National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG

Breaking: ‘Active shooter’ sparks lockdown at Mississippi Air Force base | 7 May 2025 | A Mississippi Air Force base has been placed on lockdown amid reports of an active shooter. Keesler Air Force Base issued an alert stating it is in “lockdown mode” at around 9.30am ET on Wednesday. The military base was due to conduct a readiness drill today, but the incident is not connected to the plans, WLOX reports. The Biloxi Police Department told the outlet there were reports of an active shooter, but that no evidence has been found yet. Keesler AFB issued a statement confirming that the incident is “real world.” “Avoid the following areas: NORTH of the hairpin on Ploesti Dr and anything NORTH of Meadows Dr. These areas remain on lockdown!” officials wrote.

President Trump Stuns the World by Signing Executive Order Protecting Americans From Gain-of-Function Research | 6 May 2025 | On Monday, President Donald Trump was joined by his cabinet in the Oval Office to sign an executive order banning the government from funding gain-of-function research. Meanwhile, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are closing in on indicting Dr. Tony Fauci for using illegal gain-of-function research to create the COVID-19 virus that was suspiciously unleashed during Trump’s first term. During the Oval Office executive order signing, RFK declared the historic day “the end of gain-of-function research funding by the government” and private entities. Kennedy continued to provide a historical background about the biological weaponization research, saying the U.S. intelligence community and military between 1947 and 1969 had “reached nuclear equivalency” with bioweapons that could take out all of mankind.

India strikes ‘terrorist targets’ in Pakistan | 6 May 2025 | India has launched “Operation Sindoor,” targeting what it called “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistani-held part of disputed Kashmir, in retaliation for a deadly terrorist attack in Baisaran Valley. Islamabad condemned the strikes as a “heinous provocation” and vowed retaliation. New Delhi said it hit at least nine targets early Wednesday morning, insisting that the strikes were directed at “terrorist camps” and not the Pakistani armed forces or civilians… According to Pakistani media, citing ISPR Director General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the strikes affected five locations across the country and left at least two civilians dead and 12 others injured. “All of our air force jets are airborne,” Chaudhry said, vowing that Pakistan would retaliate.

Trump announces deal to stop bombing Houthis, end shipping attacks | 6 May 2025 | President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the U.S. will stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen, saying that the Iran-aligned group had agreed to stop interrupting important shipping lanes in the Middle East. After Trump made the announcement, Oman said it had mediated the ceasefire deal, marking a major shift in Houthi policy since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023. Under the agreement, neither the U.S. nor the Houthis would target the other, including U.S. vessels in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, Oman said in a statement.

Sanaa airport official says facility ‘completely destroyed’ by Israeli strikes | 6 May 2025 | Yemen’s international airport was “completely destroyed” in Israeli airstrikes on the rebel-held capital Sanaa, an airport official tells AFP. “Three planes out of seven belonging to Yemenia Airlines were destroyed at Sanaa airport, and Sanaa International Airport was completely destroyed,” the official says.

Israel approves full ‘conquest’ of Gaza – media | 5 May 2025 | 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… 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.

Second U.S. Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier | 6 May 2025 | Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, five people familiar with the matter told CNN. It is not entirely clear what happened yet, as the investigation is ongoing, but two of the people said there was some kind of arrestment failure as the jet was trying to land on the carrier and the pilot and weapons systems officer had to eject. They were recovered by a rescue helicopter and are both alive, but they suffered minor injuries, one of the people said. The jet crashed into the sea and has not been recovered, two of the people familiar with the incident said.

Bush official claims U.S. built secret $21T underground ‘city’ for rich and powerful to live if ‘near-extinction event’ happens | 5 May 2025 | The federal government has secretly spent trillions building an elaborate network of subterranean “cities” where the rich and powerful can shelter during a “near-extinction event,” a former Bush White House official sensationally claimed. About 170 such bunkers have been built across the country since 1998 — including some resting beneath the oceans off the US coast, 74-year-old Catherine Austin Fitts told Tucker Carlson during a recent appearance on his podcast. “It’s preparation for catastrophe,” Fitts said… Fitts, who served as assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1990, claimed 21 trillion in taxpayer d-llars were funneled into the project between 1998 and 2015.

