🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- A lone protester, identifying herself as a "fascist," holding a sign counter-protesting the pro-Palestine protesters at the DNC in Chicago.

Her sign reads "fuck niggers" and "go the fuck back to the shithole you're from."

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump says he plans to offer Elon Musk a cabinet position if he wins the election

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The FBI has concluded that the Iranian government is behind the attempt to hack and leak sensitive information from the Trump campaign, including an attempt to sabotage the Harris-Walz campaign, which apparently failed.

— 🇮🇱/🇪🇬 NEW: Egypt has reassured Israel that if a ceasefire is reached, Egypt will continue to allow the IDF to be stationed along the entire Egyptian border inside the Gaza Strip, known as the Philadelphia Axis – Walla News

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇸🇩⚡- "We will not allow just a group of terrified generals who fled the capital to control the fate of our people," – General Hemedti, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

🇸🇩⚡- General Hemedti says the Rapid Support is open to "establishing a separate state in western and southern Sudan" and that the Rapid Support have "many options that we are capable of implementing whenever that becomes necessary".

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support, RSF, have captured hundreds of Tigray mercenaries from Ethiopia who were fighting for al-Burhan in the Sennar region – Qanaqar, RSF media.

🏳️⚡- "I crave war now. Sitting in an office is boring, we long for war," – Mullah Janan, Taliban Official.

🇺🇸⚡️- The first night of the DNC has gone on so long that CSPAN ended its livestream expecting it to be over by 11:00PM

🇺🇸⚡️- The other major networks also planned for the event to be over by 11 and have had to delay regular programming to continue coverage.

Commentators are speculating the DNC lengthened its speaking times to minimize the viewership of Bidens keynote speech.

🇺🇸⚡️- Longtime Biden aides are upset at the DNC for pushing Biden out of primetime, one texting a CNN journalist:
“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them—do they have to cut him out of prime time?"

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Upwards of 55 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights. Multiple fires have been reported in the Golan Heights as a result.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF reports that it was able to recover 6 hostages from tunnels in Khan Yunis, although all 6 of those rescued did not survive.

🇮🇷🇸🇩⚡- Iranian military cargo plane has landed in Port Sudan, Sudan, a day after Russia's Wagner-linked plane arrived at Port Sudan.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that more than 75 rockets have been fired into northern Israel from Lebanon since this morning.

🇺🇸🇪🇬⚡- The meeting between Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, begins in El Alamein, northern Egypt.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- Many Western journalists were onboard the Philippine Coast Guard ship which deliberately collided with the Chinese Coast Guard, this all appears to be meticulously orchestrated – Global Times, Chinese state-owned media.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The fighting in the Kursk region will end most likely in 2 to 3 months. In fact, the entire Special Military Operation will end in 2 to 3 months," – Russian Commander of the "Akhmat" Special Forces, General Apti Alaudinov.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- Chinese State Council Premier, Li Qiang, Arrives in Moscow, Russia, to meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

🇸🇴🇹🇷⚡- Turkey will send the Oruc-Reis research vessel to explore for offshore oil in Somalia next month – Director of the Ministry of Oil of Somalia, Muhammad Hashi.