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American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak, including at least one presumed positive case, arrived in Nebraska early Monday for evaluation at a highly specialized quarantine unit before eventually continuing on to their homes – and weeks of monitoring for symptoms of infection.

The virus, typically associated with rodents, may have passed from human to human aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, according to the World Health Organization. Since April 11, three people from the ship have died while a handful of others are sick.

The plane landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha shortly before 2:30 a.m. local time. There were 17 US citizens, and one British national who resides in the US, on the flight to Omaha, Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said.

Here’s what we know about the American passengers’ journey back to the United States and what will happen next:

One of the Americans has tested “mildly” positive for the virus and another has mild symptoms, the US Department of Health and Human Services said late Sunday. Both traveled in biocontainment units on the plane “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS said in a post on X.

The passenger who tested positive does not have symptoms but will be taken directly to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the facility said late Sunday. The other passengers will go to the center’s National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring.

The Spanish Ministry of Health said the positive test came after an official from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control boarded the ship to evaluate passengers.

Read More: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/10/us/hantavirus-cruise-passengers-nebraska-facility?Date=20260511&Profile=CNN

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https://www.rt.com/news/639877-idf-soldiers-christian-statue/

Two Israeli soldiers were sentenced to several weeks in military prison for desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said.

Last week, a photo surfaced showing a service member hugging the statue in the predominantly Christian village of Debel, near the Israeli border, and placing a cigarette in the statue’s mouth. The image sparked outrage on social media and prompted an official investigation.

On Monday, IDF spokeswoman Ariella Mazor said the soldier posing with the statue and the soldier filming him were sentenced to 21 and 14 days behind bars, respectively.

“The IDF views the incident with great severity and respects freedom of religion and worship, as well as holy sites and religious symbols of all religions and communities,” Mazor wrote on X.

Last month, two IDF soldiers were removed from combat duty and each sentenced to 30 days in military prison after one smashed the head of a statue of Jesus Christ in the same village with a hammer while the other photographed the act. The IDF said six other soldiers who were present but failed to intervene or report the incident would be summoned for “clarification discussions.”

The IDF expanded its operations in southern Lebanon and began striking targets in Beirut and other cities in early March after the armed group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese government, which took effect on April 16, failed to prevent renewed clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/deadly-boat-strike
>The Trump administration continued its illegal bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on Friday, killing two and leaving one survivor in its third such strike in five days.

>US Southern Command announced the attack on social media, claiming that "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations."

>"Under [President Donald] Trump's illegal orders, the US military conducted its third boat strike in five days against supposed drug smugglers, killing at least two. Each of these is a murder. Drug suspects should be arrested and prosecuted, not summarily executed," former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote on social media Saturday in response to the news.

>Friday's strike marks the 57th by the Trump administration and raises the death toll from the boat-strike campaign, which experts say is illegal even if every boat targeted is ferrying drugs, to 192.

>"What do you call a US citizen who smuggles drugs, SOUTHCOM? A 'narco-terrorist'?" social media user Andrew Marinelli said in response to the Southern Command announcement. "If a US citizen [allegedly] drove drugs into Canada and they blew him away with a drone strike, would you accept it?"

>The administration has also not provided evidence for its claims that the boats belong to drug traffickers, and relatives of the victims say at least some of those killed were simply on the water to fish.

>Friday's strike was notable in that it left behind a survivor and that US Southern Command said it had activated the US Coast Guard to conduct a search and rescue operation.

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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-scandal-1795914
>The T1 'Trump phone' promised a 'Made in the USA' build but left buyers without devices or refunds.

>Nearly 600,000 Trump supporters paid £74 ($100) each towards a gold smartphone that, nearly a year on, does not exist.

>The Trump Mobile T1 phone was announced in June 2025 by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as a patriotic alternative to Apple and Samsung, retailing at £370 ($499) and promising a 'Made in the USA' build.