ISIS suspect arrested in New Orleans Bourbon Street terror attack that killed 14 | 29 April 2025 | Iraqi authorities on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of an ISIS [I-CIA-SIS] member accused of inciting the New Year’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that left 15 people dead, including the perpetrator. The arrest comes months after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas killed 14 civilians and injured 57 others when he rammed a Ford F-150 through crowds of people celebrating New Year’s on the famous New Orleans street around 3 a.m. Jan. 1. Jabbar was killed in a shootout with police. Officials are not releasing the suspect’s name. The FBI previously said it had not ruled out the possibility of accomplices being involved in the attack even though Jabbar acted alone, saying the suspect had previously visited New Orleans on two occasions, on Oct. 30, 2024, and Nov. 10, 2024.

Suspected terrorist accused of planning to kill fans at Lady Gaga concert ID’d as illegal immigrant recently deported from U.S. | 6 May 2025 | A suspected terrorist who allegedly planned to kill Lady Gaga fans in a sickening attack on her record-breaking Brazil concert was deported from the U.S. only last month, Brazilian authorities have revealed. Luis da Silva, 44, wanted to livestream the execution of children and set up bombs close to the stage during Gaga’s performance to 2.5 million fans on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, investigators said. “He said that the singer was a Satanist and that he was going to perform a Satanist ritual too, killing a child during the show,” Rio de Janeiro Civil Police secretary, officer Felipe Curi, told reporters on Monday. Da Silva and a 17-year-old boy were taken into custody just hours before the concert went ahead after authorities uncovered their alleged murderous plot.

Bill Banning Criticism of Israel Pulled From Congressional Schedule After MAGA Backlash | 5 May 2025 | Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.) announced on Monday a controversial bill banning the censorship of Israel has been “pulled from the schedule for this week” after backlash from himself and other members of Congress. “Apparently HR 867 has been pulled from the schedule for this week. Thank you for your vocal opposition on this platform. It was a ridiculous bill that our leadership should have never scheduled for a vote,” Massie wrote. On Sunday, Massie had posted to X, stating he agreed with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she said she’d be “voting no” on the “IGO Anti-Boycott Act.”

FBI ‘butchered’ 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes | 6 May 2925 | The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives despite having handwritten evidence, a blistering House report found. The House Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee and Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson. “This is the same FBI that can’t tell us who planted the pipe bomb [on Jan. 6, 2021], who can’t tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion, and who can tell us who put cocaine at the White House,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chided Tuesday morning.

Supreme Court rules Trump’s total ban on transgender troops can stand | 6 May 2025 | The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops can stand. It’s a huge win for the president and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Supreme Court’s ruling lifts a lower court’s decision to pause Trump’s policy, which the administration called “dramatic and facially unfair.” The order allows the Department of Defense to continue removing transgender service members from the military and denying enlistment while lawsuits continue in the lower courts. On January 20, President Trump signed an executive order ordering Hegseth to enact a ban on “individuals with gender dysphoria” serving in the U.S. military.

Senator warns of ‘unconstitutional’ judicial overreach ahead of SCOTUS showdown | 5 May 2025 | Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News Digital this week that he remains confident there will be a sunset to the trend of nationwide injunctions by federal judges whose rulings reverberate far beyond their judicial districts. “Universal injunctions are an unconstitutional abuse of judicial power,” Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital. “Just this past week, a D.C. district judge issued a universal injunction blocking the president’s executive order requiring voter ID or proof-of-citizenship prior to voting in national elections.” That ruling ignores the idea that “judges are not policymakers,” he said. “Allowing them to assume this role is very dangerous.”

