National and international media news & headlines compiled by CLG

Zelensky threatens world leaders ahead of Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations | 3 May 2025 | Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has warned that Kiev cannot guarantee the safety of world leaders attending the May 9 celebrations in Moscow. He also dismissed Russia’s proposal for a Victory Day ceasefire as a “theatrical production.” Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier announced a unilateral three-day pause in military operations starting May 8 and continuing through the World War II Victory Day celebrations, citing humanitarian reasons. Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday, Zelensky reiterated this position. “No one is going to help Putin play this in order to give him a soft atmosphere of escape from isolation on May 9, and to make everyone feel comfortable and safe — those leaders, friends, or partners of Putin who will come to Kremlin Square…We are either at war, or Putin is showing that he is ready for a ceasefire,” Zelensky added.

Ukrainian MP threatens terror attack on Red Square –Yury Pavlenko has suggested targeting Moscow despite Vladimir Putin’s proposal of a 72-hour ceasefire | 2 May 2025 | Kiev could target Moscow’s Red Square during next week’s Victory Day celebrations, a Ukrainian lawmaker has suggested, despite Russia’s offer of a three-day ceasefire. May 9 marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a 72-hour ceasefire from May 8 to 10, citing “humanitarian considerations.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov later described the truce as a chance to begin “direct negotiations with Kiev without preconditions.” However, in an interview with Ukrainian media on Wednesday, Yury Pavlenko openly suggested that Ukraine could try to derail Victory Day, which is one of the most revered holidays in Russia, as well as many former Soviet republics.

Donald Trump fired national security adviser Mike Waltz for ‘plotting with Israel’s leader to bomb Iran’ | 3 May 2025 | President Donald Trump sacked his national security adviser Mike Waltz because he was plotting with Israel’s leader to attack Iran, it was claimed last night. Waltz, 51, was thought to have been fired because he accidentally added a journalist to a Signal chat about plans to attack Yemen’s Houthi terrorist group, causing global embarrassment for the Trump administration. But last night the Washington Post reported the real reason for Trump’s ire was that Waltz huddled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the latter’s White House visit in February and “appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran,” according to a source. Trump was angered that Waltz “engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump.”

Ukraine critic wins first round of Romanian presidential election rerun | 4 May 2025 | George Simion, a critic of the EU who has been banned from entering Ukraine, won the first round of the rerun of the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. With more than 95% of the ballots counted, Simion, the leader of the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), received 40.52% of the votes, according to the news website G4 Media. Former senator Crin Antonescu and Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, both known for pro-EU views, each received a little over 20% of the votes. “This is not just an electoral victory, it is a victory of Romanian dignity. It is the victory of those who have not lost hope, of those who still believe in Romania, a free, respected, sovereign country,” Simion said, according to Reuters.

Farage’s party making big gains in local British elections | 3 May 2025 | The right-wing Reform UK party has won 677 out of more than 1,600 seats in England’s local elections, while the Labour and the Conservative parties suffered heavy defeats across the country. As results began to trickle in on Friday, the party led by firebrand and Brexit proponent Nigel Farage emerged as the strongest performer in contests held in 23 local authorities across England, winning control of ten councils. These included eight taken from the Conservatives — Derbyshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire — along with Doncaster from Labour and Durham, where no party previously had a majority… According to a BBC projection, if a general election were held today, Reform UK would receive 30% of the vote, ahead of Labour at 20% and the Conservatives at 15%.

Germany ‘has rebuilt the Berlin Wall’ – Vance –The U.S. vice president has slammed attempts to “destroy” the anti-immigration AfD party | 2 May 2025 | U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has compared the German government’s treatment of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to rebuilding the Berlin Wall. On Friday, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, classified the anti-immigration AfD as an “extremist” organization, citing “xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic, and anti-Muslim statements made by leading party officials.” The label enables police to closely monitor the party’s activities. “The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it,” Vance wrote on X. “The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt — not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment,” he added.

