🚨🇺🇦WATCH TONIGHT: THE MAN PUTIN WANTS DEAD Russia has tried to assassinate him at least 10 times. Now, one of the most powerful men in Ukraine is sitting down with NewsForce. @Kyrylo_Budanov, the legendary former military intelligence chief turned @ZelenskyyUA's Chief of Staff, speaks exclusively with @MacyGunnell about the war, the search for peace and what happens if Russia’s aggression moves beyond Ukraine. Why does Kyiv believe @POTUS and the United States remain indispensable to ending the war? Can Europe defend itself without America? What does Ukraine need to survive another winter? And how are Russia, North Korea and their allies reshaping the battlefield? Budanov has spent years fighting Putin from the shadows. Now, he’s stepping into the spotlight. Live on X at 4pm ET only on NewsForce.

🇬🇧 Residents of Stoke Lyne say they’ve been “abandoned” by their council, which rejected a 13-warehouse development but won’t defend that decision at an upcoming appeal. The Baynards Green project would cover 6 million sq ft, with warehouses up to 75ft tall along the M40. Residents are now comparing their fight to nearby Piddington’s recent symbolic independence vote.

🇺🇸UPDATE: Dozens of protesters have gathered at the North Austin site where an ICE officer shot and injured a man Sunday, as Texas DPS, Austin police, and ICE officers look on. The blue Toyota Corolla with a damaged passenger door and bullet holes is still at the 7000 block of West Anderson Lane. The victim remains unidentified and hospitalized; ICE is investigating and the city has promised more details.

🇺🇸🇮🇷Open-source trackers spotted at least 7 U.S. aerial refueling tankers over the Persian Gulf and an MQ-4C Triton recon flight, as Iranian media claimed unidentified jets over Bandar Abbas. The surge follows Tehran’s warning that it will hit U.S. bases if attacks resume. No official U.S. confirmation has been issued, but observers say the tankers could mean a larger operation or routine wartime patrols.

🇺🇸BREAKING: ICE officers shot and injured a man Sunday in North Austin, and the victim was taken to a hospital. His identity and condition have not been released, and a blue Toyota Corolla at the scene showed a damaged passenger door and bullet holes. ICE is investigating.

🇺🇸An 18-year-old San Antonio mom handed her 1-month-old son and all his federal ID documents to a stranger at a downtown bus stop and said she was going to give the baby away. Jennifer Benavides took Karla Ibarra and her infant to a nearby house, where Ibarra then left in an Uber without the child. Police charged Ibarra with abandoning and endangering a child because Texas has a Safe Haven law she did not use.

🇺🇸Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched what he called the “SEND ME TOUR” at Texas A&M, quoting Isaiah 6:8: “Lord, I am here. Send me.” At this 1st tour stop, he told cadets that for 250 years Americans have raised their right hand to fight Redcoats, communists, and Islamists. “And you are saying, send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation.”

🇺🇸Trump signed a new H-1B executive order and renewed the $100,000 application fee, directing agencies to weigh an employer’s recent U.S. layoffs before approving more foreign workers. White House figures say the 2025 fee already slashed H-1B filings by the largest IT outsourcing firms 92% and consular processing requests nearly 97%.

🇺🇸Central Alabama Pride president Dezmond Turner, a Shelby County school aide, was arrested Wednesday on sexual misconduct and 2 felony counts of child abuse/torture. Arrest records say he grabbed a victim’s crotch and buttocks on several occasions in December 2023, then in late August and early September slammed a child’s head into a school-bus wall and slapped the child’s face while pressing it against the wall. He was released on $32K bond and has resigned as Pride president.

🇺🇸Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said every family that has a baby in the state will get a home visit from a government-appointed health-care provider “to make an assessment.” The comments immediately drew accusations of a state intrusion into private homes. Critics asked what the “assessment” actually covers and why the same government that expands abortion access now wants inspectors at the crib.

🇺🇸@JakePaul said the Second Amendment is outdated and that Americans may need drones, EMPs, RPGs, and anti-helicopter weapons because a pistol or shotgun cannot stop a government armed with autonomous robots. He argued the Founders meant for citizens to match the state’s firepower so they could “upthrow” a tyrannical government, and that without that upgrade the 2A is “just a hobby.” The remarks come days after he and @LoganPaul toured the Pentagon.

🇺🇸@JakePaul and @LoganPaul toured the Pentagon and met service members on Thursday. The trip comes months after Jake Paul spoke at a Trump rally in Kentucky and received a presidential endorsement.

🇺🇸A Pensacola fishing charter hauled a large military-style drone out of the Gulf of America on Saturday during a 6-hour trip. The aircraft may be an MQM-172 target drone used for weapons testing, and it was recovered in waters near Eglin Air Force Base’s offshore test range. Authorities picked it up the same day, and no agency publicly claimed it or explained how it ended up in reach of a civilian crew.

🇭🇹18 suspects in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are being extradited to Florida for trial. Prosecutors indicted 30 people in the plot and say they will chase anyone who financed or carried it out, including more than a dozen Colombian soldiers still in Haiti. 4 men were convicted in May, and at least 5 others already pleaded guilty and are serving life.

🇺🇸A 47-year-old woman tried to kidnap a 4-year-old outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s by grabbing his arm and saying, “Come with Mama, that’s my son.” The boy’s real mother, a 7-months-pregnant off-duty NYPD officer, yanked him back and the suspect fled. Chrissy Payne was arraigned Sunday on attempted kidnapping and a hate-crime assault for punching a bus passenger after saying she didn’t want to sit next to “no white B-word,” and was held on $50K cash bail.

🇷🇺 Ukraine launched what Moscow’s mayor called its biggest drone attack on the Russian capital as Russians voted on the final day of a parliamentary election. A Moscow oil refinery was damaged, while election officials reported cyberattacks on voting systems and some polling stations saw hours-long lines. Source: @PatSchnecker

🇺🇸Mamdani will host Trump at Gracie Mansion on Monday during the president’s visit for the U.N. General Assembly. The mayor’s office said the meeting will focus on issues affecting NYC and New Yorkers. The 2 last met in person in February and have stayed in contact by text since.