A $60 million US fighter jet crashed into the Red Sea during a failed landing that injured two pilots and marked the second pricey plane the US Navy has lost to the sea in less than 10 days, according to a report.

The F/A-18 Super Hornet experienced an "arrestment failure" as it attempted to land on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, CNN reported.

The two pilots ejected from the warplane before it crashed into the water and were recovered alive by a rescue helicopter, according to the report. They were treated for minor injuries.

In a stunning diplomatic pivot, US President Donald Trump announced on May 6 that the United States would immediately cease its nearly two-month bombing campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels, following an Oman-brokered ceasefire agreement. The deal, hailed by Trump as a Houthi "capitulation," aims to secure vital Red Sea shipping routes that carry 1 trillion USD in annual trade. However, Trump did not indicate how or if the agreement would impact Houthi attacks against Israel, sparking alarm and raising questions in the nation.

President Trump made the surprise declaration from the Oval Office during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, stating:

"They [the Houthis] said please don't bomb us anymore and we're not going to attack your ships. I'll accept their word, and we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately."

The agreement followed weeks of secret negotiations mediated by Oman's Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. Oman's foreign ministry confirmed the truce, saying:

"Neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping."

Qatar and Kuwait issued statements welcoming the deal, expressing hope that it would stabilize global shipping routes.

Donald Trump is not the only person who wants to change Canada's landscape. Some Albertans frustrated with almost decade of Liberal power want independence from the country, and Cameron Davies, a leader of the breakaway movement, told Newsweek why.

The province, along with several others in the west, has long seen itself as unfairly treated by Ottawa. Its oil and gas resources make it a huge economic contributor, but many feel underrepresented in the capital, especially over environmental policies which regulate its resource industry.

But the push for an independence referendum has seemingly stepped up in the wake of the Liberal Party's victory of the Conservatives on Monday night, making former Bank of England boss Mark Carney prime minister.

This is perhaps best illustrated in Cameron Davies' decision to quit as leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) of Alberta, which he has served for more than seven years, to take over as the head of the independence-supporting Republican Party of Alberta.

Unrestricted pathogen research could endanger the lives of Americans, the US president has claimed.

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order restricting federal funding for "gain-of-function" research into viruses and other biological agents in the US and abroad, including China.

"Gain-of-function" or "dual use" studies have been gaining controversy after the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump has suggested that a lab leak in Wuhan, China, where US-funded research was based, was the source of the outbreak that brought the world to a standstill.

Beijing has denied the claims and accused Washington of trying to smear China.

Unrestricted gain-of-function research could "significantly endanger the lives of American citizens," among other things, Trump's order alleges, and lead to "widespread mortality, an impaired public health system, disrupted American livelihoods, and diminished economic and national security."

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a stay allowing the Trump administration to ban troops who identify as transgender while litigation plays out in a lower court.

A majority of justices agreed to enter a stay of a preliminary injunction issued by a US district judge in March, pending the disposition of an appeal.

Opposing the stay, of course, were Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The decision is a big loss for seven transgender men, led by lead plaintiff Emily Schilling, a Navy commander, who sued to block the Trump admin from busting her balls.

Western mainstream news of a ceasefire between Yemen and the US really signal an American defeat.

The American leadership, with president Donald Trump in the lead, has announced that the US is stopping its massive bombing campaign against Yemen. (While the US usually clings to the fiction that it is not bombing a country but "merely" a movement - namely, Ansar Allah, pejoratively labeled "Houthis" - it has, de facto, been at war with Yemen, most of which Ansar Allah rules.) This also de facto sort-of-ceasefire now - which Trump, for some reason, does not want to call a "deal" (for once) - has been engineered with the help of Omani mediation; on the American side, Trump's inevitable man-for-everything-and-then-some Steve Witkoff played a role.

What exactly the American announcement means - indeed whether it has an exact meaning known to anyone, especially in a White House busy with producing pope and Jedi memes - has remained unclear: For instance, has Ansar Allah agreed to desist from all attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and especially the Bab al Mandab choke-point strait? Or just from attacking US ships? Or merely American military vessels perhaps? An Ansar Allah spokesman, in any case, stated that Israeli ships remain targets. Also, as it happened, Trump informed the media first; the US military second, if at all. Even Israel - certainly something Trump defers to much more than to his own generals or the American people in general - claimed to have been taken by surprise.

