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An open letter to King Charles III – from a Jeffrey Epstein survivor– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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Your Majesty,

We’ve both had a very busy week. While you enjoyed the pageantry of your American state visit, red carpets, garden parties, and carefully staged moments of compassion, I stood outside the White House with a chair reserved for you – waiting. Not as a spectacle. Not as a stunt. But as a survivor asking to be seen.

I prepared that moment with care. I studied the traditions you value – Darjeeling tea, cucumber sandwiches, the details that matter in your world. In mine, what matters is this: You didn’t show up.

Your visit celebrated 250 years of America’s history. I watched as you stepped onto American soil, greeted with flower bouquets as the red carpets rolled out for you. I hoped you had heard about my efforts.

While you met President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania attending cultural engagements, mingling with those who sit in power, I amplified unheard voices, preserving stories, standing with people who have nothing, who have been ignored for too long. You missed the opportunity to be a king who could’ve been remembered as the one who stood alongside us in this pivotal moment where abuses of power are coming to light.

Primary elections: crucial showdowns set in Ohio; Indiana races yield ‘big night for Maga’ as Trump asserts control of party – as it happened | US midterm elections 2026– www.theguardian.com

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The Associated Press has declared Amy Acton the winner of the Democratic nomination for governor. The wire has also declared Vivek Ramaswamy the winner of Ohio’s Republican primary for governor.

Meanwhile, NBC News has called Sherrod Brown the winner of Ohio’s Democratic Senate race. We’ll be awaiting the Associated Press’s official projections.

Scientists found the deepest land animal on Earth, and it turned out to be a tiny worm |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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The tiny worm that rewrote the rules of animal life. Image Credits: Google Gemini

There is a worm living in water-filled cracks in ancient rock in a South African gold mine that has no business being there. It’s smaller than a grain of rice. It has no eyes, and it exists in conditions that most animals, even some of the toughest on Earth, simply could not cope with. Meet Halicephalobus mephisto, or the devil worm, as it’s more commonly known. This little worm blew scientists’ previous understanding of life on Earth.

A discovery that no one saw comingIn 2011, scientists announced they’d found a living nematode worm 1.3 kilometres (0.8 miles) below the Earth’s surface, about as deep as four Empire State Buildings on top of each other. The discovery, announced in the study Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa, was instantly significant. Not that nematodes were especially glamorous, but because there had never been a nematode found so far underground. Bacteria and microbes, sure. However, a multicellular animal? That was meant to be impossible.

The Secrets Behind “The Talented Mr. Epstein” – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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What the Epstein files have done is crystallize for all of us how power actually works in the shadows,” says journalist Vicky Ward.Davide Bonaldo/SOPA/ZUMA

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In 2002, journalist Vicky Ward—then a writer for Vanity Fair magazine—was assigned to investigate a mysterious New York City financier named Jeffrey Epstein. During her reporting, she stumbled upon sexual abuse allegations against Epstein by Maria and Annie Farmer, whose account was ultimately cut from Ward’s piece, titled “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” That decision sparked recriminations between Ward and then–Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter that have continued for more than a decade.

In previous interviews, Carter has claimed that Ward’s reporting didn’t meet Vanity Fair’s editorial standards and that the allegations came too late in the editing process. But Ward says the magazine left out the Farmer sisters’ account after Epstein personally pressured Carter to remove it.

“I’ve since been asked if Tina Brown or any other woman had been an editor at Vanity Fair at the time, do I think the Farmer sisters’ allegations would have run?” Ward tells More To The Story host Al Letson. “The answer to that is absolutely yes.”

Trump’s Approval Ratings Sink Even Lower– crooksandliars.com

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In a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, Trump’s approval ratings sink deeper into the abyss on almost every issue, including the economy, cost of living, inflation and the Iran war.
“Trump’s overall approval now stands at 37 percent, largely the same as the 39 percent figure in February. But his disapproval has reached 62 percent, the highest of his two terms in office.”

Republicans overall still support him, but Republicans that lean independent, and Independents alone continues to crater.

He is oblivious to the suffering of the people in this country and no AI generated plan by Republicans to try to save the midterm elections will save him. Redistricting won’t save them either.