>An estimated 590,000 buyers paid a £74 ($100) deposit to secure one, collectively handing the venture roughly £43.7 million ($59 million). As of May 2026, not a single confirmed customer has received the device. Now, a fresh wave of anger is spreading across MAGA forums after buyers received communication making clear that their money is, for all practical purposes, gone.
The T1 Phone's Trail of Broken Deadlines

>Trump Mobile launched on 16 June 2025 at an announcement at Trump Tower, headlined by the president's two eldest sons and timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign launch. The T1 was marketed as a gold-coloured Android handset bearing an American flag on its back and bundled with a monthly service plan at £37.50 ($47.45) per month. Initial delivery was promised for late summer 2025.

>That deadline slipped to November 2025, then December, then the first quarter of 2026. A mid-March 2026 T-Mobile carrier certification deadline also passed without resolution. By April 2026, Trump Mobile quietly redesigned its website, removing the release date entirely rather than replacing it with a new one.

>NBC News, which placed its own £74 ($100) deposit in August 2025 to track the story, called Trump Mobile's support line five times between September and November 2025 and received inconsistent answers each time. A representative said in October that the phone would ship on 13 November, but it did not.

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President Trump has called Iran's response to US proposals for ending the war "totally unacceptable." Iran proposed an immediate ceasefire, the lifting of a US naval blockade, and guarantees against further attacks. Despite a largely observed ceasefire, tensions remain high. Trump stated the war would be "over quickly," while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized the need to dismantle Iran's nuclear enrichment sites.

Iran has threatened severe consequences for vessels not complying with its demands in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil route. Meanwhile, a British warship is being deployed to safeguard shipping in the area, provoking further Iranian warnings.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypgz9e5pmo

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https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-labour-party-suffers-heavy-early-losses-reform-gains-elections-2026-05-08/
LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Friday to stay in office to "deliver change" after his Labour Party suffered heavy losses in English local elections and parliamentary votes in Scotland and Wales, deepening doubts over his ability to govern.
Just under two years after winning a landslide national election, Starmer saw voters punish his Labour government, with support evaporating even in its traditional strongholds in London, former industrial regions in central and northern England, and in Wales.
The main beneficiary was the populist Reform UK party of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 1,000 council seats in England, and will likely form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.
Early results underscored the fracturing of Britain's traditional two-party system, with the once-dominant Labour and Conservative parties losing votes not only to Reform, but to the left-wing Green Party at the other end of the political spectrum, and to nationalists in Scotland and Wales.

I AM NOT GOING TO WALK AWAY, SAYS STARMER
Despite the losses, Starmer's allies signalled their support for a man whose popularity ratings have sunk to among the worst for any British leader.
"I am not going to walk away," Starmer told reporters in Ealing, west London, a rare bright spot where Labour retained control of the council.
To Labour activists, he showed a moment of contrition when he said he took full responsibility for the losses and admitted his government had made some "unnecessary mistakes" including failing to offer hope to Britain when the party took power.

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A pair of court rulings have shattered the party’s hopes of countering GOP redistricting gains before November's elections.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/redistricting-court-rulings-give-republicans-new-life-in-the-midterms-00912692

Republicans just won the redistricting war — and boosted their slim hopes for holding the House.

The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act last week, coupled with the Virginia Supreme Court striking down a voter-approved Democratic gerrymander of four seats on Friday, has all but locked in Republican gains through redistricting in this year’s midterms, giving them as much as a 10-seat boost with November rapidly approaching.

It’s leaving Democrats — despite all the political winds in their favor — fearful that the House is back in play. Their once-surprising comeback in the redistricting race was shattered in the court room, and they are left with virtually no way to respond before November.

“I think we still take back the House, but it’s a major setback,” said Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod, who has worked in Congress and on four presidential campaigns. “We have to just win at the ballot box. And we can do it.”

Added state-level Democratic consultant Trevor Southerland: “Rigged maps can overcome a lot.”

