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Unbiased headline news for Monday May 6, 2024 – Israel ordered the expulsion of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network’s local offices on Sunday, escalating tensions in an ongoing feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The extraordinary directive, which mandates confiscating broadcast gear, prohibiting the channel’s report dissemination, and blocking its websites, is believed to be unprecedented for Israel in shuttering a foreign news outlet operating within its borders. — Hamas militants assaulted Israel’s primary humanitarian aid crossing into the Gaza Strip, dealing a blow to the fragile ceasefire efforts currently underway. The attack on Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing resulted in three Israeli soldiers killed and several others wounded, with three sustaining critical injuries, according to a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces. The incident prompted officials to temporarily close the terminal. — As Ukraine commemorated its third Easter amid ongoing conflict, Russia unleashed a barrage of drones concentrated in the nation’s eastern regions, injuring more than a dozen civilians, while claiming its troops seized control of a targeted village. Ukraine’s air force stated that Russia had launched 24 Shahed drones overnight, of which 23 were successfully intercepted. Six individuals, including a child, sustained injuries in a drone strike in the eastern Kharkiv region, according to regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov. An additional fourteen people were wounded in an airstrike on the Kharkiv regional capital later that Sunday afternoon. — Mere months shy of a quarter-century at the helm of Russia, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday swore an oath on the constitution, commencing another six-year presidential term wielding extraordinary authority. Since assuming the acting presidency on the final day of 1999, Putin has molded Russia into a monolithic entity — crushing political opposition, driving independent journalists out of the country, and promoting an escalating devotion to prudish “traditional values” that marginalizes segments of society. — The New York Police Department has faced criticism for its messaging surrounding student protests sweeping college campuses nationwide, as top brass share politically biased posts online. On Thursday, the NYPD released a joint press release via email with Mayor Eric Adams, outlining that 29% of the 112 individuals arrested at Columbia University and 60% of the 170 people arrested at City College of New York on April 30 were unaffiliated with those institutions. — A 14-year-old girl tragically lost her life, and five other teenagers sustained injuries when gunfire erupted Saturday night outside a house party in Buffalo, New York. “This is a tragic day in the city of Buffalo. Six young people shot between the ages of 14 to 16 years old,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown stated on his weekly radio show. “A 14-year-old girl is dead, a 15-year-old boy is in stable but critical condition. Fortunately, the other four children that were wounded will be OK,” the Mayor added. — One individual was killed, and 23 others sustained injuries when a bus crashed early Sunday morning on Interstate 95 in northern Maryland, according to police reports. The bus, carrying 24 passengers, lost control and collided with a guardrail on I-95 in Harford County around 6 a.m., the Maryland State Police stated. One passenger perished at the crash site, while the driver and 22 other passengers were transported to a hospital with injuries. — Boeing has officially locked out its unionized firefighters in Washington after the firefighter’s union failed to reach an agreement with the company following two-and-a-half months of negotiations, primarily centered around pay disputes. This marks the first instance in over four decades that a group of firefighters has been locked out in the U.S. Boeing added, “We have now locked out members of the bargaining unit and fully implemented our contingency plan with highly qualified firefighters performing the work of IAFF members.”

Op-Ed – A caller called in regarding his anger regarding how kids are spoiled in this country and they all need to go into the military.

Op-Ed – A caller called in regarding his anger regarding men having no say when a woman gets an abortion.

Op-Ed – A caller called in regarding her anger about how mainstream media is the cause of division in this country.

Unbiased headline news for Saturday May 4, 2024 – Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database. As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people sought on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen. Oleksandr Pavlyuk, was also included on the list. Russian officials did not immediately clarify the allegations against any of the men. — Ukraine is utilizing recently acquired and U.S.-made and supplied mobile surface-to-surface missile systems to target Russian military assets in the occupied Crimean peninsula, according to the Kremlin’s statement on Saturday. Ukrainian troops launched four of the tactical ATACMS missiles Friday night into Saturday morning, which were intercepted and shot down by Russia’s air defense system, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Telegram post. — A graduation ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday was briefly disrupted by dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters as higher education institutions across the country holding commencements braced for more demonstrations. As the commencement ceremony got underway at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, protesters donning kaffiyeh and graduation caps unfurled Palestinian flags and posters as they walked through the aisles. They marched toward the stage chanting: “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” the New York Times reported. — The Justice Department indicted Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, and his wife on charges of conspiracy and accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities. The charges alleged Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an oil and gas company owned by the Azerbaijan government and a bank headquartered in Mexico City in exchange for political favors. — Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week. In an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey said he has never done anything illegal and admitted that he has struggled to get back to work after being acquitted last year of criminal charges in a London court. “I can’t go through this again, allowing myself to be baselessly attacked without defending myself,” he said. — Mexican authorities said Friday that three bodies were recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend during an apparent camping and surfing trip. The state prosecutors office did not say whether the bodies were those of the three foreigners, but said the bodies were discovered during the search for the missing men. It also announced that three people who were being questioned in the case of the missing men had been arrested and charged. — Boeing could begin laying off more than 100 employees at its facility in Birmingham, Alabama state officials warned. Potential layoffs of 128 employees could begin June 28th, the Birmingham Business Journal reported, citing a report issued by the Alabama Department of Commerce. The department’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification list details plant closures, layoffs and other labor impacts in the state. — Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment. Under the deal announced, the insurer will make coverage of artificial insemination standard for all customers nationally and work to ensure that patients have equal access to more expensive in-vitro fertilization procedures. —