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The Nigerian government rescued 92 Nigerian Christians, including seven children, from jihadists who appeared to be attempting to enslave them.
Nigeria’s military spokesperson Sani Uba said, “Converging on the terrorists in a well-coordinated pursuit toward the Mangari-Dora general area, Operation HADIN KAI troops engaged the insurgents and forced them to abandon their captives and flee in confusion.”
A bid by the conservatives to get the Canadian parliament to pass a resolution recognizing private property rights in the wake of “First Nations” claims was rejected by the majority liberal party.
The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted raids in five California counties that led to 40 children being rescued from a child trafficking operation. 341 suspected child predators were also arrested.
The Trump-Xi summit saw Chairman Xi claim the U.S. and China should be working together; while making it clear recognizing Taiwan was off the table. President Trump hinted at major business deals, and the progressive press largely covered the event as a victory for China over Trump.
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld a pause on a 5th Circuit Court ruling that would have halted mail-order sale of the abortion pill, mifepristone. The majority gave no reason for the decision, the two dissenters, Thomas and Alito, wrote their dissents.
Thomas wrote of the decision, “Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise. They cannot, in any legally relevant sense, be irreparably harmed by a court order that makes it more difficult for them to commit crimes.”
Violent crime rates in the U.S. fell by 18% between 2024 and 2025. This is a year-on-year rate decline not seen in nearly 90 years, not since 1937.
President Trump’s man, Kevin Warsh, is in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell is out. The transition happened officially on Friday, May 15, 2026. Warsh was easily confirmed by the Senate first as a Fed Governor and then as the new Federal Reserve chair.
Plans by corporate and state America to rapidly build AI data centers could meet stiff resistance is a recent Gallop poll is correct. The poll shows 70% of Americans oppose Data centers, ESPECIALLY in their local regions.
Not only do residents fear the tax on the resources, the taking of land, but also they fear the surveillance capacity of these data centers to enable the state to track the actions of citizens almost in real time.
The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”
After the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a new congressional district map that eliminated four GOP seats, progressives want to purge the court and replace it with more loyal progressives. The plan is to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges to below the youngest member of the VA Supreme Court so they can put progressive activists in to take their place.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have been using a Palantir tool to track far more than illegal aliens, critics allege. ICE has over 20 million people worldwide in a database that some suspect includes American citizens.
DHS told 404 Media, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is committed to achieving the nation’s mandate to clear the backlog of illegal aliens who pose a threat to the security of our communities. Like other law enforcement agencies, ICE employs various forms of technology while respecting civil liberties and privacy interests.”
Canadians are asking questions after learning in a foreign interference trial that the Canadian Royal Mounted Police have a secret security agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The suspicion is that Canada’s cops are enforcing CCP laws against CCP dissidents living in Canada.
The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.
The American State Department released two recent statements that break with the mass migration strategy of the UN. One release made it clear America stands in direct opposition to the plan, and one exposes how the UN is working to “assure” Britian’s recent “migrants” aren’t deported.
New evidence has revealed Pakistan has been allowing the Iranians to park their warplanes in its territory for safekeeping. Pakistan is currently playing the role of mediator in ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel).
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht has announced his intentions to leave the Democrat Party. He accused them of being antisemitic. He stated, “… acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party. I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t. I am no longer registered with any political party,”
A Texas couple is suing OpenAI, alleging their product, ChatGPT, led to their son’s overdosing on drugs after following the AI platform’s advice.
OpenAI released this statement, “This is a heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts are with the family… ChatGPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations with input from mental health experts…”
Progressives in Virginia are already strategizing how to overcome their state’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down their new redistricting map. The map would have given the progressives 4 more U.S. House seats.
Now, they are looking to force retirement by lowering the retirement age of the court so they can replace the new retirees with progressive lawyers.
The local election in Britin have seen Labour, the current party in power, lose 1,496 local seats, while the conservatives lost 564 seats. The big winners were Reform UK, which gained 1,451 seats, and Restore UK, which won the only 10 seats they were running for by margins more than double the second-place finisher.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to phase of U.S. financial support of its military down to zero.
He stated, “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have,” he said. “Because we receive – we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I – I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stands accused of exposing top secret information on CBS News’ Face the Nation. He was reacting after having attended a Pentagon classified briefing on the Iran War’s impact on stockpiled weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking legal counsel on whether charges can be brought against Kelly or not.
He told Face the Nation, “… the numbers are, I think it’s fair to say it’s shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines, because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions, and that means the American people are less safe, whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted. You may have seen me ask the Secretary of Defense this question about how long it’s going to take to replenish. We’re talking about years.”
North Korea’s constitution has been changed to compel the nation to launch a nuclear attack should their leader, Kim Jung Un, get killed.
A Washington Post report claiming one CIA analysis gave Iran 4 months to withstand the blockade on its country. A senior intelligence official called those claims false. The unnamed official also claimed the blockade “is inflicting real, compounding damage, severing trade, crushing revenue, and aceleating systemic economic collapse.”
Top U.S. officials, including Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, met to discuss the growing threat Anthropic now poses on the U.S. banking industry. The threat comes from the announcement that Anthropic’s next model can beat humans in exploiting software security vulnerabilities.
The rise of Australia’s One Nation party has culminated in the party’s first lower House seat win in the national parliament. The party emerged in response to the disenfranchisement with the major political parties, left and right, by “average” Australians.
An experiment at the University of Rochester shows the long-life genes of moles could be transplanted to mice, producing mice that live longer than average mice.
Rochester University’s Biology and Medicine Professor Vera Gorbunova explained, “Our study provides a proof of principle that unique longevity mechanisms that evolved in long-lived mammalian species can be exported to improve the lifespans of other mammals.”
A medical research lab in Tokyo is being entirely run by AI. The Institute of Science Tokyo’s Yushima campus developed and runs the All-AI lab.
While the signals from Iran continue to be conflicting and often changing from one moment to the next, the U.S. stock market seems to have adapted to this uncertainty.
The Strait of Hormuz remains unopened, mostly, and the President does not seem hard-pressed to settle on a ceasefire or resume “offensive” actions.
There continues to be troubling signs for the world economy should the Strait of Hormuz continue to remain unopened, especially for Europe, but so far, the U.S. has yet to feel the pinch, save for at the gas pump.
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A motion by Fulton County election officials to have the 2020 ballots seized by the FBI returned has been denied by a Federal Judge, meaning the case will go on.
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