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China urged Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with the US and Israel on Wednesday after the Trump administration called on Beijing's help in the matter.

Over 2,300 US hospitals were rated “A” through “F” based on their protection of patients from preventable medical errors, accidents, injuries and healthcare-associated infections.

It Just Keeps Happening Over And Over Again...

Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news,

Another illegal migrant, handed legal status under Biden-era policies, is charged with brutally murdering two women in New York — one a hardworking mother of two, the other his own roommate. 

The victims were stabbed multiple times in the neck and torso in what authorities describe as an anger-fueled rampage. 

Open borders policies didn’t just fail these women. They enabled their killer to stay here legally and strike.

BREAKING: Two women stabbed to death by illegal immigrant in New York.

Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive and a candidate for governor of New York, SLAMMS open-border policies after two woman were killed by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador on Long Island this week.… pic.twitter.com/v12sexjtjj

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2026

The suspect, 22-year-old Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, entered the United States illegally as an unaccompanied minor at age 12 roughly a decade ago. He was released into the country with no supervision. 

In 2022, the Biden administration granted him legal status through a program that automatically handed papers — believed to be in the form of a green card — to unaccompanied minors already here. 

Say her name: Ana Maria del Aguila-Cordova.

Ana (42) worked at Wendy’s and was stabbed to death while taking out the trash. She was a mother of two, including a one-year-old baby.

Her killer, Rony Alvarenga-Rivera (22) is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was later… https://t.co/oPvuyjTUUI pic.twitter.com/SL1UsRMyRI

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 2, 2026

Now he stands charged with first- and second-degree murder in the killings of Eddy Raquel Hernandez Castillo, 32, and Ana Maria del Aguila-Cordova, 42.

Both attacks happened early Friday morning on Long Island. Ana Maria del Aguila-Cordova, a mother of two young children including a one-year-old, was stabbed to death outside a Wendy’s in Island Park while taking out the trash. She was Rivera’s coworker.

Hours later, his 32-year-old roommate Eddy Raquel Hernandez Castillo was found dead in their shared apartment building in Valley Stream. Nassau County Police Chief Patrick Ryder confirmed: “Both females were killed by multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso.”

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is also a candidate for governor of New York, did not hold back. In a press conference covered widely on X, he directly blamed failed immigration policies:

“This didn’t have to happen. This is a policy that has resulted today in two women being killed. They could’ve gone on to have very productive and happy lives. But they’re no longer with us because of failed policies in the past.”

Blakeman continued, “Why are we letting people who aren’t documented into our country?” Noting that this “unaccompanied minor” was able to “run around without any supervision whatsoever,” and then automatically get legal status.”

He highlighted the absurdity of the 2022 federal program that handed legal status to unaccompanied minors already in the U.S. and praised Nassau County’s use of the 287(g) program, a federal partnership with ICE that has removed over 2,000 illegal migrants with criminal records. Blakeman noted that New York Governor Kathy Hochul wants to abolish it.

This isn’t an isolated tragedy. It is the direct, predictable result of years of open borders insanity that prioritizes foreign invaders over American safety. 

Recent examples are highlighted below:

Each time the same story plays out: an illegal migrant, often with no prior record that would have flagged him under narrow enforcement priorities, commits unspeakable violence. Officials express “shock.” Media downplays the immigration angle. And nothing changes — until the next victim.

Blakeman is right. These women did not have to die. Their killer did not have to be here. The policies that let him stay were a choice. A choice made by politicians who value open borders and cheap political power over American lives.

President Trump’s border policies have proven that this can be stopped. 

Mass deportations of criminal illegals and an end to catch-and-release are not extreme. They are the bare minimum required to protect communities.

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Tyler Durden Wed, 05/06/2026 - 12:45

Justice Elena Kagan, on behalf of the court, declined to pause a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that deemed Apple in contempt in the Epic lawsuit contesting App Store fees.

They're up s--t creek without a plunger.

"We are committed to visitor access, safety, and resource protection," Yosemite Superintendent Ray McPadden said.

"Data Centers Require Reliable And Predictable Energy": Riot Partners With Terrestrial Energy

Riot platforms announced a collaboration with Terrestrial Energy to pair future data centers with co-located nuclear reactors. The two companies are evaluating deploying Terrestrial’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) plants to existing Riot facilities in Texas and Kentucky, as well as multiple other potential sites. 

