https://nypost.com/2026/04/25/us-news/indian-national-who-brutally-attacked-mom-and-daughter-is-illegal-immigrant-dhs-says/

An illegal migrant maniac allegedly high on a powerful drug chomped on a toddler’s face in Texas last week, two years after the Biden administration failed to kick him out of the country despite his arrest in an earlier violent assault, authorities told The Post.

The horrific April 18 attack in a San Antonio park left 3-year-old Amelia Perez with deep scratches and bite wounds across her face, two teeth knocked out, and life-changing trauma, her family said.

“That brute was ravaging my baby!” mom Gabriella Perez, 27, told The Post. “She’s terrified to sleep. She’s lashing out, angry. She doesn’t understand evil like this f–king man. She’ll never be the same again.”

That Saturday, the family — Perez, little Amelia, her father Xavier Estrada, 27, and grandfather Richard Ariaza — headed from their home in LaCoste to Espada Park for a quiet afternoon of fishing for the bass, catfish and sunfish.

At around 2 p.m., Gabriella took Amelia to the restroom, and when they stepped back outside, a man in a frenzied state charged toward them, said Perez.

The man, identified by authorities as Atharva Vyas, a 24-year-old illegal migrant from India, lunged, grabbed the mom’s hair and punched her in the jaw.

Perez quickly lowered her daughter to the ground to remove her from the fray, but the lunatic leapt on her child, she said.

Vyas was allegedly under the influence of “wax,” a highly concentrated cannabis product — with one dose akin to smoking 15-20 joints, authorities said.

On all fours, he pinned the tot to the ground, jamming his thumbs into her eyes before turning cannibal — sinking his teeth into her face and mouth.

Vyas allegedly ripped out the child’s two front teeth as her mother fought, clawing and wrenching at him in a desperate attempt to save her daughter, she recalled.

Trumps so awesome. Not scared or startled that a gunman appeared. It was an exciting event for those around him.

https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/dana-white/ufc-ceo-dana-white-reacts-to-correspondents-dinner-shooting-it-was-awesome/

“It just started getting noisy,” White said. “Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming ‘get down!’ I didn’t get down. It was f*cking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.

“We were sitting right in front of the table, right in front of where the president was,” he added. “Nobody got tackled, but guys came in looking for shooters, and they came toward our table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-blame-trump-gas-price-surge-midterm-election-year-reutersipsos-poll-2026-04-24/
A clear majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for surging gasoline prices, which is weighing on his Republican Party ahead of November's congressional midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Some 77% of registered voters in the poll, which concluded early this week, said Trump bears at least a fair amount of responsibility for the recent rise in gas prices, which was sparked by his decision to launch a war on Iran along with U.S. ally Israel.
The view was widely shared across the political spectrum, with 55% of Republican voters, 82% of independents and 95% of Democrats pinning blame on the president for the higher costs.
Some 58% of voters, including one in five Republicans and two-thirds of independents, said they would be less likely to support candidates in the November 3 midterms who support Trump's approach to the conflict with Iran.
The U.S. and Israel launched surprise attacks on Iran in February that killed the country's leader and thousands of Iranians. Tehran responded with attacks on U.S. allies in the region, damaging oil export facilities and shutting down roughly a fifth of the global oil trade. U.S. gasoline prices have risen to about $4 a gallon, a dollar more than before the war started.
The war is grinding on household finances and weighing on Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, when Trump's party faces what many see as an uphill battle to keep their U.S. House of Representatives majority. Risks are also rising that they lose control of the Senate.

https://archive.is/20260511222926/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trumps-complaints-about-iran-war-leaks-prompt-aggressive-doj-investigations-b5d31c13

>President Trump privately complained to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about media leaks in the wake of the Iran war last month, according to administration officials familiar with the matter, prompting an aggressive push at the Justice Department to pursue those investigations.

>Blanche vowed to secure subpoenas specifically targeting the records of reporters who have worked on sensitive national security stories, one official said. In one meeting, Trump passed a stack of news articles he and other senior officials thought threatened national security to Blanche with a sticky note on it that said “treason,” another administration official said. Senior Justice Department officials have met with counterparts from the Pentagon to discuss the investigations, according to officials familiar with the meetings.

>In particular, Trump has focused his ire on articles that provided details on how he arrived at his decision to launch the war, and what his advisers had told him as he deliberated, officials said. Launched 10 weeks ago, the conflict is now stuck in a shaky cease-fire.

