Billionaire CEO gifts 1,200 UMass grads 'envelopes full of cash' totaling about $1.2 million

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US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War

zerohedge.com US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War Via Middle East Eye The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar,…

‘La Belle de Gaza’ Review: Documentary About Palestinian Trans Women in Israel Falls Short

hollywoodreporter.com Somewhere in Yolande Zauberman’s overly diffuse documentary La Belle de Gaza is a sturdier and more clarifying film. But as it stands, the project, which premiered at…

Israel recovers another slain hostage; pushes into new parts of northern Gaza

nbcnews.com CAIRO/JERUSALEM — Israeli troops and tanks pushed on Saturday into parts of a congested northern Gaza Strip district that they had previously skirted in the more than…

Benjamin Netanyahu confronted with ultimatum and deadline

newsweek.com Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's war cabinet, threatened to resign his centrist party from the government if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not give him a…

Gantz threatens to quit Israeli government if no new war plan by June 8

ft.com Ultimatum by member of Netanyahu’s war cabinet brings to a head months of internal tension over Gaza

Yemen's Houthi rebels launch a missile that strikes an oil tanker in the Red Sea, US military says

apnews.com DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels hit an oil tanker in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile early Saturday, damaging the Panama-flagged, Greek-owned…

Protestors Enter ABC News Contributor’s Office as She is About to Begin Live Interview: ‘What Would You Do If I Didn’t Go?’

mediaite.com ABC News contributor and former U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp was prepping for a live interview on Zoom when protestors entered her office at the University of Chicago on Friday.…

The IDF accidentally killed 5 of its own soldiers in latest 'friendly fire' incident in Gaza, officer says

businessinsider.com Israeli soldiers in tanks on the border with the Gaza Strip, southern Israel, on February 13, 2024. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit Israeli tank fire accidentally killed five IDF…

How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

theguardian.com The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp…

Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast

zerohedge.com Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast As Ukrainian drones relentlessly target Russia's energy complex, tensions in the Middle East are once again rising. Early…

10 Weekend Reads

ritholtz.com The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Maybe Baby Boomers Won’t Tank the Stock Market by…

US Sending Nuclear-Powered Carrier For 'Higher Stakes' Red Sea Mission

zerohedge.com US Sending Nuclear-Powered Carrier For 'Higher Stakes' Red Sea Mission Since the start of the Gaza war at least 20 ships have been damaged in the Red Sea amid the ongoing…

College students who protested and those who didn't share in disappointment at response from schools

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article After a semester marked by sweeping protests on college…

Tattoo artist Shani Louk became a symbol of the music festival massacre by Hamas. The IDF has finally recovered her body

businessinsider.com Photos of people killed or kidnapped during the Hamas attack on the Super Nova festival on October 7th are displayed in a temporary memorial site on January 04, 2024, in…

Dr. Jill Stein & Michael Hudson: Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US From Within

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. Some readers plan to vote for Jill Stein even though her campaign seems quixotic. This interview of her and Michael Hudson shows how her effort nevertheless can…

Opinion: Climate change will knock one-third off world economy, study shows

theglobeandmail.com John Rapley is an author and academic who divides his time among London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall (Yale University Press, 2023) and…

‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

theguardian.com On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military-industrial complex, its top technology companies and its most outspoken…

Sen. Cruz Urges DOJ, FBI To Investigate Whether Foreign Adversaries Are Behind Gaza War Protests In US

zerohedge.com Sen. Cruz Urges DOJ, FBI To Investigate Whether Foreign Adversaries Are Behind Gaza War Protests In US Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)…

Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone

zerohedge.com Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone Yemen's Iran-linked Houthis have announced that they have shot down yet another $30 million American military drone. Footage…

First Images Of American Taxpayers' $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier

zerohedge.com First Images Of American Taxpayers' $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier The Pentagon is 'proud'... and so is the Biden administration. But the US taxpayer?... "Today we began…

