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| WoT Politix: 1 | Non-WoT: 3 | Opinion: 2 | Seedy Pols: 1 | In the hopper: 7 |
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| 1. Immigration expert warns Chinese illegal aliens using Canadian city as gateway to US | |||||
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| 2. Sparks fly between Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Dem Rep. Watson Coleman: 'You should feel shameful' | |||||
| 3. RFK Jr's highly anticipated MAHA report paints dismal state of child health, national security concerns | |||||
| 4. Former New Orleans police chief criticizes sheriff's 'checkered past' after jailbreak | |||||
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| 5. US tests launch of nuclear-capable ICBM Minuteman III in show of force | |||||
| 6. Trump enlists OpenAI to help launch first installment of Stargate Project in UAE | |||||
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| It’s official: Zakaria Sinwar — brother of Yahya and Muhammad — said to succumb to wounds from IDF strike | |||||
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Zakaria Sinwar, the brother of late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his successor Muhammad Sinwar, has succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday night, Palestinian media reports. Zakaria was initially said to have been killed in the strike, but media reports later said he had been critically injured. Yahya was killed by the IDF in October and Muhammad was targeted in an Israeli strike earlier this month. Israel believes the latter was killed in that strike but his death has not been confirmed. |
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| Houthis fire two ballistic missiles at Israel, IDF says both intercepted | |||||
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Two ballistic missiles launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday were intercepted by air defenses, the military said. There were no reports of direct injuries or damage in the attack, though the Magen David Adom emergency service said one person was lightly injured while dashing to a shelter during the first attack. The first missile set off sirens at around 3 a.m. in central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, sending nearly a million residents scrambling to bomb shelters. Preceding the sirens by some four minutes, an early warning was issued to residents, alerting them of the long-range missile attack via a push notification on their phones. The Israel Defense Forces said air defenses successfully intercepted the missile. Video shared on social media purported to show the interception. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms Shortly before noon, the Houthis launched a second missile at Israel, which the IDF also said was intercepted. The second missile set off sirens in the Jerusalem area, southern West Bank settlements, and communities near the Dead Sea. An early warning was also issued via the IDF Home Front Command’s mobile app. The Houthis took responsibility for both missile attacks, saying it had targeted Ben Gurion Airport. The Iran-backed group also claimed to have launched two drones at Israel overnight. There were no reports of drones reaching Israel from Yemen in the past day. |
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| London police hunt man who hacked mezuzahs off Jewish homes | |||||
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Force working to identify suspect caught on CCTV footage approaching home in Golders Green and prying religious item from doorpost; community security says several houses targeted No act too petty for the h8ters.
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| ‘Stargate UAE’ AI datacenter to begin operation in 2026 | |||||
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By REUTERS The first phase of a massive new artificial data center in the United Arab Emirates will come online in 2026, likely with 100,000 Nvidia chips. The “Stargate UAE” project is part of a deal brokered last week by US President Donald Trump to build the world’s largest set of AI data centers outside the United States, despite previous US restrictions on sending advanced technology to the UAE because of its close ties to China. The 10-square-mile (26-sq-km) site in Abu Dhabi will eventually host 5 gigawatts’ worth of data centers. The first phase of that project will be the 1-gigawatt Stargate UAE project, built by state-backed UAE firm G42 in partnership with US firms OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia and Cisco Systems, as well as Japan’s SoftBank Group. The companies say that the Stargate UAE project will use Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, currently the most advanced AI server that Nvidia offers. The first 200 megawatts of capacity will go live in 2026, the companies said. The group did not give a number of servers, but analyst firm TrendForce estimates that GB300 servers with 72 chips each consume about 140 kilowatts of power, which equates to about 1,400 servers or 100,000 Nvidia chips. |
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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan | (5) Hamas |
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| Responding to Netanyahu, Hamas rules out exiling its leadership or giving up its weapons | |||||
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Their choice. And so the war continues. Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha told the Qatari Al Jazeera channel last night, in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in which he presented a list of preconditions for ending the war, that the terror group will not give up the “weapons of the resistance,” referring to the weapons of Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. He further states that the group refuses to exile its leadership from the Strip, as they are part of the Palestinian people. |
