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May 10, 2026
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 ...
Go to discussionAramco 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 ...
Go to discussionHarris 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 ...
Go to discussionRussia 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 ...
Go to discussionTransportation 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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