May 21st, 2026

• ​Trump says Netanyahu will 'do whatever I want' on Iran after pair said to hold tense call - Revolutionary Guard says its 'devastating blows will crush' its 'American-Zionist enemy' if Trump resumes strikes, as Pakistani interior minister back in Iran for talks
• White House pans Tucker Carlson for telling Israeli TV Netanyahu dragged US into war - Administration calls right-wing podcaster a 'low-IQ person' after he tells Channel 13 Trump folded to pressure from Israel lobby and accuses 'people' in US media of working for Israeli government
• 'Devastating blows will crush you': IRGC threatens war beyond Middle East - "Your humiliation will be recorded in history," IRGC Commander Brig.-Gen. Ahmad Vahidi warned the United States
• Mojtaba Khamenei using 'bin Laden template' to survive, learned from Abbottabad: analyst - Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has spent nearly three months in hiding as tensions with the U.S. escalate
• Iran jails former goalie on national team after post bashing slain supreme leader
• Oil Prices Drop, Stock Markets Surge After Trump Says That US and Iran Are in 'Final Stages' of Peace Negotiations
• Oil prices drop below $100 per barrel days after Trump says negotiations with Iran coming to a close
• Ukraine ally Britain eases new sanctions on Russian oil as fuel prices surge over Iran war
• World has 6 months to avert major food crisis, says UN as Hormuz struggle drags on - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a temporary disruption but the start of a systemic shock to global food prices, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday
• Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year, FAO warns
• UAE says new pipeline that will bypass Strait of Hormuz is nearly 50% complete
• EU finance ministers tell US to end Middle East war
• Israel allocates NIS 2b. to counter Hezbollah's lethal fiber-optic drone threat
• 10 soldiers, including brigade commander, hurt in separate Hezbollah drone attacks
• Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon kill 19, including children and women, officials say
• Rare charges filed for Jewish terror attack targeting Palestinians in West Bank - Defendant accused of participating in brutal beating of Palestinian poultry farmer, who remains in coma as result of violent ambush south of Nablus
• Gazan man takes Hamas leaders to ICC over war crimes against Palestinians
• 'Another provocation': Israeli Navy intercepts latest 'Global Sumud Flotilla' headed for Gaza off Cyprus - Israeli foreign ministry: Flotilla carried no aid while Gaza is 'flooded' with aid
• Ben Gvir posts video of himself taunting bound and detained Gaza flotilla activists, sparks global outcry - Clip shows minister waving Israeli flag as activists forced to kneel on ground and national anthem blasts over loudspeaker; Italy, France summon Israeli envoys over treatment of their citizens
• Legal aid group: Ben Gvir endorsing 'abuse' of detained flotilla activists in prison
• South Korea says Israel's detention of flotilla activists 'way out of line' - President Lee says citizens are detained for reasons not valid under international law, and ICC warrants against Netanyahu will be judged separately from Europe
• GOP senators urge Trump to dismantle UNRWA over alleged Hamas ties - "Any aid organization in Gaza or otherwise must be demonstrably free of ties to terrorism and committed to transparency, accountability, and peace."
• Netanyahu's coalition alliances with religious parties put his reelection at risk
• Analysis: Netanyahu's union with Haredi parties pushing draft evasion risks his reelection - Bill legalizing exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students faces pushback from within the coalition, while Haredi factions desert PM over failure to pass law
• MKs advance bill to dissolve Knesset, potentially trigger slightly earlier elections - Netanyahu absent from preliminary vote, which left-wing leader calls 'beginning of end of worst government in Israel's history'; bill does not set date for elections, which must in any case be held by Oct. 27
• Barney Frank, the Jewish progressive congressman behind landmark finance bill, dies at 86 - A lifelong liberal Zionist and the first openly gay member of Congress, Frank campaigned for rights for gay soldiers, using the IDF as proof that it wouldn't weaken the military
• Barney Frank's final message on Israel: US should support opposition to Netanyahu - In interview days before passing, Jewish ex-congressman long supportive of Israel urged Democrats to condition arms sales to Netanyahu gov't, though he opposed other litmus tests on social and economic policy
• Pro-Israel voices Levin and Dershowitz celebrate US Rep. Massie's primary defeat
• Rise of Jew-hatred in US workplaces has worsened in past nine months, House labor subcommittee chair says - Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) said that "across the nation and around the world, Jewish people continue to face discrimination, intimidation and violence."
