Thursday, April 9, 2026

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 4/9/2026*NEWSDUMP THURSDAY*FIRST LADY EPSTEIN DENIAL*RUSSIA ESCORTS OIL TANKERS IN ENGLISH CHANNEL*NETANYAHU CRIMINAL TRIAL RESTARTING*BRITISH ACCUSATION OF RUSSIAN SUB ACTIVITY*RELATIVE CALM IN IRAN WAR ZONE*DOZENS KILLED IN NIGERIA ATTACKS*NORTH KOREA'S CLUSTER BOMB TEST*

 


                              (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING)





                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



US POLITICS POLLING DATA OUT FOR THE MAY 19TH REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN KENTUCKY'S 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.


BOTH THE 'BIG DATA POLL' AND THE 'QUANTUS INSIGHTS' POLL GIVE THE EDGE TO INCUMBENT THOMAS MASSIE.


HE IS LEADING ED GALLREIN THE CANDIDATE BACKED BY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.


MASSIE LEADS 52-48 PERCENT IN THE FIRST POLL AND 47-38 PERCENT IN THE OTHER...REAL CLEAR POLLING LATEST POLLS





First Lady Melania Trump coming out in front of the media at the White House to deny links to Jeffrey Epstein and his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell


Mrs. Trump speaking of "lies" that "need to end" in her statement...The Associated Press "X" (Link To AP Story)...

Photos have emerged of Melania Trump with both Epstein and Maxwell.   

In the Department of Justice Epstein Files there is an email from Mrs. Trump to Maxwell from 2002.


Theories surrounding her statement include:



               1. A big news story is breaking


             2. It's a distraction from other news


   3. Creating a mystery about what she is thinks...


             New Yorker Magazine Intelligencer



A federal district judge ruling again against the Pentagon over media access.


Judge Paul Friedman says his earlier order in favor of the New York Times restoring its access is being defied.


The Department of War (Defense) plans to appeal the judge's ruling...The Hill USA





THE WAR IN LEBANON CONTINUES TONIGHT ISRAEL ORDERING EVACUATION OF A NEIGHBORHOOD IN SOUTH BEIRUT INCLUDING TWO HOSPITALS...


                        AL JAZEERA QATAR




"We have witnessed multiple instances of piracy in international waters in recent months"

              KREMILIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV


Russia providing naval escort to two oil tankers of its 'shadow fleet' under Ukraine War sanctions as they went through the English Channel.


The frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" shadowing the tankers following British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's recent authorization for the UK to seize sanctioned oil tankers.


This follows tanker seizures by Belgium, Denmark, France and Sweden in recent months.


There have also been Ukrainian air and sea drone attacks on Russian oil tankers in the Mediterranean...Novaya Gazeta






AT THE TORONTO RAPE-SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL OF BILLIONAIRE MAGNATE FRANK STRONACH THE DEFENSE ALLEGING THE COACHING OF SOME OF STRONACH'S ALLEGED VICTIMS BY THE PROSECUTION.


LAWYER LEONA SHEMESH ARGUING THIS INVALIDATES THE TRIAL.


INSTEAD OF TRYING TO THROW OUT CHARGES SHEMESH ASKING JUSTICE ANNE MOLLOY TO TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN SHE DECIDES ON MR. STRONACH'S GUILT.


JUSTICE MOLLOY DECIDING TO THROW OUT MANY OF THE CHARGES DURING THE TRIAL CITING A LACK OF EVIDENCE.


FROM 12 CHARGES INVOLVING SEVEN WOMEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIAL THERE ARE NOW ONLY FIVE CHARGES INVOLVING THREE WOMEN...CBC NEWS CANADA




"Netanyahu's criminal trial resumes on Sunday. A region-wide ceasefire, including in Lebanon, would hasten his jailing"


Those words on social media from Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.


Mr. Araghchi also noting the possibility that the United States will not allow Iran War hostilities to end due to Mr. Netanyahu. He said that could have a serious impact on the US economy...Israel National News 



ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU NOW SAYING HIS PLAN TO DEAL WITH LEBANON IS TO PUSH DISARMAMENT OF THE IRANIAN-ALIGNED HEZBOLLAH.


THIS IS TO BE DONE THROUGH DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT.



ISRAEL HAS USED THE UNITED STATES IN THE PAST TO MEDIATE ITS DEMANDS REGARDING HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



AS MANY AS 15,000 PROTESTERS ON THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS OPPOSING 'REFORMS' IN THE DUTCH SPEAKING WALLONIA REGION.


