May 4, 2026

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President Trump Vows to End Hostility Toward Crypto, Embrace Blockchain Technology in the US (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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President Donald Trump announced plans to embrace blockchain technology and eliminate hostility toward cryptocurrency in the U.S.

Cryptocurrency, or crypto, is a digital currency that uses encryption algorithms to allow people to make online payments to each other. Cryptocurrencies are decentralized, meaning they don’t have a central authority like a bank or government to regulate or issue them. Instead, they use a decentralized system to record transactions and create new units.

The announcement was made at a private dinner event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he hosted a gathering for buyers of his NFT trading cards.

For context, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique cryptographic tokens that exist on a blockchain and cannot be replicated. They can represent digital or real-world items like artwork, real estate, music, or digital content. NFTs can also represent individuals’ identities and property rights. 

Boeing skids off runway at Senegal’s main airport, injuring at least 10– www.euronews.com

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At least 10 people were reportedly injured on the Air Sénégal flight headed to Bamako.

A Boeing 737 plane skidded off the runway at the airport in the Senegal capital, Dakar, injuring at least 10 people, four of whom are in serious condition.

Some 85 people were onboard the plane that trundled off the runway onto the grass.

The Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was headed to Bamako late on Wednesday carrying 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew, Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye said in a statement on Thursday.

Flights have been suspended near Dakar since the incident, authorities said.

Miss Teen USA gives up title days after Miss USA resigned | US News– news.sky.com

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Miss Teen USA has given up her crown, just two days after Miss USA resigned to prioritise her mental health.

UmaSofia Srivastava, 17, said she was stepping down from the role because her “personal values no longer fully align with the direction of the organisation”.

Posting on Instagram, she said: “I am grateful for all the support from my family, my state directors, my sister queens, and the fans who have cheered me on since I won my state title.

“I will always look back on my time as Miss NJ Teen USA fondly, and the experience of representing my state as a first generation, Mexican-Indian American at the national level was fulfilling in itself.”

She was crowned in September 2023.

Her announcement came after Miss USA Noelia Voigt said she was relinquishing her title with a message urging people to look after their mental health.

Rat parts in sliced bread spark wide product recall in Japan– www.cbsnews.com

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Tokyo — More than 100,000 packets of sliced bread have been recalled in Japan after parts of a black rat’s body were discovered inside two of them, the manufacturer said Wednesday. Food recalls are rare in Japan, a country with famously high standards of sanitation, and Pasco Shikishima Corporation said it was investigating how the rodent remains had crept in to its products.

The company said it was so far unaware of anyone falling sick after eating its processed white “chojuku” bread, long a staple of Japanese breakfast tables.

Around 104,000 packs of the bread have been recalled in mainland Japan, from Tokyo to the northern Aomori region.

The House Boos Marjorie Taylor Greene As She Initiates Motion To Vacate– www.politicususa.com

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As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene initiated her motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), she was loudly booed in the House.

Video of Greene being booed:

Greene announced that she was initiating her motion to declare the speaker chair vacant and the boos grew in the House chamber.

Rep. Greene seriously listed one of the reasons for Johnson to be removed as that he allowed a vote on expelling George Santos:

Environmentalists Are Having a Cow Over Tyson Foods’ “Climate Friendly” Beef – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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About five miles south of Broken Bow, in the heart of central Nebraska, thousands of cattle stand in feedlots at Adams Land & Cattle Co., a supplier of beef to the meat giant Tyson Foods.

From the air, the feedlots look dusty brown and packed with cows—not a vision of happy animals grazing on open pastureland, enriching the soil with carbon. But when the animals are slaughtered, processed, and sent onward to consumers, labels on the final product can claim that they were raised in a “climate friendly” way.

In late 2022, Tyson—one of the country’s “big four” meat packers—applied to the US Department of Agriculture, seeking a “climate friendly” label for its Brazen Beef brand. The production of Brazen Beef, the label claims, achieves a “10 percent greenhouse gas reduction.” Soon after, the USDA approved the label.

Immediately, environmental groups questioned the claim and petitioned the agency to stop using it, citing livestock’s significant greenhouse gas emissions and the growing pile of research that documents them. These groups and journalism outlets, including Inside Climate News, have asked the agency for the data it used to support its rubber-stamping of Tyson’s label but have essentially gotten nowhere.

The Age of Big Powerhouse U.S. Navy Warships Is All Over Now– nationalinterest.org

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U.S. Navy Warships at a Crossroads: Overcoming China’s A2/AD Challenge: For centuries, navies around the world have taken pride in their large surface warships. The dominance of these warships persisted even after the advent of submarines. In fact, during the Second World War, when submarines became a primary weapons platform for navies, the aircraft carrier stole all the headlines. ..

The rise of anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) means that the large surface warship’s days as the primary form of power projection in a naval fleet are coming to an end.