Inside ‘X-Men ’97’: EP Brad Winderbaum Talks Shocking Deaths, Marvel Cameos and Bringing ‘Human Desire’ to the Show

variety.com SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses major plot developments across the entire first season of “X-Men ’97,” currently streaming on Disney+. To say Marvel fans have enjoyed…

17 of 20 U.S. doctors stuck in Gaza depart with the help of U.S. officials, source says

nbcnews.com Seventeen of 20 U.S. doctors stuck in Gaza have departed, with the physician known for saving Sen. Tammy Duckworth's life staying behind, a source familiar with the…

Most of the U.S. doctors and nurses stranded in a Gaza hospital all week made it out of the enclave, but some stayed behind to treat wounded Palestinians

wsj.com Most of the U.S. doctors and nurses stranded in a Gaza hospital all week made it out of the enclave, but some stayed behind to treat wounded Palestinians.

‘Blockout 2024’ Wants to Send Celebrities to the ‘Digital Guillotine’

nytimes.com As protests over the war in Gaza unfolded blocks away, last week’s Met Gala was largely devoid of political statements on the red carpet. That the organizers of fashion’s…

My Discovery of Human Action and Mises as a Philosopher

mises.org Block’s call for total war and the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza is the complete and uninhibited rejection and renunciation of the nonaggression…

News Wrap: Intense storms slam Houston and other parts of the Gulf Coast

pbs.org In our news wrap Friday, Houston and other parts of the Gulf Coast are dealing with the aftermath of intense storms, the Israeli military says troops in Gaza found the…

Paco de Leon wants you to embrace the little wins

marketplace.org Going into my Marketplace internship, I didn’t have a typical money background. I’m an actor-turned-journalist with a grad degree in religious studies. I failed AP Calc in…

Why the US built a pier to get aid into Gaza

vox.com Palestinians displaced from Rafah due to Israeli attacks wait in long queues to get a bowl of food distributed by charity organizations in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on May 13,…

The controversy over Gaza’s death toll, explained

vox.com Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images Revised data from the health ministry turned into a debate about the war’s human cost. That death toll remains devastating. Amid…

Land deliveries urgently needed in Gaza despite floating pier, aid groups say

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from NPR, Politico, and Reuters The News Trucks carrying humanitarian aid drove across a US-built temporary floating pier into Gaza for…

Doctors ask Advocate Health Care to support physicians in Gaza and those who support them

chicagotribune.com Three doctors with Advocate Health Care shared concerns Friday about humanitarian issues in Gaza, calling on their employer to speak out against physician and patient deaths…

UW encampment to come down after a deal with administrators

seattletimes.com University of Washington administrators are agreeing to fund at least 20 scholarships for Palestinian students displaced from Gaza, encampment organizers said.

Hamas left hostage talks to pressure Israel, Sullivan tells ambassadors

axios.com National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told foreign ambassadors Wednesday the U.S. believes Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar withdrew from hostage talks last week in hopes of…

IDF Recovers Three Deceased Hostages, Including 22-year Old Shani Louk

zerohedge.com IDF Recovers Three Deceased Hostages, Including 22-year Old Shani Louk The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made a major, and tragic, announcement on Friday. IDF Spokesman Rear…

WATCH: Israel makes appearance in ICJ responding to new complaint over possible attack on Rafah

pbs.org THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel strongly denied charges of genocide on Friday, telling the United Nations’ top court it was doing everything it could to protect the…

Barron Trump's new college? Everything we know

newsweek.com Barron Trump, Donald Trump's youngest child, graduated from high school on Friday, with speculation about where the 18-year-old may study or what else his future plans may…

‘The Belle From Gaza’ Review: A Blinkered Search for a Palestinian Trans Woman in Israel

variety.com The transgender subjects of “The Belle from Gaza” speak with a disarming frankness. This in turn implies the approachable and intimate nature of its production, but any…

