Voices, The Peoples News
May 18, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Archaeology
Historians Thought This Was a Medieval Site Linked to King Arthur. It Turned Out to Be a Mysterious Monument Built 4,000 Years Earlier. Researchers have excavated King Arthur’s Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to at least 3000 B.C.E.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/historians-thought-this-was-a-medieval-site-linked-to-king-arthur-it-turned-out-to-be-a-mysterious-monument-built-4000-years-earlier-180985470/
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
ICE accused of faking ‘alien harboring’ allegations to snatch activists. Ice used ‘false pretenses’ for warrant to hunt for Columbia students, lawyers say. Ice used warrant application as ‘pretext’ to try to arrest two students in order to deport them
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/16/ice-warrant-false-pretenses-columbia-students
El Salvador Insists ‘Ball Is In’ Trump’s Court to Bring Abrego Garcia Home: ‘The U.S. Is Paying to Keep Them There’
https://www.latintimes.com/el-salvador-insists-ball-trumps-court-bring-abrego-garcia-home-us-paying-keep-them-583180
In their words: What judges and Trump’s government say about Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation
https://www.thehour.com/news/politics/article/in-their-words-what-judges-and-trump-s-20277792.php
Supreme Court “enjoined the government from summarily deporting alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act while litigation over the constitutionality of those deportations works its way through the courts.”
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-trap-trump-strike/
Lawyers for jailed Venezuelan migrants accuse El Salvador of ‘torture’: The lawyers are seeking “proof of life,” but say they have come up against a wall of silence from President Nayib Bukele’s administration and the Central American nation’s justice system.
https://www.barrons.com/news/lawyers-for-jailed-venezuelan-migrants-accuse-el-salvador-of-torture-11c058e3
Troop Deployment At The Border Has Cost The Pentagon Over $500 Million: Report
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/438108-pentagon-tells-lawmakers-border-missions-to-cost-at-least-534m/
AG Pam Bondi has the power to revoke green cards at any time, Justice Department claims
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pam-bondi-green-cards-revoke-doj-b2752451.html
Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa. Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia
Federal judge orders ICE to immediately release Indonesian man accused of overstaying visa: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Harsono at his job at a Marshall hospital, days after his student visa was revoked without his knowledge. He has been in custody for nearly two months at the Kandiyohi County Jail.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/14/federal-judge-orders-marshall-man-detained-by-ice-to-be-immediately-released
How the British Red Cross tried to blow the whistle about conditions inside crisis-hit migrant detention centres
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/manston-immigration-detention-dover-kent-small-boat-b2746599.html
Starbucks Gift Cards and Airline Miles Offered as Consolation Prizes in Proposed Immigration Reality Show:
The winner of the contest, meanwhile, would be sworn in on Capitol Hill during a live finale and receive a “grand prize” such as a lifetime supply of gasoline.
https://www.latintimes.com/starbucks-gift-cards-airline-miles-offered-consolation-prizes-proposed-immigration-reality-show-583216
Congress asked to reimburse Texas $11B for border security costs. The bill was filed in the U.S. Senate
https://www.ktsm.com/news/national-news/sen-cornyn-announces-11-1b-federal-reimbursement-plan-toward-texas-border-efforts/
# Border / Tourism
Some German tourists, fearing harassment or detention, are avoiding U.S: “They treat you at the border like you’re a criminal,“ Brösche told The Times after returning to Berlin. “I only wanted to visit a friend in L.A. for a few days.”
https://www.aol.com/news/german-tourists-fearing-harassment-detention-100000829.html
# DEI [Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion]
Major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/11/ibm-reportedly-walks-back-diversity-policies-citing-inherent-tensions-here-are-all-the-companies-rolling-back-dei-programs/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS
Colombia seeks to join China-based development bank as Latin America drifts away from Washington
https://apnews.com/article/china-colombia-new-development-bank-trump-us-ae2f3b0da5c330c0cf051351857d1771
While in tariff negotiations, Trump group gets approval for massive golf resort in Vietnam. Vietnam has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, state-run media reported Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trump-golf-estate-investment-f2aa09af5467654dff4dcf19fcdc25c9
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers. The future of collective bargaining and labor rights in the United States is on the table.
https://truthout.org/articles/behind-trump-and-doges-reckless-destruction-is-a-determination-to-crush-workers/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Government reveals massive $136 billion plan to change the way country is powered: ‘Necessary and consistent with the reality and development direction’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/vietnam-renewable-energy-investment-plan/#:~:text=The%20Vietnamese%20Government%20announced%20plans,for%20carbon%20neutrality%20by%202050
Researchers make game-changing breakthrough that transforms sunlight and sugarcane into futuristic fuel: ‘Four times higher.’ The system’s design creates a cooling effect on its own.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/zero-emission-fuel-solar-hydrogen-tech/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
Trump’s Order to Expand Logging Threatens to Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires. The president’s push to expand timber and fossil fuel production “is a double whammy on the climate.” President Trump has made plans to sacrifice federally protected US forests, bypassing numerous environmental protections, in an effort to boost domestic timber production.