AfD is ‘extremist’ – German intel agency –The country’s most popular party has denounced the designation as “a severe blow” to democracy | 2 May 2025 | Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an “extremist” party. The designation comes despite the AfD leading national opinion polls. In a statement on Friday, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) said that the AfD exhibits numerous signs of a party acting against the free democratic basic order while accusing it of “disregarding human dignity.” AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla have condemned the decision. “Today’s classification is a severe blow to German democracy,” they said in a joint statement. The BfV’s statement comes after a new Forsa poll released last month indicated that the AfD has 26% support, ahead of Germany’s Christian Democrats (25%) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (15%).

AOC heckled by ‘hysterical’ protester shouting about Gaza genocide at NYC town hall: ‘Shame on you’ | 2 May 2025 | Chaos broke loose at a town hall hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Friday, when the far-left [warmonger] “Squad” member was heckled by a protester for failing to stop the genocide in Gaza — who was immediately met with a torrent of boos and hisses. The speculated 2028 presidential candidate was holding a constituent event in Jackson Heights, Queens, when it devolved into chaos after an anti-Israel demonstrator harangued the lawmaker from New York’s 14th Congressional District over the war in Israel. “I am a health care worker, and I want to know what you’re doing about the genocide in Gaza,” a female disrupter shouted as AOC spoke on stage, video showed. “You’re a war criminal! War criminal! War criminal!” she yelled on the way out of the auditorium, adding, “Shame on you, I used to support you!”

DOJ drops Trump assassin bombshell after defense lawyers frantically tried blocking shock text messages | 2 May 2025 | Trump assassination suspect Ryan Routh spoke with a human trafficker about smuggling a family of Afghans into the U.S. last year, according to bombshell court documents his lawyers tried to have blocked. The Justice Department released a trove of text messages showing that Routh, 58, had allegedly communicated with a Mexican people smuggler known only as “Ramiro.” The DOJ included the text messages in a Monday filing in direct response to a motion by Routh’s lawyers to block evidence of his alleged human smuggling. The Justice Department said that it was evidence that the would-be assassin had been trying to plan to flee the country if he would have succeeded in killing Trump.

Maine high school teacher calls for deaths of Trump and his supporters in Facebook posts –Teacher stood by her comments in multiple follow-up posts | 1 May 2025 | A Maine high school English teacher’s Facebook posts went viral after she called on the U.S. Secret Service to “take out” people who support President Donald Trump’s “illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts” and also called for the president’s death. “The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it,” Waterville Senior High School teacher JoAnna St. Germain wrote on Tuesday. “You are the ones with power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts. Look at the sycophants and give them what they’re asking for. Every other country sees what’s happening and they are taking stands. If you step up, we can avoid a civil war.” She added that she was “not talking about assassinating a president” because a president is “a person duly elected” while Trump is heading “a fascist dictatorship.”

EU food safety chief warns on bird flu threat to pigs | 5 May 2025 | Europe’s vast pig herds threaten to become a “dangerous virus laboratory” should they be infected by the growing international bird flu outbreak that has already spread to poultry, cattle and sheep, the EU’s food safety chief has warned. The continent must be on high alert after mass contamination of livestock in the US has stoked fears the pathogen could mutate to spread between people, said Bernhard Url, outgoing executive director of the European Food Safety Authority. His remarks highlight the alarm caused by the latest H5N1 bird flu outbreak’s infiltration of other species. The U.S. H5N1 outbreak that began in March last year has spread to dairy cattle in 17 states and poultry in all 50.

Major outbreak fears as world’s most contagious disease hits baseball game attended by 40,000 | 2 May 2025 | Texas health officials are sounding the alarm after confirming a measles case in an adult who recently attended a baseball game at Globe Life Field. According to Denton County officials, the unidentified patient was among a crowd of 39,244 people at the Texas Rangers vs Los Angeles Dodgers game on April 19. The patient, whose vaccination status remains unknown, visited several locations between April 19-22 around Denton County and has now become the first case in the area. Since measles symptoms appear within seven to 14 days after contact with the virus, Denton County officials are asking locals in the county to monitor themselves for 21 days.

