Ike’s first port call in 200 days, officials say.

Current track conditions for main track at Churchill for #kyoaks day. rain forecast through the day. Damp turf - race 4 is off.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group gets first port call in months after battling Houthis. “During their time in Souda Bay, Sailors from the ships experienced Greek culture, explored the region, enjoyed local cuisine,” Navy says.

President Biden: “Today, my Administration is expanding affordable, quality health care coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.”

Evening prayer at George Washington University in the nation’s capital

#OTD in 1966, Naval aviator and Vietnam prisoner of war CDR Jeremiah Denton blinked “T-O-R-T-U-R-E” in Morse Code during a press conference arranged by his North Vietnamese captors. Due to his message and other acts of resistance while a POW, he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Russian troops have now entered a base in Niger that is housing U.S. troops as well, a senior U.S. official tells Reuters. While the Russian troops are in a hanger further down the airfield at Airbase 101, the official said the situation 'is not great.' W/Phil Stewart

The percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high.

NEW: Trump VP list is winnowing down to Gov Burgum, Sens Rubio, Vance + Scott. They will appear w/donors at RNC retreat in Palm Beach this weekend. No formal meetings with Trump yet to talk about the job (tho he speaks to all of them regularly): bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'Nearly half of the protesters arrested at the Columbia U and City College campuses during violent anti-Israel unrest weren’t students, police sources said — a day after Mayor Eric Adams warned that “outside agitators” were radicalizing youngsters'
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33 million people are enrolled in Domino's Pizza Rewards Program, or roughly 10% of the U.S. population

Today, Minister Antti Häkkänen and Governor Glenn Youngkin Youngkin signed a Letter of Intent for Finland to join the US National Guard Partnership Program.

This signifies an important step in 🇫🇮🇺🇸 defense cooperation and Finland-Virginia relations.

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As President Biden speaks on the chaos in college campuses from the White House - here is the 1st President’s statue a few miles away at GWU in DC. H/t David Spunt

France would consider sending troops to Ukraine if Russia breaks through front lines, Macron says

President Biden: 'There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos.'

President Joe Biden, asked if protests have forced him to reconsider his policies in the region on Israel, says no. He is asked if National Guard should intervene in the college protests, Biden also says no.

Biden: 'No place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students'

Biden: 'Violent protest is not protected.'