• US Jewish groups urge Senate to back $1 billion bipartisan antisemitism bill - Law would require US Education Department to adopt strategy to combat online antisemitism, triple allocation of security funds for security at houses of worship
• Democrat Maureen Galindo Running for Congress in Texas Pledges to Send 'American Zionists' to Internment Camps
• Russia launches unannounced nuclear exercise, including Belarusian launch sites
• Russia 'dangerously' intercepts British spy plane over Black Sea: Ministry - The incident came last month when unarmed Rivet Joint plane was securing NATO's eastern flank in international airspace, according to the British Defence Ministry
• Report: Xi Told Trump that Putin May Regret Invading Ukraine
• Ukraine: Russian Drone Missile Contained Depleted Uranium
• Baltic Drone Scare: After Latvian Government Collapse and NATO Jet Shooting Stray Ukrainian Drone Over Estonia, Now Lithuania Shuts Airport and Evacuate Government to Shelters
• China's New Navy Frigate Is Impressive but Not a Game Changer - The U.S. Remains the World's Dominant Naval Power
• Germany's Most Popular Party, the AfD, Is Being Brutally Targeted in a One-Sided Wave of Political Violence
• Secretary Rubio Says US Stands by 'Legitimate Constitutional Government' of Bolivia, Puts 'Criminals and Drug Traffickers' on Blast
• Rubio Offers Cubans 'New Path' Beyond Communist Rule
• Cuba Says It's Open to Talks, but Fears US Is Building Case for Intervention
• USS Nimitz Deployment to Caribbean Comes as Cuba Tensions Surge
• Raul Castro charged with murder by Justice Department amid Trump threat to invade Cuba
• U.S. Indicts Cuba's Raul Castro for Murder of Americans 30 Years Ago
• DOJ indicts Raul Castro in connection to 1996 attack on aircraft in which 3 US citizens were killed - After three decades without true accountability for the attack, Fidel Castro's brother Raul has been indicted in U.S. federal court for his central role in the shootdown of the Brothers to the Rescue civilian aircraft in international waters
• Trump: Castro Indictment 'Very Big Moment for' Cuban Americans
• "We Have Cuba on Our Mind… We're Freeing Cuba" - Trump Speaks to Reporters Following Indictment of Raul Castro, Won't Say Whether He'll Invade and Arrest Castro
• Cuba braces for possible U.S. military action as uncertainty follows Castro indictment
• Rick Scott: We Won't Need Military Action in Cuba Because People Will Rise Up, Will Need it in Iran
• Trump Envoy: US Must Put 'Footprint Back on Greenland'
• Singer Natalie Maines Attacks 'Fugly Slut' Trump's $1.7B Fund to Compensate Biden Victims: 'Using Your Gas Money to Pay the Insurrectionists'
• Soros Redirects $300 Million to US, Targeting Trump Policies
• Former DOJ Attorney Indicted For Stealing Copy of Jack Smith's Report on Trump's Classified Docs Investigation
• Say No: NAACP Urges Boycott of Southern College Sports over Voting Rights - Black athletes and fans are being urged to get political and reject the athletic programs of flagship public universities within states working to "limit, weaken, or erase black voting representation" in the wake of last month's Supreme Court ruling that further defined the Voting Rights Act
• Rep. Tim Burchett Warns GOP He'll "Embarrass" Colleagues if Trump Agenda Stalls - Vows to Do "Whatever It Takes" to Push SAVE America Act Before Midterms
• Trump to Sign AI Oversight Order Amid Push From Base
• Arizona Community College Relies on AI to Run Commencement Ceremony - Chaos Ensues
• Expert says massive AI investment is 'laying the groundwork' for America's future
• Filmmaker Paul Schrader Claims 'Online AI Girlfriend' Rejected Him After Too Many Probing Questions
• Meta begins job cuts in Israel as global layoffs in the name of AI mount - Silicon Valley tech titan that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is letting go of about 90 employees in Israel as part of round of layoffs to cut 10% of global headcount
• Meta fires 8,000 workers, shifts 7,000 others to train AI models - "So we're in a phase where basically the AI models learn from watching really smart people do things."
• Elon Musk claims Neuralink brain chips bypassing paralysis, blindness are 'Jesus-level technologies' - "They're sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies. I mean miracles in the scientific sense."
