Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇫🇷⚡️- French left-wing groups at the National Assembly have officially included a "data tax" for the 2027 French budget. The French state would tax 5.5 euro cents per gigabyte transmitted to Internet users if the 2027 budget law were to pass. Downloading a 210 GB video game, such as GTA VI, would cost an internet provider around 11 euros per user and per download.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump will host rallies this Sunday in Iowa and Kansas, after initially canceling them earlier this week.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Qatari mediators have landed in Tehran this morning as part of ongoing efforts to reach a peace agreement between the United States and Iran, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. officials believe Mohsen Rezaei is in regular contact with Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and that the two have communicated since Rezaei received Vice President JD Vance's letter, according to The Washington Post. It is important to note that U.S. officials seemingly believe Mojtaba Khamenei is alive and operating as Iran's Supreme Leader. This is the central reason the letter was sent to the person currently closest to him, Iran's SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei. The letter is essentially a message directly to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

🇺🇸🇸🇻🇭🇹⚡️- El Salvador has expanded its military deployment in Haiti to approximately 2,000 soldiers, with reinforcements expected to bring the force to 2,500. Five Salvadoran military helicopters have also arrived in the Dominican Republic near the Haitian border, while American C-130 aircraft have assisted the troop airlift. The Haiti Information Project reports that President Nayib Bukele may be planning a much larger force of 5,000 soldiers, including two special forces units and at least two additional helicopter squadrons. Those plans remain unconfirmed, but the deployment already represents a major escalation of Salvadoran military operations in Haiti.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US intelligence officials believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese espionage operation involving Alice Huang, a Chinese executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, according to The New York Times. American surveillance reportedly revealed that Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with Nvidia's CEO while passing intelligence to Beijing. Megaspeed was already under investigation for potentially helping China obtain restricted American AI chips, which raised concerns about her access to one of America's most influential technology executives. President Trump was briefed on the intelligence roughly a year ago but reportedly chose not to act.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: US has been carrying out "self defense strikes" on missile launch sites across southern Iran over the past two weeks, Barak Ravid of Axios and Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇯🇵⚡️- The US and Japan have agreed to establish a new missile production facility in Japan under an initiative called Operation Supercharge. The facility will manufacture advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles used by F-35 fighters, expanding allied weapons production capacity in the Indo-Pacific. The agreement was announced during defense talks in the Philippines, where Washington and its regional allies are strengthening military cooperation in response to growing tensions with China.

💲⚡️- BREAKING: Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hacked today, resulting in over $5.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. Although Binance claims that all user funds are safe, today remains the largest crypto hack in history.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of plumes of smoke rising in Bandar-e-Jask, southern Iran. Reports indicate strikes took place near the airport of the coastal city.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- The Ramaswamy campaign has officially pulled the Acton ad off air after successfully destroying his chances of winning the election. The ad was defended by President Trump, JD Vance, Don Jr, and the vast majority of MAGA world.

🇸🇦⚡️- Air activity seems to have returned to normal with commercial airliners entering the area that was avoided 20 minutes ago. Disturbances are still recorded near Riyadh, with heavy GPS jamming around the Saudi capital.

🇮🇷⚡️- Renewed air defense activity on Qeshm Island, southern Iran.

🇸🇦⚡️- Traffic at the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam seems uninterrupted. However, the flights that have diverted from their trajectories have not resumed their normal routes.

🇬🇧✝️⚡️- Longtime stage, TV, and voice actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at 86 years old. Stewart is best known for his role as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Alongside Star Trek, his 60 year long career on film, TV, and the stage earned him 3 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy's and 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡️- Numerous flights headed to Qatar and the UAE have started avoiding a large part of the airspace west of Dammam. The reason is unclear.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Intense enemy [US] military aircraft activity above Erbil province, northern Iraq." - Sabereen, pro-Iran Iraqi outlet.

🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡️- GPS jamming reported in parts of southern Israel and Jordan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The US has begun a major airlift to the Middle East following warnings to prepare for a possible resumption of the Iran war. At least 10 US military transport aircraft landed at Ovda and Nevatim airbase in Israel over the past 24 hours, some arriving from Fort Bliss, Texas, suggesting possible air defense resupply. US military aircraft have also landed at bases in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar over the past few hours." - Kann News, anti-Likud left-wing outlet.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian missiles have been launched from Qeshm Island against what is believed to be a fighter jet.