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Pressure mounts on the disgraced chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, who was forced to “step aside” from his position in May 2025 after serious sexual assault allegations. Newly revealed witness testimony states that Qatar promised to “look after” him if he continued the witch hunt against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday
Following a May 2024 request by Khan, the Hague-based ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for the crime of overseeing a military operation to free 240 hostages from Hamas’ captivity in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. By issuing the warrant, the ICC was requiring its 125 member states, including most of the European nations, to arrest the sitting Israeli prime minister and hand him over to the kangaroo court.
The latest testimony and supporting evidence also indicate that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was a target of the operation. The Qatar-linked “intelligence operation also sought to target two Americans: Tom Lynch, the senior ICC official who first reported the assault allegation, and Sen. Lindsey Graham,” the business daily added.
Buying off the ICC Prosecutor.
Qatar launched an intelligence operation & promised to “look after” Karim Khan over targeting Israel. When the operation’s manager was asked if backing came from a sheikh or the state, he said: “the state.”
A crooked prosecutor. A corrupted court.…
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) April 28, 2026
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A Scottish judge has dismissed charges against 75-year-old pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty, who was arrested last September for peacefully protesting abortion outside an abortion center in Scotland.
Docherty was merely holding a sign and offering consensual conversation in a so-called buffer zone outside a Glasgow hospital that kills babies.
Sheriff Stuart Reid at Glasgow Sheriff Court ruled that prosecutors “failed to disclose an offence known to the law of Scotland” and dismissed the two charges of “influencing” within the zone pro loco et tempore.
Docherty, a Christian grandmother from Glasgow, had stood silently with a sign reading: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” She did not approach anyone, did not discuss abortion and offered conversation only to those who wanted it.
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Kristin is a wife and a mother who was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. What followed was not just a battle against disease, but a fight for her very dignity.
Living in Canada, Kristin says doctors told her that her only option was physician-assisted suicide. Instead of offering aggressive treatment or hope, she was allegedly told that her condition was terminal and that procedures like HIPEC surgery would not save her life.
Rather than honoring her life, the system presented her with a devastating alternative: end her life early instead of pursuing further care.
But Kristin and her husband, Donovan, refused to accept that answer.
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A High Court judge has overturned the conviction of veteran pro‑life campaigner David Skinner, for sending an email with graphic images opposing abortion and censorship zones around clinics in Bournemouth.
On Friday 24 May Mr Justice Saini ruled that although the offence was technically made out under domestic law, maintaining a criminal conviction would amount to a disproportionate interference with freedom of expression and freedom of religion.
The judgment was handed down on Friday 24 May in Bournemouth, bringing to an end a criminal proceedings that have lasted nearly 3 years, as the court said the case raised fundamental constitutional issues under Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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A new Issues & Insights (I&I)/TIPP poll is showing increasing disunity, especially among — you guessed it — the left.
Each month, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asks Americans across the nation whether they would say the U.S. is “very united,” “somewhat united,” “somewhat divided,” “very divided,” or simply “not sure.”
From this, I&I/TIPP creates a national Unity Index, which allows for comparisons over time.
What is it saying? Well, for one, Americans over the past five years or so have never been unified, even though there have been times the Unity Index has trended up.
Indeed, the Unity Index has never breached the neutral 50 level in the past half-decade. In August of last year, not too long after Donald Trump took office, it briefly touched 40.8, its all-time high. But since then, it has dropped back to April’s current reading of 32.1.
While that might seem dramatic, it’s in fact in keeping with the long-trend range for the index, as the chart below shows.
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Video released by Ukraine’s Third Army Corps shows a four-hour rescue in Lyman, where a 77-year-old woman was saved by an autonomous vehicle after being spotted by drone pilots. The ground drone carried a blanket and a note reading: “Grandma, sit down!”
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Cole Thomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, has been identified by multiple media outlets as the suspect in custody following the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, attended by US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
According to CNN, Allen had shared posts comparing Trump to Hitler and even called upon others who criticised his presidency to purchase guns. His activity on social media ranged from posts about video games to angry political messages.
The postings on his handles appear to mirror sentiments from a message Allen allegedly sent to family members prior to the attack, in which he outlined a plan to target Trump administration officials and voiced his grievances over their conduct.
Moreover, investigators told the publication that Allen showed ‘animosity’ towards Trump and his administration.
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Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.
That assumption is now shifting.
Today, high-fidelity simulation produces synthetic training data accurate enough for production-grade AI. This is enabling perception systems, reasoning models and agentic workflows to excel in live factory environments.
OpenUSD has emerged as the connective standard that makes this practical, and the manufacturers building on it are already experiencing measurable results.
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Some House Republicans spent weeks warning against a drastic redraw of Florida’s congressional map.
Now that it’s out — with Gov. Ron DeSantis targeting as many as four Democratic seats for a GOP takeover — they’re mostly keeping any criticism to themselves.
“I think they did a pretty good job,” said Rep. Gus Bilirakis, who said he was one of the Florida Republicans whose district changed “quite a bit.”
“But I think they could touch it up a little bit, too,” he added.
Rep. Scott Franklin said he is set to represent his third constituency in four terms. He still lives within the confines of the 18th district, he said, though it is much smaller in area.
“Mine gets significantly less red than it was,” Franklin said. “But it’s still a conservative performing seat.”
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Trump Media, which is to say the Twitter clone Truth Social, is ditching CEO Devin Nunes (formerly a congressman, also cows and relentless complaints) after what the Associated Press reports as a “stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth. — Read the rest
The post Trump Media shakeup after stock collapse appeared first on Boing Boing.
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As of April 20, the DHS reported that 830 TSA officers had quit due to the lapse in funding, according to Politico. In the last eight days, another 300 handed in their notices.
The latest figure is roughly the same number of TSA employees who departed the agency during the historic 43-day government shutdown last fall.
With the current shutdown, airport security is especially taking a toll and could have a serious impact on air travel as the nation hosts the FIFA World Cup and the semiquincentennial this summer.
Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay TSA employees until a funding deal comes to fruition. However, the money could run dry if the shutdown lasts much longer.