Consider that the Ford-class aircraft carrier, America’s newest, costs $13 billion per unit, plus hundreds of millions of dollars per year to maintain. The more numerous Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, while older than the Ford-class, are also very expensive.

An aircraft carrier is a large, highly complex warship. Its purpose is to maneuver a floating airbase near the territory of an enemy in order to threaten that rival with precise and consistent airstrikes.

“Living fossil” lamprey fish found in Queensland, 1,400 km north of its usual range– cosmosmagazine.com

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A lamprey fish has been found living in the coastal rivers of Queensland, Australia, about 1,400 km north of the species’ usual range.

Lampreys are fish which recall a time hundreds of millions of years ago. Unlike most fish today, lampreys are jawless. Jaws evolved in fish more than 400 million years ago. Research suggests the development of jaws was vital in some pioneering species making the move onto land, becoming the ancestors of all land vertebrates like humans.

Australian brook lampreys (Mordacia praecox) are an endangered species. Their range was widely believed to be restricted to a 170-km stretch of coastline near the border of Australian states Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

Large Families With Save the Planet From Terribly Low Birth Rates– www.lifenews.com

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“Ideas have Consequences,” warned Richard Weaver.  And bad ideas have had very bad consequences, especially when it comes to population.

Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, published in 1968, was one of the worst ideas ever to come from the mind of man. It predicted the “overpopulation” would cause massive famines in the years to come.  Ehrlich’s book coincided with the sexual revolution and the widespread use of the pill and was popularized by the practitioners of both.

The result? The popular aversion to having children that Ehrlich helped to spawn, not to mention the coercive population control movement, has cost hundreds of millions of unborn lives.

In contrast, Pope Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical, Humanae Vitae, published in July of that same year, had much less of an impact. It predicted that, if the world embraced the spirit of reproductive selfishness recommended by Ehrlich and the controllers, that it would ultimately prove disastrous for humanity’s future.

Kamala Harris sits down with White House foe to trash Clarence Thomas– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas over recent decisions, decrying the high court as “an activist court.”

Harris slammed the Supreme Court in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, pointing to the 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, as she and President Joe Biden campaign for another term with abortion as a key topic.

“This court has shown itself to be an activist court,” Harris said. “I worry about fundamental freedoms across the board.”

She did not offer specific decisions she feared could be reversed, claiming she did not want to sound “alarmist,” but said that “this court has made it very clear that they are willing to undo recognized rights.”

Harris pointed to Thomas’s concurrence in the Dobbs decision, in which he pointed to other decisions by the high court in which he believes justices went beyond the Constitution to establish alleged rights.

Arrested Russian Deputy Defense Minister Accused of Accepting $12 Mln Bribe, Lawyer Says– www.themoscowtimes.com

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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been accused of accepting a bribe “in the form of services” valued at more than 1 billion rubles ($12.2 million), Russian media reported Wednesday.

Ivanov, 48, faces up to 15 years in prison for large-scale bribe-taking, which investigators say centers around a “criminal conspiracy” to accept funds “in the form of property services during the course of contracting and subcontracting work for the Defense Ministry.”

Ivanov, who is viewed as a close ally of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, has denied the allegations.

His attorney Murad Musayev told the state-run TASS news agency that the services his client was accused of accepting were “the cost of work and the materials spent on it,” all valued at around 1.12 billion rubles.

“The criminal case is related to construction. A number of Defense Ministry contractors are alleged to have built certain facilities for Ivanov, which we emphasize is not true,” Musayev said without elaborating.

Louisiana’s governor wants to rewrite his state’s constitution—but won’t say why– www.dailykos.com

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● LA Ballot: The Louisiana House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to replace the current state constitution with a new governing document even though the governor has yet to explain exactly how he wants to transform state government.

However, convincing two-thirds of the House to vote Landry’s way may have been the easier part of the governor’s ongoing goal to consolidate even more power within his office. A supermajority in the 39-member Senate also needs to agree to a constitutional convention, and while the GOP holds a 28-11 edge there, its assent isn’t guaranteed.

Senate President Cameron Henry in particular has expressed skepticism about Landry’s plan, though he hasn’t shot down the idea.

“I don’t think it’s on track or off track,” Henry told NOLA.com’s Stephanie Grace last month. “I still think members have a lot of unanswered questions.” (The Republican who authored the bill that passed Tuesday, Rep. Beau Beaullieu, is Henry’s college roommate.)

Laken Riley’s Accused Killer May Have Committed Another Crime the Same Day – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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José Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly encountered nursing student Laken Riley as she jogged on a trail on the campus of the University of Georgia on Feb. 22. Police say that Ibarra savagely beat and murdered Riley in an incident that shocked the UGA community.

