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An Alabama mother allegedly killed her special needs little boy by putting a “lethal” concoction into the feeding tube he needed to survive, according to police. 

The authorities have stopped their search efforts due to this alarming weather condition.

The authorities have stopped their search efforts due to this alarming weather condition.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman visited Canal Street in Lower Manhattan Saturday to show solidarity for neighborhood residents and business owners plagued by illegal street vendors, drug use and rampant other crime.

Robinson underwent surgery recently, sources said, and there’s hope he’ll play Wednesday in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Robinson did not participate in practice Friday, and the Knicks are scheduled for another session Sunday.

Protein and fat should be prioritized in fast food choices, medical experts advise

Missiles Rain Down On Northern Israel In Large Hezbollah 'Revenge' Operation

Northern Israel has come under heavy attack from Hezbollah on Saturday, after this past week a full-scale war has resumed in southern Lebanon, which even saw the resumption of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, much further to the north.

Even while Tel Aviv maintains the illusion of a ceasefire with Lebanon (as in, its government and national army), there is no ceasefire with Iran-linked Hezbollah, following weeks of sporadic drones being sent on northern Israel, as well as troop positions of invading IDF forces.

The Saturday drone and missile waves hit multiple locations in and around the Galilee area, with regional media reporting that at least eight missiles were launched at Israeli positions in the initial salvo, one of which struck a site in Kiryat Shmona city.

Hezbollah subsequently announced it had carried out 22 military operations against Israeli army positions and equipment within the prior 24 hours. It framed this as a revenge operation for Israeli attacks on civilian centers in Lebanon.

Times of Israel has cited IDF statements saying Israel is bracing for more attacks out of Lebanon. "Hezbollah launched several rockets from Lebanon at the Western Galilee a short while ago," it said in a late in the day Saturday (local time) update. "The IDF says some of the rockets were intercepted and others struck open areas, causing no injuries."

Sirens across several towns and cities were activated, and there were scenes of coastal locales being impacted, with throngs of people scrambling for bomb shelters.

Starting early last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that he instructed his military to "press the pedal even harder" against Hezbollah, reportedly upon a greenlight being given by Washington, following increased drone attacks from the Shia paramilitary group backed by Iran on northern Israel.

Impacts filmed in water areas of Nahariya Beach...

נפילות סמוך לחוף נהריה pic.twitter.com/NQaEPkwIdN

— כל החדשות בזמן אמת (@Saher_News_24_7) May 30, 2026

"We are at war with Hezbollah. Just in recent weeks, our brave fighters have eliminated more than 600 terrorists," Netanyahu announced in video statement. "But we are not taking our foot off the gas. On the contrary, I have instructed them to press the pedal even harder."

"We will strike them. Yes, they are attacking us with drones, cyber-enabled drones, and we have a special team working on this — and we will solve that too…But what this requires from us now is to intensify the blows, increase the force. We will strike them decisively," the Israeli leader said.

Tyler Durden Sat, 05/30/2026 - 15:45

X Cracks Down On Large "Creator" Accounts Built On Stolen Content

The saturation of large X accounts built almost entirely on recycled video clips has become impossible to ignore. Many of these accounts brand themselves as "creators," but they merely lift original reporting, strip attribution, repackage it, and monetize engagement as if the content were their own.

Elon Musk and X product head Nikita Bier have zeroed in on this issue. X is now demonetizing repeat offenders while redirecting impressions and revenue to true originators. For genuine creators producing original reporting, analysis, and commentary, it's a long-overdue reset.

Disclose.tv Gets the Hammer

The latest high-profile casualty is Disclose.tv (nearly 2 million followers). The account allegedly lifted spaceflight reporter Adam Bernstein's dramatic video of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploding on the launchpad, cropped the watermark, and reposted it for engagement.

Bernstein called them out: "This video was shot by me as part of my coverage for @SpaceflightNow. It appears you have removed our watermark - please credit us properly."

Bier jumped in, praising the original footage and confirming the penalty: "Great video - sorry this happened. Creator has been deactivated from monetization for cropping out attribution."

Mario Nawfal's Revenue Slash and the Musk Unfollow

Just days earlier, Bier publicly warned serial aggregator Mario Nawfal after he reuploaded an ABC News clip instead of using proper Quote or Video Reshare: "Please do not reupload the author’s video: use Quote or Video Reshare. Your revenue was reduced by 90% last cycle and we’re running out of room to reduce it more."

Please do not reupload the author’s video: use Quote or Video Reshare.

Your revenue was reduced by 90% last cycle and we’re running out of room to reduce it more.

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) May 23, 2026

Elon Musk unfollowed Nawfal shortly after, sparking widespread speculation.

🚫 @elonmusk is no longer following @MarioNawfal

— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) May 26, 2026 Massimo Fracas

One of the most dramatic spats involved popular science curator Massimo (@Rainmaker1973), who has 4.3 million followers. Bier dropped the hammer with receipts:

After sourcing 2759 videos from @ViralRushX over the last 6 months, you're now circumventing attribution by simply cropping out his watermark?

You cannot get more shameless than this. This is your last day in the creator program.

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) May 25, 2026

Rainmaker1973 (Massimo) fired back - accusing Bier of unfair treatment, defending watermark cropping as standard practice, claiming selective enforcement, and alleging bullying via Community Notes and deboosting. He announced shifting to a subscriber/donation model and hinted at potentially deleting the account, framing himself as a victim of "abuse of power" and "public execution."

