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Furious Democrats Reportedly Float Dramatic Idea:Throwing Out Virginia's Supreme Court to Push Through Gerrymandered map

May 10th, 2026, 4:11 pm Angry Democratic lawmakers held a venting session this weekend to complain about Virginia's Supreme Court overturning its new gerrymandered map -- and some of the Dems floated a "dramatic idea": replacing the state's Supreme Court in order to push through the new map anyway. That's according to a report from The New York Times on Sunday afternoon. The paper reported "struggling" Dems like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a private ...

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Energy secretary says Trump administration is open to suspending gas tax amid soaring prices

May 10, 2026, 10:10 AM EDT / Updated May 10, 2026, 11:54 AM EDT Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to lower the cost of gas, including suspending the federal gas tax. Gas prices have been soaring, hitting a national average of $4.52 per gallon on Sunday, according to data from motor club AAA — an increase of more than 50% since the start of the Iran war. Asked by moderator Kristen Welker whether he woul ...

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Waltz says US pushing for UN resolution on Iranian actions in Strait of Hormuz

05/10/26 11:11 AM ET U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Mike Waltz on Sunday reiterated his push for the international coalition’s security council to pass a resolution condemning the Iranian government’s restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the Trump administration, alongside Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar, drafted a UN Security Council Resolution to “defend freedom of navigation” in the wate ...

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Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as 'unacceptable'

Updated 4:25 PM EDT, May 10, 2026 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, but President Donald Trump quickly rejected it as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” with no details. Iran seeks to end the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, and to ensure the security of shipping, state TV said. W ...

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Lawyers: Biden to fight DOJ plan to release audio of his talks with ghostwriter

05/10/2026 11:56 AM EDT Former President Joe Biden intends to intervene in litigation to block the Trump administration’s effort to release 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of interviews he conducted in 2017 with a ghostwriter who worked with Biden on his memoirs, the Justice Department indicated in new court papers. DOJ lawyers told a federal judge in Washington on Friday that they expected Biden would seek to “prevent any such disclosures” of the audio tapes to Congress and t ...

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy returns to reality TV roots, sparking criticism and questions

PUBLISHED May 9, 2026, 8:03 PM ET Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s new reality show, filmed with his family over the last seven months, has sparked criticism amid high gas prices, in addition to raising ethics questions. Duffy said that costs for the five-part series titled “The Great American Road Trip,” which will air for free on YouTube ahead of America’s 250th birthday, were paid for by a nonprofit, the Great American Road Trip Inc., and that “zero taxpayer dollars were spent on my f ...

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Russia Violates Holiday Ceasefire With Deadly Drone Strikes Across Ukraine

Despite a US-brokered three-day ceasefire intended for May 9–11, Russian forces continued aerial assaults across Ukraine. On Saturday evening, May 9, a drone strike on a high-rise residential building in Kharkiv injured at least five people, including two 8-year-old boys who suffered acute stress reactions. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, drone strikes killed a 46-year-old woman and injured an 87-year-old. A fragile three-day humanitarian ceasefire was marred by continued Russian aggression as dr ...

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Harris says Dems 'rightfully outraged' after Virginia Supreme Court tosses new map

Sat, May 9, 2026 at 3:40 PM EDT Former Vice President Kamala Harris said on Friday that Democrats are justified in their anger about the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision this week to strike down a new congressional map. “Today, the Virginia Supreme Court ignored the will of the people and overturned those democratically chosen maps,” the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee wrote on the social platform X. “This ruling gives a boost to Donald Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 elections and the ...

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Aramco Q1 Profit Jumps 25% as Hormuz Risks Push Pipeline to Full Capacity

May 10, 2026, at 1:22 a.m. DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - Saudi Aramco reported a 25% ⁠jump ⁠in first-quarter profit on Sunday, showing ⁠its resilience as U.S.-Iran war tensions curtail Strait of Hormuz shipping, with the ​state oil giant's East-West crude pipeline running at full capacity to mitigate the impact to supplies. The world's top oil exporter earned ‌a net profit of $32.5 billion in ‌the three months ended March 31, beating an LSEG consensus estimate ...

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Trump push to prosecute Comey has led to DOJ staff being sidelined or demoted: report

Saturday 09 May 2026 18:43 EDT President Donald Trump’s attempts to have the Department of Justice criminally indict his political foe, former FBI Director James Comey, has reportedly led to massive turnover of career prosecutors in a key U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia. More than six prosecutors have been demoted or pushed out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia as a result of the push to indict Comey; some have left voluntarily out of fear of working on cas ...

