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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvpzgn26edo
Health authorities are racing to trace dozens of people who disembarked from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.

The ship's operator said 29 passengers, of at least 12 different nationalities, left the MV Hondius on 24 April. The Dutch government gave a different figure of 40.

Among those who left the Dutch vessel at the island was a 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa.

The Dutch government said a Swiss national who has since been diagnosed with hantavirus was also one of those who left the cruise at the British Overseas Territory.

Two other people died on board the ship, which set sail from Argentina a month ago.

Three others were evacuated from the ship on Wednesday, of British, Dutch and German nationalities.

The British man has been named as 56-year-old Martin Anstee and is in a stable condition. The other evacuees were a 41-year-old Dutch crew member and a 65-year-old German, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/07/trade-court-rules-trumps-replacement-tariffs-illegal-00910828
A federal court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump unlawfully used Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10 percent global tariff — a backup plan the president implemented after the Supreme Court struck down his more sweeping worldwide tariffs earlier this year.

A divided three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade concluded that Trump’s Plan B was similarly unlawful. And the two judges in the majority barred the administration from collecting the duties from Washington state and two companies that sued over the policy.

The court did not issue nationwide relief for the hundreds of thousands of importers that have paid or continue to pay the tariffs, but it has set a precedent that other companies could point to in any legal effort to pursue similar relief.

While 24 Democratic-led states, spice importer Burlap & Barrel and toy company Basic Fun! challenged the policy, the panel found that only Washington state and the two companies had standing, leaving the injunction limited to those plaintiffs.

Trump’s February proclamation imposing the new tariffs “is invalid, and the tariffs imposed on Plaintiffs are unauthorized by law,” Judges Mark Barnett and Claire Kelly, both Obama appointees, wrote for the panel’s majority. Judge Timothy Stanceu, a George W. Bush appointee, dissented.

The ruling “means the tariffs will stay in place for nearly all parties while the appeal process plays out,” said Tim Brightbill, a trade attorney at the law firm Wiley Rein, nevertheless calling the decision a “decisive rejection” of Trump’s use of Section 122 to impose tariffs. “This decision will surely be appealed by the administration.”

An appeal would send the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has previously ruled against separate tariffs Trump imposed under “emergency” authorities.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-weighs-pentagon-bid-punish-senator-mark-kelly-2026-05-07/
WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration’s could legally punish Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Kelly over public remarks he made urging service members to refuse unlawful orders.
Members of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit expressed criticism of the government’s efforts to censure Kelly, a retired Navy captain and Arizona Democrat, over more than an hour of questioning.
"These are people who serve their country. Many of them put their lives on the line," Circuit Judge Florence Pan told a Justice Department lawyer. "You're saying that they have to give up their retired status in order to say something that is a textbook example — taught at West Point and the Naval Academy — that you can disobey illegal orders?"
Kelly spoke outside the courthouse in downtown Washington after the hearing. "This was a day in court not just for me, but for the First Amendment rights of millions of us," Kelly said.
The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Kelly sued the Pentagon in January, alleging the move by Republican President Donald Trump's administration to demote him and reduce his retirement pay was retaliatory and violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protection of free speech.
The Pentagon appealed after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration in February from pursuing its campaign to censure Kelly.

>“It turned into a sh*tshow,” a former agent said of the scene.
https://newrepublic.com/post/210076/kash-patel-freaked-personalized-bourbon-bottle-missing

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly had a major meltdown when he lost one of his personalized bottles of bourbon.

The Atlantic reported Wednesday that Patel typically travels with a supply of personalized bottles of Woodford Reserve bourbon, branded with the words “Kash Patel FBI Director,” and a rendering of the FBI shield, surrounded by a band that features his favored spelling of his first name: “Ka$h.” Some of the bottles also include his signature and the number nine, a likely reference to Patel’s place in the lineage of FBI directors.

Patel and his team reportedly traveled with at least one case of bourbon to the FBI’s training facility in Quantico, Virginia, in March for a “training seminar” taught by Ultimate Fighting Championship athletes. At least one of the bottles of bourbon went missing, causing Patel to “lose his mind,” according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, a retired agent who has assisted FBI agents with legal issues, who spoke with The Atlantic.

Multiple agents contacted Siuzdak for legal guidance after Patel threatened to polygraph and prosecute staff over the missing bottle. “It turned into a shitshow,” Siuzdak said. Other attorneys told the magazine they’d received similar calls from FBI employees concerned about Patel’s bourbon bottles.

Siuzdak told the magazine that FBI agents “have a duty to disclose wrongdoing,” but it had become clear that if one made allegations against Patel, “you’re screwed.”

“I tell people to run from him,” Siuzdak, who had a more than 20-year career at the FBI, said of the advice he gives current FBI employees.

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-makes-weird-inappropriate-37114902

Donald Trump made a string of massively inappropriate comments in front of a group of children.

