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Five high-ranking military leaders died in the span of just 10 days, according to the Cuban government — though it’s remained mum on the causes. Brigadier General Armando Choy Rodriguez, 87, was the latest aging revolutionary to die, with Marta Abreu Central University announcing on Twitter that he passed away Monday. Rodriguez was the founder of the “July 26 Movement” in Las Villas, and an author and historian, WPLG-TV in Miami said. Also on Monday, Manuel Eduardo Lastres Pacheco, a former general who served under Argentine Ernesto “Che” Guevara during the revolution in the late 1950s, passed away, Cuban television...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy is facing a serious challenge for his seat, five years after voting to convict Donald Trump on impeachment charges following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Trump has endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow, but the field also includes well-known state Treasurer John Fleming. If no candidate gets majority support, the top two vote-getters will advance to a primary runoff. Whoever emerges from the Republican contest will be heavily favored in the general election.

Bill Cassidy voted to convict Donald Trump in February 2021. Louisiana Republicans spent five years deciding what to do about it. On Saturday, they gave their answer. Cassidy, who has represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate since 2015, did not finish in the top two of the Republican primary. He will not advance to the June 27 runoff. His Senate career is over. The two candidates who did advance, Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming, now face each other in a runoff that will determine which of them represents the Louisiana Republican Party against the Democratic nominee...

Military officials indicate Gaza City airstrike eliminated terror group’s chief; former hostages hail reports of death of the man responsible for their abduction and captivity.Israel said that it had targeted Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip and the head of the terror group’s military wing, in an airstrike in Gaza City on Friday. While there was no immediate confirmation that he was killed, news of the strike prompted a joyous response from several of the hostages he had personally held and many hailed the apparent death of the last of the major architects of the...

Mossad Commentary: @MOSSADil 🚨 CONFIRMED: Hamas chief, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, has been eliminated. Quote Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil· 🇮🇱 BREAKING: The IDF reportedly carried out a targeted strike against a hideout where Hamas chief Izz al-Din al-Haddad, was hiding in Gaza. al-Haddad was one of the architects of the October 7 massacre.

This video discusses the sentencing and legal proceedings of four men involved in the June 2024 murder of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio (real name Charles Andrew Jones II) at a hotel in Tampa, Florida. Key events and points covered: Guilty Verdicts: All four defendants—Isaiah Chance, Shawn Gathright, Rashad Murphy, and DaVon Murphy—were found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy (0:01-1:02). Penalty Phase: The video focus es on the sentencing phase, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. It details what life in prison without parole entails in Florida, including the lack of parole and the potential for forced labor...

A Russian cargo vessel suspected of carrying components for two nuclear submarine reactors, possibly destined for North Korea, sank in the Mediterranean Sea under mysterious circumstances in December 2024, according to a CNN investigation published today. The Ursa Major (also known as Sparta 3), a heavy-lift ship linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” and previously used in military operations in Syria, went down approximately 60 miles (about 100 km) off the coast of Spain near Cartagena on December 23, 2024. The sinking followed a series of explosions that killed two crew members and left 14 others rescued by Spanish authorities. Spanish...

Car prowler Desaver Brian Hollis pays a fatal price after trying to kill police officers in Minnesota. Credit: Richfield Police Department, MN bodycam footage The family of a hardened criminal killed by police in Richfield, Minnesota, lashed out at police after bodycam footage showed exactly what happened. As KMSP reported, Richfield police said that they responded to a report of a car prowler named Desaver Brian Hollis along the 7500 block of Morgan Avenue shortly before 3:30 a.m. on April 29. Officers later located Hollis a block away from the original scene on Oliver Avenue South. The police attempted to...

So, this is weird.Vi Lyles, the five-term mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced her resignation and will leave office at the end of June.Charlotte Observer: Longtime Charlotte, NC Mayor Vi Lyles plans to step down less than halfway through her latest term leading the nation’s 14th-largest city. https://t.co/8lkHJasPBY— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) May 7, 2026Huh.As well, you might imagine, speculation is swirling like mad concerning the 'why' of it, only six months into a new term that ran in the face of her horrific performance during the Iryna Zarutska murder.For urging compassion for a multi-felonious, vicious, bestial...

Speaking in an interview that followed his primary election defeat in Texas, where MAGA voters ousted him and replaced him with the far better Steve Toth, longtime anti-Trump RINO Dan Crenshaw went on an angry and conspiratorial rant in which he claimed that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), of all people, had stirred up anti-RINO sentiment against him. In the interview, Crenshaw began his angry and conspiratorial rambling about why he lost with commentary about how it is mean that conservatives don’t like him, saying, “There’s nothing, especially conservatives, there’s nothing they love more than to tear down their own and...

14 Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers killed in unexploded ordnance blast. Fourteen Iranian engineering soldiers from the sabotage battalions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Ansar al-Mahdi) were killed in an unexploded ordnance explosion in the Zanjan area, according to official Iranian media. The incident involved members of specialized engineering units within the Revolutionary Guards.

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Days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Kimmel said during a late-night monologue that the first lady had "a glow like an expectant widow."President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are taking aim at late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about the first lady looking like an "expectant widow," days before the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. In a fiery statement Monday on social media, President Trump criticized Kimmel's joke and called on Disney — which owns ABC and airs the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show — to fire...

Lebanese media on Wednesday night reported the death of Al-Akhbar newspaper journalist Amal Khalil, after she was allegedly trapped underneath rubble in the village of A-Tiri following an Israeli strike in the area. The Lebanese Minister of Information claimed that this was a “heinous crime and a blatant violation..."

A criminal immigrant accused of carrying out a shooting spree in Georgia that killed three people was found dead inside his jail cell. Olaolukitan Adon-Abel, 26, was discovered unresponsive late on Tuesday night in his cell at a DeKalb County jail, according to the sheriff's office. Authorities said life-saving measures were attempted, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death has not yet been determined and an internal review is underway but officials say they do not currently suspect foul play. The sudden death brings a dramatic turn in a case that had already stunned Georgia...

Péter Magyar, the Hungarian politician most likely to defeat Viktor Orbán, promises “regime change” but signals continuity on several core policies. The European Union should manage expectations and prepare for a more complex relationship than a simple post-Orbán reset. With less than two months to go before Hungary’s 12 April elections, the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar is polling ahead of Orban’s Fidesz. For the first time since 2010, a change of government appears genuinely possible. The stakes are high. A fifth consecutive term for Orbán would further entrench what the European Parliament has described as a “hybrid regime...

Viktor Orbán has conceded in a speech to supporters, telling them: "The result of the election is clear and painful."

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat Sunday in the country’s parliamentary election, calling the result "clear" and "painful" as partial vote counts showed a decisive win for opposition leader Péter Magyar.

In the largest strike in Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, the IDF simultaneously hits some 100 Hezbollah targets across Beirut, Beqaa, and southern Lebanon. Over 180 terrorists eliminated.

While American forces conducted an astonishing rescue of a downed Weapons Systems Officer, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) escalated the stakes against Iran's leadership yet again, going after the men in charge of Tehran's oppression and terror organizations. One of this weekend's big names is Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, now confirmed dead, who until the moment of his vaporization served as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence organization. Khademi's death was confirmed Monday by an IRGC statement carried by the Iranian state Fars news service. The same IRGC statement said that funeral and burial arrangements would...