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US Disappointed in Taiwan's Smaller Defense Budget, Official Says

19 min ago - May 10, 2026, at 4:28 p.m. WASHINGTON/BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) - ⁠The ⁠U.S. was ⁠disappointed in a move by ​Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament to approve ‌defense spending short ‌of what Washington ⁠bel ... (US News & World Report/Reuters)

Grad Students Rally Outside Garber's Home as Strike Enters Third Week

6 hrs ago - By Noah A. Ferris, Crimson Staff Writer 3 hours ago A small group of striking graduate student workers rallied outside Harvard President Alan M. Garber '76's private residence early Friday morning, marking a new escalation in the Harvard Graduate Stu ... (The Crimson)

New Reform councillor suspended after racist posts emerge

6 hrs ago - A newly elected Reform UK councillor has been suspended from the party after making comments suggesting that Nigerians should be melted down and used to fill potholes. According to campaign group Hope Not Hate, Glenn Gibbins, who was elected as a Ref ... (The Times)

Oil Jumps After Trump Says Iran's Peace Offer Is 'Unacceptable' Oil Jumps After Trump Says Iran's Peace Offer Is 'Unacce

6 hrs ago - (Bloomberg) -- Oil surged after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest response to his proposal to end the war in the Middle East, prolonging the effective closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures advanced as much a ... (Bloomberg)

US intelligence-gathering flights are surging off Cuba

7 hrs ago - Posted 9:57 AM, May 10, 2026 U.S. military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of Cuba, a CNN analysis of publicly available aviation data shows. Since February 4, the U.S. Navy and Air Force have conducted at least 25 such fligh ... (Scripps News)

Clyburn: Roberts to join ranks of 'infamous' Supreme Court justices over voting rights decision

7 hrs ago - 05/10/26 12:44 PM ET Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) claimed that Supreme Court Justice Chief John Roberts will join the ranks of “infamous” high court justices over a recent decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act. “I never thought ... (The Hill)

Abe Foxman, advocate for American Jews as longtime head of Anti-Defamation League, dies at 86

8 hrs ago - Updated 3:35 PM EDT, May 10, 2026 NEW YORK (AP) — Abraham H. Foxman, who was a forceful advocate for American Jews as national director of the Anti-Defamation League for nearly three decades, has died, the ADL said Sunday. He was 86. The ADL sa ... (AP)

Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is "outrageous"

8 hrs ago - May 10, 2026 / 1:09 PM EDT Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said Sunday that the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion budget request for defense spending is "outrageous.". "They need to submit a defense budget that makes sense ... (CBS News)

Health advocates warn government's claims of baby formula safety contradict data

9 hrs ago - Sun 10 May 2026 09.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 10 May 2026 09.01 EDT The Trump administration announced earlier this month that hundreds of baby formula samples it tested for toxic chemicals “meet a high safety standard”, but public health ... (The Guardian)

The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Month

9 hrs ago - According to bombshell reporting by NOTUS, Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews, the facility that stores and maintains Air Force One, has lost tens of thousands of gallons of valuable jet fuel over two separate leaks. That would be bad enough on its o ... (Futurism)

Trump's role as LIV Golf host renews scrutiny over conflicts of interest

9 hrs ago - PUBLISHED May 10, 2026, 1:03 PM ET Experts are raising conflict-of-interest and ethical concerns after President Donald Trump hosted a LIV Golf event at his Virginia property this weekend, renewing scrutiny over whether the Trump family is financiall ... (CNN Politics)

Anthropic says 'evil' portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude's blackmail attempts

10 hrs ago - Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avoid being replaced by another system. Anthropic later published research suggesting that models from ot ... (TechCrunch)

Furious Democrats Reportedly Float Dramatic Idea:Throwing Out Virginia's Supreme Court to Push Through Gerrymandered map

10 hrs ago - May 10th, 2026, 4:11 pm Angry Democratic lawmakers held a venting session this weekend to complain about Virginia's Supreme Court overturning its new gerrymandered map -- and some of the Dems floated a "dramatic idea": replacing the state's Supreme ... (MEDIAite)

Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as 'unacceptable'

10 hrs ago - Updated 4:25 PM EDT, May 10, 2026 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, but President Donald Trump q ... (AP)

Remains of US soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered

11 hrs ago - CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — The remains of a U.S. soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco a week ago were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, the army said Sunday. Military teams were still searching for a second missing soldie ... (AP)

Lawyers: Biden to fight DOJ plan to release audio of his talks with ghostwriter

11 hrs ago - 05/10/2026 11:56 AM EDT Former President Joe Biden intends to intervene in litigation to block the Trump administration’s effort to release 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of interviews he conducted in 2017 with a ghostwriter who ... (Politico)

Senior Interior Department official says she was involved in policy changes that benefited her family's ranches

12 hrs ago - Sunday 10 May 2026 12:36 EDT A top official in the Department of the Interior appeared to casually admit she helped reduce federal regulations that benefited her family’s ranches, valued at more than $5 million. Associate Deputy Secretary Karen ... (The Independent)

Waltz says US pushing for UN resolution on Iranian actions in Strait of Hormuz

12 hrs ago - 05/10/26 11:11 AM ET U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Mike Waltz on Sunday reiterated his push for the international coalition’s security council to pass a resolution condemning the Iranian government’s restrictions on shipping th ... (The Hill)

Hantavirus-stricken Cruise Ship Evacuated Off Spain

12 hrs ago - ... (KTLA 5 News)

Energy secretary says Trump administration is open to suspending gas tax amid soaring prices

13 hrs ago - May 10, 2026, 10:10 AM EDT / Updated May 10, 2026, 11:54 AM EDT Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to lower the cost of gas, including ... (NBC News)

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