Bodies of Three Israeli Hostages, Including Woman Infamously Abused After Her Murder, Recovered by IDF

mediaite.com AP Photo/Oded Balilty The Israel Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of three dead hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 — 22-year-old Shani Louk, 28-year-old Amit…

Israel recovers body of hostage who became symbol of Hamas Oct. 7 horrors

newsweek.com The body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli woman who was captured and paraded half-naked through the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants during their October 7 attack, has been…

Israeli military finds bodies of 3 hostages taken by Hamas in Gaza

pbs.org The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.…

AOC Blasts ‘Confused’ Fellow Dem Fetterman After He Roasts Chaotic House Committee Yelling Match

mediaite.com Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images (L)/ AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib (R) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Sen. John Fetterman (R-PA) after he took to social media to…

In Gaza, war means no formal education for hundreds of thousands of students

pbs.org DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all he craves is to return to school. In Israel’s war with Hamas, Atef’s home…

Israel retrieves bodies of three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza

axios.com Israeli soldiers have retrieved the bodies of three hostages who were held by Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement Friday. The big picture: The IDF…

Israel says it recovers 3 bodies of festivalgoers slain by Hamas on Oct. 7

nbcnews.com TEL AVIV — Israeli officials on Friday announced their forces in Gaza had recovered the bodies of three revelers killed by Hamas attackers near the Supernova, or Nova, music…

Dozens of Morehouse College staff vote against giving Biden degree

newsweek.com Dozens of Morehouse College staff have voted against giving President Joe Biden an honorary doctorate amid protests at universities around the country over his handling of…

Pro-Palestinian student protests spread across Europe

marketplace.org This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. As the Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues, students are rallying and protesting, calling for their universities to…

US makes first Gaza aid delivery from floating pier

theweek.com Trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza from a newly built floating pier anchored in the Mediterranean began arriving on the Gaza shore Friday morning, the Pentagon said, a…

Hezbollah introduces new weapons, tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

pbs.org The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of…

Satellite images show Gaza humanitarian pier in place

newsweek.com Humanitarian aid began flowing into Gaza via a brand new floating pier on Friday, after U.S. forces assembled and moved the piece of infrastructure into place a day earlier.…

Trucks arrive at newly built U.S. pier in Gaza but challenges over enough aid persist

pbs.org Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli restrictions on…

It's Not Too Late for the U.S. To Give Palestinians Hope for Statehood

newsweek.com Earlier this week, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 143 to 9 with 25 abstentions, to support a resolution widening the rights of the Palestinian…

North Carolina Republicans Vote to Ban Masks in Public

newsweek.com The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines to ban anyone wearing masks in public, even for health reasons. Republican State Sen. Buck Newton, who sponsored the bill,…

Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent accuses international journalists of not doing enough

pressgazette.co.uk An Al Jazeera correspondent has argued efforts to enter the Gaza Strip by international journalists have not been enough. Gaza correspondent Youmna El Sayed, who has been…

How to figure out how much you need to save for retirement

today.com None How to figure out how much you need to save for retirement • None How to know if an online retail site is reputable • None Dow crosses above 40,0000 for the first time:…

The Number of Forcibly Displaced Has Skyrocketed

statista.com The number of people who have been forcibly displaced has risen from around 2.8 million people in 1952 to some 114 million in 2022. Of these, the biggest group of people…

First aid shipments arrive in Gaza via new pier, U.S. military says

axios.com The first trucks carrying critical deliveries of humanitarian aid began flowing into Gaza Friday via a newly finished temporary pier, the U.S. military announced Friday. Why…

Yemeni security forces deploy in Aden as anger simmers over lengthy power outages

abcnews.go.com Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across the port city of Aden, in preparation for the latest in a series of protests over hours-long…

Why does this union leader tweet so much about Gaza, and so little about wages?

theglobeandmail.com Fred Hahn’s tweets tell a tale about the transformation of Canada’s union movement. The president of CUPE Ontario – the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public…