There’s every reason to believe the House will still go to Democrats, who need to flip just three GOP-held seats. President Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to suffer, top Republican operatives are begging others in their party for a coherent messaging plan, and Americans continue to feel the effect of rising costs, especially gas prices amid the war in Iran.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-perceptions-us-fall-below-russia-under-trump-survey-finds-2026-05-08/
Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on democracy published on Friday showed, as U.S. President Donald Trump's policies continue to severely strain the NATO alliance.
The Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation, which commissioned the survey, said the U.S. was also most frequently named in response to which country posed the greatest threat to the world, after Russia and Israel. The survey did not go into details on the criteria used, but the Alliance says its aim is to defend and advance democratic values.
"The fast decline of the United States' perception around the world is saddening but not shocking," alliance founder and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
"U.S. foreign policy over the past 18 months has, among other things, called into question the transatlantic relationship, imposed widespread tariffs, and threatened to invade a NATO ally's territory," he added.
Trump's tariffs, his repeated threats to control Greenland, a fellow NATO member through Denmark, a cut in U.S. aid to Ukraine as well as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the ensuing spike in oil prices have deeply unsettled transatlantic relations.
Enraged that European countries have declined to send their navies to open the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping after the start of the air war on Iran, Trump in April said he considered withdrawing from NATO, further weakening the alliance.
The Democracy Perception Index survey, which ranks the perception of countries from -100% to +100%, showed that net perception of the U.S. had swung to -16% from +22% two years ago, placing it behind Russia at -11% and China at +7%. It did not provide a reason for the positive sentiment on China.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-times-faces-discrimination-lawsuit-194000044.html?guccounter=1

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims the New York Times engaged in “unlawful employment practices.”

This week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against The New York Times, claiming the paper engaged in “unlawful employment practices” and discriminated against a white male employee who was passed over for a promotion.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, the lawsuit centers a deputy real estate editor role the unnamed employee applied for in 2025. The EEOC claims the publication’s “stated race and sex-based representation goals influenced the decision not to advance” the man’s candidacy.

“The allegation centers on a single personnel decision for one of over 100 deputy positions across the newsroom, yet the E.E.O.C.’s filing makes sweeping claims that ignore the facts to fit a predetermined narrative,” said Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokeswoman for The Times. “Neither race nor gender played a role in this decision — we hired the most qualified candidate, and she is an excellent editor.”

The complaint references internal Times diversity and inclusion reports, including a 2021 “Call to Action” that set goals to increase the number of Black and Latino employees. It also cites Slack exchanges between newsroom leaders about diversity hiring trends, and internal correspondence related to the specific hiring process at issue.

According to The Times, those materials were handed over to the EEOC voluntarily during the investigation that preceded the lawsuit. The publication also said the job listing specifically sought someone with experience in service journalism which the person who got the job had, along with supervisory experience. Additionally, the newspaper says the deputy real estate editor’s role was not within the scope of its diversity goals

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An adult escort who wrapped a client in cling film and filmed him as he suffocated to death has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Michaela Brashaye Rylaarsdam, a 32-year-old married mother of three, was paid $11,000 by Michael Dale for a fetish sex session at his home in California in April 2023.

Mr Dale, 56, reportedly asked Rylaarsdam to wrap him up “like a mummy” and requested that she glue women’s boots to his feet and pour adhesive into his eyes to seal them shut.

Rylaarsdam is said to have sat next to Mr Dale and filmed herself performing a sex act for her OnlyFans page as he struggled for oxygen. She eventually phoned 911 and attempted to resuscitate Mr Dale when he became unresponsive.

Police found Mr Dale with pink duct tape over his mouth and a plastic bag covering his head. His wrists, legs and fingers were also bound with duct tape and cling film.

A post-mortem examination found that he had suffocated, and concluded that the bag had been wrapped around his head for at least eight minutes.

Mr Dale’s room-mate told a court hearing that he overheard the victim pleading for her to stop, and that the victim had even offered her money to do so.
But they had no established "safe word" so the victim was BOUND to get into problems.


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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/body-missing-us-soldier-recovered-morocco-2026-05-10/

A search team recovered the body of U.S. soldier 1st Lieutenant Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. near a cliff in Cap Draa, Morocco. He went missing during a training exercise on May 2. His remains were found in the water close to where he disappeared. Another soldier is still missing, and search operations continue. The soldiers were part of the African Lion exercise, which involves U.S. forces, NATO allies, and African partners. This exercise is the largest joint military effort by AFRICOM, involving around 5,000 personnel from over 40 countries.

https://newrepublic.com/post/210153/trump-threatens-nuke-iran-strikes-strait-blockade

>President Trump threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran if it didn’t sign an agreement with the United States.

