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The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, is already considered a significant vulnerability due to the presence of Yemen's Houthi terrorists.

South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith is back up for parole once again after she was convicted of drowning her two young children. The 53-year-old, who is serving a life sentence for drowning her two young sons in a lake in 1994, was denied parole in November 2024, after spending 30 years incarcerated. Now, Smith is once again eligible for release as she continues to serve a 30-years-to-life sentence. Smith strapped her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith, into the back seat of her car and let it roll down a ramp into John D. Long Lake in Union,...

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mechanical engineering contractor was arrested Monday for reportedly threatening to murder President Trump and using his work computer to search how to plan the assassination. 🚨#BREAKING: A FAA employee in New Hampshire has been charged with after issuing, major threats against President Donald Trump — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) May 5, 2026 35-year-old Dean DelleChiaie of New Hampshire was charged with communicating an interstate threat, appearing in court on Tuesday. One internet search DelleChiaie made on his FAA computer was about how to get a gun into a...

More than 800 people crossed the English Channel in small boats in the first three days of May, according to government figures. The Home Office said 55 were brought to Dover on Friday, 325 on Saturday and 422 on Sunday. It means 7,218 migrants have arrived by small boat so far this year. In the corresponding period of 2025, the number of people who had made the crossing was 11,516.

Court documents show Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who faces possibility of life in prison, plans to take different approach in state case after pleading not guilty in federal one. FORT COLLINS, Colorado — A man accused of killing one person and injuring a dozen more in a firebomb attack on Colorado demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages in Gaza plans to plead guilty this week to murder and other charges, according to court documents. Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the June 1 attack in downtown Boulder, according to the documents...

🚨 WOW! MULTIPLE high ranking DC police officials are set to be TERMINATED for manipulating crime data, pretending vioIent crime was dropping DRAMATICALLY prior to President Trump's takeover These people should lose their taxpayer funded retirements. Multiple DC police officers I've spoken with are VERY happy with this move For example, in some districts, armed home invasions were written down as "trespassing" instead — a vioIent felony dropped to a low-level misdemeanor, just to cook the crime stats.

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THE 2026 FIFA World Cup is posing a threat to the United States’ expected $30 billion boom. Hotel and flight sales have proven lacklustre with one million tickets still unsold ahead of the World Cup. Overseas soccer fans appear uninterested in attending the upcoming World Cup in the USA. International fans are choosing to boycott the tournament, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s US Hotel Outlook Report. Nearly 80 percent of hotels in nine American host cities claim that they are operating behind initial projections. It has been suggested that FIFA releasing 70 percent of its room blocks...

A Chicago alderman, incensed by the upcoming closure of a Walgreens store amid safety concerns, stated that the corporate retailer should be charged with "first-degree corporate abandonment." Ald. William Hall, along with several community members, held a news conference Monday to voice their anger over the company's decision to close the location in Chicago’s 6th Ward in the Chatham neighborhood. "Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment," Hall said. "It should be a crime, the way they're treating our elders. It should be a crime, the way they're treating our families." The store is slated to close on June...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., refused to respond to a request from a Minnesota committee seeking more information on her ties to the massive fraud scandal in the state, prompting a failed subpoena vote on Tuesday, but the committee’s chair says more options exist. The subpoena, which required a two-thirds committee vote in favor to pass, only got five out of the six votes needed despite the committee's Republican majority. "We have reached out to Representative Ilhan Omar on multiple occasions, inviting her to testify and inviting and requesting documents," State Rep. Kristin Robbins, chair of the House Fraud Prevention and...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is pausing “Project Freedom,” the U.S. military’s effort to guide commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, one day after the operation began. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said the decision was based in part on “the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement” with Iran. Stock futures rose following Trump’s announcement, which raised hopes for a peace agreement that would end the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and reopen the economically vital strait. It also represented a surprising about-face from the Trump administration, which just hours...

How time travel could work: Scientists have uncovered a way to send messages into the past Time machines may seem better suited to science fiction than the physics lab, but experts say this futuristic technology could become a reality. Researchers have revealed how time travel could really work by using the laws of quantum physics. While their method won't let you hop back to the time of the dinosaurs, scientists say it could be possible to send messages into the past. The researchers even say this mind–bending technique would work just like in Christopher Nolan's sci–fi epic, Interstellar. In the...

Pratt is a genius! Video depicts him as a Batman-like super hero and Bass as the Joker!....

Influential pastors are claiming that they have been told to prepare their followers for shocking revelations about UFOs which may upend belief in the Bible. Perry Stone, a well-known evangelist, author and Bible teacher from Tennessee, warned that fellow pastors were recently invited to a secret meeting with US intelligence officials to prepare for the release of secret files on extraterrestrials. According to Stone, the officials warned a small group of pastors with a large reach in the Christian community that the government was about to release reports and possibly videos of aliens and spacecraft which were not from this...

Republican strategist Karl Rove said Monday that current polling does not foreshadow a “tsunami” for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. “So, this election’s going to be a wild one. It’s going to be very close, in my opinion. It’s going to be settled by a relatively small number of contests. Somebody’s going to win, somebody’s going to lose. Likely, the House goes Democrat, Senate stays Republican,” Rove told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on “The Story.” “But the idea that this is going to be a tsunami, like we’ve seen in the past, I think it’s not borne out by the...

U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to observe Shabbat from sundown on May 15 to nightfall on May 16 in a proclamation signed yesterday. Israel365News reports that Trump is the first American president to make such a declaration. In his statement, he referenced George Washington’s 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue and highlighted how Jewish Americans help fulfill the founding promise of the nation as it marks its 250th year. “In special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence and on the weekend of Rededicate 250 — a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving — Jewish Americans...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday called for Anthony Fauci, former longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), to be indicted for what the senator claimed was his lying under oath about gain-of-function research. “6 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic,” Paul wrote on social media. Paul was referencing the May 11, 2021, hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...

RealRobert@Real_RobN·4hHere it is:The Georgia Election Board officially confirms INTENTIONAL HUMAN INTERVENTION—the predicate for a CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY.Simply put: it was scanned twice, it was counted twice—intentionally, maliciously, and deliberately.• 17,852 votes counted with no ballot images • 20,713 original votes from tabulators out of thin air • 3,930 duplicates counted and inserted into the CERTIFIED count via a criminal conspiracy,How was this done?Joseph Rossi: “Ballots were scanned on one day, and then they were randomly picked these batches of ballots and created a new batches and scanned a second day on a different tabulator.”“We now know with certainty that this duplication...

A top Chicago Democrat mocked an Asian police officer's penis size after being arrested for driving under the influence and tried to pressure an emergency room doctor who treated her to not testify, a court heard. Samantha Steele, 47, who represents Chicago's District 2 covering most of the North Side and northern suburbs, was charged with misdemeanor DUI after her November 2024 arrest. Her trial began Monday. Bodycam video shown in a Richard J. Daley Center courtroom captured Steele refusing a field sobriety test and then being arrested after stepping out of her car, according to the Chicago Tribune. She...

Sarah Rogers is known for keeping America’s allies in check. She has little patience for European censors who stifle free expression.Last Saturday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Sarah Rogers—under secretary of state for public diplomacy—was sitting next to congressional leader Steve Scalise when she heard “shots fired” through the radios of Scalise’s protection detail.Cole Tomas Allen—a teacher from California—had stormed a security checkpoint and, heavily armed, was headed for the ballroom and President Donald Trump when he was apprehended by the Secret Service. Rogers recalls how “armed men—law enforcement—charged into the room toward where we...