WSB Radio reports that court documents “charge Ibarra with asphyxiating Riley, along with ‘seriously disfiguring her head by striking her head multiple times with a rock.’” He faces a litany of charges, including “malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call, and concealing the death of another.”

Prosecutors have also indicted Ibarra for another crime that he allegedly committed the same day, albeit one that pales in comparison to Riley’s murder.

“According to new documents filed Tuesday, Ibarra is now also charged with spying on a University of Georgia staff member,” WSB reports. “Documents say he went to an apartment at University Village Housing Building ‘S’ and peeped through the woman’s window on the same day he is accused of killing Riley.”

Myanmar Junta Rebuffs Cambodia Ex-leader’s Request To Meet Suu Kyi– www.barrons.com

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Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday denied a request by former Cambodian leader Hun Sen for talks with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained since a 2021 coup.

Suu Kyi has largely been hidden from view since the military detained her as they seized power in a putsch that has plunged the country into turmoil.

The junta has rebuffed numerous requests by foreign leaders and diplomats to meet the Nobel laureate, 78, who has reportedly suffered health problems during more than three years in detention.

On Tuesday Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades before stepping down last year, said he had requested a meeting with Suu Kyi during video talks with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.

But the junta had “no reason to facilitate it at this moment,” junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said in an audio message released by the military’s information team.

Critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP appliances leave big networks open to intrusion– arstechnica.com

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Researchers on Wednesday reported critical vulnerabilities in a widely used networking appliance that leaves some of the world’s biggest networks open to intrusion.

The vulnerabilities reside in BIG-IP Next Central Manager, a component in the latest generation of the BIG-IP line of appliances, which organizations use to manage traffic going into and out of their networks. Seattle-based F5, which sells the product, says its gear is used in 48 of the top 50 corporations as tracked by Fortune. F5 describes the Next Central Manager as a “single, centralized point of control” for managing entire fleets of BIG-IP appliances.

As devices performing load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and inspection and encryption of data entering and exiting large networks, BIG-IP gear sits at their perimeter and acts as a major pipeline to some of the most security-critical resources housed inside. Those characteristics have made BIG-IP appliances ideal for hacking. In 2021 and 2022, hackers actively compromised BIG-IP appliances by exploiting vulnerabilities carrying severity ratings of 9.8 out of 10.

USMC testing Amphibious Combat Vehicle with Protector remote turret– www.army-technology.com

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The US Marine Corps is currently testing a new Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) equipped with a PROTECTOR remote turret (RT-20) developed by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.

This turret is part of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 30mm Cannon (ACV-30), the third variant for the ACV family of vehicles. BAE Systems, the prime contractor since 2018, delivered the first production representative test vehicle (PRTV) to the U.S. Marine Corps earlier this year.

While the vehicle was already designed with multiple weapon mounts for machine guns, the newly delivered test vehicle is now equipped with a stabilised, medium-calibre Remote Turret System designed by Kongsberg, intended to enhance both the lethality and protection capability for marine operations.

Jørgen Bull, Vice President of land systems at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, highlighted the turret’s modern, digital features. “The Protector RT-20 is a modern remotely operated turret with highly accurate firepower for wheeled, tracked, and robotic combat vehicles. The modularity and digitalisation of the system has growth potential to incorporate new technologies to deter and defeat future threats,” said Bull.

 

Budget impasse may be over in Missouri Senate– www.stltoday.com

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JEFFERSON CITY — A day of closed-door negotiations produced signs of progress Wednesday as House and Senate budget writers worked to end an impasse over the state’s more than $50 billion spending plan.

Leaders on both sides of the Missouri Capitol said they remained hopeful lawmakers could still finish their work on the massive spending package by a 6 p.m. Friday deadline.

“I think we’re making progress and we’re cautiously optimistic and we’ll know more tonight,” House Majority Leader Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, told the Post-Dispatch Wednesday afternoon.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, said the Senate could begin taking up individual budget bills as early as Wednesday evening, but the Senate adjourned at 8 p.m. with plans to return at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Illinois Dems Supersize Power With Actual Attack On Democracy– thefederalist.com

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If there’s any doubt left that Democrats are the actual threat to the republic, take a look at what Illinois’ “Democracy” just did.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a deep-pocketed leftist with a supermajority of Democrats in the Illinois Legislature, quickly signed an election bill last week that quashes the practice of slating, in which local party organizations name legislative candidates to general election ballots where the party was unable to recruit a primary candidate. Before Pritzker affixed his John Hancock to the bill, parties could appoint candidates to run up to 75 days after the primary.

Pritzker and his power-hungry Democrats could have waited to change the law until after the current election cycle. Instead, they decided to do it midstream, a slimy move that bolsters Democrats’ hold on power in the Land of Lincoln.