>While speaking to the press outside of the White House on Thursday, Trump was asked if the ceasefire was still on despite the recent exchange of fire in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. and Iran traded attacks, with Iran reportedly attacking three U.S. warships with missiles, drones, and small boats, and the U.S. bombing an Iranian oil tanker and other targets in the coastal areas of Bandar Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island. Trump said the ceasefire is still in place, but then went on a disturbing tack.

>“They trifled with us today, we blew ’em away. They trifled, I call that a trifle. I’ll let you when there’s no cease—you won’t have to know. If there’s no ceasefire, you’re not gonna have to know, you’re just gonna have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. And they better sign their agreement fast,” Trump said.

>Trump then said that peace talks were going “very well, but they’re going to have to understand, if it doesn’t get signed, they’re gonna have a lot of pain. They’re gonna have a lot of pain. They want to sign it, I will tell you. They want to sign it a lot more than I do.”

>Does “one big glow” refer to a nuclear bomb? It would have to refer to a massive bombing campaign, at the very least. Fox News reports that the U.S. struck several empty Iranian oil tankers Friday, suggesting that Trump is hoping bombs will coerce Iran into ending its closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

>Trump could be alluding to using nukes, or just talking big to try and intimidate Iran’s leadership. So far, though, Trump has not made any visible progress on ending the war, and the world economy continues to suffer as a result, with fuel prices staying high. Nuking Iran would only make things catastrophically worse.

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https://www.iranintl.com/en/202605097262
The Caspian Sea has emerged as a critical trade and military supply route for Iran as Tehran seeks alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz amid the US naval blockade, the New York Times reported.

According to the report, Russia has been shipping commercial goods and drone components to Iran through the landlocked waterway, helping Tehran replenish military supplies and sustain imports disrupted by tensions around Hormuz.

US officials told the newspaper that Russia is sending drone parts to help Iran rebuild capabilities after losing much of its drone arsenal in recent fighting. Iranian officials also said food imports including wheat, corn and cooking oil are increasingly being rerouted through Caspian ports.

Unlike the Strait of Hormuz, the Caspian is inaccessible to the United States militarily because only the five bordering states have access, making it an attractive route for sanctions evasion and military transfers, the report said.

“If you’re thinking about the ideal place for sanction evasion and military transfers, it’s the Caspian,” one expert told the Times.

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Peter Magyar has been sworn in as Hungary's new prime minister, ending Viktor Orban's 16-year rule. Magyar, leader of the Tisza party, promises change after years of economic stagnation and strained EU relations. He called for Hungarians to “step through the gate of regime change” as his party holds a majority in parliament.

Facing challenges, Magyar plans to restore ties with the EU, revive the economy, and address a significant budget deficit. The EU flag was displayed in parliament for the first time in 12 years, marking a symbolic step back to Europe. His government aims to secure around $20 billion in frozen funds, withheld over human rights issues during Orban's tenure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/9/peter-magyar-sworn-in-as-hungarys-pm-ending-orbans-16-years-in-power

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https://www.aol.com/articles/vile-nj-vanity-plate-appearing-011205604.html

The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission has pumped the brakes on a vile vanity license plate that appears to target President Trump – and includes a string of now infamous numbers that seemingly call for his head.

The state licensing agency, which approves vanity plates but rejects requests for political jabs or coded messaging, is yanking the controversial tag reading “FDT8647” after it slipped through the cracks for more than a year and eventually sparked online uproar, an MVC spokesperson told NJ.com.

While the No. “86” is restaurant slang for getting rid of something, it has recently taken on a new meaning life, with interpretations tied to alleged death threats against Trump, the 47th president.

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted after posting an Instagram photo of seashells spelling out “86 47” on a beach in May 2025, which the Justice Department said was a threat to kill the president.

New Jersey officials confirmed the vanity plate was approved in April 2025, the outlet reported.

Photos on social media show the disturbing plate on the back of a gray Subaru Outback in Mercer County – with outraged critics questioning how it got the OK from the Garden State.

“Why did the @NJ_MVC approve this plate that says F Donald Trump and 8647 him,” one digital naysayer raged on X.

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