Dear Operation Freedom listeners and subscribers,

I am pleased to present today’s briefing. Here are the key news items of the day:

1. President Donald Trump has denied any U.S. involvement in a strike that resulted in the death of 175 people at a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, instead placing blame on the Iranian government for the attack.
2. A Pakistani man was found guilty by a jury for plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump and other prominent U.S. politicians in an Iran-backed plot on American soil.
3. President Donald Trump, alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and First Lady Melania Trump attended the dignified transfer ceremony for six U.S. soldiers who were killed in Kuwait.
4. During the inaugural “Shield of the Americas” summit, President Donald Trump announced a historic military coalition and vowed to use “lethal military force” to dismantle cartels he referred to as a “cancer” on the Western Hemisphere.
5. Following the House’s passing of a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September, the House Committee on Appropriations issued a statement emphasizing bipartisan support for national protection, while attributing the standoff to a “Senate Democrat-instigated shutdown.”
6. The aging pillars of the Democratic establishment gathered at the “House of Hope” on Friday to bid farewell to Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., transforming the “Celebration of Hope” into a high-profile reunion of political figures who have shaped the party for the last thirty years.

Briefing Provided by: The Operation Freedom Press Corps.