🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- A US drone operating over Marib, Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council controlled central Yemen.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺⚡️- The United Kingdom and Australia have both refused to join the U.S. blockade of Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️- Rory McIlroy has done it! With back-to-back wins at The Masters, he becomes the first player since Tiger Woods (2001-2002) to defend the green jacket. He joins the exclusive club of Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods as the only players to accomplish the feat, and the first to do it in over a quarter century, further cementing his place among golf’s all-time greats.

🇺🇸⚡️- Eric Swalwell has suspended his campaign for California Governor amid the tsunami of sexual assault allegations against him by over 50 former staffers.

The Manhattan DA had opened an investigation into Swalwell and DHS is now investigating his use of campaign funds to pay an illegal Brazilian women as a house maid.

Swalwell remains in the House of Representatives.

🇺🇸⚡️- Swalwell continues to deny these allegations, most of which seem to be about him hitting on subordinates or having drunk sex with them.

None yet have claimed he actually committed a violent rape or drugged them.

🇺🇸⚡️- Some Democrats and Republicans in Congress want a combined expulsion vote for 4 members, including Swalwell, over sexual assault allegations and corruption charges as to not upset the balance of the House.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- President Trump attacks Pope Leo XIV.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- President Trump posted an AI-generated image on TRUTH Social, depicting himself as Jesus Christ.

This follows his attacks on Pope Leo XIV.

We look forward to covering your impeachment when you get slaughtered in the midterms.

#BlueWave2026

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡️- The Philippines National Security Council has released a report accusing the Chinese government of dropping bottles of cyanide into the disputed South China Sea last year near the grounded BRP Sierra Madre vessel.

The BRP Sierra Madre is a navy vessel that was intentionally grounded by the Philippines in 1999 to serve as a forward military outpost in the Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea, to defend against Chinese territorial claims to the shoal. The soldiers who fortify this vessel rely on fresh food to be delivered, although the Chinese coast guard has made substantial efforts to blockade these deliveries to the crew, including intentionally ramming supply vessels.

Polluting the water surrounding the vessel could prevent the crew from catching their own fish, leaving them entirely reliant on the Philippine Navy breaching the blockade to deliver food and water.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Violent clashes have erupted between Hezbollah forces and IDF soldiers in Bint Jbeil, Shama, and Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon.

The IDF has sieged Bint Jbeil from all sides but is struggling to take control of the town.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The United States to Blockade Ships Entering or Exiting Iranian Ports on April 13 at 10:00 A.M. ET. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT" - President Trump via Truth Social.

The American blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to the Iranian blockade, will begin in seven and a half hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “No port in the Persian Gulf or Gulf of Oman will be safe if our ports are threatened.” - Iran’s Central Military Command.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- “I am not afraid of the Trump administration.” - Pope Leo XIV.

🇻🇦🇩🇿⚡️- Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria, marking the first time a Pope visits the country.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- “I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.” - Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

🇵🇱🇭🇺⚡- "Hungary, Poland, Europe back together!

Glorious victory, dear friends!

Russians go home," - Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️- "The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply damaging. Getting global shipping moving is vital to ease cost of living pressures.

The UK has convened more than 40 nations who share our aim to restore freedom of navigation.

This week the UK and France will co-host a summit to advance work on a coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends." - Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.