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Trump Says He’s Working To Arrange a Meeting Between Putin and Zelensky
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Monday that he was working on arranging a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, comments that came after a day of hosting the Ukrainian leader and several European officials at the White House. “At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and…
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Hurricane Erin Forces Evacuations in North Carolina
(Headline USA) Holly Andrzejewski hadn’t yet welcomed her and her family’s first guests to the Atlantic Inn on Hatteras Island when she had to start rescheduling them, as Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday and threatened to whip up wild waves and tropical force winds. Although the monster storm is expected to stay…
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Hamas Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Proposal From Mediators
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Hamas said on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by mediators Qatar and Egypt, which comes as Israel is planning a massive escalation that involves forcibly displacing more than one million Palestinians from Gaza City and sending them south. “Hamas, along with the Palestinian factions, relayed their acceptance of…
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DOJ to Start Producing Epstein Files to Congress
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move that appears to avert, at least temporarily, a potential separation of powers clash. The records are to be turned over starting Friday to the House Oversight Committee,…
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Newsom’s Mocking Attack on Vance’s High School Picture Backfires
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday took a jab at Vice President JD Vance on Twitter/X by reacting to side-by-side photos of the two from their high school years. But the mockery quickly backfired after users posted a brutal comeback photo. Newsom’s photo showed him well put together, posing in a…
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Iranian Death Plot Defendant Says He Thought He Was Hunting $250k Thief
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Days after Trump won the November 2024 election, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he foiled another purported Iranian assassination plot. However, the DOJ’s case against Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran; Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn; and Jonathan Loadholt, 36, of Staten Island, didn’t charge any of them with conspiring to assassinate Trump.…
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MSNBC’s Rebrand Rollout Leads to Widespread ‘PMS’ Jokes
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) MSNBC, under a new parent company, has decided to get rid of its name in favor of an alternative that quickly drew widespread mockery on X. The network announced Monday it was dropping the name born from its original venture between Microsoft and NBC News. In its place, it rolled out…
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Trump Says Israeli Captives Will Be Released Only If ‘Hamas Is Confronted and Destroyed’
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Monday that the only way the remaining Israeli captives would be freed from Gaza is if Hamas is “confronted and destroyed,” a statement that provides backing for the Israeli government’s plans to escalate its genocidal war on the Palestinian territory. “We will only see the return of the remaining…
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Planned Restart of California Oil Production Faces Legal Challenges
(Alton Wallace, The Center Square) Oil and gas production resumed on May 15 that had been out of service for 10 years after an oil spill off the California coast, with the restart of the Santa Ynez Unit in the Santa Barbara Channel expected to boost U.S. energy supplies by up to 50,000 barrels per…
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Trump: Zelenskyy Could End Russia-Ukraine War ‘If He Wants To’
(The Center Square) Ahead of the summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders in Washington on Monday, President Donald Trump said Ukraine should give up efforts for NATO membership and Russian-annexed Crimea. Zelenskyy jetted off to Washington over the weekend after Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska failed to…
