BREAKING: Trump has cancelled plans to sharply escalate the war on Iran over concerns that Iranian attacks could dangerously drain the Pentagon's already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions in the Middle East close to zero, per NYT.
The Pentagon has used more than 1,200 Patriot interceptors in the war at more than $4M each, with cheap Iranian drones and ballistic missiles depleting the US inventory. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine privately cautioned that resuming major combat operations would fully deplete interceptors available to US Central Command.
A senior US official adds that continued strikes have had "the opposite effect of what is intended, keeping Iran cohesive and allowing Iranian leaders to focus attention on an external threat."
BREAKING: President Trump ordered the US Military to not carry out planned strikes on Iran Friday night, despite previously approving the strikes, per Axios.
This came just hours after talks mediated by Oman over reopening the Strait of Hormuz reportedly resumed.
BREAKING: India’s education minister resigns after weeks of protests over alleged exam leaks and irregularities in the education system. https://t.co/ry8VVJQY5R
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.
"...To ensure that anti-national elements are not benefitted by the situation at Jantar Mantar and across the country, that the nation remains united, students in India do not get tangled in legal complexities and focus on their studies and their career, I have tendered my resignation to the Prime Minister..," reads the letter.
Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign responds to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s endorsement of Rep. Haley Stevens:
“The corporate establishment has closed ranks and made their pick — now, Michigan voters will get to make theirs.”
Michigan, you deserve a Senator that’s not beholden to DTE, AIPAC, Blue Cross Blue Shield, or Palantir. You deserve a Senator beholden to the people and only the people.
BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis have successfully struck Saudi Aramco's Jazan oil refinery with 3 ballistic missiles overnight, causing multiple pillars of smoke to rise from the refinery.
Jazan is Saudi Arabia's 5th largest oil refinery putting out 400,000 barrels of crude per day, and makes this the first Houthi strike on a Saudi refinery complex in 4 years.