https://earth.org/trumps-push-to-expand-logging-is-a-major-threat-to-us-forests-and-wildlife/
# Food General News
Exclusive-US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/
McDonald’s restaurant banning dine-in service for every customer under age of 21. A McDonald’s location in Virginia is no longer allowing customers under 21 to dine in. The policy change comes after reports of multiple fights and other “disrespectful” behavior from young customers
https://people.com/a-mcdonald-s-is-banning-dine-in-service-for-all-customers-under-21-11735713
# General News
Trump’s Qatari plane needs so many upgrades it may face flight restrictions and need a military escort
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-qatar-plane-upgrades-b2751785.html
# Gov / Politics
Schumer slams Trump for apparent deal with El Chapo’s family: ‘Roll out the red carpet’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5303198-schumer-slams-trump-for-apparent-deal-with-el-chapos-family-roll-out-the-red-carpet/
President Trump announces major shift in US policy toward Syria. President Donald Trump met new Syrian president Ahmad Al-Sharaa just hours after announcing he would lift sanctions on the country.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/17/politics/syria-sanctions-scramble-trump
The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It. As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said. This is no longer hypothetical. It’s the path we’re on right now.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-not-just-erasing-history-theyre-rewriting-future-attacking-democracy-2061128
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA / DEA / DHS
Fmr. DC Cop Lashes Out At ‘Petty Bitch’ Trump And GOP Blocking Plaque Honoring Jan. 6 Cops. The plaque was created after Congress passed a bill in 2022 to honor those officers, but Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and others have stalled the installation of the plaque.
https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/fanone-lashes-out-at-petty-bitch-trump-and-gop-blocking-plaque-honoring-jan-6-cops/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka in federal court after arrest at ICE facility. Newark mayor says prosecutors tried to ‘humilate’ him by forcing redo of fingerprints and mugshot. Democrat Ras Baraka appeared in federal court for trespassing charge after arrest at Ice detention center
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/politics/2025/05/15/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-court-hearing-fingerprinting
Trump shares ally’s plan to ‘release terrorists near homes of Supreme Court justices’
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-chevy-chase-supreme-threat/
US judges who rule against Trump are being barraged with abuse and threats, experts warn. Verbal attacks by Trump and allies are creating a hostile climate that endangers judges’ safety, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/trump-judges-courts-threats
After threats of violence to U.S. jurists, 500 CT lawyers sign a ‘recommitment to the rule of law’
https://www.ctpost.com/connecticut/article/ct-lawyers-rule-of-law-trump-bar-association-20328765.php
Loan him a pen, land on a watchlist: Trump sanctions ICC prosecutors for doing their jobs. The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan has officially been sanctioned by the Trump administration. He has lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts are frozen, and American staffers at the ICC have been warned that if they travel back to the U.S., they risk arrest.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/loan-him-a-pen-land-on-a-watchlist-trump-sanctions-icc-prosecutors-for-doing-their-jobs/
Supreme Court ‘directly communicated’ profane response to Stephen Miller: Kirschner zeroed in on the most recent example, which saw seven of nine justices ruling that immigrants are entitled to due process.
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-direct-message-miller/
# Media / Press / Mail / Radio / TV
‘Where is the evidence?’ CNN anchor presses DHS spokesperson on claim of genocide on White South Africans
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/17/politics/video/homeland-security-tricia-mclaughlin-defends-refugee-status-afrikaners-blackwell-digvid
# Medicare / Medicaid
Trump demands GOP back his ‘big beautiful bill’ to kick millions off Medicaid, warns of ‘suffering.’
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/right-wingers-pull-power-play-on-trumps-big-beautiful-bill.html
WH study warns 9 million Americans could lose health insurance in ‘major’ recession if Trump budget bill fails. A talking point about cuts to Medicaid inflates the legislation’s effects by about five million people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/upshot/medicaid-cuts-democrats-republicans.html
# Medical / Health News
Don’t push people with disabilities to give up their lives by legalizing doctor-assisted suicide
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/dont-push-disabled-people-to-give-up-their-lives-by-legalizing-suicide/
Assisted suicide kills people with disabilities and devalues disabled lives without ever mentioning us explicitly. It does so with overly broad definitions and poor, unenforceable safeguards.
https://cdrnys.org/assisted-suicide/
Can Americans really make a free choice about dying? In a country that treats disabled people like expensive burdens and that teaches people to hate and fear disabilities, activists argue that true bodily autonomy is not possible.