Young Voters Swing Back To Democrats As Republicans Are In Big Trouble– www.politicususa.com

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There has been an interesting theory floating around that one of the reasons Donald Trump improved his standing with voters age 18-34 in 2024 was that the youngest among that age group were not old enough to remember how bad the first Trump term was, thus, they were susceptible to Trump’s campaign style of lies and promises that will never come true.

After getting the full Trump treatment for a year plus of his second administration, those voters have come back to Democrats in a big way.

Politico reported on a new poll of young voters from the nonpartisan Generation Lab:

It shows young Americans planning to vote Democratic in November by a margin of 52 percent to 19 percent. Broken down by party, the data indicates that the GOP has a significant base problem: Just 58 percent of young Republicans say they’ll vote GOP — with nearly a third selecting “neither” or “won’t vote.” By contrast, 85 percent of young Democrats intend to show up for their party at the ballot box.

Just as in 2024, deep discontent with the state of the economy is driving anger at the party in power. Now, 81 percent of young Americans rate U.S. economic conditions as bad or terrible — including 68 percent of Republicans. The younger the age bracket, the more optimism diminishes.

The US fights to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the UAE comes under attack in a test of Iran truce – AP News– news.google.com

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  1. The US fights to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the UAE comes under attack in a test of Iran truce  AP News
  2. U.S. Warns China Over Iranian Oil as Sanctions Fight Intensifies  The New York Times
  3. Iran issues threat after Trump plans to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz  Fox News
  4. Attacks in Strait of Hormuz, Gulf region imperil fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire  The Washington Post
  5. Trump news at a glance: Middle East tensions back to the brink with president’s new threats against Iran  The Guardian

‘Frustrated’ Fox News Voter Panel Blames Trump For ‘Very, Very, Very High’ Prices– crooksandliars.com

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A panel of voters on Fox News suggested that Republican control of government and President Donald Trump were to blame for “very, very, very high” prices.

During a Fox News segment on Monday, host Harris Faulkner asked the voter panel how they would approach the midterm elections. One independent said that she was frustrated and might not vote at all.

“Well, honestly, what has been holding me back is I feel like the change that I was expecting from the president himself,” voter Mary Josephine explained. “I don’t feel in my everyday life, which is concerning to me. I still feel, obviously, that, you know, prices are very, very, very high. You know, if you’re going to the grocery store or just in general, because inflation still exists.”

“Unfortunately, now we have the higher gas prices, which really hurt, you know, everyday people in their pocket,” the voter added. “And I’ve voted my entire life. And the frustration right now is, it’s just unbelievable. Because what really changes? I just feel like that we’re kind of, you know, just, you know, kind of steering the ship in the same direction.

Cole Allen Had ‘Every Intention to Kill’ Secret Service and Trump – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who was present at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and is prosecuting shooter Cole Allen (pictured above), stated emphatically that Allen was certainly aiming to kill not only Trump administration officials, but anyone who stood in his way, including the Secret Service agent who took a bullet.

While speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Pirro discussed the evidence definitively proving that the bullet that embedded itself in a Secret Service agent’s body armor came from Allen’s shotgun.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Says James Comey Indictment Built on 11 Months of Evidence– wltreport.com

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Former FBI Director James Comey. Official FBI portrait.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went on national television Sunday and made a simple point: the federal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey was the product of an 11-month investigation, and reducing the case to a single deleted Instagram photo misrepresents what prosecutors actually have.

Blanche appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on May 3 and addressed the widespread criticism that Comey was charged over a beach photo showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” Critics of President Donald Trump interpreted the post as a harmless political statement. Supporters of the president viewed it as a veiled threat against the 47th president of the United States. Comey deleted the image.

Blanche said investigators developed a far broader evidentiary record than a screenshot.

Thinking About Smartphone Bans in Schools | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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America’s war on student smartphones is intensifying. Roughly two-thirds of US states have moved to restrict phone use in schools. The educational logic is straightforward enough. If these devices distract our kids, lock the gadgets away and learning will naturally improve—a strong prima facie case, to be sure. Yet new nationwide evidence suggests the story is more complicated than this basic common parental and teacher intuition.