THE REFORMS CUT GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON SCHOOLS AND INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF TIME STUDENTS SPEND IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.


THE NEW POLICIES ALSO INCREASE TUITION FEES FOR STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION...ANADOLU AGENCY TURKEY (TURKIYE)



Russia has plans to evacuate the 128 Russians who remain at Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.

More than 500 Russian workers have already been evacuated from the facility...Tass Russia


BRITISH DEFENSE MINISTER JOHN HEALEY SAYS THREE RUSSIAN SUBMARINES CONDUCTED WHAT HE CALLS A 'SECRET OPERATION'.


THE SUB ACTIVITY IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NORTH SEA WAS CONFRONTED BY BRITISH AND NORWEGIAN MILITARY FORCES.


THE RUSSIAN VESSELS SAID TO HAVE THEN LEFT THE AREA.


MR. HEALEY LINKING THE ALLEGED RUSSIAN PRESENCE TO CABLES AND PIPELINES IN THE AREA,..NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



                    The markets today.


The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 275.88 points or .58 percent.   The NASDAQ rose 187.42 points or .83 percent.

At 438 pm New York Time the price of oil 98 dollars 46 cents a barrel up four dollars five cents or 4.29 percent...Marketwatch




RELATIVE CALM AFTER ISRAEL'S 40TH DAY OF WAR AIMED AT LEBANON YESTERDAY.


THE WAR OF WORDS REMAINS STRONG SOME POLITICIANS IN ISRAEL CONDEMNING THE CEASEFIRE DEAL AS A CAPITULATION.


IN IRAN THE DEADLY ISRAELI ASSAULT ON LEBANON YESTERDAY THAT KILLED HUNDREDS INCLUDING FOUR LEBANESE SOLDIERS SEEN AS A VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE.


IRAN ESTIMATES MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE WAR.


THOUSANDS GATHERED IN TEHRAN TODAY TO REMEMBER THOSE KILLED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WAR INCLUDING IRAN'S TOP LEADERS AND THE SCHOOLGIRLS IN MINAB...PRESS TV IRAN...


US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SPEAKING OF THE NEED FOR IRAN TO COMPLY WITH WHAT HE CALLS THE 'REAL AGREEMENT'.


IN LATE NIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA POST TRUMP NOTING THE US MILITARY PRESENCE REMAINS IN THE WAR ZONE.



             AL JAZEERA QATAR INCLUDING BLOG



                TIMES OF ISRAEL INCLUDING BLOG


 


FOUR DEAD AFTER A MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL OFF THE FRENCH CITY OF BOULOGNE.  

37 OTHERS WERE RESCUED.  ONE OTHER MIGRANT IN 'MORTAL DANGER'.

THE BOAT ATTEMPTING TO CROSS TO THE UK...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



At least 60 deaths reported in killings in northern Nigeria.   The dead include both Christians and Muslims.


The attacks in ten villages described as indiscriminate killing.


Terrorist groups close to Al-Qaeda and ISIS linked to violence in the area...TT News Agency-SVT Sweden


CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI VISTING NORTH KOREA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.


HE WILL HOLD TALKS WITH HIS COUNTERPART FOREIGN MINISTER CHOE SUN-HUI...OSINTdefender "X"



A former US Army employee charged with leaking classified information to a journalist.


Courtney Williams arrested by the FBI a federal grand jury indictment charges her with providing classified information to a journalist.


This happened while Williams worked at Fort Bragg between 2022 and 2025...The Hill USA





NORTH KOREA SAYS IT TESTED A TACTICAL MISSILE WITH A CLUSTER BOMB WARHEAD.


YESTERDAY'S TEST INVOLVED FIRING A HWASONG-11Ka MISSILE FROM NORTH KOREA'S EAST COAST.


THE TEST DEEMED A SUCCESS WITH SOUTH KOREA'S MILITARY SPEAKING OF ANOTHER TEST FIRING OF A MISSILE IN THE PYONGYANG AREA OF THE NORTH THAT FAILED YESTERDAY...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA




THE REGISTRATION OF AMERICAN MEN FOR THE MILITARY DRAFT IS BECOMING AUTOMATIC.


THE US SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY ENROLL MEN WHO TURN 18 YEARS OLD BEGINNING IN DECEMBER.


THE PROPOSED RULE CHANGE NOW UNDER REVIEW.


CURRENTLY YOUNG MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 25 ARE EXPECTED TO VOLUNTARILY ENROLL FOR A POSSIBLE DRAFT.


US MILITARY SERVICE BECAME VOLUNTARY WHEN THE DRAFT ENDED IN 1973...THE HILL USA


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