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Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to ‘completely’ block Strait of Hormuz –Oil prices leapt more than 7% higher following Tasnim’s report | 1 June 2026 | Iranian negotiators will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries, and Tehran will move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran’s state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim said Monday. The report, in a translated post on the social media site Telegram, homes in on Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah. “No dialogue will take place” until Israel fully withdraws from occupied areas in Lebanon and stops all attacks in both Lebanon and Gaza, per Tasnim. “Also, the resistance front and Iran have resolved to completely block the Strait of Hormuz and activate other fronts including the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, in order to punish the Zionists and their supporters,” the report said.

Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries | 29 May 2026 | Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than 200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948. Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.”

Iran targeted U.S. base in response to new strikes – IRGC | 28 May 2026 | Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted a U.S. airbase in the region on Thursday in response to new strikes, marking the second armed clash between the rivals this week. The latest confrontation began with reports of explosions shortly after midnight in Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas, which is home to a naval base. In a statement to the media, a U.S. official said American forces shot down four Iranian kamikaze drones that “posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz” and had also struck a ground control station in Bandar Abbas that “was about to launch a fifth drone.” The IRGC later released a statement saying it targeted a U.S. base involved in the earlier strike on a site near Bandar Abbas Airport.

U.S. jets attack Iranian naval vessels | 25 May 2026 | U.S. fighter jets have struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) speedboats as explosions were heard near the port of Bandar Abbas. The attack occurred on Monday as US and Iranian negotiators arrived in Qatar in hopes of advancing stalled talks. According to SNN, the attack on the Iranian vessels took place south of Larak Island, in the narrowest section of the Strait of Hormuz, which remains under a dual U.S.-Iranian blockade. At least three Iranian sailors were killed, SNN said. Media outlets also reported a series of explosions in Bandar Abbas, home to an Iranian naval base.

EU at risk from Ukrainian strikes on nuclear plant – Rosatom CEO | 1 June 2026 | Ukraine and its neighboring EU countries would be the first to suffer if Kiev’s continued attacks result in an incident at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been targeted by Ukraine on multiple occasions since Russia took control of the facility in March 2022. On Saturday, a fiber-optics-guided drone struck the machine hall of ZNPP’s sixth power unit, puncturing a hole in the building. According to Rosatom, this was Kiev’s first “deliberate attack” on the station’s main equipment. Ukrainian authorities have denied any involvement in the incident.

Zelensky names commando unit after WWII Nazi collaborators | 27 May 2026 | Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has renamed an elite commando unit, adding a dedication to World War II-era nationalist paramilitaries responsible for massacres of Poles and Jews. According to a decree signed on Tuesday, the Special Operations Center North will bear the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA,” referring to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The change reflects “the revival of the historic traditions of the national army,” the document said. The OUN sought to establish an ethnically and religiously homogeneous Ukrainian state and collaborated with Nazi Germany during the early stages of the invasion of the Soviet Union.

First missing scientist is found dead a year after vanishing as bizarre circumstances of her death are revealed | 1 June 2026 | The body of a missing nuclear lab employee has been discovered, 11 months after she mysteriously walked out of her home and vanished without a trace. New Mexico State Police announced that they positively identified the remains of Melissa Casias, 54, who was last seen alive on June 26, 2025. Her body was found in the McGaffey Ridge area of the Carson National Forest, approximately six miles from the last place Casias was seen walking before being declared missing. Police said a hiker in the forest made the discovery and that a handgun was found alongside the body. Casias was an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Her disappearance has been linked to a string of deaths and missing person cases involving U.S. scientists and government employees who worked at highly secretive facilities and allegedly had knowledge of sensitive topics tied to national security. The circumstances surrounding Casias’s case were even more disturbing, as the wife and mother wiped all records from her phones before leaving them and her identification behind and walking out of her home in Ranchos de Taos last June.

Hantavirus cases from cruise outbreak rise to 13 following new case in Spain, WHO says | 27 May 2026 | The number of cases of Hantavirus linked ​to a cruise ship at the ‌centre of an outbreak has increased to 13, the head of the World Health Organization ​said on Wednesday. “Spain reported a ​new case among the passengers who ⁠are in quarantine, which brings the ​total number of cases to 13,” WHO ​chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. Among them three died, but there ​have been no new deaths since ​May 2, Ghebreyesus said.

‘Trump House’ owner dies after brutal attack outside Escondido home | 25 May 2026 | The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten to a pulp allegedly by a Navy veteran. Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known locally for covering his residence with MAGA banners and American flags, died Sunday night after nearly a week hospitalized in critical condition. The attack happened May 20 outside Sheron’s home in Escondido, police said. Prosecutors allege 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler attacked Sheron in what officials described as an unprovoked assault. Butler, who has been described in local reports as a Navy veteran, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats and battery.