He went on at length about deaths in Iran, terror killings in Iran, "transgender mutilisation of children" and repeated false claims about the 2020 election being "rigged" during an Oval Office event with schoolchildren, marking the return of the Presidential Fitness Test.

And later, on the White House lawn, he gathered a larger group of school athletes together to teach them hisweird YMCA dance.

He repeatedly brought up spurious and highly politically charged claims about transgender people, including a direct conversation with a boy who is training to be a weightlifter.

"You'll never compete against women in powerlifting," Trump said, before launching into a frequently trotted out, and largely inaccurate, claim about a trans weightlifter breaking a record that had "stood for 18 years."

He also asked the boy: "Do you think you can take me in a fight?"

After a string of speeches from RFK Jr, "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth and Wrestling boss-turned Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Trump took questions from reporters.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypr5985ejo
About 2,300 North Korean soldiers have died fighting for Russia against Ukraine, according to a BBC investigation based on satellite images and official photos of a new memorial in Pyongyang.

South Korea estimates at least 11,000 North Koreans were sent to Russia to help recapture parts of western Kursk, after Ukraine launched a surprise incursion in Kursk in August 2024.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has previously publicly paid tribute to soldiers who died in the war - and it is believed that in return for providing soldiers, Pyongyang received food, money and technical help from Moscow.

The secretive regime has never disclosed the death toll of the operation in Kursk, which Russia says it has fully reclaimed - but for the first time, a new memorial offers observable clues - here's what they tell us.

In October 2025, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the construction of a museum in Pyongyang's Hwasong district to honour the troops killed in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Work started in a heavily forested area within the same month, according to a BBC analysis of satellite images provided by Planet Labs, a US imaging company.

A rudimentary shell of the 52 sq km complex was visible in December. By March, most of the exterior construction appeared to have been completed. Landscaping and surrounding facilities were finished last month.


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Bangladeshi man's penis cut off in Italy by Bangladeshi after he plans to move his other Bangladeshi wife into the house.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/04/woman-bigamist-husband-other-wife-move/

A Bangladeshi boss's penis was cut off by a Bangladeshi female employee in Spain in 2021 over attempted rape.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-questioned-cops-chopping-partners-33595047.amp

https://www.newsweek.com/woman-arrested-cut-off-penis-claims-barcelona-1597514

https://en.ara.cat/society/cut-penis-arrest-bar-owner-boss-worker_1_4005149.amp.html

https://www.ibtimes.com/woman-hacks-boss-penis-he-allegedly-tried-rape-her-3214700

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2024/04/06/6611a232e2704e9f638b45a6.html

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Canvas hacked by group of cyber criminals. How do you guys feel about this.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-finals-week

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https://www.reuters.com/business/cnn-founder-ted-turner-dead-87-2026-05-06/

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reported on Wednesday citing a press release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
No cause of death was given.

In September 2018 Turner revealed that he had Lewy body dementia, a degenerative nerve disease.
One nickname was not enough for a personality as roguish and bold as Turner's. He was known variously as the "Mouth of the South," "Captain Outrageous," and "Terrible Ted."
He became a billionaire by taking over his father's billboard business, buying a television station in 1970 and parlaying that into what would become a vast ground-breaking television group.
Turner became one of the most powerful figures in U.S. media and entertainment, his networks specializing in news, sports, re-runs, and old movies. But he did not stop there. He added the MGM/UA movie studio to his portfolio before making an even bigger move - merging his Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner in 1996.

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A retired Hong Kong Police superintendent, Bill Yuen, and UK Border Force officer, Peter Wai, were found guilty of spying for China. They assisted a foreign intelligence service from December 2023 to May 2024 under the National Security Act. The jury could not reach a verdict on another charge of foreign interference, and prosecutors will not seek a retrial. Wai also faced a misconduct charge for accessing Home Office databases improperly.

Prosecutors claimed Yuen led a spying operation from the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office and directed Wai and others in "shadow policing" activities in the UK. They allegedly targeted dissidents and attempted to infiltrate Hong Kong protest movements.

https://news.sky.com/story/two-men-found-guilty-of-spying-for-china-13540966

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A federal judge has unsealed a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein. The document had remained sealed for years as part of the criminal case against his former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione.

In the note Epstein declares, “They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” He adds that the result was charges going back many years.

“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note states.

“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!” it continues.

The note concludes with the underlined words “NO FUN,” followed by “NOT WORTH IT!!”

Tartaglione discovered the note in July 2019. It was written on a piece of yellow paper torn from a legal pad and tucked inside a graphic novel. This occurred after Epstein was removed from their shared cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan following an apparent suicide attempt in which a strip of cloth was wrapped around his neck. Epstein survived that incident but was found dead weeks later at age 66.


Judge Kenneth M. Karas of Federal District Court in White Plains, N.Y., released the note Wednesday after The New York Times petitioned the court to unseal it. The Times has not authenticated whether Epstein authored the document.