A fresh NBER working paper by Stanford University’s Hunt Allcott and co-authors, “The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches,” examines one of the most stringent approaches—lockable phone pouches that physically prevent access during the school day. Using a dataset spanning thousands of schools, the researchers take advantage of a kind of natural experiment by comparing outcomes before and after adoption against similar schools that didn’t adopt the policy.

If the goal is to keep kids off their phones while at school, mission accomplished. On those terms, the policy works. Phone use plunges with pouches—fewer GPS pings on campus and far less in-class use, according to teachers.

South Carolina Rated Fast-Growing As Staggering Population Declines Persist In America’s Urban Centers– dailycaller.com

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South Carolina came out as the fastest-growing state in the country, even as Democrat-led cities on both coasts continue hemorrhaging residents at striking rates.

Between July 2024 and July 2025, 66,622 more Americans relocated to South Carolina than left it, driving a 1.5% population increase that outpaced every other state, , Fox News reported.

Federal data reinforces the scale of the shift. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that national population growth slowed to just 0.5% during the same window, the weakest annual increase since the pandemic era. Five states actually shrank: California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont and West Virginia. Idaho and North Carolina trailed South Carolina at 1.4% and 1.3% growth, respectively.

US Iran War Live Iran Tanker ‘Silly City’ Slips Past US Blockade Despite Warning: Report– www.ndtv.com

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An Iranian tanker called “Silly City” successfully reached the country’s waters despite a naval blockade and threats from a US Navy task force. According to reports from local media, the vessel reached a southern Iranian port overnight after passing through the Arabian Sea with full security and operational support from Iran’s navy.

“Despite numerous warnings and threats from the US Navy Fleet Group, the Iranian oil tanker Silly City, with the operational support of the Iranian Navy and in full safety, entered Iran’s territorial waters last night after crossing the Arabian Sea,” the Iranian military said in a statement on Tuesday.

Shipping industry intelligence site Lloyd’s List reported that more than 20 Iranian so-called “shadow vessels” had transited past the US blockade

The Strait of Hormuz in peacetime sees around 120 daily transits, according to the site.

NATO intercepts Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea– abcnews.com

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ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania — NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance’s eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East.

French Rafale fighters were deployed from a Lithuanian air base where they are stationed as part of a decades-long NATO air-policing effort. The fighters armed with air-to-air missiles joined jets from Sweden, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Romania. They all took to the skies to inspect and keep watch on the Russian flight, the French detachment said.

The Russian mission included two supersonic Tu-22M3s, as well as about 10 fighters — both SU-30s and SU-35s — that took turns escorting the larger strategic bombers, according to the statement.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the long-range bombers’ flight was scheduled and occurred in airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. The flight took more than four hours, the ministry said Monday on Telegram.

Gunman at Mexico’s Teotihuacán pyramids kills Canadian tourist, injures at least 13 people– www.cbsnews.com

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A Canadian tourist was shot and killed Monday while visiting the Teotihuacán pyramids in Mexico, according to local authorities.

Mexico’s security officials said a gunman opened fire at the popular tourist spot, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least 13 people, including six Americans. The shooter later took his own life, the Security Cabinet said.

In a video posted on X, verified by CBS News, a man with a gun is seen pacing near the top of the Pyramid of the Moon. In another video, gunshots can be heard as visitors of the archeological site are seen walking at the bottom of the pyramid.

At least seven people suffered gunshot wounds and at least two people were injured from falls, officials said. Two of the people who were shot, a 29-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, were Americans. Eight people were still hospitalized as of Monday night, Mexico’s Interior Ministry said.

Iran brutally trolls JD Vance as Vice President dealt yet another humiliation | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Iran has brutally mocked JD Vance ahead of crunch peace talks on Tuesday. Iranian channels have reporrtedly shared images of JD Vance edited using Mr Bean meme showing him waiting for the conversation.

Vice President JD Vance and other top Trump officials are expected to travel to Pakistan today for a second round of intense negotiations. The US President has previously said it is “highly unlikely” he would extend the ceasefire deadline further than tomorrow evening.

However, Iranian state media said: “None of the Iranian delegation has arrived or even flown to Islamabad for negotiations with the US at the moment”

Meanwhile, the US President shared a new update on extending the US ceasefire with Iran past its new deadline of tomorrow evening.