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A US F-18 attacked and disabled an Iranian-flagged civilian ship in the Gulf of Oman. “US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces observed M/T Hasna as it transited international waters enroute to an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman,” a statement from CENTCOM published on Wednesday said. “After Hasna’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings, U.S. forces disabled the tanker’s rudder by firing several rounds from the 20mm cannon gun of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from USS Abraham Lincoln.” https://t.co/18EY4m0WWP — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 6, 2026 The attack on the Hasna occurred amid escalating tensions…

New York A letter sent to NYU’s Office of General Counsel last week demanded that the university immediately cease an investigation into several student and faculty groups for organizing and advertising an “Anti-Zionist Passover Seder,” and threatened legal action if the demand was not met. The letter, which was sent on April 29 by Palestine Legal staff attorney Dylan Saba on behalf of the group of Jewish students and faculty who organized the seder, warns that the university’s investigation risks violating federal civil rights law by assuming that “Jewish identity is coterminous with the political ideology of Zionism” and attempting…

As Gov. Janet Mills recovers from her anemic Senate bid, she’ll have to decide how to handle Graham Platner, the all-but-voter-anointed Democratic nominee. Source link

During a White House small business summit, President Donald Trump said the economy is strong and his policies are satisfying Americans. “Consumer confidence is way up,” Trump said at the May 4 event. Three standard measurements of consumer satisfaction — from the University of Michigan; a business group called the Conference Board; and an aggregation of public polling data — show the opposite. They reveal that people are less satisfied with the economy now than at the end of President Joe Biden’s tenure, and at least one of the metrics puts consumer confidence near an all-time low. The White House…

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says an 11-month investigation produced “a body of evidence” that supports the federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, which improbably charges him with publicly threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump. That evidence, Blanche said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, goes beyond the May 15 Instagram post at the center of the case, which shared a photograph of seashells arranged in the sand to form the message “86 47″—a common expression of opposition to the president. Although Blanche declined to specify the nature of that additional evidence, he said…

“If only you believed in miracles.” —Red Octopus, Jefferson Starship  Over a quarter century ago, “The Texas Miracle” was mentioned by presidential candidate George W. Bush as a model for educational reform. What was this Texas Miracle? It wasn’t a miracle in the same sense as an apparition of the Virgin Mary—last witnessed in 1531 in Mexico. Rather, it was observed that the Houston Independent School District had apparently experienced significant gains in student achievement simply by holding school administrators accountable for their students’ test performance. The Houston superintendent, Rod Paige, was later appointed by President Bush to be Secretary of…

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, calls Justice Jackson’s dissent in Louisiana v. Callais baseless and lacking restraint. Source link

From Taibbi v. Higgins, decided yesterday by Judge George Daniels (S.D.N.Y.): This action centers around Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left (“Owned” or the “Book”), a book authored by Higgins and published by Bold Type Books. Owned purports to explore “how tech elites and formerly left-wing journalists forged an alliance” to create a “new right-wing media ecosystem.” As relevant here, the Book depicts Plaintiff as one of several independent journalists whose politics shifted in recent years to attract a more conservative audience. Plaintiff began his writing career in post-Soviet Russia. In 2004, Plaintiff joined Rolling…

President Donald Trump said that if Iran declines his latest proposal to end the war, the US will break the ceasefire and restart the bombing.  “Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. “If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before.” The President has…

May 6, 2026 Elliot Sperber Utopia Parkwayin QueensFive miles of trafficand injuryThe booming, fumingIrony The fruit of a world wareconomyDamaging so manyWho continue to say:It’s the only wayit can’t but beThe tao of deathand lunacy Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at elliot.sperber@gmail.com and on twitter @elliot_sperber Are articles like this important to you? We are 100% reader supported and we need your help to keep publishing articles like this. Source link