukraine, alongside an F-35A Lightning ll, likely either Dutch or Norwegian, that appeared briefly but has since “gone dark” flying east over Western Poland.
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The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces states that Polish and allied aircraft have been scrambled due to the activity of Russian long-range aviation and one-way attack drones in the airspace over Ukraine, adding that fighter jets are intensively operating in Polish Airspace, while ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have reached their highest state of readiness across Poland.
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Roughly a dozen Russian one-way attack drones are currently flying over the Lviv Oblast of Western Ukraine near the border with Poland.
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Thick black smoke can be seen rising across the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, roughly 30 miles from the border with Poland, following multiple ballistic and cruise missile strikes, as well as impacts from one-way attack drones, during tonight’s large-scale attack by Russia against Ukraine.
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A map showing the route taken by air and surface-launched ballistic/cruise missiles and one-way attack drones during last night’s large-scale attack by Russia against Ukraine, with this likely being the largest or one of the largest attacks of the war against the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv and the Lviv Oblast.
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