The headline comes on the same morning as reactor development peer NANO Nuclear announced a strategic MOU with Supermicro…

NANO Nuclear Soars On Strategic MOU With Supermicro For Powering AI Data Centers https://t.co/8evwYdhjZC

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 6, 2026

Following deals that have been announced recently from hyperscalers like Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, data center developers are now being more vocal than ever about their needs for reliable energy.

“Our data centers require reliable and predictable energy at the scale demanded by today’s hyperscale customers,” said Jason Les, CEO of Riot Platforms. “Partnering with Terrestrial Energy positions our facilities at the forefront of data center deployment, utilizing clean energy and benefitting both our customers and the communities we operate in. The consistent baseload of power required by data centers presents an ideal pairing for development alongside Terrestrial’s IMSR Plants.”

The press release is notably lacking on any sort of timeline description for Terrestrial actually making any progress towards reactor construction. Terrestrial is significantly behind almost all of its market peers, including Oklo and NANO Nuclear. 

Oklo has made significant progress with constructing a sodium-cooled reactor at INL with the potential to take the reactor critical as early as this summer. 

NANO Nuclear has begun early site work and recently submitted a construction permit application to the NRC for deployment of their KRONOS reactor in Illinois. 

Terrestrial only has some recent document approvals from the NRC and agreements in place with the DOE. No meaningful progress has been made on constructing a pilot reactor or first-of-a-kind commercial-scale deployment.

Tyler Durden Wed, 05/06/2026 - 12:35

Soldiers identified an armed Hamas cell operating in the area and killed the terrorists to neutralize the threat, according to a statement released on Wednesday.

The watch was handed to a crew member by a passenger during the infamous sinking of the British ocean liner in 1912.

Few teams have as much top tier talent and experience as the Liberty. The Aces are one of them.

We all know Lizzie Bennet's story, but this is the tale of her sister Mary. You'd be forgiven if you forgot about Mary.

A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus aboard a Dutch ship on a week-long polar cruise has brought attention to the growing tourism trend.

A 28-year-old woman claimed she was actually a 16-year-old and enrolled in a New York City high school — but was confronted by the principal who learned her true identity on Facebook, according to police.

CNN’s Abby Phillip and Van Jones tangled Tuesday night over Democratic efforts to scrutinize Israel’s nuclear capabilities as the Jewish state battles Iran. The tense exchange erupted during a segment on “CNN NewsNight” about a letter from Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and other House Dems pressing the Trump administration to publicly disclose what it knows...

"The foreshadowing is chilling," reads one of the comments under the reel.

The Spice Girl told The Post about how her wellness routine, from diet to mindfulness, have changed as she's gotten older.

Give Peace A Chance

By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank

It was TACO Tuesday again in the United States this week as President Trump announced that he was pausing Operation Freedom “for a short period” after it had been underway for just one day. Channelling John Lennon, Trump indicated that progress in negotiations with Iran had convinced him to ‘give peace a chance’, but that the US blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place for now.

The Dow Jones, S&P500 and NASDAQ all closed higher and US stock futures are pointing to further gains. Asian stocks are mostly higher with the KOSPI breaching 7000 for the first time and Samsung joining the USD 1 trillion market cap club. Bond yields are mostly lower but UK Gilts are a conspicuous outlier in that respect, with the 10-year up 9.7bps to 5.06% and the 2-year rising even further. The Dollar is down, the VIX is down, spot gold is a little over 1% higher and Brent crude (July contract) has fallen to $108.46/bbl at time of writing.

Trump characterized the pause as coming in response to requests from Pakistan and others and told media that the indefinite ceasefire was still in effect despite Iranian strikes on the UAE port of Fujairah, commercial shipping, and US destroyers engaged in guiding commercial ships through the Strait over the last 24 hours.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the operation which began on Monday was purely defensive, stating that “we’re not looking for a fight”. Trump had earlier characterized the effort as a “humanitarian gesture” to free trapped merchant mariners who were running short of provisions, but there is undoubtedly an added element of seeking to ease the squeeze on commercial shipping supply chains by bringing the 1,600 vessels trapped in the Persian Gulf back into the active shipping fleet.

