🇺🇸 — POLITICS: The Commission on Presidential Debates is pushing back against suggestions from the Trump campaign that it move its general debate calendar up -- standing firm in its decision to hold the first broadcast on Sept. 16, 2024.

🇺🇸 — NEWS JUST IN: Officials say a 5th body has been recovered from the Baltimore bridge collapse.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 - PRESSURE ON HAMAS: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is now pressing Hamas to accept the latest cease-fire and hostage-release agreement proposed by Israel.

Israel made “very important compromises” that “demonstrate its desire and willingness” to get the deal done, Blinken said after meeting with PM Benjamin Netanyahu. The proposal “would produce an immediate cease-fire, get the hostages home, alleviate suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza” in the short term.

🇫🇷🇺🇦 — NEWS: France would consider sending troops to Ukraine if Russia breaks through front lines, Macron says.

🇺🇸 — VID: Overnight, Police have breached the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on UCLA campus in California, and began making arrests.

🇮🇱✡️ — NEW: IDF suggests canceling Meron Lag Baomer celebrations at Kever Harashbi due to ongoing security tensions with Hezbollah in the north. Police commissioner Shabtai recommends holding a small Lag Baomer fire with only 10 people.

🇺🇸 — JUST IN: Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway has issued an ultimatum to pro-Hamas protesters, giving them until 4 pm to dismantle their encampment on the New Brunswick campus. Failure to comply will result in law enforcement intervening to remove both the protesters and their belongings.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 — WATCH: Ukranian soldiers burn a Donald Trump image because they got weapons too late - “You will never be president again”, they said.

🇺🇸 — Donald Trump In Court: “I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a gag order…”

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🇮🇱🇹🇷 — NO SHOCK: Pro terror country Turkey is suspending export and import operations related to Israel for all products, Turkish trade ministry announced.

🌾 — SEFIRAH REMINDER: Hayom Asara Yamim, Shehaim Shavua Echad U’Shlosha Yamim La’Omer.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 — REPORT: Yesterday, A bipartisan group of US senators held a secret virtual meeting with senior officials at the International Criminal Court to express concern about possible arrest warrants against Israeli PM Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, Barak Ravid reports.

🇮🇱🇪🇬 — NEW REPORT: Egypt doesn’t see Israel’s determination to defeat Hamas,' Middle East expert says.

🇺🇸 — UPDATE: Over 2,100 people arrested during pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests at college campuses across the US in recent weeks.

🇺🇸 — NEWS: Democrat Congressman of Texas Henry Cuellar expected to be indicted by DOJ later today, as part of an investigation into the country of Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen.

🇮🇱✡️ — IMAGE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on efforts to return the Hostages, at a meeting with the Holocaust survivors who will serve as torchlighters at Yad Vashem: "We are determined to return all of them – both the living and the deceased. We do not forget anyone."

🇺🇸 — IMAGE: Trump and his lawyers in court this morning.

🇺🇸🇪🇬 — NEWS: CIA director Bill Burns arrived in Egypt earlier to join the ongoing efforts to reach a hostage deal.