Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries

Netanyahu Already Alleging Fraud Before Vote Closes, As Arab-Israeli Districts Flood Polls Update(14505ET): There are several hours remaining before polls close, amid already record-turnout, which is likely a bad sign for Netanyahu and his Likud party."By 6 p.m. local time (12 p.m. Eastern), four hours before polls were scheduled to close, 66.7 percent of voters had cast ballots," NYT observes. "It was the highest figure at that point in the day since Israel’s Central Elections Committee began tracking Election Day turnout in two-hour increments in 1973, and nine percentage points...

NATO fighter jets early Tuesday morning shot down a drone in Lithuanian airspace that officials said entered Lithuania from bordering Belarus and was armed with explosives. It was the first time a drone has been shot down in Lithuania since the war in Ukraine began. Since last year, Ukrainian drones have been shot down in Estonia and […]

President Donald Trump described CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s trip to Russia as routine engagement. He went on to dismiss the possibility that Russia could attack a NATO member.  On Thursday, Trump was asked by Axios reporter Barak Ravid if he was concerned that Russian President Vladimir Putin would authorize an attack on a NATO state. […]