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Thursday, May 14, 2026

A vessel reportedly operating as a "floating armoury" in the Gulf of Oman has been seized by Iranian military personnel, according to the maritime risk management company Vanguard. The ship is now "bound for Iranian territorial waters", the UK's Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation said. BBC Verify has checked ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic which shows the vessel - identified by Vanguard as the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan. Read more


Fox News' Laura Ingraham Shares Post Saying Trump Is On Verge of Making Massive Error' With Potential China Deal Read more


Eric Trumpf: "I am so excited to share the official rendering of Trump Tower Tbilisi. With a prime location, in the heart of Tbilisi, this tower will quickly become a landmark as the tallest building in Georgia. This marks our first project in the region and we are so excited to bring it to life!"

One of Eric Trumpf's partners is a vile, right-wing oligarch


Border Patrol Chief Quits After Report He Hired Foreign Sex Workers

Mike Banks reportedly traveled abroad to solicit sex workers multiple times over the course of a decade.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks suddenly resigned from his position Thursday following accusations of sexual impropriety. Banks oversaw Donald Trump's second-term immigration crackdown.

The longtime law enforcement professional told Fox News that his resignation was effective immediately.


Trump's catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions. Read more


May 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed by mail, restoring for now a 2023 federal rule challenged by Republican-governed Louisiana that had made access to the medication easier.


The media landscape is very grim.


FBI Director Kash Patel strutted into a Senate hearing Tuesday, brandishing a large black placard of statistics and daring his critics to dispute them. But current and former law enforcement officials say those numbers are a sham. "They are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrests they would not have claimed [previously]," one current FBI official told MS NOW. "So comparing 2025 to 2024 is not apples to apples." Read more


en I went to bed last Thursday night," Alex Berenson told me, "I was sure we didn't have a deal. The government offered money, but they weren't willing to admit what they had done. And I wasn't going to agree to a settlement without that acknowledgment. But the next morning," he added, "my lawyer texted me with the news that they had agreed to the language. So we made the deal."

If you don't know what Berenson is talking about, well, you can hardly be blamed. The mainstream media has studiously ignored Berenson v. Biden, even though it has enormous implications for the First Amendment. That "language" that Berenson insisted upon"and that the government finally agreed to include in the settlement?


We Didn't Have to Kill a Whole Bunch of People'

Former President Barack Obama mounted a forceful defense of his 2015 Iran nuclear deal with a pointed jab at President Donald Trump's war with the regime, arguing his administration "pulled it off without firing a missile."


Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013, according to some measures published Wednesday. More notable than the depressed financial situation of Black respondents is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded. Black adults were the only racial group who reported a notable jump in concerns about price increases, the Fed wrote in its report, up 6% year over year. The percentage of Black people "doing okay" or "living comfortably" declined by 5% from 65% in 2024 to 60% in 2025, the largest drop recorded since the Fed began collecting this data, including in 2020 during the COVID-era recession. The percentage of Hispanic respondents "doing okay" or "living comfortably" declined 1% from 63% to 62%, while Asian people's situations stayed flat with 82% feeling comfortable.


Every time Donald Trump has run for president, he has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington. But ever since he returned to the White House, not only has he not even tried to drain the swamp, he has pushed to gild it. Trump has used all the gold and glitz he can to cover up an increasingly putrid swamp " a morass filled with million-dollar donors scrambling for access, criminals seeking to buy pardons, corporate executives appointed to high-level government jobs and billionaire sycophants sucking up to Trump. Making the swamp smell even worse, the president and his sons have somehow managed, through crypto and other means, to increase their wealth by an estimated $4bn since Trump won a second term. At this point, we should probably call Trump's Washington not a swamp, but a colossal cesspool. For the sake of accuracy, Trump should put a big neon sign outside the White House saying: "Conflicts of Interest R Us". Read more


Republican senator Rand Paul's son William apologized on Wednesday for a drunken tirade at a bar in Washington DC, in which he reportedly told a Republican congressman he "hates Jews and hates gays". "Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don't represent who I really am. I'm sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem," William Paul posted on social media under the handle TastyBrew1776. The apology was posted minutes after Mike Lawler, a Republican congressman, told reporters the senator's son had drunkenly accosted him on Tuesday night at a bar and said he would hold "anti-American" Jews responsible if his father's ally, Thomas Massie, a Kentucky congressman, loses a primary election next week.


A Jan. 6 rioter from Texas who was pardoned by President Donald Trump and claimed he had "completely changed" since the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack was arrested Sunday and charged with deadly conduct after allegedly threatening a churchgoer with a gun. Ryan Nichols, 36, is accused of displaying and grabbing the weapon, a pistol, while threatening and confronting a man over a "prior disagreement" in the parking lot of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Harleton, according to local police officials. "Nichols confronted a subject ... and whenever the subject attempted to leave and de-escalate the situation Nichols continued to confront him," the Harrison County Sheriff's Office said in a press release. "The victim stated that they turned away from Nichols and attempted to usher his family towards their vehicle while asking Nichols to go to his own vehicle and leave."


Leon Panetta, who helped locate Osama bin Laden, believes the war will continue for months because the US president has few options to end it. Read more


Two US colleges, the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), are selling donated bodies for Israeli military training, sparking ethical concerns and allegations of a "breach of trust" from grieving families who were never informed of the military use of their loved ones' remains.

There is a sub rosa market for cadavers


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