Usually, such questions of scope and procedure really, really matter in grown-up-politics world, but hey, no biggie: it's probably a little too much to expect from the leadership of the "Indispensable Nation" currently very busy with getting "great again" by tanking the world economy through a trade war that isn't merely aggressive but stupid as well as failing on its own very ill-conceived terms.

After all, bombing Yemen for seven weeks was just a matter of life and death - and, as usually, other, not Americans deaths: Since the fresh US escalation of violence against Yemen in mid-March, American forces have attacked a thousand targets - according to the US - and they have, as is their wont, massacred civilians, including migrants targeted with bunker-busting bombs, Israeli-style, as it were.

Things just escalated in a huge and dangerous way between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, with the Indian government confirming it has launched strikes on nine sites inside Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

"No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted," the statement added according to Reuters, in a 'counter-terror' operation dubbed "Operation Sindoor".

India identified that it hit the terrorist infrastructure of Islamist groups in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir which killed 26 in the scenic Pahalgam area.

The victims had been singled out by the gunmen, which the Indian government has suggested were sponsored by Pakistan, for being Hindu in a sectarian mass killing.

Israel's air force has continued a second day of large-scale attacks on Yemen, targeting the leadership and infrastructure of the Ansarallah movement, or Houthis, after the Sunday Houthi ballistic missile strike on Israel's Ben Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv.

Huge plumes of black smoke have been observed rising above the Houthi-controlled airport area in the capital of Sana'a. Prior Israeli strikes, with US backing, focused on the vital port of Hodeidah.

Within a couple hours before the Tuesday Israeli strikes on Sana'a commencing, the IDF military issued an evacuation warning for Yemen's Sana'a International Airport, stated that being near it "exposes you to danger."

This warning was given because Israel is fully aware that this is a civilian aviation hub. However, Israeli officials have accused the Houthis of using it as a military base and staging ground.

The EU's latest propaganda offensive accuses Russia of historical revisionism ahead of Victory Day, but critics argue it's Brussels — not Moscow — that's distorting the truth for political gain.

Don't be deceived! That's the message from the EU propaganda channel EUvsDiSiNFO. Today's outcry from the media outlet run by the European External Action Service (EEAS) concerns nullifying Russia's sacrifices during WW2. As I write this, on the eve of Russia's May 9th memorial festivities, I wonder in disbelief that the world is not already entangled in the final world war.

Ursula's Propaganda Channels

I discovered this story, as I do so many, by using the Western technocrat-owned Google search engine. I use the biased Google News channel not because it has a virtual monopoly on information dissemination, but because the truth is easily found in a sea of lies. You see, Google chooses to index and prioritize information and news, supposedly by algorithms. However, these models of categorization have been "programmed" to show the world stories and opinions of the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is an arm of the Diplomatic Service of the EU. Or, a copycat of the soon-to-be-defunct Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty run by the U.S. State Department. I shouldn't have to explain why either of these channels are Russophobic in their essence, or why and how they are the ones spitting out disinformation by the ton.

The story that caught my eye today, "Putin's History 3.0 — historical revisionism in Russia ahead of 9 May," is a prime example of "gaslighting." It also uses repetition of the "Putin evil" theme so that more people begin to believe the lies about the Russians and Putin are the truth. Or, as Hitler's propaganda genius Joseph Goebbels put it, "Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth." The EUvsDisinfo story of May 2, 2025, tells information consumers that Russia's Vladimir Putin is a history revisionist, when the truth is the current fascists running Europe are seeking to make Russia seem barbaric and her president a liar. Since this EUvsDiSiNFO is simple to dissect and disintegrate, I use EU Fuhrer Ursula von der Leyen's copywriters' lies against them.

The liars at the EU's propaganda channel say Vladimir Putin has not one, but three different instances of historical revisionism. The author or authors refer to these as Putin History 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Let's unscramble each in succession.

The reported plan includes the forced relocation of Palestinians and occupation of the territory.

The Israeli government has approved a plan for the complete military occupation of Gaza and the forced relocation of its Palestinian inhabitants to the southern part of the territory, multiple news outlets have reported citing unnamed officials.

According to officials quoted by the AP, the new plan is meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza. Israel says the militant group is holding 59 captives, although about 35 are believed to be dead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously in favor of the strategy during a meeting on Monday morning, two sources told the media. Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Eyal Zamir has also announced the mobilization of tens of thousands of additional reservists.

"The plan will include, among other things, the conquest of the Gaza Strip and the holding of the territories, moving the Gaza population south for their protection," an Israeli official stated, as quoted by Agence France Presse.