Latest in The Atlantic . The Ukrainians are no longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and therefore how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift link.

NEW: The story behind the ex-Brazilian model, arrested in South Florida, who claims she has compromising material on the President and First Lady. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation. Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel, according to recent Pew polling, Andrew Solender and Justin Green write for Axios axios.com/2026/04/18/isr…

This from Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey pretty much confirms everything you might have suspected about Trump: bored of the war, frustrated and surprised by Hormuz, thinks videos of things going boom are signs of success. "The president sometimes loses focus, spending time on the

As it turns out, I’ve met Kevin Leach. Despite what Ol’ Rags here implies, he’s not a “Wagner-styled mercenary.” Leonid’s sleazy smears & attempts to brand critics as “Nazis” who want a “forever war” in a country they know better than he, are, as he likes to say, “infowars.”

Newly released aerial footage shows the extent of damage and destruction in the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon as a result of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Video: Amit Segal Location: 33.116790, 35.436409 GeoConfirmed

Araghchi’s tweet reflected an understanding in Tehran, likely based on what they heard from Pakistan, that if they took a positive step by opening Strait of Hormuz, US would reciprocate by lifting the blockade. But Trump kept the blockade in place, and through his many tweets,

Maariv's ג'קי חוגי | Jacky Hugi: Mladenov's proposed his plan to Hamas for the day after in Gaza: Hamas gives up its heavy weapons, AKs, maps of tunnels. Then a Palestinian police force to enter Gaza & civilian governance that will oversee Gaza's reconstruction and governance. Hamas refused

MIKE WALTZ: It's disappointing the Russians and Chinese chose to side with Iran rather than our Gulf Arab allies BRENNAN: And you still lifted sanctions on Russia WALTZ: Yeah. Uh, you're going to see continued action this coming week. The entire world is united.

צה"ל ממשיך להרוס מבנים בכפרים בדרום לבנון בזמן הפסקת האש. מפקדים בצבא העידו בשיחה עם yaniv kubovich יניב קובוביץ כי מתבצע הרס שיטתי של מבנים אזרחיים בכפרים שבהם פועלים הכוחות, בין היתר ליד הגבול עם ישראל. לדברי המפקדים, קבלנים אזרחים מקבלים שכר יומי או מתוגמלים לפי מספר המבנים שנהרסו, כמו ברמועת

More Russian hardware found in Vienna - and not about Topfentorte. An active satellite relay on the Russian embassy roof routes military communications to Wagner's successor across Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. The Vienna Convention says embassies do embassy things. Running a

💥דובר צה״ל אפי דפרין - Effie Defrin, on this IDF soldier in southern Lebanon: "These actions are inconsistent with the IDF's values ​​& the conduct expected of its soldiers. The incident will be investigated thoroughly & in-depth & if needed steps will be taken in accordance with the findings."

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. More maps in this thread 🧵

Prominent Emirati commentator Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says it's time to think about closing U.S. bases, calling them a burden Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

Rumen Radev, whose party took the lead in Bulgaria’s elections tonight, has long been linked to the Kremlin in a “controversial manner”. Leonid Reshetnikov is a retired Lieutenant General of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) who headed the Russian Institute for

Russian media reports on Pavlin (Peacock) comms systems that can be positioned dozens of km away from HQ and command centers and that can also serve as a decoy to draw Ukrainian fires away from other functioning Rus comms systems, relays and UAV crews. t.me/NTK_VEKTOR/60

Swedish police seized COTS drone modified to be able to drop grenades. Multiple gang members arrested after Stockholm raid aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/bO84…

Footage of the destroyer USS Spruance firing its main gun at the Iranian-flagged cargo vessel Touska as it attempted to run the US blockade today.

A Hezbollah FPV strikes the rear ramp door of an Israeli “Namer” APC. A shaped-charge warhead such as a PG-7L may still not penetrate the superbly protected Namer, but here the operator chose to hit a less well-armored area in contrast to heavy frontal armor, as seen previously.

The tank farm at Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery and export terminal is heavily ablaze tonight after a massive Ukrainian drone attack.