In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: 

• Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered that Iran retaliate with a direct attack on Israel in the wake of the death of Hamas’s chief political leader in a suspected Israeli strike inside Tehran on Wednesday.

• Kyiv comes under one of the largest Russian drone assaults in the war to date, while their forces deal an embarrassing blow to Putin’s interests in Syria.

• Myanmar's embattled military junta has extended a state of emergency for another six months as leaders desperately cling to power in the face of a widening armed rebellion.

• In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, Texas Governor Greg Abbott scored a major victory against the Biden administration in their ongoing spat over the border crisis.

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