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https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-iran-strikes-rcna344144
The U.S. conducted strikes against at least two locations in Iran Thursday, a U.S. official said.
The strikes in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island were defensive, the official said, and do not constitute a resumption of major combat operations against Iran.
U.S. Central Command said that two Navy guided-missile destroyers came under attack as they transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman and responded in self-defense.
“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS Mason transited the international sea passage,” CENTCOM said in the post.
“No U.S. assets were struck. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes. CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces.”
The Iranian military said that it had fired at U.S. military ships only after the U.S. military violated the ceasefire and attacked an Iranian oil tanker.
“The invading, terrorist and pirate U.S. military violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker moving from Iran’s coastal waters in the Jask area towards the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz opposite the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates,” said a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters, according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.
The spokesman also said that the U.S. had carried out air attacks on “civilian areas” along Iran’s coast and Qeshm Island.
Iran’s state-owned Press TV later reported that following the exchange of fire the situation in Iranian coastal cities near the Strait of Hormuz was “back to normal now.”

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https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-board-votes-to-consider-rent-freeze-keeping-mamdani-pledge-alive

The New York City board that sets the rent for roughly 1 million regulated apartments voted to consider a rent freeze on Thursday in a move that, if enacted, would fulfill a key campaign pledge of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board convened for an annual hearing that establishes the parameters for the panel’s final binding vote. It will consider a range of 0% to 2% on one-year leases and 0% to 4% on two-year leases. Board members voted 7 to 1 in favor of the range, with one abstention.

The board has only considered a 0% increase for one-year leases on two other occasions in the past decade. It’s also the first time board members have considered freezing rent on two-year leases.

Two tenant representatives on the board proposed taking the unprecedented step of decreasing rent by 3% on new one-year leases and by 4.5% on two-year leases, essentially nullifying the board’s rent increase last year. Their landlord-sided counterparts proposed raising rents by 3% to 5.5% on one-year leases and 6% to 8% on two-year leases.

The nine-member panel will hear public testimony at a series of upcoming hearings before casting a final vote on June 25, but board data shows members typically use the preliminary figures as a framework ahead of an ultimate decision.

The divisive annual event Thursday at LaGuardia Community College drew hundreds of tenants and advocates, but took on a more subdued atmosphere than in past years, when attendees banged noisemakers, drowned out board members and, in one instance, even stormed the stage.

The night marked the first test of Mamdani’s now-famous campaign promise to “freeze the rent” for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments — a slogan that galvanized many renters confronting a deep affordability crisis, but infuriated landlords who say they need a rent hike to offset their own rising maintenance and operating costs.

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No mentions of how much she was getting paid, so we don't have to worry about silly shilly crashing out over being paid less

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/07/ashley-st-clair-trump-online-machine/

Few MAGA influencers were as committed to the digital cause as Ashley St. Clair.

The 27-year-old former brand ambassador for the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA published an anti-transgender children’s book, appeared prime-time on Fox News and posted selfies from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

On X, where St. Clair has more than 1 million followers, she had become a legend: a young conservative woman fighting back against the perceived liberal excesses of “brain rot” feminism and the “‘woke’ agenda” — a reputation that swelled last year, when she revealed that she had secretly had a child with the platform’s multibillionaire owner, Elon Musk.

But in the past few months, St. Clair has become one of the right-wing internet’s most scathing and visible critics. Many of Trump’s top online cheerleaders are actually just mercenaries of the attention economy, she argues, working to turn political outrage and talking points coordinated with administration officials into paid promotional deals.

“There is no free thinking here,” she said in a TikTok video last month about the movement she joined when she was 19. “They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”

St. Clair’s transformation from a self-described “good little foot soldier” to MAGA turncoat has unspooled in near-daily monologues to more than 77,000 followers on her TikTok feed, where she applies makeup from her New York apartment and claims to expose the secrets of her former allies and the hidden machinery that made them social media stars.

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Jonathan Pollard, a former US navy intelligence analyst jailed for 30 years for spying for Israel, has said he will stand for election to the Knesset this year on a platform of ethnic cleansing.

Speaking to Channel 13 television, Pollard said: “I personally prefer the forcible removal of all current residents of Gaza, and the annexation of Gaza and its repopulation by us.”

Pollard was released on parole at the age of 61 from US prison in 2015 after serving 30 years for selling military secrets to Israel for money. He and his wife, Anne Henderson, were arrested in 1985 after Pollard passed a huge volume of classified documents to Israeli intelligence – enough to fill a 10ftx6ftx6ft room, by Pollard’s own calculation. In return he received cash and jewels.

Despite Netanyahu’s past support for him, Pollard has become a fierce critic of the prime minister. In his television interview, he said Israel was not winning the war it had been fighting since 2023 and called for new leadership with a clearer and sharper policy.

According to Channel 13, Pollard will enter politics as part of a new party, formed with Nissim Louk, whose 22-year-old daughter, Shani, was murdered in the 7 October attack while she was attending a music festival near the Gaza border.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/jonathan-pollard-israel-gaza-ethnic-cleansing