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MADRID (AP) – Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected to arrive Sunday at the Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa, and passengers will be taken to a “completely isolated, cordoned-off area,” said the head of Spain’s emergency services, Virginia Barcones. Both the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to send planes to evacuate their citizens from the cruise ship. While three people…

Friday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson (D) said President Donald Trump is the “biggest white supremacist in the United States.” Host Symone Sanders said, “You had some very impassioned words on the floor, from the state House yesterday. I know, you were barred from they tended to bar you from reentering. What is your message to not just other elected officials and state legislatures across the country, but black and brown voters in some of these states across the South, across the country, about what it’s going to take, because we are, I believe, in a…

Staff have not observed attacks near the facility amid reported violations of the US-Iran ceasefire, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev has said Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant in Bushehr continues to function normally despite reports of renewed US-Iran military exchanges, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.Russian personnel have not observed any attacks near the plant in recent days, and the situation there remains “generally calm,” Likhachev said in an interview with the Strana Rosatom corporate newspaper published on Friday. Unit 1, currently the plant’s only operational reactor, continues to run at full capacity, he…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shot back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for making a misleading claim about his state’s renewable energy usage while calling the agency’s secretary an “oil shill.” Newsom directed his ire at DOE Sec. Chris Wright on Wednesday after he criticized California’s energy policies during a Fox Business appearance, saying “They’ve destroyed their electricity grid” and pointing out that they went from producing 40 percent of U.S. oil to just two percent.  “They’ve done everything possible to make themselves more fragile to external shocks, to make energy more expensive, to drive the highest adjusted…

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his teenage daughter and presumptive heir Kim Ju-ae, inspected the Communist regime’s first naval destroyer this week. Kim said he plans to order two more destroyers, as well as a new class of long-range artillery pieces that could strike the South Korean capital of Seoul. Kim and his daughter paid a visit to the destroyer Choe Hyon on Friday where they were photographed inspecting the bridge and eating with the crew. According to North Korean state media, Kim pronounced himself satisfied with the maneuvering capabilities of the ship after a cruise of about…

Protests were reported to have broken out in Alabama’s State House as lawmakers were discussing several bills during a special session regarding redrawing the state’s congressional maps in Republicans’ favor. As lawmakers were discussing Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) and House Bill 1 (HB 1), protesters “chanting in the gallery during the session” led to lawmakers having to “call for a recess,” according to WVTM13 News. One Alabama Democrat, state Rep. Barbara Drummond, expressed criticism as “security guards attempted to quiet the crowd and forcibly removed” Dee Reed, who serves as the Alabama State Organizing Manager for Black Voters Matter:…

The US has been dragged into war by Israel despite CIA assessments that Tehran was not building a bomb, Joe Kent has said Washington joined Israel’s war against Iran despite intelligence assessments that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, Joe Kent, has said. Kent, who resigned in protest as head of the US National Counterterrorism Center in March, argues that West Jerusalem dragged Washington into another “never-ending” conflict that does not serve American interests. In a post on X on Thursday, Kent said the entire US intelligence community, including the CIA, had agreed…

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire in honor of Victory Day in World War II, President Donald Trump announced. The president announced the three-day ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war in an afternoon Truth Social post. “I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine. The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II,” Trump wrote. “This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity,…

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) defended his record and criticized parts of his own party in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday, arguing that Democrats have moved away from positions he said were once mainstream within the party while insisting that his own values have remained consistent. In the piece, titled “I Haven’t Changed. Here’s What Has,” Fetterman wrote that “working across the aisle is the only way forward” and said he remains committed to serving “all Pennsylvanians” regardless of party affiliation. The Pennsylvania Democrat pointed to his bipartisan work on border security, government funding, Israel, infrastructure, and social programs while rejecting…

America’s reputation has been deteriorating for two years straight, according to a globalist pro-NATO nonprofit America’s reputation has been worsening under US President Donald Trump and the country now lags behind China and Russia, an annual study commissioned by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation indicates.The Denmark-based nonprofit was founded by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 2017 in response to the purported retreat of Washington from the global stage amid Trump’s first tenure. Over the past six years, the foundation has released Democracy Perception Index reports, which assess “the state of democracy” in countries across the globe.The return…