As Operation Freedom was put on hold, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a White House news briefing that Operation Epic Fury had already concluded, thereby sidestepping a legal requirement for Trump to seek congressional approval to extend military action beyond 60 days. Given that fire was still being exchanged with Iran as recently as yesterday, many will see this as little more than a legalistic wheeze – which it may be – but the administration is clearly content to keep up the pressure on Iran through Scott Bessent’s ‘Economic Fury’ initiatives of direct sanctions, naval blockade, disruption of the Iranian shadow fleet, and secondary sanctions on countries providing support to the Iranian military. The US has also imposed sanctions on five Chinese ‘teapot’ refineries believed to be engaged in trade of Iranian crude.

Trump’s announcement on Operation Freedom coincides with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi today travelling to Beijing to meet with counterpart Wang Yi. This comes ahead of Trump’s planned trip to China next week to meet with President Xi, where discussions over the Iran war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz are sure to be at the top of the agenda.

Might we expect some kind of grand bargain whereby China takes more assertive action to rein in its Iranian allies, aided perhaps by Vladimir Putin’s willingness to provide enrichment services for civilian purposes on Iran’s behalf and to take custody of Iran’s existing stocks of near-weapons-grade uranium? Might this also involve a Ukraine war component foreshadowed by recent unilateral ceasefire announcements from both Moscow and Kiev, at the prompting of the US?

Araghchi – along with President Pezeshkian and House Speaker Ghalibaf – is a member of the civilian government and viewed as a moderate in comparison to the hardliners of the IRGC. IRGC leader Vahidi has previously been critical of Araghchi for being too willing to do a deal with the US to end the war and re-open the Strait. As the US blockade remains in place and Iranian oil is prevented from flowing to market, storage capacity is filling up and raising the prospect that Iranian wells will need to be capped, with risks of permanent damage to oil production.

Effectively, Iran and the US are playing chicken with global energy supply chains. Iran is enduring damage directly from Economic Fury but is holding a metaphorical gun to the heads of US allies in Europe and Asia, who are facing looming shortages of key commodities and the consequent negative effects on growth, employment and inflation. The question remains: who will blink first?

This hostage dynamic is not lost on RBA Governor Michele Bullock who yesterday told journalists in Sydney that “Australian’s are poorer because of this shock to oil prices... We are poorer, and there’s no way out of that.” Bullock delivered this grim prognosis after the RBA lifted the Australian policy rate by 25bp to 4.35%. This was the third-consecutive rate hike from the RBA and brings the cash rate equal to the previous cycle high that was reached in the aftermath of the COVID-19 and Ukraine War supply shocks.

Bullock characterized the new posture of monetary policy in Australia as “a bit restrictive” and indicated that the Board feels that it has given itself a bit of breathing space to pause and assess the unfolding impacts of the Iran war, and what the implications will be for growth and inflation. However, she also noted that the RBA’s updated economic projections are predicated on the war ending “soon”, and the Strait of Hormuz reopening. If that doesn’t happen, markets will start to ponder whether recession risks or rising inflation expectations will dominate RBA rate-setting decisions in the months ahead.

Australia was carrying substantial inflation momentum into the Iran shock as three rate cuts in 2025 and continued strong government spending conspired to pump up demand growth in late 2025 and saw the economy quickly hit the rev limiter. With one more 25bp rate hike priced into the futures curve Australia now faces the prospect of a cash rate cycle peaking higher than the previous cycle for only the second time in more than 30 years.

This reflects what is happening in the 10-year bond yield where the 40-year bull market than ran from the early 1980s through to 2022 looks to be well and truly over and the new cycle might be higher highs and higher lows, like it was during the 1970s when oil shocks, trade protectionism and great power competition characterized the international environment. Sound familiar?

For her part, Bullock will be hoping that Trump and the Iranians do ‘give peace a chance’ so she can avoid those adverse scenarios and stick to the comparatively benign but still far from ideal baseline outlook that the RBA has adopted.

Tyler Durden Wed, 05/06/2026 - 12:15

Over 15 years in professional baseball, Teoscar Hernández has built himself quite the collection of bling.

In March 2024, the royal revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment.

In March 2024, the royal revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment.