🇺🇸⚡️- Notably, Zach Lahn ran a campaign centered on "Iowa First" and rejected contributions from AIPAC.

He is now expected to be the republican nominee for Iowa's gubernatorial race against Democrat Rob Sand.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- Spencer Pratt is currently the best performing Republican Mayoral candidate in Los Angeles in over 30 years. Since Mayor Riordan's 1997 victory.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- We do not have enough information to accurately call either the California Governors race winners or the Los Angeles winners. The first batches of late mail drops will be arriving tomorrow night and the counting process will resume.

Since 2020 California has notoriously slow walked its vote counting process for innocent reasons of incompetence and nothing else :)

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- That being said the Governors race is looking as if Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra will advance to the general election. Los Angeles is still too early to call however as said before Spencer Pratt is in a very strong position to advance.

🇺🇸🗳⚡️- According to VoteHub's Wincast analysis, Democrat Tom Steyer in theory can rely on the late mail in vote to match or supersede Steve Hiltons vote total locking the GOP out of the Governors race.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Iranian drones severely damaged multiple facilities and caused numerous injuries at Kuwait International Airport in their latest attack, according to Kuwait's Civil Aviation Authority.

🇺🇸⚡️- Two hostages have been released as part of negotiations, it is unknown how many more hostages are inside the building. The situations is still ongoing.

🇸🇧🇦🇺⚡️- Matthew Wale, the Solomon Islands' new prime minister, announced while on a state visit to Australia that they will be reviewing their secret security treaty with China and will begin negotiations with Australia to create a new strategic security and economic agreement.

The Solomon Islands currently has no military, leaving the police to handle national security risks; as part of the deal with China, China has sent police instructors to assist with training the police. The rest of the deal was intentionally kept private.

A leaked draft of the agreement, while not confirmed to be correct, included China's rights to dock warships and deploy police and military personnel to the Island, although they denied it would allow them to establish a permanent base.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel issues evacuation orders for three towns in the Sidon region of central Lebanon.

🇺🇸 - The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) has docked in Kingston, Jamaica for a port visit.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israel has appointed a new Mossad Director, Belarus-born Roman Gofman.

Gofman noteably has no experience working for Mossad, instead he previously served as the Commander of an armoured Brigade that operated in Lebanon, then after being injured during the Oct 7 attack he served as the Chief of Staff for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, an Israeli Ministry of Defence unit tasked with managing civilian policy in the west bank, as well as managing aid deliveries to Gaza. Before being nominated for the Mossad position he became the Military Secretary for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli media report that Netanyahu overlooked other candidates with Mossad experience for the positions that were suggested by the outgoing Mossad director, as Netanyahu preferred Gofman for his loyalty and believed his character was better for the job.

Roman Gofman has previously written a document stating that Israel should establish a military government in the Gaza Strip, and has criticised the IDF's reluctance to send ground forces into Gaza, and instead relying on air power.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump on Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei: “Yeah, I’d like to meet him. I’d love to meet everybody. I would like to meet him and we probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out.”

🇮🇷⚡️- Initial reports of two explosions on Iran's Qeshm Island.

🇮🇷⚡️- The explosions are controlled and being carried out by the IRGC.

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🇰🇼🇮🇷 - Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the death of one person in the attack on Kuwait International Airport.

🇰🇼🇮🇷 - Kuwait Health Ministry reports they treated 63 injuries in relation to the airport attack.

🇮🇷🇰🇼 - Footage shows of what is left of Kuwait International Airport.