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| 3 Arab-Israelis indicted for smuggling drugs and cigarettes into Gaza via drones | |||||
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| Marco Rubio Says Intelligence Community Is Flat-Out 'Wrong' About Tren de Aragua | |||||
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| Voice of America layoffs to result in dozens of deportations | |||||
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Many independent contractors laid off by the broadcaster last week hold work visas that require continued employment to stay in the United States. |
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| ‘DOGE’ in the States: One State’s Success Story Making 25% of Regulations and Fees ‘Disappear’ | |||||
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| Netanyahu: Implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan is condition for ending war | |||||
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| Palestinian reports: 3 prisoners freed in hostage deal rearrested last night, including veteran terrorist | |||||
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[IsraelTimes] Palestinian media reports that three Palestinian security prisoners who were freed as part of the recent hostage deal were rearrested by Israel last night. The three are named as Mahdi Akas, Saeed Diab and Ibrahim Atiya. Atiya had served a life sentence for his involvement in a shooting terror attack in which a 7-year-old girl was murdered in 2003, as part of his membership in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. The Palestinian Prisoners Club, a Palestinian organization representing those who are in jail in Israel, announced yesterday, prior to the arrests last night, that a total of 13 Palestinians released in the deal had been rearrested, 6 of whom remained in detention as of yesterday. IDF razes West bank home of Palestinian terrorist who killed Israeli man last year [IsraelTimes] During operations overnight in the West Bank village of Baqat al-Hatab, the IDF says it demolished the home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli last year. In the attack on August 18, 2024, Sultan al-Jani attacked Gidon Peri, 38, with a hammer in an industrial park near the settlement of Kedumim. Peri, a civilian security guard, was fatally wounded. As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly attacks. |
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| Fifth Column | (12) Govt of Iran Proxies |
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| Universities of hate round-up: week of 5/18 | |||||
 Yale students go on pro-Hamas hunger strike; administrators refuse meeting. Harvard president rejects 'partisan' label in letter to Sec. McMahon amid clash with Trump admin Not specific to fosteribg Jew-hate, but related and eminently satisfying. [CampusReform] Harvard University President Alan Garber asserted that the Trump administration is sidestepping private institutions’ constitutional freedoms. This comes after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the university will no longer receive federal grants.Prof who called Jewish Temples “Synagogues of Satan” Has Been Fired. US terminates additional $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism [IsraelTimes] The US Department of Health and Human Services says that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus. US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly $3 billion in recent weeks. The administration has accused Harvard of continuing to consider ethnicity when reviewing student applications and of allowing discrimination against Jews as a result of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled American campuses last year. Bloomberg Reporter Arrested With Pro-Hamas Group That Took Over Columbia Library [Townhall] A reporter from Bloomberg News was arrested when pro-Hamas rioters took over Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier in the month. The reporter, Jason Kao, had graduated from Columbia in 2022. He was charged with criminal trespass and was given a desk appearance ticket. Eighty-one activists were arrested in total. “During the unrest, rioters injured two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas’s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed the building after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces,” according to the Washington Free Beacon: “Kao’s personal website is exclusively devoted to negative coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza,” the outlet continued. “Kao was employed by Bloomberg News as of May 1, based on a social media post from a colleague,” but Bloomberg told the Free Beacon that they no longer employ Kao. Because the man is a propagandist, not a reporter — and certainly not a journalist. George Washington U bans student for commencement speech calling to divest from Israel Speaker at George Washington graduation urges alumni not to donate, decries Gaza ‘genocide’; DC school apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ speech that strayed from approved text. Cecilia Culver made the comments while addressing the school’s liberal arts college on Saturday. Culver had to take frequent breaks for sustained applause she received during her speech, delivered at GWU’s largest graduation ceremony. According to GWU’s own communications, during Culver’s time at the school the economics and statistics dual major was a recipient of a prestigious award and received an award from the Federal Reserve as part of an internship she completed. “Cecilia is in every way a distinguished scholar,” the school noted. GWU’s student newspaper noted that Daiya’s profiles have since been scrubbed from the university’s websites and directory. Her LinkedIn page is also disabled. |
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