https://19thnews.org/2023/05/end-of-life-option-act-california-choice-death/
Car bombing at Palm Springs fertility clinic an ‘intentional active terrorism,’ FBI says. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that violence against the fertility clinic was “” unforgivable.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/fertility-clinics-targeted-by-groups-that-oppose-ivf-ex-fbi-agent/
# Medical Science / Research
A 19-year-old won $100,000 for inventing a cheaper, faster way to make antiviral drugs out of corn husks
https://www.snexplores.org/article/antiviral-drugs-corn-chemistry-isef
Experts issue warning that new US policy could block development of life-saving drugs: ‘This is what I was expecting.’ Scientists fear the move could harm research into deadly diseases.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/dangerous-gain-of-function-research-funding-freeze-trump/
# Military / Militia / General News
US military would be unleashed on enemy drones on the homeland if bipartisan bill passes
https://pfluger.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2368
# Military / General News / Global
One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships shot down a supersonic missile in ‘historic first’
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/may/16/250516-royal-navy-warship-destroys-supersonic-missile-in-historic-first
# NOAA / Weather
Trump ‘significantly reduced’ forecasting staff — and then a deadly tornado came
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tornado-kentucky-cuts/
Federal cuts have left Kentucky’s National Weather Service offices understaffed, impacting their ability to provide timely forecasts and warnings, especially during severe weather events
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1kourdj/more_context_on_the_decreased_nws_staffing_that/
Severe weather leaves at least 27 dead, including 18 in Kentucky. At least 27 people have been killed by storms systems that swept across part of the U.S. Midwest and South, with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announcing Saturday that 18 of the deaths came in his state and 10 others were hospitalized in critical condition.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/severe-weather-leaves-at-least-27-dead-including-18-in-kentucky/article_94311dad-37e9-502b-bbdc-0633b37f4a3c.html
# Nuclear
Fears of catastrophic radiation leak as engineers race to repair damage on Chernobyl protective dome from Vlad’s strikes. Watch our exclusive interview with the Ukrainian Government branch official that manages Chernobyl’s fragile protective cover
https://www.the-sun.com/news/14260539/chernobyl-dome-radiation-leak-putin/
Russian scientists make incredible breakthrough that could revolutionize nuclear power: ‘Will cut its use of natural uranium by 50%.’ Scientists like these continue working to integrate fission energy into our daily lives
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/balanced-nuclear-fuel-cycle-russia-fission-reactor/
# Pharmaceuticals
HHS Sec Robert F Kennedy Jr: American patients pay more so others can pay less, that stops now. Trump’s executive action on prescription drugs aims to end global free-riding on US patients who pay up to 10 times more for identical medications
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hhs-sec-robert-f-kennedy-jr-american-patients-pay-more-so-others-can-pay-less-stops-now
# Social Media / Internet
# Social Services / Programs / SNAP [Food Stamps]
Social Security officials pull plug on ‘ineffective’ DOGE program that sparked mass chaos
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-social-security-2672035110/
Alaska gives food stamp recipients’ personal information to federal officials. the federal government normally collects information to determine a SNAP applicant’s financial eligibility for the program. The new request goes beyond that, to cover name, date of birth, address, contact information, Social Security number, citizenship status and information about people living in a recipient’s household.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/alaska-gives-food-stamp-recipients-135504103.html
# Sports
Combat sport clubs used to recruit for white nationalist hate group, report says. Clubs are smaller, looser networks of white supremacist groups, where members train in mixed martial arts. Through sport, they bond over white nationalist ideologies, SPLC said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/combat-sport-clubs-boost-recruitment-white-nationalist-hate-group-report/
Donald Trump evicts World Championship sports team from hotel for billion dollar deal. President Donald Trump’s visit of Qatar has been all over the news, but there was also another huge event going on in the country which saw a sports team forced out of their hotel
https://www.themirror.com/sport/other-sport/president-donald-trump-qatar-usa-1156194
# Transportation / Travel Advisories
Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE. An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.
https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/
This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Jonathan Stewart says controllers didn’t walk off the job after recent FAA equipment outages; ‘I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people’
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/this-air-traffic-controller-just-averted-a-midair-collision-now-hes-speaking-out-30d389c7
U.S. Issues Travel Advisories for 2 Popular Tourist Destinations in Europe. Currently, there are more than a dozen countries that are at a Level 4: Do Not Travel. They include Somalia, Venezuela, Burma, Russia, North Korea, Burkina Faso, Yemen, Iran, South Sudan, Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Central African Republic, Belarus, Iraq, Ukraine, Haiti, Libya, Mali and Sudan.
https://www.aol.com/u-issues-travel-advisories-2-211312711.html
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