The exchange lit up X with heated replies, hypocrisy callouts (noting ViralRushX also aggregates from elsewhere), and memes celebrating the "public execution."

Broader Sweep and Burner Schemes

Other accounts hit include @bpthaber (~1.6M followers) for alleged burner/shield tactics — using secondary accounts to post stolen videos stamped with the main brand to dodge detection. Bier's team is now actively detecting programmatic re-uploads, watermark stripping, and impression hijacking at scale.

Another 𝕏 Creator Demonetized.

The 1.6 million-follower account @bpthaber just went up in flames.

Reason?

Using his “Alt account” to take another creator’s video, stamp their own watermark on it, and post it.

Then his main account will repost that video to make it appear as organic content.

This is the 2nd post I made about demonetization today.

How many more are we going to see?

I swear, people will do everything except create their own content.

— Jin Jung (@JinJung) May 30, 2026

Jason Calacanis summed up the originals' frustration: "The crazy part, is these accounts are getting paid to steal peoples content - which will make ABC give up on the platform eventually."

These very public spats highlight X's aggressive pivot: rewarding originality over volume and manipulation to clean up the platform, boost trust, improve timeline quality, and attract more substantive journalism.

Tyler Durden Sat, 05/30/2026 - 15:45

Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt tore into Gov. Newsom and Mayor Bass over their handling of the wildfires and homelessness.

ICE supporters chanted "we love ICE" and "USA" in an attempt to drown out the protesters' screams of “Stop the raid, stop the hate. Immigration makes us great."

A Rhode Island high school's yearbook was printed with the word "school" misspelled on its cover.

"Wow. How many members of my family are just gonna go completely bats--t crazy and be pieces of s--t?" Trace asked in his video calling out his sister.

"Wow. How many members of my family are just gonna go completely bats--t crazy and be pieces of s--t?" Trace asked in his video calling out his sister.

Escoto is being held without bail on three counts of murder in the grisly knife slaying in Modesto of an infant and two women.

The reality star called out a slew of online critics.

The reality star called out a slew of online critics.

American tennis player Zachary Svajda has notched a signature win at the French Open — on his late dad's birthday.

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Kenyan Court Rejects Plan For US Ebola Quarantine Center Amid Growing Outbreak

Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams

A day after US officials said Kenya had approved a request to open a quarantine center for Americans exposed to a rare strain of the Ebola virus, a court in the East African nation on Friday temporarily blocked the plan amid a growing outbreak in neighboring Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The High Court prohibited the Kenyan government from establishing or operating any Ebola exposure, quarantine, isolation, or treatment facility in the country under any agreement with the United States or any other foreign government or agency.

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The court also blocked Kenya’s government from allowing anyone infected with or exposed to Ebola into the country pending the outcome of the case, which was filed by the Katiba Institute, a civil rights group.

“At its core, the case is about preserving constitutional accountability, protecting public health, and ensuring that no government may place expediency above the lives and safety of the people of Kenya,” Katiba Institute executive director Nora Mbagathi said Thursday.

A 50-bed Ebola quarantine center was set to open Friday at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, located approximately 125 miles north of Nairobi. The facility would have been operated by members of the US Public Health Service, a uniformed branch of the Department of Health and Human Services.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday during a Cabinet meeting that “we cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.”

However, US public health officials strongly criticized the plan to quarantine Americans in Kenya instead of repatriating them, with one emergency physician accusing the Trump administration of “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own.”

Elected leaders in Laikipia County welcomed the High Court’s ruling. They had opposed the US quarantine center, and had asked in a joint statement prior to the decision, “Why Laikipia?”

“What does the US government know about this that they are not accepting their own affected citizens into their soil but are ready to have them elsewhere?”

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU), which had strongly opposed the quarantine center and had threatened to strike, also welcomed the High Court ruling.

“We are utterly disgusted by the government’s apparent willingness to trade national biosecurity and the lives of its citizens for foreign aid,” KMPDU secretary general Davji Bhimji Attelah said in a statement Thursday, referring to the $13.5 million the Trump administration pledged for Ebola preparedness in Kenya, part of a broader $125 million US commitment toward fighting the disease.

“We will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate,” Attelah added. “We will not tolerate an apartheid healthcare model on Kenyan soil. If it is too dangerous for America, it is too dangerous for Kenya.”

Critics say President Donald Trump’s ideologically driven decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), his administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development, and reduced funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global public health efforts have adversely affected the response to the current Ebola epidemic, compared with 2014 and 2019 outbreaks.

The plan to set up an Ebola isolation centre so that United States nationals returning from Congo could quarantine in Kenya rather than in America was opposed by health groups who feared it could import the deadly virus

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 29, 2026

The WHO said Friday that there were a total of 906 suspected Ebola cases and 223 suspected deaths reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of Wednesday, and 125 confirmed cases in the DRC and 9 in Uganda, with 18 deaths among the confirmed cases in both countries.

Ebola—which typically kills between 25% and 90% of infected people, depending upon the strain of the virus and quality of available medical care—causes widespread and often catastrophic damage to the body’s blood vessels, immune system, and organs. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals, including fruit bats, porcupines, and non-human primates, and then spreads between humans through direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of infected people.

Tyler Durden Sat, 05/30/2026 - 15:10

David Rush of Idaho set the world record for the longest duration balancing a running chainsaw on the chin.