California advances bill that could punish journalists probing taxpayer-funded NGOs | 30 May 2026 | Independent journalist Nick Shirley accused California lawmakers of trying to shield taxpayer-funded organizations from scrutiny after the state Assembly advanced AB 2624, dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” a bill the author says is intended to protect “immigration service providers” from harassment and threats. “I obviously hit a nerve,” Shirley said during an appearance Wednesday night on Fox News @ Night with Trace Gallagher. “What’s interesting about this, this bill is it’s protecting NGOs and nonprofits,” Shirley said. “These are organizations and groups that receive our tax dollars, yet they want to make it so we can’t find out what they’re doing with our tax dollars.” Shirley argued the proposal would discourage investigations into organizations receiving public funds.

Conservatives sound alarm after Illinois official turns herself in over ballot fraud | 29 May 2026 | Illinois GOP Chairman Bob Grogan is calling on a Democratic Waukegan city official to resign after prosecutors said she submitted her dead mother’s vote-by-mail ballot, a case conservatives say exposes broader concerns about mail-in voting and voter-roll safeguards even though the ballot was caught before it was counted. A Waukegan, Illinois alderman, Sylvia Sims Bolton, turned herself in on Wednesday after prosecutors said she submitted her dead mother’s vote-by-mail ballot during a March primary election, which has resulted in two charges, including one Class 4 Felony.

Agitators outside Delaney Hall set up organized logistics operation before Newark protests began | 31 May 2026 | Agitators outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday were seen establishing a highly organized logistics and support operation before protests began at the site. Fox News Digital observed stockpiles of masks, duct tape, medical supplies, sunscreen, hard hats, goggles and other protective gear in containers and laid out on tables near the protest site. Many participants were seen wearing masks, and several wore respirators and helmets. After federal agents were assaulted during violent skirmishes earlier in the week, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill ordered the New Jersey State Police to take over security, saying it was necessary to protect demonstrators from an “ICE surge.”

Family of four killed in horror Virginia pile-up when bus driver who couldn’t speak English crashed | 30 May 2026 | New details have come to light about the man authorities say was responsible for a horror chain reaction bus crash that claimed the lives of a family of four, including that he could not speak English. Jing S. Dong, 48, was identified as the driver of a bus that plowed into at least six vehicles on a major Virginia interstate near Quantico in the early hours of Friday morning, according to state police. A 25-year-old Massachusetts woman in another vehicle was also killed, and dozens were injured. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said on Friday night that Dong is a Chinese immigrant and a U.S. citizen, but does not speak English. He received his commercial driver’s license from New York State in 2024.

Tim Walz pardons illegal alien convicted of armed robbery before ICE deportation to Laos –Walz inaccurately called Jai Vang a “citizen” and said he could find no reason Minnesota would be safer with his removal | 28 May 2026 | Minnesota’s Democratic governor [and Grade “A” sociopath] on Wednesday pardoned an illegal alien previously convicted of armed robbery before he could be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, was convicted of aiding and abetting and armed robbery in Hennepin County in 1994, according to FOX 9. The incident occurred when he was 18 years old. He served his prison term, and was released back into the United States. During the hearing, Walz inaccurately referred to Vang as a “citizen.” He said Vang has become a “critical member of the community” since his release from prison. [Is this science fiction?]

66-year-old woman stabbed 20 times on Atlanta train, throat slit in random attack by homeless thug | 1 June 2026 | The Atlanta train passenger who was slaughtered in a shocking daylight weekend attack was reportedly stabbed nearly two dozen times in what cops are calling a horrific random assault. John Elijah Matthews, 25, was caught on chilling surveillance footage boarding a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) Saturday morning and hovering over 66-year-old Margaret Swan before allegedly pulling out a knife and slitting her throat, according to a warrant obtained by 11Alive. The unwitting passenger, sitting alone, began screaming and trying to escape as the violent brute allegedly held her down and stabbed her 18 to 20 times in an unprovoked attack… Riders blamed Saturday’s killing on a recent fare switch that has allowed people, including the homeless, to enter MARTA stations and trains for free. Saturday’s stabbing happened less than a week after another MARTA rider was stabbed multiple times at the Georgia State Station near the Georgia State Capitol last Sunday.

Toxic chemical tank on the brink of exploding has a crack in it emergency response crews find – 50,000 residents are evacuated from danger zone | 24 May 2026 | California officials revealed a shocking update about a chemical tank on the verge of exploding at an aerospace facility. The Orange County Fire Authority posted a critical update Sunday afternoon, saying a specialized team discovered a “potential crack” in the 34,000-gallon tank at the GKN Aerospace facility. “During that operation, our firefighters went in and were able to visualize the tank. What they found was a potential crack in the tank,” Interim Fire Chief TJ McGovern said in a video posted to X… As new details emerged, the interim chief said officials could change their strategy to focus on preventing the toxic explosion.