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VOA chief national correspondent/former White House bureau chief; Author, ‘Behind the White House Curtain.’ Adjunct asst. professor, Shenandoah Univ.; Adjunct lecturer in journalism, Univ. of Richmond; 2022-23 @JURISTnews journalist-in-residence, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Law; Kiplinger Fellow, Ohio Univ.; American Foreign Service Assoc. governing board; Nevada Broadcasters Assoc. Hall of Fame; W7VOA on ham radio.

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Red Lobster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to sell most of its assets. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/red-lobster-files-voluntary-chapter-11-petitions-to-strengthen-financial-position-and-maximize-value-for-stakeholders-302149769.html

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The M/V Dali cargo ship, stuck in the Patapsco River for weeks after it brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge, has been refloated this morning, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the US receives a huge boost with London's High Court ruling that Americans assurances over his case are unsatisfactory and he’ll get a full appeal hearing. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/wikileaks-julian-assange-given-permission-appeal-against-us-extradition-2024-05-20/

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ICC chief prosecutor says he’s seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Hamas militant leaders, among others. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

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RSA Constitutional Court rules that former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to stand for this month’s elections. https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/concourt-rules-zuma-not-eligible-to-stand-for-may-polls/

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"My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now," says Sean "Diddy" Combs two days after the release of hotel surveillance video showing him attacking his ex-girlfriend. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7J4iUFRGUk/

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As President Biden speaks to the Morehouse College commencement ceremony in Atlanta someone is holding aloft behind him a flag of the DRCongo while one graduating student has turned his back and draped himself in the Palestinian flag.

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"I support peaceful non-violent protest," says President Biden at the Morehouse College commencement ceremony. "What's happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking."

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"What after Hamas?" asks Biden. "I'm working to make sure we get a two-state solution."

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"No doubt a Morehouse man will be president one day, just after an AKA from Howard," predicts Biden referencing his vice president.

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"The U.S. Department of Defense and the Ministry of National Defense of Niger and have reached a disengagement agreement to effect the withdrawal of U.S. forces, which has already begun. It is therefore agreed that this disengagement will end no later than September 15, 2024." - DoD https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3780392/joint-statement-from-the-us-department-of-defense-and-the-department-of-nationa/

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Iranian media report a helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in an accident in East Azerbaijan Province and some of his companions in the helicopter "managed to make contact with the center." https://www.iranintl.com/en/202405197603

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Rescue teams have been deployed to the area in the foggy weather. - Tasnim News https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2024/05/19/3088737/accident-reportedly-happens-to-iranian-president-s-helicopter

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@_ Radio communication from the helicopter to a communications center.

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“We are closely following reports of a possible hard landing of a helicopter in Iran carrying the Iranian president and foreign minister,” says a
State Department spokesperson. “We have no further comment at this time.”

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President Biden has been briefed on the helicopter crash in Iran, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters on Air Force One.

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A Turkish drone appears to have joined the aerial part of the search for the downed helicopter that was carrying Iran’s president and prime minister. https://www.flightradar24.com/AKINCI01/354ad8fc

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Update: Anadolu News Agency (Turkey) - Akinci UAV identifies source of heat suspected to be wreckage of helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi and shares its coordinates with Iranian authorities.

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President Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian and their entourage have all been killed in the helicopter crash in northwestern Iran. https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/iran%20president%20chopper%20incident

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Iran’s supreme leader appoints First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber as the acting president following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/05/20/725902/profile-mohammad-mokhber-serve-interim-president

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Congo coup thwarted. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2024/05/19/shooting-in-kinshasa-is-a-failed-coup-d-etat-says-congolese-army_6671940_124.html#

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CNN political commentator Alice Stewart, who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died at the age of 58. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/alice-stewart-cnn-commentator-dies/index.html

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President Biden, at a campaign fundraiser in Georgia, says former President Trump is “unhinged.”

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“We cannot let this man become president. Our children's future is at stake,” adds Biden. “We have to win this race, not for me but for America."

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Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, who heads the National Unity party, says his group will quit the emergency coalition government if Prime Minister Netanyahu doesn't agree to his requests, including a six-point plan for the Gaza conflict that will include post-war governance for the Palestinian territory.

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"A minority of the Israeli leadership is leading us to disaster," says war cabinet minister Gantz.

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"Getting back the hostages is the highest priority," says Gantz. "The hostages don't have much time."

