After 15 hours zip-tied at gunpoint in a remote California forest, two Forest Service employees were freed when their captor and his son surrendered to an FBI Hostage Rescue Team-supported law enforcement perimeter.

A GEO Group contractor employee shot an anti-ICE protester in a residential street adjacent to the Aurora detention facility on July 16, resulting in an attempted murder arrest and a likely surge in protest activity at the site.

Confirmed: two US service members killed, one missing, four evacuated after an IRGC ballistic missile and drone strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan overnight July 17-18, the first US combat deaths from a direct IRGC host-nation base strike since March.

The main suspect in the Monaco bombing targeting a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch was killed in Ukraine by an SBU officer who then confessed; French investigators now suspect the SBU organized the original attack.

Eight defendants from six states face conspiracy charges for a drone-and-sniper plot against the White House timed to the UFC Freedom 250 event, naming the President, Vice President, and five members of Congress as intended targets.

Designated US FTO the FAI claimed a June 27 parcel bomb targeting the chief executive of Leonardo SpA, Italy's top NATO defense contractor, three weeks after the designation and one day before a State Department ministerial targeting the group.