• Re-Engineering Nature: Biotech Firm Plays God with Artificial Egg Breakthrough
• Radioactive Hogs: In the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Area, the Mutant Super Pig Population Is Surging Out of Control
• Fmr Astronaut: US Must Beat China Back to Moon
• Strong M6.6 earthquake hits southern East Pacific Rise
• M6.1 earthquake damages buildings and injures 28 in Ica, Peru
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits the South Sandwich Islands region
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Sincik, Turkey
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near Sape, Indonesia
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Lautoka, Fiji
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits the southern East Pacific Rise
• Schools evacuated after M5.6 earthquake in Malatya, Turkiye
• Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 32,000ft
• Bezymianny volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 28,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 20,500ft
• Central Bismarck Sea volcano in Papua New Guinea erupts to 19,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 17,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Dukono volcano in Indonesia erupts to 10,000ft
• Over 10,000 pilgrims rescued after landslides disrupt Kedarnath route, India
• Sinkhole opens near LaGuardia Airport runway, forcing emergency shutdown
• EF3 tornado destroys multiple homes north of St. Libory, Nebraska
• Hurricane Hunters will drop new drone into Atlantic hurricanes to measure critical data
• Severe storms trigger damaging tornado and flooding in Puebla, Mexico
• India scorched by heat wave, power demand driven to new record
• In shock decision, National Security Council stops work on climate change - NSC says pair of panels established during previous gov't to monitor effects of climate change on national security have ceased operating, sparking outcry from environmental groups
• Teacher Beheaded in Nigeria as Widespread Muslim Violence Against Christians Escalates Horrifyingly
• Henry Nowak Stabbing: Elon Musk Vows to Fund Lawsuit Against 'Disgusting Excuses for Law Enforcement'
• Shanghai restaurant knife attack injures 2 Japanese citizens and a Chinese national
• Tennessee man jailed for threatening mass violence after Charlie Kirk assassination wins $835,000 settlement from police - Larry Bushart was charged with recklessly threatening mass violence at a school. He remained jailed until the charge was dropped
• Two Mexican Mayors Arrested on Cartel Extortion Charges in Mexico
• Unlicensed Illegal Alien Driver Causes Accident on Freeway Right Next to ICE Arresting Another Illegal
• Semi-Truck Driver Arrested For Killing Two People in Hit-and-Run Near Sacramento is Illegal Alien From India
• Cambridge council drops gun violence surveillance tool to protect minorities, immigrants - Those who voted to remove the surveillance system shared concerns that it leads to over-policing of minority communities
• Trump Moves to Squeeze Illegal Aliens Out of the U.S. Financial System with New Executive Order Targeting Banking Loopholes
• Trump EO demands banks 'consider' immigration status before issuing credit
• Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger Signing Executive Order to Keep ICE Away From Polling Places
• Rep Nancy Mace proposes constitutional amendment to ban foreign-born citizens from Congress - Mace called the proposed joint resolution "long overdue" and said that it would apply the same standard the Constitution already requires for the president and vice president
• Republican Nancy Mace Introduces Legislation to Ban Naturalized Citizens Like Ilhan Omar From Serving in Congress
• House Hearing Explored Compatibility of Sharia Law with U.S. Constitution Amid Rising Concerns
• Families Horrified as Brawls Break Out During Teen Takeover of New York Park
• Trump roasts Dem candidate as unelectable for cardinal sin in Texas - Trump called Talarico a 'defective candidate that believes in six genders' and who 'takes hits at Jesus Christ'
• WA agrees to allow religious families to foster kids in settlement with couple who lost license over refusing to use child's preferred pronouns - The state prohibited the couple from caring for a foster child above the age of five unless they "agreed to abandon their religious convictions," the ADF said.
• Three Toronto Police Officers Arrested in Spain over Alleged Sexual Assault
• Brave New World: State-Funded German Daycares Promote Sexual Role-Play for Children
• Brendan Carr: FCC Considers Parental Warnings for 'Transgender Content' on Children's Shows
• Colorado Supreme Court Orders Hospital to Resume Offering Sex Change Drugs to Minors
• Artificial eggshell comes first in attempt to revive giant flightless moa - De-extinction firm Colossal Biosciences hopes incubation system can be scaled up but other scientists are sceptical
• Jurassic Park isn't just a movie anymore as de-extinction startup hatches live chicks
• Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
• Three dead, 18 first responders quarantined after exposure to unknown substance at New Mexico home
• W.H.O. Says Ebola Global Threat 'Low' as Cases Surge in DR Congo
• World Relief responds to Ebola outbreak, US commits $13M
• American Missionary Doctor Contracts Ebola as Congo Outbreak Intensifies - Dr. Peter Stafford was working at a Christian hospital near the center of the outbreak that has killed at least 131
• Argentina Traps Rats in Search for Source of Hantavirus Outbreak