>“In all circumstances, the Department of Justice follows the facts and applies the law to identify those committing crimes against the United States,” a department spokeswoman said.

>A White House official referred a request for comment to the Justice Department.

>Trump’s recent push to pursue the leak investigations comes as the Justice Department had already stepped up investigations into sensitive reporting about the lead up to the Iran war.

>The Wall Street Journal received grand jury subpoenas dated March 4 for records of Journal reporters.

American passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak, including at least one presumed positive case, arrived in Nebraska early Monday for evaluation at a highly specialized quarantine unit before eventually continuing on to their homes – and weeks of monitoring for symptoms of infection.

The virus, typically associated with rodents, may have passed from human to human aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, according to the World Health Organization. Since April 11, three people from the ship have died while a handful of others are sick.

The plane landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha shortly before 2:30 a.m. local time. There were 17 US citizens, and one British national who resides in the US, on the flight to Omaha, Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said.

Here’s what we know about the American passengers’ journey back to the United States and what will happen next:

One of the Americans has tested “mildly” positive for the virus and another has mild symptoms, the US Department of Health and Human Services said late Sunday. Both traveled in biocontainment units on the plane “out of an abundance of caution,” HHS said in a post on X.

The passenger who tested positive does not have symptoms but will be taken directly to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the facility said late Sunday. The other passengers will go to the center’s National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring.

The Spanish Ministry of Health said the positive test came after an official from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control boarded the ship to evaluate passengers.

Read More: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/10/us/hantavirus-cruise-passengers-nebraska-facility?Date=20260511&Profile=CNN

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/backlash-erupts-online-california-mayor-admits-foreign-agent-china-rcna344745
A California mayor admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, resigning from her position in a shocking federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.

Democrat Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to the city council in Arcadia — a city in the San Gabriel Valley within LA County — in November 2022.

Wang, 58, worked with her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, on a website called “U.S. News Center,” which claimed to be a news source for Chinese Americans, according to court documents.

But in reality, the pair were carrying out Beijing’s orders through the site.

Wang and Sun “executed directives” from the Chinese government, posting propaganda designed to boost China, all while reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories, according to the plea agreement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvpzgn26edo
Health authorities are racing to trace dozens of people who disembarked from a hantavirus-hit cruise ship on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.

The ship's operator said 29 passengers, of at least 12 different nationalities, left the MV Hondius on 24 April. The Dutch government gave a different figure of 40.

Among those who left the Dutch vessel at the island was a 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa.

The Dutch government said a Swiss national who has since been diagnosed with hantavirus was also one of those who left the cruise at the British Overseas Territory.

Two other people died on board the ship, which set sail from Argentina a month ago.

Three others were evacuated from the ship on Wednesday, of British, Dutch and German nationalities.

The British man has been named as 56-year-old Martin Anstee and is in a stable condition. The other evacuees were a 41-year-old Dutch crew member and a 65-year-old German, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Oceanwide Expeditions said in an update on Thursday that 30 people, including the body of one of the guests who died, had disembarked on 24 April.

This included seven British people and six Americans, as well as guests from countries including Canada, Germany, Singapore, Turkey and Switzerland.

It added that the first confirmed case of hantavirus was not reported until 4 May and that all guests who disembarked the ship have been contacted by it.

Oceanwide Expeditions also said it remained in "close and continual discussion with relevant authorities regarding our exact point of arrival, quarantine and screening procedures for all guests".

The Dutch luxury cruise liner is set to dock in Spain's Canary Islands in the coming days.

The WHO has said eight cases of hantavirus - three confirmed and five suspected - have so far been identified in people who were on board.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/15/inflation-rate-projected-to-hit-6percent-in-the-second-quarter-top-economic-forecasters-say.html

KEY POINTS
The recent surge in inflation is likely to get worse over the next several months, according to a survey Friday from the nation's top economists.
Consumer price inflation is projected to hit 6% for the first quarter, according to the Survey of Professional Forecasters, compared to 2.7% in the prior survey.
The survey follows a slew of inflation data showing that prices paid both at the consumer and wholesale levels hit multi-year highs in April.

Putin says he thinks Ukraine conflict 'coming to an end'
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Fucking liggeral scum neoliberals.