🇲🇱⚡️- A curfew has been enacted in all of the Mopti region for a month following increased JNIM activity.

🇲🇱⚡️- The junta's forces are reportedly condoning and even encouraging widespread acts of cannibalism around Bamako.

Several Malian civilians have begun targeting Fulani and Tuareg minorities. After being beaten to death, there have been documented cases of those minorities being cooked and eaten in public.

🇸🇩⚡- Heavy artillery and drone shelling of al-Genina, the capital of the West Darfur region, and a Rapid Support Forces stronghold.

🇫🇷🇨🇫⚡- French journalist Thomas Dietrich has claimed that France is preparing a military-backed effort to overthrow Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, allegedly with support from loyalist Chadian militias, CAR-based rebel groups, and elements of the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Dietrich asserts Paris is seeking to exploit Russia's weakness, and reassert its influence in Bangui.

Note, his claims have not been independently verified and are based on his own writings and sources. Dietrich was previously expelled from Togo.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Doha, Qatar, for indirect talks with Iran over the recent flare up.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Supreme Court has upheld the West Virginia and Idaho laws, in a 6-3 ruling, that prohibit transgenders from participating in women's sports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Iran and Oman are working on a proposal to charge ships using the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran argues that the payments would be fees for services such as navigation, safety, and environmental protection, while Oman has suggested a model where shipping companies pay for safe passage, which Muscat has put forward to Washington.

However, it remains unclear whether these payments would be voluntary [Oman's preferred method] or mandatory [Iran's preferred method], reflecting differences between the two countries’ positions," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

Chief Justice Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson all voted to uphold, with Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting and Kavanaugh in part.

🇺🇸🇱🇾⚡- "The US is seeking to broker a power-sharing deal in Libya that would legitimize family rule by the Haftars [East Libya] and Dbeibahs [West Libya].

While presented as an interim step toward elections, the plan would likely make their positions permanent," - Foreign Policy.

🇺🇸⚡️- The ruling was 5-4 on the 14th Amendment and 6-3 on the Congressional citizenship statute. Roberts was joined by Sotomayor, Karan, Barrett, and Jackson, with Kavanaugh concurring in part on the statutory question, per Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin.

🇺🇸⚡️- Supreme Court also agreed to take up some major gun control cases next term. Grant v Higgins and Viramontes v Cook County (IL) both revolve around bans on semi automatic weapons like AR-15's.

🇺🇸⚡️- Todays Supreme Court rulings were highly predictable and should not surprise anyone. That being said since the job to end birthright citizenship is now solely on Congress, the GOP and Trump are fully to blame for when it goes unchanged.

Justice Kavanaugh writing in the majority opinion that Congress has the right to change it without a new Amendment prevented this from being a death note for the country.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army's assessment is that Hamas is preparing on a human and logistical level for the next battle in the Gaza Strip," - Israeli Channel 13.

🇺🇸⚡️- FDA will allow ZYN to market itself as less harmful than cigarettes. The Wall Street Journal reports that ZYN's are the first nicotine pouch to be given the distinction.