Trump announces 100% tariff for movies produced outside U.S.: ‘National Security threat’ | 4 May 2025 | President Donald Trump announced on Sunday a 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the United States, saying the U.S. movie industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American filmmakers. “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Trump said he was authorizing the relevant US government agencies such as the Department of Commerce to immediately begin the process of imposing a 100% tariff on all films produced abroad that are then sent into the United States. Trump added: “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

Trump terminates NPR, PBS federal funding with sweeping executive order | 1 May 2025 | President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday terminating federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). NPR and PBS, which have long been targeted for cuts by conservatives, both receive partial funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which the president argued is unnecessary in the current media environment. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order. “The CPB Board shall cease direct funding to NPR and PBS, consistent with my Administration’s policy to ensure that Federal funding does not support biased and partisan news coverage,” he added. “The CPB Board shall cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.”

Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison to lock away the ‘dregs of society’ | 4 May 2025 | President Trump called on his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz so authorities could send the “dregs of society” to the notorious California prison more than six decades after it closed. The commander in chief announced Sunday that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to get the massive island facility off the San Francisco bay — which has long been the lore of Hollywood — back up and running again to lock away homegrown, repeat criminals. “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” he wrote on Truth Social… Trump, 78, also said the “substantially enlarged and rebuilt” prison would “serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.”

Illegal Alien Accused of Random Shooting Spree on Tennessee Highway | 2 May 2025 | An illegal alien is accused of going on a random shooting spree on a Memphis, Tennessee, highway, injuring three people. Enoc Martinez, a 24-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested in Shelby County, and charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder. According to police, Martinez showed up at a Memphis residence and shot a man before then making his way onto Interstate 240 and shooting at random drivers and passengers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Thursday that Martinez illegally crossed the United States-Mexico border in June 2014 as an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC).

ICE makes major arrest after Soros-backed prosecutor made controversial plea deal | 2 May 2025 | Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Virginia State Police arrested an illegal immigrant after he was released as a result of a plea deal made by the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office. Guatemalan national Wilmer Osmany Ramos-Giron, 34, faced numerous felony charges in January, including abduction by force, assault on a family member and felony strangulation causing injury to a Virginia woman, according to ICE, which has Ramos-Giron in custody. Ramos-Giron spent only two months in an adult detention center in Fairfax County. The county attorney’s office, led by Democrat Steve Descano, arranged a plea deal dropping Ramos-Giron’s charges to misdemeanors… Descano’s campaign received over 627,000 between 2019 and 2023 from the Justice and Public Safety PAC, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. Fox News Digital previously reported that a large majority of the super PAC’s funding came from liberal billionaire [and Grade “A” sociopath] George Soros.

Illegal immigrants accused of pocketing thousands by smuggling hundreds of aliens each week from Canada to U.S. | 3 May 2025 | Four Mexican nationals illegally living in the U.S. have been charged in an alleged international human smuggling conspiracy that brought hundreds of illegal immigrants each week across the Canadian border to the U.S. for profit. Edgar Sanchez-Solis, 23, Ignacio Diaz-Perez, 35, Samuel Diaz-Perez, 26, and Salvador Diaz-Diaz, 32, were charged with conspiracy to bring aliens to the U.S. and 25 counts of bringing aliens illegally to the U.S. for pr-fit, according to a news release from the Justice Department. All four men were arrested at various locations across the U.S. and detained, according to the release. Ignacio Diaz-Perez and Salvador Diaz-Diaz had previously been deported from the U.S.

Fla. AG to rebuff judge who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement: ‘The court has overstepped’ –A Miami federal judge threatened Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier with contempt, which could put him in prison | 2 May 2025 | Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will rebut a judge’s demand that his office order state law enforcement to halt enforcement of a state immigration law she ordered paused under suspicion of unconstitutionality. The law allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials. “The judge wants me to put my stamp of approval on an order prohibiting all state law enforcement from enforcing Florida’s immigration laws when no law enforcement are party to the lawsuit,” he said, as the ACLU’s suit is being adjudicated before Obama-appointed Miami federal judge Kathleen Williams. On Wednesday, Uthmeier asked the court to let Florida Highway Patrol continue to enforce the law, after Williams was reportedly enraged that arrests continued to occur as the law awaits appeal in Atlanta’s 11th Circuit.