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The six demands from Gantz to Netanyahu with a June 8 agreement deadline:

  • Dismantle Hamas
  • The return of the hostages
  • Establish an Israeli security control in Gaza
  • An American committee for all civilian matters
  • Rebuilding the southern region attacked by Hamas
  • Cooperation with Arab states to promote regional security
  • Mandating military or national service for the ultra-Orthodox
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Iranian-backed Houthis launched one anti-ship ballistic missile into the Red Sea and struck M/T Wind, a Panamanian-flagged, Greek owned and operated oil tanker, confirms US Central Command.

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DNC places billboards, which accuse Donald Trump of putting the gun lobby ahead of Texas families, in the area outside of the venue where the former president is scheduled to give a speech today at the NRA convention. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4671538-democratic-national-committee-donald-trump-billboards-gun-reform-nra-texas/amp/

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After a sedan driven by an American woman was pulled over on I-10 in California, CBP agents found tens of thousands of fentanyl pill (weighing a total of 42 kg) concealed below the vehicle’s seats. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-agents-thwart-suspected-attempt-smuggle-93-pounds

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"The Telemundo/NBC debate would be widely watched by Hispanic voters, but Biden’s handlers are petrified to allow him to defend his disastrous record." - Danielle Alvarez, Trump Campaign spokesperson

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University students found and reported earlier this year a security flaw allowing anyone to avoid paying for laundry provided by over a million internet-connected laundry machines in residences and college campuses around the world. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/csc-serviceworks-free-laundry-million-machines/

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CNN will make its June 27th Biden-Trump presidential debate available for simulcast by other networks. https://deadline.com/2024/05/trump-biden-debate-cnn-1235921669/

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Secretary of State Blinken and ROK Foreign Minister Cho today discussed cooperation on security challenges, “including increasingly hostile rhetoric and destabilizing actions” by the DPRK.

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CNBC - OpenAI has disbanded its team focused on the long-term risks of artificial intelligence.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/17/openai-superalignment-sutskever-leike.html

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Axios - US and Iran held indirect talks in Oman this week on how to avoid escalating regional attacks. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/17/biden-us-iran-regional-attacks

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New York man sentenced to nearly three years in prison, ordered to pay ~$738,000 in restitution and forfeit ~$1 million for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain specialty baby formula. - DoJ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-sentenced-19m-baby-formula-scheme

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“The workers in Vance have spoken, and they have spoken clearly! Alabama is not Michigan, and we are not the Sweet Home to the UAW. We urge the UAW to respect the results of this secret ballot election.” - Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey following VW workers voting against unionization

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Colorado man pleads guilty to murder charges for starting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family out of misplaced revenge for a stolen iPhone that he mistakenly tracked to their house. https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/true-crime/diol-family/bui-plea-diol-family-killed/73-f002494b-1036-48fd-98cf-aad8efbbae50

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MacRumors - A bug in iOS 17.5 is apparently causing photos that have been deleted to reappear, and the issue seems to impact even iPhones and iPads that have been erased and sold off to other people. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devices-photos-resurfacing/?

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(AFP) - US evacuates 17 US citizen doctors from Gaza.

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State Department issues a worldwide caution security alert, saying it's "aware of the increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQI+ persons and events and advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution."

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There are casualties following an explosion at a military academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. https://t.me/s/groza_media

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(RIA Novosti) - Emergency vehicles are at the Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps in St. Petersburg where an explosion has occurred. https://ria.ru/20240517/vzryv-1946792632.html

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Sources say the explosion at the military academy in St. Petersburg, Russia was not caused by a drone but rather an artillery shell detonated in a basement of a building.

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Retired US Army General John Wickham has died at the age of 95, according to Bill Buckmaster on KVOI Radio. Wickham was one of the more consequential USFK commanders and I interviewed him numerous times for VOA. https://www.voanews.com/a/defectors-say-north-stirred-south-korea-unrest/1665161.html

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In a first-of-its-kind move within the EU, the French government blocked TikTok in New Caledonia where there are widespread protests that have turned violent. https://www.politico.eu/article/french-tiktok-ban-new-caledonia-overseas-territory-dangerous-precedent-macron-eu/

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France accuses Azerbaijan of meddling in its Pacific territory of New Caledonia. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240517-why-is-france-accusing-azerbaijan-of-meddling-in-its-pacific-territory-of-new-caledonia

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