Providence Police announce they have detained a “person of interest” in connection with last night’s deadly shooting, which killed two, at Brown University in Rhode Island, with the potential suspect being traced by his cellphone to a hotel in Coventry where a revolver and semi-automatic handgun were discovered. Police believe that the suspect traveled from Wisconsin to carry out the shooting, though a motive is still unknown, with assistance being provided by both the FBI and ATF.

New South Wales Police have announced that the gunmen who attacked last night’s event celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing fifteen and injuring dozens of others, were a 50-year-old father and 24-year-old son, adding that they are not currently searching for any further suspects.

Three HH-60W “Jolly Green II” Combat Rescue Helicopters, likely with the U.S. Air Force’s 33rd Rescue Squadron based out of Kadena Air Base in Japan, seen on the tarmac at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Eastern Puerto Rico. The 33rd Rescue Squadron and its HH-60Ws are specially tasked with the rescue of downed pilots and other personnel from combat zones, with their arrival suggesting future strike operations against targets in a potentially contested airspace, such as Venezuela.

Photo credit: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to drop Ukraine’s aspirations of joining NATO as part of a peace agreement to end the ongoing invasion by Russia, during talks today’s in Berlin with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.

JetBlue Flight 1112, an Airbus A320 which had departed from Curaçao bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, nearly collided Friday with a U.S. Air Force KC-135R Aerial-Refueling Tanker that did not have its transponder on at 34,000ft over the Southern Caribbean on Friday, while the tanker was carrying out operations off the coast of Venezuela as part of Operation Southern Spear.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is investigating whether the two gunmen who attacked a celebration for Hanukkah last night at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, had ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), with an IS Flag being found in the pair’s car located near Bondi. According to ABC, Naveed Akram, who remains hospitalized in critical condition, was known to and previously investigated by the ASIO for possible ties to ISIS terror cell operating within Australia in 2019, soon after the arrest of the terrorist Isaac El Matari, who was planning an attack on behalf of the IS in Sydney.

American film director Rob Reiner, 78, known for many iconic films including The Wolf of Wall Street, and his wife Michele Singer, 68, have been found dead as a result of several knife wounds at their home in Los Angeles, California, according to TMZ.

Providence Police announce they will be releasing 24-year-old Army veteran Benjamin Erickson from custody and that he is no longer a “person of interest” in last night’s shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Following the announcement moments ago from Providence Police, I have deleted my post from earlier citing CNN which identified and showed a photo of Benjamin Erickson as the “person of interest” in yesterday’s shooting at Brown University.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are scheduled to provide a classified brief to the Senate on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. regarding the ongoing military buildup and activity in the Southern Caribbean, as support grows for a potential War Powers Resolution against the Trump Administration in Congress, according to Punchbowl News.

The White House sent an angry message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend following an airstrike Saturday on the Gaza Strip which targeted and eliminated Ra'ad Sa'ad, a senior commander in Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire and not informing the United States prior to the strike through the Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC), according to Israeli officials who spoke to Axios.

Footage has been released by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) showing a first-of-its-kind underwater drone attack against the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea using “Sea Baby” Unmanned Surface Vehicles, with at least one striking and causing significant damage to a Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine with the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet.

President Donald J. Trump’s first statement since the brutal stabbing murder yesterday of American director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele at their home in Los Angeles, California. Wow, just wow…an absolutely psychotic and demented post by Trump.

Two Soldiers that were killed in a ISIS-affiliated attack on Saturday in Central Syria have been identified as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, both serving with 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division of the Iowa National Guard currently deployed to the Middle East.