Proof of citizenship for voter registration, voter ID fails in Michigan | 6 May 2025 | Michigan House Democrats killed a chance for voters to decide on a constitutional amendment that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and an ID at the polls. The proposed amendment passed the House 58-48 on Thursday, with all Republicans voting yes and all Democrats voting no. To be placed on the ballot, it needed to pass with a two-thirds vote from the House and Senate. It fell 16 votes short. “This afternoon, I was saddened but not surprised to see the House Democrats prioritize politics over people,” said Rep. Bryan Posthumus, R-Rockford. “On a party-line vote, Michigan Democrats voted against a commonsense amendment to our state constitution that would prevent noncitizens from illegally voting — an issue that is supported by nearly 85% of our citizens.”

Biden-Appointed Judge Requires Trump to Resettle 12K Refugees in American Communities | 6 May 2025 | A district court judge, appointed by former President [sic] Joe Biden, is requiring President Donald Trump to bring roughly 12,000 refugees to the United States in a new court order issued this week. Judge Jamal Whitehead, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in 2023 by Biden, says Trump must admit thousands of refugees who had been approved for resettlement in the U.S. before he signed an executive order to halt the refugee resettlement program. After taking office, Trump signed the executive order to suspend the refugee resettlement program. As expected, those contractors whose funding relies on resettling refugees in American communities sued the Trump administration to restore the program. In February, Whitehead blocked Trump from carrying out the executive order to suspend the refugee program, even as he admitted the president holds broad authority over immigration.

Illegal Alien, Freed Into U.S. by Biden Admin, Accused of Killing 58-Year-Old Man Crossing Street in Wheelchair| 6 May 2025 | An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President [sic] Joe Biden’s administration, is accused of killing a 58-year-old man in the sanctuary state of Illinois while he was crossing a street in his wheelchair. Fernando Lorenzo-Raymundo, a 36-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested by the Champaign, Illinois Police Department and charged with the fatal hit-and-run of 58-year-old James McCammon in early March. According to police, Lorenzo-Raymundo hit and killed McCammon as he was crossing the street in his wheelchair. Lorenzo-Raymundo has pleaded guilty to battery… In March of last year, Lorenzo-Raymundo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border again and was apprehended by Border Patrol agents but then released into the nation’s interior along with millions of other illegal aliens under the Biden regime.

Child-rapist migrant who fled Brazil found living at Massachusetts daycare home: ‘Terrifying’ | 6 May 2025 | A migrant convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in Brazil fled to the U.S. and was found living in a home with a licensed daycare center in Massachusetts, a report said. Child rapist Andre Tiago Lucas, who is reportedly the father of the home daycare owner’s two kids, escaped Brazil for the States after he was sentenced in 2016 to nine years and four months in prison, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The fugitive was arrested by federal immigration agents in Cape Cod in October.

NYT Omits Immigration Status of Suspect in Subway Corpse Rape Case, Sparking Outrage Over Selective Reporting | 5 May 2025 | The New York Times published a 400-word report last week about the rape of a corpse aboard a New York City subway train — but nowhere in the article did the paper mention that the suspect, Felix Rojas, is an illegal alien. Rojas, 44, was arrested for first-degree rape after police say he violated the body of a dead man on an R train in Manhattan on April 9. Surveillance footage reportedly captured Rojas entering the nearly empty train at the Whitehall Street-South Ferry station, rummaging through the pockets of a deceased man and then sexually assaulting the corpse before fleeing. What The New York Times did not report, however, is that Rojas is an illegal immigrant — a fact confirmed by law enforcement officials. This weekend, the omission sparked criticism on social media, where readers accused the NYT of protecting a political narrative at the expense of telling the truth.

Warning as 50,000 people in Florida are told to stay indoors Tuesday or risk death | 6 May 2025 | Florida’s air is turning toxic, with more than 50,000 residents warned to hunker down indoors as dangerous pollution levels soar. Forecasts suggest air quality in Tampa is set to plunge into the “orange” zone — or a level where federal guidance suggests sensitive groups, like older adults, should take precautions. Making things more dangerous is that the shift won’t be visible to residents, with no smog or wildfire smoke filling the air to warn of more pollution. Instead, it is a chemical soup of ozone and particulate pollution that infiltrates the lungs… The orange air quality was initially forecast to hit the Tampa area later today.