Nepal's spring climbing season death toll reaches five, with three fatalities recorded on Mt. Everest and one each on Makalu and Makalu II, as a record number of climbers attempt to summit the world's highest peaks. thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/d...

CBS - Iran sent military aircraft to Pakistan to avoid the planes being destroyed in US airstrikes. www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan...

(Reuters) — The FBI has begun interviewing current and former CIA employees as part of the DOJ's investigation into ex-CIA director John Brennan over his role in an intelligence finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. www.reuters.com/legal/governm...

"Lamberth ruled in March that Lake had been illegally running USAGM because she was never nominated by Trump to be the agency’s CEO and thus didn’t have proper authority. She had, at times, called herself senior adviser, acting CEO and deputy CEO of the agency."

In a victory for Republicans, SCOTUS ends an order requiring Alabama to have two Black majority districts in the US House. www.al.com/politics/202...

Kari Lake, who claimed to be acting CEO of USAGM during the time VOA was eviscerated, nominated to be US ambassador to Jamaica. www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...

Fox News White House correspondent says President Trump told him today that he's seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st state.

FCC to auction construction permits next year for vacant FM radio channels. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

FCC encouraged several ABC affiliates to make late political disclosures after a Texas state representative made an appearance on “The View,” only to then later accuse an ABC-owned station of failing to do the same, according to the agency's lone Democratic commissioner. thedesk.net/2026/05/fcc-...

More than 50 British MPs say they have no confidence in the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Science publishing giant Elsevier joins a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model. www.nature.com/articles/d4158...

Newspapers’ audio and video products have usually failed to gain traction. An exception is NYT’s ‘The Daily,’ which succeeds in large part because Michael Barbaro is the rare print reporter who excels behind the microphone.

A French national evacuated from the luxury cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus. www.france24.com/en/health/20...

Philippines House of Representatives again votes to impeach VP Sara Duterte amid alleged misuse of confidential funds, unexplained wealth and a supposed assassination plot against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2...

Iran releases on bail Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is immediately hospitalized. f24.my/Buie

One of two US service members who went missing in Morocco has been found dead. www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

"I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives.' I don't like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!" - President Trump on social media

Pakistan confirms receiving Iran's response to US proposal to end war. www.geo.tv/liveblog/israelira...

Document link has moved: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

A transgender Tamil immigrant from India, who is in Scotland on a student visa, has been elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament. www.financialexpress.com/worl...

WSJ - Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...

UK Royal Navy sending a warship to the Middle East where it could join an international mission to safeguard shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. news.sky.com/story/iran-war-l...

Disney, in a filing with the FCC, accuses the federal regulatory agency of violating the ABC network's First Amendment rights by seeking to punish political content it doesn't like. www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

The abrupt closure of Voice of America by the Trump administration has allowed Russian and Chinese state media to dominate African news. streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/rus...

President Trump's release of declassified UFO files draws excitement, but some express skepticism about the timing. www.washingtonexaminer.com/ne...

A Frontier Airlines passenger jet hit a pedestrian on the runway at DIA and then reported an engine fire. www.denver7.com/news/local-ne...

Supreme Court of Virginia throws out the commonwealth's Democrats' controversial redistricting proposal, which voters narrowly approved on April 21st. www.wric.com/news/virginia-ne...

WSJ - President Trump plans to fire the FDA commissioner who didn't move fast enough to approve flavored vapes and other nicotine products. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Wired - Higher education long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the US. www.wired.com/story/canvas...

DoJ seeks to strip the American citizenship of a former US ambassador convicted of spying for Cuba. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

IRGC claims to have captured an oil tanker in a "special operation" in the Gulf of Oman. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5...

US added 115,000 jobs last month, way above Wall Street's expectations for a second consecutive month. www.bls.gov/news.release/emps...

UAE reportedly intercepts two ballistic missiles and three drones launched from Iran. gulfnews.com/world/mena/us-ir...

LBC - Labour Party slated to lose as many as 2,000 seats across the UK in results which could see Sir Keir Starmer ousted as prime minister. www.lbc.co.uk/article/live-up...

The hacking group claiming to have compromised Canvas, affecting thousands of educational institutions worldwide, has made an extortion threat to publish stolen data in five days. thenextweb.com/news/the-lar...

CBS - Senate and House Democrats have launched an investigation into whether pardons and commutations issued by President Trump were driven by "pay-to-play dynamics.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Not The Onion. www.theatlantic.com/politics/...

Emoluments clause aside, the Qatari-gifted plane is a Trojan horse. Experts I've spoken with insist a proper retrofit of a 747 to meet national security and presidential protection criteria would take years and a couple of billion dollars, as Boeing realized. www.reuters.com/business/aero...

CJR/Tow Center - Journalists should remain vigilant about their coverage of anything related to predicting the future—especially if there’s money on the line. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

Hamas says an Israeli air strike has killed the son of its chief negotiator in US mediated talks over Gaza's future. www.reuters.com/world/middle-...

A Radio Battle in the Mississippi Delta: The FCC license of a one-man radio station is in jeopardy. Its owner acknowledges multiple rules violations, but also blames a rival for placing a regulatory target on his back. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...

Federal District Court Judge Kenneth Karas has released an unauthenticated suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein, which Nicholas Tartaglione has said he discovered after his cellmate was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck.

A convicted drug trafficker who allegedly shot at law enforcement near the Washington Monument was along the path of VP Vance's motorcade. When being taken to hospital in the ambulance said "fuck the White House” and “kill me," according to a court document. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DoJ announces its civil rights division will investigate whether the Commonwealth’s Attorney office in Fairfax, Virginia, "discriminated against United States citizens by offering preferential treatment only to illegal alien criminal defendants." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Radio stations still the second-most used source of local news. radioink.com/2026/05/06/radio...

French President Macron says he just met with Iranian President Pezeshkian and "expressed my deep concern over the ongoing escalation, and condemned the unjustified strikes against Emirati civilian infrastructure and several ships."

US forces operating in the Gulf of Oman "enforced blockade measures by disabling an Iranian-flagged unladen oil tanker attempting to sail toward an Iranian port," according to CENTCOM.

CNN founder Ted Turner has died. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted...

Russia utilizing "low cost agents" to conduct sabotage, warns Poland's internal security chief. tvpworld.com/93102293/abw-chi...

Police in Carrolton, northwest of Dallas, say a 69-year-old strip mall sushi shop owner has admitted to shooting five people in Korea Town over financial disagreements. www.fox4news.com/news/carroll...