Senate GOP leader John Curran, according to the Chicago Tribune, blasted Democrats for “chang[ing] the rules halfway through an election cycle to stack the deck for their favored incumbent candidates.” The bill, he said, exemplified “how you steal an election.”

Growing Africa’s share of global trade– www.businessdailyafrica.com

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) celebrated its 30th anniversary last month. In addition to commemoration, the globe reached a critical turning point in its efforts to promote international trade and economic growth. Above all, it illustrated how globalisation has increased the interdependence of the world’s economies.

Most economies worldwide now rely heavily on international trade. The results of the 2023 World Trade Report, which emphasises the need for re-globalisation to tackle critical global concerns through improved cooperation, inclusivity, and sustainability, serve as evidence of this.

The report investigated the concept of re-globalisation, argued for the integration of more individual economies, and addressed critical concerns in global commerce. It assesses how re-globalisation can address global concerns while also considering the hazards of trade fragmentation.

Don’t overestimate China’s ambitions in the Arctic– www.aspistrategist.org.au

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Western analysts risk overestimating China’s emergence as an Arctic power, spurred by fears that they initially neglected the reappearance of the Arctic as a theatre for strategic competition. Contrary to such alarmist views, Beijing is in fact far more constrained in the region, mainly because of Russia’s ability to resist encroachment and China’s ability to accept limited resource and transit opportunities there.

In assessing China’s influence over Russia in the Arctic, there is a tendency to portray Russia as little more than a springboard for Chinese interests. In this flawed perception, President Vladimir Putin has invited Beijing into his Arctic larder as a way of buying goodwill for his invasion of Ukraine. But this underestimates Moscow, which assumes its alliance with China will hold without such bargaining. Russia also jealously guards its backyard and signals that regional advances made by China would injure their alignment elsewhere in locations with far greater strategic importance for Beijing.

To this end, Putin has stalled projects that fail to further his strategic agenda or give him a controlling stake. Russian law stipulates that, while private Russian energy firms can develop in the Arctic zone, they may not cede controlling stakes to foreign firms. Furthermore, Russia has not given China privileged use of the North Sea Route or its six major ports—Pevek, Tiksi, Dikson, Sabetta, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. Chinese ships have either been refused entry or have abided by Russian transit laws that force them to pay tolls, provide ample notice about journeys and accept Russian pilots.

Former CNN Hack Baffled After Dinner With ‘Well-Educated’ Trump Supporters– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Many people on the left are so arrogant and naive that they think half the country is a bunch of hillbillies/trailer trash who barely made it past middle school. And according to them, there is no way that anyone who voted for Trump is college-educated, let alone from an Ivy League school. But what’s funny about that is it’s completely false. It’s objectively smart to vote for Trump over Sleepy Joe. And in reality, many people graduate from college dumber.

A former CNN reporter is flabbergasted and frightened after discovering that the seemingly “normal” people she had dinner with were actually “closeted” Trump supporters. And what baffled her into oblivion was that they graduated from an Ivy League school.

According to The Post Millennial:

A former CNN reporter recounted an experience of being “haunted” by a dinner with “closeted” and seemingly “normal” Trump supporters on Sunday.

Guinea-Bissau president declines to extradite C.Africa ex-leader — World — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News– guardian.ng

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(FILES) Former Central African Republic President Francois Bozize arrives prior his first press conference since his return at the Kwa Na Kwa headquarters in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), on January, 27, 2020. – A UN-backed court announced on April 30, 2024 it has issued an arrest warrant for Central African Republic’s former president Francois Bozize over possible crimes against humanity committed by imprisoned soldiers between 2009 and 2013.<br />Bozize who seized power in the Central African Republic in 2003 in a coup before being overthrown 10 years later by rebels and now heads the country’s main rebellion, has been in exile in Guinea-Bissau since March 2023. (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP)

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has said he will not extradite the former leader of the Central African Republic, Francois Bozize, who is the subject of an international arrest warrant over possible crimes against humanity.

A special UN-backed court in the CAR’s capital Bangui said last month it had issued an arrest warrant for Bozize as part of a probe into possible “crimes against humanity” committed by his presidential guard between 2009 and 2013 at a civilian prison and a military training facility.

Disney Quietly Allows Guests To Bring Guns Into Theme Parks– insidethemagic.net

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Disneyland Resort fans are increasingly concerned about safety at the Southern California theme parks after multiple guests revealed that it’s possible to sneak guns and other deadly weapons past the security checkpoint.

Before entering Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure Park, and Downtown Disney, guests must submit to search by security cast members. This can include walking through metal detectors, bag checks, and other preventative measures that aim to protect Disneyland Resort guests.

Guests overwhelmingly support security screening at the Disney parks, particularly in the wake of the Pulse shooting in Orlando. The perpetrator previously identified Walt Disney World Resort as a target but chose the nightclub after police “spooked” him at the Central Florida Disney park.